PhD Program Faculty
Our faculty comprises 103 highly distinguished scientists who have made fundamental discoveries in all areas of neuroscience from molecules to cognition. They have international reputations for excellence in both research and teaching.
Faculty Research Interests: Systems/Cognitive Detailed listing
The major research interests of faculty in the Program can be divided into seven research areas/approaches with considerable overlap. Every fundamental area of neuroscience is represented in our faculty. The complementary nature of their expertise and interests creates an unusually rich intellectual community.
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CEL: Cellular (61) CMP: Computational (24) DEV: Developmental (40) EXC: Membrane Excitability (24) | MOL: Molecular (57) NBD: Neurobiology of Disease (58) SYS: Systems/Cognitive (52) ALL: Complete List (103) |
| Name | Interests | Themes |
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| Stephen Baccus | Neural circuits and neural coding; retinal visual processing | CEL, CMP, SYS |
| Bruce Baker | Control of sexual differentiation, including behavior | CEL, DEV, SYS |
| Kwabena Boahen | Large-scale models of sensory, perceptual and motor systems | CMP, DEV, SYS |
| Lera Boroditsky | Interactions btw language, cognition and perception; plasticity | DEV, SYS |
| Paul Buckmaster | Hippocampal circuitry, mechanisms of temporal lobe epilepsy | CEL, EXC, NBD, SYS |
| Thomas Clandinin | Genetic approaches to neurodevelopment and behavior | CEL, DEV, MOL, SYS |
| Corinna Darian-Smith | Reorganisation after injury in adult sensorimotor pathways. | CEL, NBD, SYS |
| Luis de Lecea | Molecular biology of sleep and arousal | MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Karl Deisseroth | Novel optical tools to probe neural circuits in health and disease | CEL, CMP, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Firdaus Dhabhar | Stress effects on immune function: The good, bad, & beautiful | CEL, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Heidi Feldman | Language and cognition after early neural injuries | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Russell Fernald | How social behavior influences the brain | CEL, DEV, MOL, SYS |
| Gary Glover | fMRI acquisition/analysis, experimental design methods | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Ian Gotlib | Neural, cognitive, and genetic factors in depression in children and a | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Michael Greicius | Functional connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders, fMRI/DTI | NBD, SYS |
| Kalanit Grill-Spector | Neural correlates of visual perception; | CMP, SYS |
| James Gross | Emotion regulation in healthy and clinical populations | SYS |
| Craig Heller | Neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms, and thermoregulation. | CEL, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Stefan Heller. | Inner ear development/regeneration, sensory hair cell function, TRPs | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Eric Knudsen | Mechanisms of attention | CEL, DEV, SYS |
| Brian Knutson | Neural basis of emotion, applied to mental health and decision making | NBD, SYS |
| Fei-Fei Li | human vision, high-level visual recognition, computational neuroscienc | CMP, SYS |
| Joyce Liao | Ischemic optic neuropathy, Stem cell transplantation, Vision electroph | NBD, SYS |
| Liqun Luo | Development, organization and function of neuronal circuits | CEL, DEV, MOL, SYS |
| Bruce MacIver | Neuropharmacology of CNS depressants and drugs of abuse | CEL, EXC, MOL, SYS |
| Sean Mackey | Systems neuroscience approaches to human pain research | CMP, EXC, NBD, SYS |
| Daniel Madison | Synaptic plasticity and modulation of neuronal excitability. | CEL, EXC, SYS |
| James McClelland | Dynamical models of decision and learning | CMP, SYS |
| Samuel McClure | reward learning, decision-making, dopamine function | CMP, SYS |
| Vinod Menon | Cognitive, developmental & clinical systems neuroscience, Brain Imagin | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Emmanuel Mignot | Neurobiology and genetics of sleep and narcolepsy | DEV, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Tirin Moore | Visuomotor integration, visual perception and cognition | NBD, SYS |
| William Newsome | Neural basis of visual perception and visually guided cognition | SYS |
| Karen Parker | Oxytocin and social behavior; stress and HPA axis physiology | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Josef Parvizi | Intracranial recordings and stimulations in the human brain | CMP, NBD, SYS |
| Jennifer Raymond | Learning & memory; physiology and molecular mechanisms | CMP, MOL, SYS |
| Allan Reiss | Interdisciplinary research, multimodal imaging, brain disorder | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Robert Sapolsky | Neuron death, stress, gene therapy | CEL, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Mark Schnitzer | In vivo two-photon imaging; cerebellar and hippocampal circuits | CEL, CMP, NBD, SYS |
| Matthew Scott | Cerebellum development and cancer, neural control of growth | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Carla Shatz | molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent circuit formation | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, SYS |
| Krishna Shenoy | Computational motor neurophysiology, neural prostheses | CMP, SYS |
| Stephen Smith | Assembly and Plasticity of Neural Circuits | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Gary Steinberg | Pathophysiology and treatment of focal and global cerebral ischemia | CEL, MOL, SYS |
| Thomas Sudhof | Formation, function, and dysfunction of synapses | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Edith Sullivan | Neuroimaging and neuropsychology in aging and disease | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Patrick Suppes | Mulitvariate analysis of neural signals | CMP, SYS |
| Anthony Wagner | Neural basis of memory and executive function | NBD, SYS |
| Brian Wandell | Visual perception, reading development, fMRI, DTI | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Jeffrey Wine | Pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis: ion transport | CEL, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| David Yeomans | Pain: differential activation; gene therapy; sodium channels | EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Jamie Zeitzer | Neurobio of sleep and circadian photoreception | NBD, SYS |
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