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Gene Alexander, Ph.D.
Brain function and structure in cognitive aging and neurodegenerative disease
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John Allen, Ph.D.
Human psychophysiology: emotion, cognition, memory and amnesia
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Jessica Andrews-Hanna, Ph.D.
Neural underpinnings of internally-guided cognition, including how they develop and change across the lifespan and how they become dysfunctional in clinical populations; functional MRI; default mode network
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E. Fiona Bailey, Ph.D.
Voluntary and respiratory-related neuromuscular control of upper airway muscles
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Christopher Banek, Ph.D.
Peripheral neural control of cardiovascular and renal function in health and disease
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Shaowen Bao, Ph.D.
Sound processing in the healthy and diseased brain
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Carol Barnes, Ph.D.
Neurobiological correlates of age-related declines in spatial cognition
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Thomas Bever, Ph.D.
Interactions of cognition and neurology in humans and animals
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Martha Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
The Bhattacharya Lab studies the molecular pathways that promote axon degeneration in the context of neuronal injury and neurodegenerative disease, using both Drosophila and mouse models
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Roberta Brinton, Ph.D.
Systems biology of aging transitions leading to risk of age-related neurodegenerative diseases, sex differences in bioenergetic aging of female and male brain, regenerative therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases
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Haijiang Cai, Ph.D.
Neural circuits of animal behaviors, with a focus on understanding how the neural circuits regulate feeding and emotional behaviors, using optogenetics, pharmacogenetics, electrophysiology, molecular, and behavior analysis tools
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Joao Carvalho De Souza, Ph.D.
Improving optocapacitance as a technique to photostimulate genetically unmodified neurons, by changing their membrane capacitance, in vivo and in vitro
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Ying-hui Chou, Sc.D.
Developing image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) approaches to improve cognitive functions and identifying TMS-derived and imaging-based biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of therapeutic outcomes in individuals
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Stephen Cowen, Ph.D.
Understanding how the activities of ensembles of neurons drive our capacity to decide, remember, and navigate
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Thomas Davis, Ph.D
The delivery of neuropharmaceuticals across the Blood Brain Barrier
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Anna Dornhaus, Ph.D.
The emergence of complexity and increased efficiency through collective behavior; effect of scaling in complex systems; the role of learning and individual variability for collective success
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Kristian Doyle, Ph.D.
The role of the immune system in chronic neurodegeneration after stroke and brain injury
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Erika Eggers, Ph.D.
How inhibitory inputs influence neuronal signaling and sensory signal processing in the retina
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Arne Ekstrom, Ph.D.
Work focuses on the neural basis of human memory, with a particular interest in spatial navigation
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Torsten Falk, Ph.D.
Cellular and rodent models to test novel pharmacological treatments for levodopa-induced dyskinesias, a major side effect of Parkinson’s disease treatment, as well as new neuroprotective gene and drug therapy approaches to Parkinson’s disease
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Jean-Marc Fellous, Ph.D.
Computational neuroscience, learning and emotional memory, neuromodulation
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Fabian-Xosé Fernandez, Ph.D.
Identifying circadian factors during middle age that increase risk for later-life cognitive impairment; devloping novel, light-based treatments to stem loss of cognition during aging
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Ralph Fregosi, Ph.D.
Regulation of Breathing
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Andrew Fuglevand, Ph.D.
Sensorimotor neurophysiology
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Amelia Gallitano, M.D., Ph.D.
The mechanism by which immediate early genes mediate the effect of environment on behavior, memory, synaptic plasticity, and the risk for mental illness
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Katalin Gothard, M.D., Ph.D.
The neural basis of emotion and social behavior
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Michael Grandner, Ph.D.
The role of insufficient sleep in the development of cardiometabolic disease and neurocognitive dysfunction; social/behavioral/environmental determinants of sleep; and behavioral interventions for insufficient sleep
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Wulfila Gronenberg, Ph.D.
Neuronal control of complex behavior; multimodal information processing and brain plasticity
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Philipp Gutruf, Ph.D.
Wireless and battery free devices that intimately integrate with biological systems by combining innovations in soft materials photonics and electronics
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Charles Higgins, Ph.D.
Computational neuroscience, biologically-inspired engineering
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Anita Koshy, M.D
Understanding the molecular mechanisms that allow a common intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, to persist in the mammalian CNS
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Kaveh Laksari, Ph.D.
Better diagnosis and protection against concussions and ischemic stroke through biomechanics and medical imaging
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Richard Lane, M.D., Ph.D.
Functional neuroanatomy of emotion and emotion regulation in normative and clinical contexts
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Tally Largent-Milnes, Ph.D.
The opioid and chronic pain epidemics go hand in hand; my lab investigates the intersection between the physiology of chronic pain states, analgesic pharmacology, and overcoming the gatekeeper of CNS pharmacology- the blood brain barrier
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Kevin Lin, Ph.D.
Nonlinear dynamics of neurons and networks of neurons, data assimilation & data-driven modeling, computational neuroscience.
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Lalitha Madhavan, M.D., Ph.D.
Stem Cell Biology, Aging, and Neurodegeneration
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Julie Miller, Ph.D.
Neurogenetic mechanisms underlying normal and abnormal vocal communication
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Janko Nikolich-Zugich, M.D., Ph.D.
The biology of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in health, infection and aging
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Mary Peterson, Ph.D
Visual perception and cognition, object recognition, figure assignment, attention, language and space, behavioral and neuropsychological studies
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Paulo Pires, Ph.D.
Understanding the regulation of blood flow to the brain under normal and disease states; communication between neurons, astrocytes and endothelial cells that control blood flow to discrete regions of the cerebral cortex
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Robin Polt, Ph.D.
New Methods for Organic Synthesis
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Frank Porreca, Ph.D.
Central autonomic regulation; opioids
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John Regan, Ph.D.
Molecular studies of the structure and function of G-protein coupled receptors
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Linda Restifo, M.D., Ph.D.
Genetics of brain development and neuronal plasticity; genetics of mental retardation; drug discovery for developmental brain disorders
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Arthur Riegel, Ph.D.
Synaptic dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disorders related to addiction, pain and stress
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Kathleen Rodgers, Ph.D.
Evaluating the ability of angiotensin peptides and small molecule Mas agonists to mitigate injury and regenerate injured tissues and product development
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Patrick Ronaldson, Ph.D.
Targeting transporters for blood-brain barrier protection and for delivery of neuroprotective drugs in cerebral hypoxia/ischemia
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Lee Ryan, Ph.D.
Neural basis of memory, age-related changes in memory, and how these changes relate to brain functioning
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John Paul SanGiovanni, Sc.D.
We use integrative omics, in vivo human physiological imaging and microphysiological systems to examine the role of nutrition in health and disease of the retina
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Rita Sattler, MSc, Ph.D.
Studies of molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration (ALS, FTD, and others) using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells
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Todd Schlenke, Ph.D.
The genetic basis of behavioral immunity in fruit flies
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Rick Schnellmann, Ph.D.
Identifying and developing drugs to treat stroke, spinal cord injury and Parkinson’s disease
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Jacob Schwartz, Ph.D
RNA-binding proteins involved in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
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Scott Sherman, M.D., Ph.D.
Development of viral vectors designed to modify the expression of voltage-gated channels in brain
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Shang Song, Ph.D.
Designing novel multimodal neuromodulation approaches (e.g. biomaterials, stem cells, electrical stimulation) to treat neurological disorders and building organ-on-chip models to understand brain-related diseases
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Nicholas Strausfeld, Ph.D.
Visual system neurobiology, learning and memory, brain evolution, nervous system database
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John Streicher, Ph.D.
Studies the molecular mechanisms of opiod receptor signal transduction, with a goal of using these mechanisms to create novel drug discovery strategies that reduce the side effects of current opiod drugs
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George Sutphin, Ph.D.
The Sutphin Lab uses tools in systems and comparative genetics to understand the molecular basis of aging and neurodegeneration
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Jennifer Teske, Ph.D.
Neural and behavioral mechanisms of sleep deprivation-induced obesity
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Todd Vanderah, Ph.D.
Understanding the neural-mediated mechanism underlying opioid tolerance and opioid-induced pain
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Xinglong Wang, Ph.D.
Causes, treatments, and diagnosis of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases
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Robert Wilson, Ph.D
Reinforcement learning and decision making; the neural basis of exploration and curiosity; neural and cognitive causes of "mistakes"
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Jean Wilson, Ph.D.
Cell biology of epithelial tissues; Regulation of membrane trafficking in polarized and non-polarized cells
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Melville Wohlgemuth, Ph.D.
Sensing and action in the natural environment
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Fei Yin, Ph.D.
Mitochondrial genotype and phenotype in brain aging and age-associated neurodegenerative diseases
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Haining Zhu, Ph.D.
RNA binding proteins and RNA metabolism including protein translation and stress granules under physiological and pathological conditions
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Konrad Zinsmaier, Ph.D.
The laboratory studies pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and molecular mechanisms essential for maintaining synaptic function and plasticity