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![Headshot of Gene Alexander, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/G_Alexander.jpg?itok=-x_EKB94)
Gene Alexander, Ph.D.
Brain function and structure in cognitive aging and neurodegenerative disease
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![Headshot of John Allen, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/J_Allen.jpg?itok=Jfyq7fGE)
John Allen, Ph.D.
Human psychophysiology: emotion, cognition, memory and amnesia
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![Trent Anderson](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2024-04/trentanderson.jpg?itok=o-adGefq)
Trent Anderson, Ph.D.
Study the pathophysiology & interface between traumatic brain injury, pain and migraine; utilize cutting edge approaches including electrical & optophysiology, neural imaging, neural circuit interrogation and respondent and operant behavior.
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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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![headshot of E. Fiona Bailey, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/F_Bailey.jpg?itok=lmBGTVtu)
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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![headshot of Shaowen Bao, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/S_Bao.jpg?itok=2FgvSqMW)
Shaowen Bao, Ph.D.
Sound processing in the healthy and diseased brain
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![Headshot of Carol Barnes, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/C_Barnes.jpg?itok=o6NEzaKw)
Carol Barnes, Ph.D.
Neurobiological correlates of age-related declines in spatial cognition
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![Headshot of Thomas Bever, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/T_Bever.jpg?itok=s3LW9oqu)
Thomas Bever, Ph.D.
Interactions of cognition and neurology in humans and animals
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![Martha Bhattacharya, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/M_Bhattacharya.jpg?itok=2hlJmqUL)
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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![Dr. James Bibb](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2024-04/Dr.%20Bibb%202024.jpg?itok=TDuwgTP0)
James Bibb, Ph.D
We study neuronal signaling mechanisms that integrate fast and slow neurotransmission relevant to numerous neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders using innovative multidisciplinary approaches.
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![Professional photo of Roberta Brinton, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/Brinton.jpeg?itok=zCS1DwKe)
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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![Ross Buchan](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2024-04/Buchan.png?itok=qjnI1faY)
Ross Buchan, Ph.D.
From yeast to neurons - insights into ALS proteostasis
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![Haijiang Cai, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/H_Cai.jpg?itok=hZ4dAjI4)
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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![Professional photo of Joao Carvalho De Souza, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/201810135_Carvalho%20De%20Souza_Joao_Anesthesiology-14.jpg?itok=frUxDfpd)
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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![Rui Chang](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2024-05/Rui%20Chang_0.png?itok=OdOlTkoB)
Rui Chang, Ph.D.
Developing and applying AI methods in precision medicine discovery for neurodegenerative diseases and cancer
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![Professional photo of Ying-hui Chou, Sc.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/Chou.jpg?itok=0uVEtx_e)
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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![Megan Corty](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2024-04/Corty%2C%20Megan_200x221px.jpg?itok=e33fRMZu)
Megan Corty, Ph.D.
How and why glia wrap axons
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![Professional photo of Stephen Cowen, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/S_Cowen.jpg?itok=uNLCtRmV)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2023-03/Anna%20Dornhaus.jpeg?itok=tjbM_jN7)
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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![Professional photo of Kristian Doyle, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/K_Doyle.jpg?itok=CpqFu66_)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/E_Eggers.jpg?itok=iBrZ6qaM)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/Arne%20Ekstrom%2018-230_full.jpg?itok=xD4HboCg)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/T_Falk.jpg?itok=yrikwTmV)
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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![Professional photo of Jean-Marc Fellous, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/JM_Fellous.jpg?itok=Rquj3dr6)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/A_Fuglevand.jpg?itok=qBkUTFI2)
Andrew Fuglevand, Ph.D.
Sensorimotor neurophysiology
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![Professional photo of Amelia Gallitano, M.D., Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/A_Gallitano.jpg?itok=onkr7UV7)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/K_Gothard_0.jpg?itok=9MyvlT4x)
Katalin Gothard, M.D., Ph.D.
The neural basis of emotion and social behavior
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![Professional photo of Michael Grandner, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/M_Grandner.jpg?itok=orKg2kVV)
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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![Philipp Gutruf, Ph.D. posing for photo](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/Profile_Picture_crop.jpg?itok=icwRmv89)
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. posing for photo](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/C_Higgins.jpg?itok=txyDTGiD)
Charles Higgins, Ph.D.
Computational neuroscience, biologically-inspired engineering
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![Anita Koshy, M.D](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/A_Koshy.jpg?itok=0VVG9Ere)
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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![Professional photo of Richard Lane, M.D., Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/R_Lane.jpg?itok=k2h8Dapt)
Richard Lane, M.D., Ph.D.
Functional neuroanatomy of emotion and emotion regulation in normative and clinical contexts
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![Professional photo of Tally Largent-Milnes, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/largent-milnes%20photo_2.jpg?itok=cg2LJaIU)
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. smiling for photo](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/K_Lin.jpg?itok=ZbEQqP7Y)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/LM1_1.jpg?itok=7CtoQNb0)
Lalitha Madhavan, M.D., Ph.D.
Stem Cell Biology, Aging, and Neurodegeneration
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![Laurent Martin](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2024-04/202004140_martin_laurent_20.jpg?itok=R9YeyeFb)
Laurent Martin, Ph.D.
The intersection of neurodegeneration and pain management, aiming to understand how neurodegenerative diseases impact sensory processing; to develop non-pharmacological therapies that slow progression of these conditions while enhancing pain management
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![Julie Miller](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/0020_JULIE%20MILLER%20headshot%20April%202021.jpg?itok=VQnAO3wm)
Julie Miller, Ph.D.
Neurogenetic mechanisms underlying normal and abnormal vocal communication
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![headshot of Janko Nikolich-Zugich, M.D., Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/J_Nikolich-Zugich.jpg?itok=jjFSPeGI)
Janko Nikolich-Zugich, M.D., Ph.D.
The biology of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in health, infection and aging
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![headshot of Mary Peterson, Ph.D](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/M_Peterson.jpg?itok=QFq2oxop)
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. smiling for photo](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/paulo_website_picture_002.jpg?itok=O3Cfsem6)
Paulo Pires, Ph.D.
The long-term goal of our research is to find new targets for therapies to improve quality of life of patients with chronic diseases that lead to dementia
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Robin Polt, Ph.D.
New Methods for Organic Synthesis
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![headshot of Frank Porreca, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/F_Porreca.jpg?itok=fAAHGNFU)
Frank Porreca, Ph.D.
Central autonomic regulation; opioids
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![Professional photo of John Regan, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/J_Regan.png?itok=nVhVHy5I)
John Regan, Ph.D.
Molecular studies of the structure and function of G-protein coupled receptors
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![headshot of Linda Restifo, M.D., Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/L_Restifo.jpg?itok=uUfkXvh3)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/riegal-arthur.jpg?itok=CYjje_z2)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/201801214-rodgers-kathleen-54.jpg?itok=hjg9MslC)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/P_Ronaldson.jpg?itok=kdE-sIsj)
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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![Professional photo of Lee Ryan, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/L_Ryan.jpg?itok=e4RnL5vi)
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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![Professional photo of Rita Sattler, MSc, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/R_Sattler.png?itok=hO-pF8f4)
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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![Professional photo of Todd Schlenke, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/T_Schlenke.jpg?itok=JzkHEZtI)
Todd Schlenke, Ph.D.
The genetic basis of behavioral immunity in fruit flies
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![Headshot of Rick Schnellmann, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/schnellmann.jpg?itok=yCwFf6O2)
Rick Schnellmann, Ph.D.
Identifying and developing drugs to treat stroke, spinal cord injury and Parkinson’s disease
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![Jacob Schwartz](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2024-04/Jacob%20Schwartz_0.jpg?itok=1MNcRH8R)
Jacob Schwartz, Ph.D
RNA-binding proteins involved in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
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![Photo of Scott Sherman, M.D., Ph.D. working in lab](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/S_Sherman.jpg?itok=F7oGgvq2)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/Shang%20Song_photo.jpg?itok=H3Qvi4Nx)
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. smiling for photo](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/N_Strausfeld.jpg?itok=WidxnBp4)
Nicholas Strausfeld, Ph.D.
Visual system neurobiology, learning and memory, brain evolution, nervous system database
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![Professional photo of John Streicher, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/J_Streicher.jpg?itok=V4i6_Bfy)
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. smiling for photo](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/G_Sutphin.jpg?itok=hSB9Cw5r)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/J_Teske.jpg?itok=Pk2KFyVD)
Jennifer Teske, Ph.D.
Neural and behavioral mechanisms of sleep deprivation-induced obesity
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![Professional photo of Todd Vanderah, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/T_Vanderah.jpg?itok=iRYoKSFH)
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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![Professional photo of Robert Wilson, Ph.D](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/R_Wilson.jpg?itok=eGQuibwa)
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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![Professional photo of Jean Wilson, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/J_Wilson.jpg?itok=lxNe4AsR)
Jean Wilson, Ph.D.
Cell biology of epithelial tissues; Regulation of membrane trafficking in polarized and non-polarized cells
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![Headshot of Russell Witte, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/2023-01/Russell%20Witte%2C%20Ph.D..jpg?itok=OmutQbh5)
Russell Witte, Ph.D.
Novel imaging of the central nervous system; smart contrast agents
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Melville Wohlgemuth, Ph.D.
Sensing and action in the natural environment
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![Professional photo of Fei Yin, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/F_Yin.jpg?itok=2esAGM58)
Fei Yin, Ph.D.
Mitochondrial genotype and phenotype in brain aging and age-associated neurodegenerative diseases
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![Haining Zhu, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/HZ.jpg?itok=5Ol3PwHQ)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_square/public/ZinsmaierWEB.gif?itok=eV9OiYTQ)
Konrad Zinsmaier, Ph.D.
The laboratory studies pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and molecular mechanisms essential for maintaining synaptic function and plasticity