Faculty Directory – Neurobiology
| Faculty Name | Department | Research Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Abrams | Neurology and Rehabilitation | Diseases of myelin, Gap junctions in glia, Axon-Glia interactions |
| Olusola Ajilore | Psychiatry |
| Simon T. Alford | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Jon Art | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Physiology & biophysics of hair cells and their synapses in the inner ear |
| Ernesto R. Bongarzone | Anatomy and Cell Biology | White matter disease, Parkinson’s, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Proteopathy |
| Scott T. Brady | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Axonal transport, Neuronal Cytoskeleton, Neurodegeneration |
| Mark S. Brodie | Physiology and Biophysics | Electrophysiology of ventral tegmental area neurins in brain slices; actions of ethanol on the central nervous system |
| Michael Carrithers | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Emma Childs | Psychiatry |
| Edwin Cook | Psychiatry |
| Erbo Dong | Psychiatry |
| Douglas Feinstein | Anesthesiology | Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol abuse, Vitamin K, glia, myelin, oligodendrocytes, genetic risk factor SNPs, environmental toxins |
| David Gavin | Psychiatry |
| Maria Irene Givogri | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Gliogenesis, pathophysiology of white matter disease, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy,Multiple sclerosis and extracelluar vesicles |
| Elizabeth Glover | Psychiatry |
| Swetha Gowrishankar | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Delineating the mechanisms underlying neuronal lysosome formation with a specific focus on neurodegenerative diseases |
| Dennis Grayson | Psychiatry |
| Alessandro Guidotti | Psychiatry |
| Christopher Janson | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Mary Jo LaDu | Anatomy and Cell Biology | We focus on the interactions of two proteins that are genetically linked to Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid-beta peptide and apolipoprotein E. |
| Scott Langnecker | Psychiatry |
| John Larson | Psychiatry | Learning & Memory, Synaptic Plasticity, Autism |
| Amy Lasek | Psychiatry | Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying alcohol and drug addiction; hormonal factors and sex differences in addiction |
| Orly Lazarov | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Molecular and cellular processes underlying cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease; hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity. |
| Alex Leow (Wei-Hsun Liao) | Psychiatry |
| Jeffery Loeb | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Sarah E. Lutz | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Anna Lysakowski | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Jason McAnany | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Non-invasive assessment of visual function and structure in patients who have acquired and inherited retinal degenerative diseases. |
| Gerardo Morfini | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Kinase-based intracellular signaling relevant to axonal function in health and disease. |
| Ghanshyam Pandey | Psychiatry |
| Subhash Pandey | Psychiatry |
| Christian J Peters | Anatomy and Cell Biology | The Peters lab is interested in the mechanisms by which the function, regulation and cellular distribution of neuronal ion channel proteins regulates nicotine seeking and avoidance behaviors. |
| Graziano Pinna | Psychiatry |
| Neil Pliskin | Psychiatry |
| Amynah Pradhan | Psychiatry |
| Mark M. Rasenick | Physiology and Biophysics | G protein signaling, the cytoskeleton and lipid rafts: Neurobiology of Depression and antidepressants. |
| Liudmila Romanov | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Mark Rosenblatt | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences |
| Nava Segev | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of Intracellular Trafficking by Molecular Switches |
| Kamal Sharma | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Rajiv Sharma | Psychiatry |
| Konstantin Slavin | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Neil Smalheiser | Psychiatry | Informatics, neuroscience, psychiatry, data science |
| Fei Song | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Leon Tai | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Fernando testai | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Kuei Y. Tseng | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Akira Yoshii | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Synaptic plasticity, critical period, cortical circuit, neurodevelopmental disorders, lysosomal storage diseases |