Untitled Page

Neural Development & Plasticity

Seema Agarwala Associate Professor in Neurobiology: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal development.

Nigel Atkinson Professor in Neurobiology: How ion channel gene expression is regulated in Drosophila to produce cells with differing electrical properties.

Juan Dominguez Assistant Professor of Psychology: Elucidate the underlying neural and endocrine mechanisms regulating motivated behaviors, specifically, using the study of sexual behavior as a prototy

Andrew Dunn Assistant Professor: The development of advanced functional optical imaging techniques and application of these techniques to functional brain imaging.

Ila Fiete Assistant Professor of Neurobiology: Theoretical and computational modeling of neuronal systems.

Nace Golding Associate Professor in Neurobiology: Biophysics of information processing in dendrites.

Jeffrey Gross Assistant Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology: Genetics of eye development and visual system function in zebrafish.

Kristen Harris Professor of Neurobiology: Elucidate the structural components involved in the cell biology of learning and memory.

Jody Jensen Professor: The development of movement skills and changes in movement competence from infancy through older adulthood.

Daniel Johnston Director; Ctr for Learning and Memory, Institute for Neuroscience: Synaptic Integration and Plasticity in Hippocampus; â€¨Mechanisms of Learning and Memory and Epileptogenesis.

Helmut Koester Assistant Professor of Neurobiology: Neuronal signaling in cortical networks.

Hongjoo (Joanne) Lee Assistant Professor of Psychology: Understanding and treatment of cognitive problems associated with Parkinsonâ€™s disease.

Michael Mauk Professor of Neurobiology: Neural circuits engaged during motor learning.

Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor in Neurobiology: Neurophysiology of the brain reward circuit and drug addiction.

Richard Morrisett Professor in Pharmacy: The role of amino-acid derived neurotransmitter systems and synaptic transmission during the induction and expression of alcohol-related disorders.

Hiroshi Nishiyama Assistant Professor in Neurobiology: Cerebellum as a primary model system and a combination of two-photon in vivo time-lapse imaging, virus-mediated gene delivery and neuronal tracing, an

Russell Poldrack Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology: Our research is strongly focused on translation of basic cognitive neuroscience into the clinical domain, with collaborations on studies of schizophre

Kimberly Raab-Graham Assistant Professor of Neurobiology: Characterization of the local translation of synaptic mRNAs in response to neuronal activity.

Timothy Schallert Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D.: Recovery of function after stroke, tumor and other types of brain injury, as well as the neural plasticity and degenerative events associated with Par

Jason Shear Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry: Design and implementation of optical strategies for investigating the chemistry of neurotransmission at the individual synapse.

Wesley Thompson Professor in Neurobiology: Roles of glial cells (Schwann cells) in forming, maintaining, and repairing synapses.

John Wallingford Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology: Cellular and molecular basis of vertebrate neural tube closure.