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Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, PhD

Assistant Professor
Neurology

Research in the Namboodiri lab will focus on the biological algorithms and neuronal network mechanisms underlying associative learning, memory and decision-making. We will conduct this research in mice as an animal model. In addition to investigating these processes at a basic level, we are especially interested in understanding how these mechanisms go awry in diseases such as addiction. Lastly, we are also interested in developing theoretical and computational models of associative learning and decision-making.

Martin Kampmann, PhD

Associate Professor
Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
and Biochemistry and Biophysics

Functional genomics to understand molecular mechanisms of brain function and disease

Research Description

Aimee Kao, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Neurology

The molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease

Saul Kato, PhD

Associate Professor
Neurology

Foundations of Cognition and Neural Computation

Our lab develops and applies computational, cutting-edge engineering (software, hardware, and genomic), and experimental approaches to basic neuroscience and builds theories of brain function. We also collaborate with other labs to apply our tools to probe brain dysfunction and disease.  We are a hybrid experimental-computational lab and welcome members from diverse scientific and technical backgrounds.

Mazen Kheirbek, PhD

Associate Professor
Psychiatry

Neural circuits for emotional behaviors

The primary goal of our research is to delineate the neuronal circuits that underlie emotional behavior so that we may understand how they may be disrupted in mood and anxiety disorders. For this, we use a combination of approaches in mouse models including population calcium imaging, optogenetics, behavior, neural circuit tracing and high-density electrophysiology, in order to control genetically identified brain networks in real time.

 

Yuriy Kirichok, PhD

Professor
Physiology

Electrical Signaling at the Mitochondrion in Health and Disease

ChrIstoph Kirst, PhD, MS, BS

Assistant Professor
Anatomy

Research Description

We develop theory and dynamical systems tools, machine learning and data analysis algorithms, and whole brain mapping methods to characterize and understand flexible brain function

Current Projects

Zachary Knight, PhD

Associate Professor
Physiology

Neural circuits for homeostatic behaviors

Anatol Kreitzer, PhD

Professor
Physiology

Synaptic Plasticity and Circuit Function in the Basal Ganglia

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD

Director
Neurology

Neural Stem Cells and Embryonic Cortical Development

Noelle L'etoile, PhD

Associate Professor
Cell Tissue Biology

Understanding Neural Plasticity and Behavior​

Jeff Lansman, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology

Biophysics of Mechanosensation

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