The faculty who participate in the Neuroscience graduate program are listed below. You may find more information about any faculty member by clicking on their name. In addition to the >80 laboratories of Neuroscience Program faculty, Neuroscience students may carry out their thesis studies in any of the over 120 additional labs affiliated with Herbert W. Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS). PIBS is an umbrella entity comprising five separate graduate programs, created to give students access to the broadest possible range of research and to encourage interactions among faculty and students in different disciplines. PIBS sponsors many interdisciplinary activities designed to promote creative and interdisciplinary scientific research.
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Reza Abbasi-Asl
Multi-modal data integration and pattern discovery in brain through interpretable machine learning
Katerina Akassoglou
Neurovascular Mechanisms of Inflammation and Tissue Repair
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Birth and Migration of New Neurons
Kaveh Ashrafi
Metabolic regulation of learning and memory
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Scott Baraban
Neurobiology of Epilepsy
Samuel Barondes
Biological Psychiatry
Allan Basbaum
The Neurobiological Basis of Pain and its Control
Kevin Bender
Mechanisms and Function of Neuromodulation
Kristen Berendzen
Impact of brain aging on behavior
Joshua Berke
Neurobiology of Motivation and Adaptive Decision-Making
Michael Brainard
Sensorimotor Learning in the Song System
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Cathryn Cadwell
Human cortical cell types and circuits
Daniele Canzio
The generation of a cell-surface diversity code for neural circuit assembly
Jonah Chan
Neuronal/Glial Interactions that Control Myelination
Edward Chang
Speech Mechanisms
Ritchie Chen
Brain-body neuroscience, Bioelectronics, and Neurotechnology
Carlo Condello
Mechanisms and pharmacology of neurodegenerative diseases and glial biology
Bruce Conklin
Decoding and Repairing Genetic Disease
David Copenhagen
Synaptic Interactions in the Retina: Pathways and Mechanisms
Ryan Corces
Functional epigenomics in neurodegenerative diseases
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Graeme Davis
Synapse Formation, Growth, and Plasticity
Markus Delling
Calcium signaling in primary cilia during development and diseases
Xin Duan
Molecular and Genetic Assembly of Neural Circuits
Dena Dubal
Mechanisms of Neural Resilience in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease
Felice Dunn
Anatomy and function of retinal circuits under normal and disease states
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Robert Edwards
The Synaptic Basis of Behavior
Pam England
Chemical Neurobiology: Ion Channel Structure-Function, Synaptic Plasticity
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Steve Fancy
Development of glial cells of the brain and response to injury
Evan Feinberg
Cortical-subcortical networks for sensory processing and behavior
Howard Fields
Neural Circuitry of Motivation
Steven Finkbeiner
Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity and Neurodegeneration
Loren Frank
Learning and Spatial Coding in the Hippocampal-Cortical Circuit
Ying-Hui Fu
Molecular Study of Human Sleep Behaviors
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Karunesh Ganguly
Neuroprosthetics, motor rehabilitation, and plasticity
Adam Gazzaley
Neural Mechanisms of Attention and Memory
Walter Gonzalez
Distributed brain computation controlling motor behaviors
Su Guo
Stem Cells, Neural Circuitry and Behavior
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Corey Harwell
Neuron-glia crosstalk during circuit assembly
Andrea Hasenstaub
Genetic, Cellular, Circuit, and Functional Organization of Auditory Cortex
Stephen Hauser
Neurogenetics and Neuroimmunology of Demyelinating Diseases
Jonathan Horton
Structural Basis of Amblyopia and Strabismus
Eric J. Huang
Transcriptional Programs in Neuronal Survival and Differentiation
Yadong Huang
ApoE4 in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis and related drug development
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Holly Ingraham
Neural Basis for Sex-Differences in Metabolism
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Lily Jan
Potassium Channels and Calcium-activated Chloride Channels
Yuh Nung Jan
Neuronal morphogenesis and circuit assembly
David Julius
The Molecular Biology of Nociception and Pain
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Martin Kampmann
Functional genomics to understand molecular mechanisms of brain function and disease
Aimee Kao
The molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease
Saul Kato
Foundations of Cognition and Neural Computation
Mazen Kheirbek
Neural circuits for emotional behaviors
Christoph Kirst
Neuronal Network Dynamics, Computational Coordination and Flexible Brain Function
Zachary Knight
Neural circuits for homeostatic behaviors
Arnold R. Kriegstein
Neural Stem Cells and Embryonic Cortical Development
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Noelle L'Etoile
Understand how molecules, cells, circuits and the physiology of an intact organism work together to produce learned behaviors
Jon Levine
Signal Transduction and Second Messenger Signaling in Pain Sensory Neurons; CNS Pain Control Mechanisms: Neural-Endocrine Control of Inflammation
Qili Liu
Neurobiology of nutrient-specific appetite
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Devanand Manoli
Neural, molecular, and genetic mechanisms of social attachment throughout development and in disease
Elyssa Margolis
Neurocircuits and opioid systems in pain and addiction
Daniel L. Minor
Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Ion Channels and Ion Channel Regulation
Anna Molofsky
Non-neuronal regulators of brain development, plasticity, and disease
Lennart Mucke
Neurobiology of Diseases Affecting Cognitive Functions
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Ken Nakamura
Mitochondrial and Metabolic Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Vijay Namboodiri
Neural circuits for associative learning and decision-making
Alexandra Nelson
The cellular and circuit mechanisms of movement disorders
Roger Nicoll
The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Synaptic Plasticity
Tomasz Nowakowski
Cellular and Molecular Architecture of the Human Brain
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Michael Oldham
The molecular basis of cellular identity in the human brain
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Jorge Palop
Mechanisms of Network Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease
Mercedes Paredes
Late Cortical Neuron Development in the Human Brain and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Jeanne Paz
Neural dynamics and plasticity in Epilepsy and associated cognitive dysfunction
Xianhua Piao
Glial mechanisms of brain development and disorders
Sam Pleasure
Regulation of cortical development and function in health and disease
Stanley Prusiner
Molecular Biological, Genetic, and Protein Structural Studies of Prion Disease
Louis Ptacek
Genetics and Biology of Human Nervous System Disorders
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Dorit Ron
Signal Transduction, Molecular Neurobiology of Addiction
John Rubenstein
Genetic Regulation of Forebrain Development
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Stephan Sanders
Genomic and bioinformatic approaches to discovering the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders in humans, especially autism spectrum disorder
Massimo Scanziani
Understanding the mechanisms by which elementary circuits of neurons control the spatial and temporal structure of cortical activity.
Christoph Schreiner
Representation of Complex Signals in the Central Auditory System
William Seeley
Selective Vulnerability in Neurodegenerative Disease
Yin Shen
Utilizing functional genomics approaches to study brain development and diseases
Seth Shipman
Synthetic Biology for Neurodevelopment and Circuit Formation
Prasad Shirvalkar
Computational Neurophysiology of Pain and Neuroengineering Therapies
Vikaas Sohal
Understanding emergent patterns of activity in cortical networks & their relationships to psychiatric disorders
David Sretavan
Axon Injury, Disease, and Novel Paradigms for Therapy
Philip Starr
Physiology of movement disorders in humans
Matthew State
Genetics and genomics of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders
Michael Stryker
Development and Plasticity of the Central Visual System
Raymond Swanson
Reactive oxygen species in neuronal signaling and disease
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Erik Ullian
Interactions between Neurons and Glia that are Required for the Proper Development and Function of the Nervous System
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Christian Vaisse
Genetics of Metabolic Diseases
Saul Villeda
Mechanisms of Brain Aging and Rejuvenation
Susan Voglmaier
Vesicle Trafficking and Neurotransmitter Release
Mark Von Zastrow
Linking Cell Signaling and Membrane Traffic
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Helen Willsey
Using frogs to dissect psychiatric orders
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Kevin Yackle
Cellular and Molecular Dissection of the Breathing Rhythm Generator
Andrew Yang
Decoding how the blood-brain barrier regulates brain health
Wendy Yue
Signaling between neural tissues and bodily fluids