Participating Faculty
Katerina Akassoglou, PhD
Research Summary: Neurovascular Mechanisms of Inflammation and Tissue Repair
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology
Kevin Bender, PhD
Research Summary: Mechanisms and Function of Neuromodulation
Research Areas: Addiction Research, Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology
Grae Davis, PhD
Research Summary: Synapse Formation, Growth, and Plasticity
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology
Felice Dunn, PhD
Research Summary: Anatomy and function of retinal circuits under normal and disease states
Research Areas: Developmental Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology, Developmental Neuroscience
Robert Edwards, MD
Research Summary: The Synaptic Basis of Behavior
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology
Pamela England, PhD
Research Summary: Chemical Neurobiology: Ion Channel Structure-Function, Synaptic Plasticity
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Synaptic Physiology
Yuh Nung Jan, PhD
Research Summary: Neuronal morphogenesis and circuit assembly
Research Areas: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology
Anatol Kreitzer, PhD
Research Summary: Synaptic Plasticity and Circuit Function in the Basal Ganglia
Research Areas: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology, Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Noelle L'Etoile, PhD
Research Summary: Understand how molecules, cells, circuits and the physiology of an intact organism work together to produce learned behaviors
Research Areas: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Synaptic Physiology, Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Jon Levine, MD, PhD
Research Summary: Signal Transduction and Second Messenger Signaling in Pain Sensory Neurons; CNS Pain Control Mechanisms: Neural-Endocrine Control of Inflammation
Research Areas: Addiction Research, Synaptic Physiology
Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD
Research Summary: Astrocytes in Neural Circuit Formation and Function
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Synaptic Physiology
Alexandra Nelson, MD, PhD
Research Summary: The cellular and circuit mechanisms of movement disorders
Research Areas: Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology, Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Roger Nicoll, MD
Research Summary: The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Synaptic Plasticity
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Synaptic Physiology
Jeanne Paz, PhD
Research Summary: Neural dynamics and plasticity in Epilepsy and associated cognitive dysfunction
Research Areas: Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology, Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Kira Poskanzer, PhD
Research Summary: Astrocytic and neuronal function in the cortical microcircuit
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Synaptic Physiology, Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Stanley Prusiner, MD
Research Summary: Molecular Biological, Genetic and Protein Structural Studies of Prion Disease
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Synaptic Physiology
Massimo Scanziani, PhD
Research Summary: Understanding the mechanisms by which elementary circuits of neurons control the spatial and temporal structure of cortical activity.
Research Areas: Behavioral Neuroscience, Synaptic Physiology, Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD
Research Summary: Understanding emergent patterns of activity in cortical networks & their relationships to psychiatric disorders
Research Areas: Behavioral Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology, Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Susan Voglmaier, MD, PhD
Research Summary: Vesicle Trafficking and Neurotransmitter Release
Research Areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Nervous System Disease, Synaptic Physiology