Ph.D. in Biomedical Science: Area of Concentration
Neuroscience
Faculty
Srdjan Antic
Prefrontal and
somatosensory cortex; pyramidal neurons; synaptic transmission;
excitatory neurotransmitters; the role of dendrites in synaptic
integration; and dopaminergic modulation of dendritic excitability.
Rashmi Bansal
Developmental, cellular and molecular biology of oligodendrocytes.
Elisa Barbarese
Developmental neurobiology, myelination, and multiple sclerosis.
Leslie R.
Bernstein
Behavioral neuroscience: psychoacoustics.
John H. Carson
RNA trafficking in eucaryotic cells.
Lisa H. Conti
Involvement of particular
brain regions and neurotransmitters in animal models of psychiatric
disorders.
Stephen J. Crocker
Stem cells; glia; metalloproteinases; cytokines; development; pathology;
tissue culture.
Betty Eipper
Pituitary; heart; peptides; trafficking; enzymes; tissue culture;
development.
Paul M.
Epstein
Receptor signal transduction, second messengers, and protein
phosphorylation in control of cell growth and regulation.
Marion E. Frank
Gustatory neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, behavior and disorders;
processing of chemosensory information by the nervous system; clinical
testing of oral chemosensory function in humans.
James Hewett
Mechanisms of cell injury and inflammation in the central nervous system
Sandra Hewett
Mechanisms underlying cell death in the central nervous system: the
interplay between excitotoxicity and inflammation.
Duck Kim
Neurobiology and biophysics of the auditory system; computational
neuroscience of single neurons and neural systems; experimental
otolaryngology (otoacoustic emissions); biomedical engineering.
Shigeyuki Kuwada
Neurophysiology and anatomy of mammalian auditory system, principles of
binaural signal processing.
Eric S. Levine
Synaptic physiology and plasticity, roles of nerve growth factors and
endogenous cannabinoids in hippocampus and cortex.
Xuejun (June) Li
Stem cells; neural development and degeneration
Leslie Loew
Morphological determinants of cell physiology;
image-based computational models of cellular biology; spatial variations
of cell membrane electrophysiology; new optical methods for probing
living cells.
Richard Mains
Pituitary; sympathetic neurons; peptides; vesicles; enzymes; tissue
culture; development.
Gerald D.
Maxwell
Molecular and cellular developmental neurobiology.
Louise McCullough
Basic mechanisms involved in cerebral ischemia.
D. Kent Morest
Synaptic organization and fine structure of the nervous system: plastic
changes following activity changes; noise-induced hearing loss as a
neurodegenerative disease; development of synapses and neuronal
transplantation.
Douglas L.
Oliver
Synaptic organization; Parallel information processing in the central
nervous system; Ionic currents and channel expression and their role in
information processing; Neurocytology, morphology, and cellular
physiology of CNS sensory systems; Biology of hearing and deafness.
Joel S. Pachter
Mechanisms regulating pathogenesis of CNS infectious/inflammatory
disease.
Achilles J.
Pappano
Development of autonomic innervation and of autonomic neuroeffector
transmission in the embryonic chick heart.
Steven J.
Potashner
Synaptic and transmitter biochemistry of neural connections in the
auditory nervous system and their plasticity in the adult animal.
Martin R.
Schiller
Spinal cord injury, Neuronal morphology, Peptide neurotransmitters,
secretory pathway.
William J.
Shoemaker
Neuropharmacology; CNS peptides and receptors; fetal alcohol syndrome;
genetics of mental diseases.
Henry Smilowitz
Development of novel therapies for
experimental advanced, imminently lethal malignant brain tumors in rats
and mice; Use of gold nanoparticles to develop a new form of radiation
therapy (gold-enhanced radiation therapy) and novel approaches to both
tumor and vascular imaging.
David M.
Waitzman
Neurophysiology; oculomotor system; modeling of CNS.
Zhao-Wen Wang
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release; potassium
and calcium channel function; Synaptic localization of potassium
channels.
Nada Zecevic
Cellular and molecular aspects of CNS development; primate cerebral
cortex; microglia; multiple sclerosis.
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