Neuroscience Graduate Program
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
Multiple Sclerosis, signaling mechanisms that regulate
development, myelination, demyelination and remyelination in
transgenic mouse models and in tissue culture.
Elisa
Barbarese
Cellular and molecular biology of glia and neurons and their
role in multiple sclerosis and autism.
Leslie
R. Bernstein
Behavioral neuroscience: psychoacoustics.
John H.
Carson
RNA trafficking in eucaryotic cells.
Stephen J.
Crocker
Stem cells; glia; metalloproteinases; cytokines; development;
pathology; tissue culture.
Betty
Eipper
Pituitary; peptides; trafficking; enzymes; tissue culture;
molecular interactions; neurons.
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.
Duck O. 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.
James Li
Mechanisms underlying normal and
abnormal development of the central nervous system; stem cell
biology.
Jun Li
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.
Xin-Ming Ma
Synaptogenesis and spine plasticity in hippocampal neurons;
estrogen hormones, cocaine, stress and synaptic plasticity.
Richard
Mains
Pituitary; peptides; vesicles; enzymes; substance abuse,
neuronal cultures, behavior.
Gerald D.
Maxwell
Molecular and cellular developmental neurobiology.
Louise
McCullough
Basic mechanisms involved in cerebral ischemia.
Royce Mohan
Chemical genetic approaches in corneal angiogenesis, fibrosis
and retinal gliosis.
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.
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.
Ji Yu
Optical imaging technology;
regulation mechanisms in dendritic RNA translation; cytoskeletal
dynamics.
Nada
Zecevic
Cellular and molecular aspects of CNS development; primate
cerebral cortex; microglia; multiple sclerosis. |
