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
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 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.
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.
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. |
