Institute for Neuroscience Faculty
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Richard W Aldrich Professor Emeritus Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II (Emeritus) Molecular mechanisms of ion channels and signaling molecules. |
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George D Bittner Professor Cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. |
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Chen Yu Professor Charles and Sarah Seay Regents Professorship in Developmental Psychology (Holder) Development and Learning, Language Acquisition, Perception and Action, Visual Attention, Social Interaction, Computer Vision, Machine Learni |
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Laura L Colgin Director, Center for Learning and Memory, Associate Professor Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (Fellow) Investigate how brain rhythms affect memory operations, using multisite tetrode recordings from behaving animals. |
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Michael Drew Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Associate Professor Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis |
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Nace L Golding Professor, Director, Institute for Neuroscience To understand how sensory systems function and develop |
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F Gonzalez-Lima Professor George I. Sanchez Centennial Professorship in Liberal Arts (Holder) Brain research on transcranial lasers, memory enhancement, neuroprotection, neurocognitive disorders |
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Robbe L Goris Assistant Professor Visual Perception, Perceptual Decision-Making, Computational Neuroscience |
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Andreana P Haley Professor Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Regents Professorship in Clinical Psychology (Holder) |
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Kristen M Harris Professor To elucidate structural components involved in the cell biology of learning and memory. |
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Robert A Harris Professor Emeritus M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology (Emeritus) Investigating molecular mechanisms responsible for alcoholism and drug dependence. |
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Hans Hofmann Professor, Faculty collaboration with Gore lab Neuromolecular and genomic basis of social behavior and its evolution |
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Mackenzie A Howard Courtesy Faculty, Assistant Professor of Neurology Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders |
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Andres Jara-Oseguera Assistant Professor Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellowship Fund (Holder) Molecular and cellular mechanisms of electrical signaling, biophysics of ion channel proteins. |
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Daniel Johnston Professor Emeritus Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (Emeritus) Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy. |
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Jarrod A Lewis-Peacock Associate Professor Cognitive control, memory, functional neuroimaging, real-time neurofeedback |
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Michela Marinelli Associate Professor, Other University Affiliate - Pharmacy neuroscience of addiction and motivation |
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Michael Mauk Professor To understand what brain systems compute, how learning contributes, how circuits, cells and synapses mediate this learning and computation. |
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Roy D Mayfield Research Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology (Fellow) |
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Robert Messing Department Chair, Neuroscience, Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology (Holder) Neurobiology of addiction and pain |
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S J Mihic Associate Professor Developing a better understanding of how ligand-gated ion channels function |
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Jose del R Millan Professor, Professor of Neurology Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering (Holder) |
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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology (Fellow) Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor Alan W. Hamm Centennial Fellowship in Pharmacy (Holder) neurologic diseases, membrane trafficking, infectious diseases, ion homeostasis, drug discovery |
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Hiroshi Nishiyama Associate Professor The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain |
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Kimberly Nixon Professor James T. Doluisio Centennial Fellowship (Holder) Role of adult neurogenesis and glia in the development of and recovery from alcohol use disorders |
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Linda J Noble Professor, Professor of Neurology The Noble-Haeusslein laboratory studies cellular and molecular determinants of recovery after traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. |
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Jonathan Pierce Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology (Fellow) The genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders. |
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George D Pollak Professor Emeritus How the auditory system processes species-specific communication signals and the cues that enable association with its location in space. |
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Alison R Preston Vice Provost for Faculty Development, Professor Dr. A. Wilson Nolle and Sir Raghunath P. Mahendroo Professorship in Neuroscience (Holder) |
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Nicholas J Priebe Professor Mechanisms underlying response properties of neurons in primary sensory cortex using both electrophysiology and imaging in vivo. |
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Eyal Seidemann Professor How perceptual decisions and motor plans are formed in the primate cerebral cortex. |
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Eric Senning Assistant Professor My research explores how ion channels affect the excitability of sensory neurons with an emphasis on the molecular basis of ion channel func |
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Max Snodderly Professor Emeritus Early stages of the primate visual pathway from the retina to the cortex. |
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Huiliang Wang Assistant Professor Neuroengineering, Bioelectronics, Biomaterials, Wearable Electronics, Nanotechnology |
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Harold H Zakon Professor The function, regulation, and evolution of voltage-dependent ion channels. The regulation of sodium and potassium channels by hormones. |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
