Research Areas
Behavioral Neuroscience
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George D Bittner Professor Cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. |
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Michael Drew Associate Professor Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis |
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Daniel Johnston Professor, Director (Academic) Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy. |
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Michael Mauk Department Chair, Neuroscience, Professor Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research To understand what brain systems compute, how learning contributes, how circuits, cells and synapses mediate this learning and computation. |
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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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Eyal Seidemann Professor How perceptual events and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
Cell Biology of neurons, muscle & glia
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George D Bittner Professor Cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. |
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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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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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Hiroshi Nishiyama Associate Professor The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain |
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Jonathan Pierce Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology The genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders. |
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George D Pollak Professor How the auditory system processes species-specific communication signals and the cues that enable association with its location in space. |
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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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Tyler A Smith Teaching Assistant MBS Immunological responses to PEG-fusion repair of severed peripheral nerves |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
Clinical Neuroscience & Pathology
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George D Bittner Professor Cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. |
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Mackenzie A Howard Research Assistant Professor, Courtesy Faculty Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders |
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Daniel Johnston Professor, Director (Academic) Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy. |
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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
Cognition & Perception
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Michael Drew Associate Professor Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis |
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Alexander C Huk Professor Raymond Dickson Centennial Professorship #2 Focuses on how we see things move using electrophysiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, psychophysics, and computational modeling. |
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Jarrod A Lewis-Peacock Assistant Professor Interactions between memory, attention, and learning; neural decoding & neurofeedback |
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Alison R Preston Vice President for Research, Professor Dr. A. Wilson Nolle and Sir Raghunath P. Mahendroo Professorship in Neuroscience |
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Eyal Seidemann Professor How perceptual events and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. |
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Computational & Theoretical Neuroscience
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Alison R Preston Vice President for Research, Professor Dr. A. Wilson Nolle and Sir Raghunath P. Mahendroo Professorship in Neuroscience |
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Nicholas J Priebe Associate 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 events and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. |
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Functional & Molecular Imaging
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Richard W Aldrich Professor Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II Molecular mechanisms of ion channels and signaling molecules. |
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Alexander C Huk Professor Raymond Dickson Centennial Professorship #2 Focuses on how we see things move using electrophysiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, psychophysics, and computational modeling. |
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Daniel Johnston Professor, Director (Academic) Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy. |
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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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Hiroshi Nishiyama Associate Professor The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain |
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Alison R Preston Vice President for Research, Professor Dr. A. Wilson Nolle and Sir Raghunath P. Mahendroo Professorship in Neuroscience |
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Eyal Seidemann Professor How perceptual events and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
Ion Channels, Neurotransmitter Receptors & Molecular Signaling
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Richard W Aldrich Professor Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II Molecular mechanisms of ion channels and signaling molecules. |
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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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R A Harris Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology Investigating molecular mechanisms responsible for alcoholism and drug dependence. |
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Mackenzie A Howard Research Assistant Professor, Courtesy Faculty Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders |
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Daniel Johnston Professor, Director (Academic) Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy. |
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S J Mihic Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Developing a better understanding of how ligand-gated ion channels function |
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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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Jonathan Pierce Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology The genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders. |
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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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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. |
Neural Development & Plasticity
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George D Bittner Professor Cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. |
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Michael Drew Associate Professor Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis |
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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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Mackenzie A Howard Research Assistant Professor, Courtesy Faculty Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders |
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Daniel Johnston Professor, Director (Academic) Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy. |
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Michael Mauk Department Chair, Neuroscience, Professor Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research To understand what brain systems compute, how learning contributes, how circuits, cells and synapses mediate this learning and computation. |
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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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Hiroshi Nishiyama Associate Professor The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
Neurodegenerative Disease & Injury
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George D Bittner Professor Cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. |
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Daniel Johnston Professor, Director (Academic) Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy. |
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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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Tyler A Smith Teaching Assistant MBS Immunological responses to PEG-fusion repair of severed peripheral nerves |
Neuroethology
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Jonathan Pierce Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology The genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders. |
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Neurogenetics
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Michael Drew Associate Professor Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis |
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R A Harris Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology Investigating molecular mechanisms responsible for alcoholism and drug dependence. |
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Hiroshi Nishiyama Associate Professor The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain |
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Jonathan Pierce Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology The genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders. |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
Synaptic Biology & Small Circuits
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Richard W Aldrich Professor Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II Molecular mechanisms of ion channels and signaling molecules. |
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Laura L Colgin Associate Professor Investigate how brain rhythms affect memory operations, using multisite tetrode recordings from behaving animals. |
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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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Mackenzie A Howard Research Assistant Professor, Courtesy Faculty Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders |
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Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction |
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George D Pollak Professor How the auditory system processes species-specific communication signals and the cues that enable association with its location in space. |
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Boris Zemelman Associate Professor The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall. |
Systems & Integrative Neuroscience
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Laura L Colgin Associate Professor Investigate how brain rhythms affect memory operations, using multisite tetrode recordings from behaving animals. |
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Michael Drew Associate Professor Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis |
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Mackenzie A Howard Research Assistant Professor, Courtesy Faculty Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders |
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Alexander C Huk Professor Raymond Dickson Centennial Professorship #2 Focuses on how we see things move using electrophysiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, psychophysics, and computational modeling. |
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Jarrod A Lewis-Peacock Assistant Professor Interactions between memory, attention, and learning; neural decoding & neurofeedback |
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Michael Mauk Department Chair, Neuroscience, Professor Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research To understand what brain systems compute, how learning contributes, how circuits, cells and synapses mediate this learning and computation. |
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Jonathan Pierce Associate Professor M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology The genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders. |
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George D Pollak Professor 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 President for Research, Professor Dr. A. Wilson Nolle and Sir Raghunath P. Mahendroo Professorship in Neuroscience |
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Nicholas J Priebe Associate 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 events and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. |
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