Aging

Carolina Abdala

• The maturation and aging of cochlear function in humans and the mechanisms driving age-related change
• Development of an SFOAE-DPOAE Joint profile for differential diagnosis of hearing loss
• Generation mechanisms of otoacoustic emissions

Berenice A. Benayoun

• How is remodeling of chromatin landscapes during aging and in response to longevity interventions determined and regulated?
• How are specific aspects of transcriptions regulated and impaired during aging?
• What role does sex, an important yet understudied factor in aging and longevity, play in the regulation of aging?

Meredith Braskie

• Alzheimer’s Disease Risk – Genetic and Environmental
• Resting State Functional MRI
• Structural MRI
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging
• Inflammation
• Metabolic risk
• Amyloid & Tau

Isabelle Brocas

• Experimental Economics
• Neuroeconomics
• Behavioral Economics

Karen T Chang

• Drosophila models for Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease
• Mechanisms regulating synaptic vesicle endocytosis
• Mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity
• Mechanisms of mitochondrial trafficking
• Mitochondrial dynamics in neurological disorders

Constanza Cortes

• Muscle-to-brain Axis
• Exercise-mimicking therapeutics for disease of the nervous system
• Neurogenesis
• Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease

Dion Kai Dickman

• Synapse development, function, and plasticity in Drosophila

Dominique Duncan

• Epilepsy
• EEG
• MRI
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Applied Harmonic Analysis
• Diffusion Geometry
• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Nonlinear Filtering
• Analysis and Modeling of Signals
• Statistical Signal Processing
• Virtual Reality

Teal Eich

• Aging
• Cognition
• Memory
• Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
• Sex Differences
• Neuroimaging

James M Finley

• Locomotor adaptation and learning
• Optimality principles underlying the control of healthy and pathological gait
• Elucidating cortical contributions to human gait
• Developing virtual-reality based approaches for neurorehabilitation

Ksenia Gnedeva

• Sensory organ development and disease
• Hearing & Balance
• Retina
• Cellular and molecular basis of regeneration
• Gene therapy

Andrei Irimia

• traumatic brain injury in older adults
• brain aging
• connectomics
• cerebral plasticity prompted by traumatic brain injury
• neuroimaging
• blood-brain barrier
• cerebral microhemorrhage
• aging in atypical populations

Neda Jahanshad

Michael W. Jakowec

• Animal models of Parkinson’s disease
• Molecular mechanisms of exercise-induced neuroplasticity in the basal ganglia
• Interactions between dopamine and glutamate within the basal ganglia and their role in control of motor behavior
• Development of new therapeutic modalities for Parkinson’s disease

Scott E. Kanoski

• Food intake and body weight regulation
• Learning and memory
• Neuroendocrinology
• Neuroanatomy and circuits
• Cognitive Impairment / Alzheimer’s

Changhan David Lee

• Metabolism
• Mitochondrial biology
• Cellular homeostasis and stress response

Sun Young Lee

• Recovery and high-profile characterization of extracellular vesicle (EV), also know as exosome
• Evaluating the role of EV in retinal diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and inherited retinal diseases
• Developing EV-mediated intraocular therapeutics using bioengineering of EV, cargo loading (small molecular or genes) of EV, and stem cell-derived EV

Kristan Leech

Sook-Lei Liew

• Neural plasticity and neurorehabilitation
• Motor learning and recovery
• Stroke rehabilitation
• Neuroimaging
• Noninvasive brain stimulation
• Neurofeedback
• Brain computer interfaces
• Virtual reality

Valter D. Longo

• Aging
• Cellular Neurobiology
• Microbial/Invertebrate Genetics
• Cancer

Mara Mather

• Effects of emotional arousal on perception and memory
• Age-related changes in emotion and cognition
• Stress and cognition

Christian J. Pike

• Regulation of Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis
• The role of sex steroid hormones in Alzheimer’s disease
• Relationships between obesity, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease
• Signaling pathways regulating neuronal apoptosis and neuroprotection

Paul Matthew Thompson

• Alzheimer’s
• HIV
• Development
• Connectomics
• ENIGMA
• Genetics
• Neuroimaging Methods
• Diffusion Imaging
• Mathematics
• Bipolar Illness
• Lifestyle/Save the Brain See http://igc.ini.usc.edu

Junhao Wen

• Medical Imaging Computing
• Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
• Multi-omics (genetics & proteomics)

Hussein Yassine

• Alzheimer’s disease ApoE lipid metabolism

Li Zhang

• Synaptic circuitry mechanisms for sensory information processing
• Technical innovations for tracing brain circuits
• Neural circuits for innate behavior
• Synaptic and cellular basis for development and plasticity of neural circuitry
• Neural circuitry basis for sensory processing disorders

Zhen Zhao

• Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia
• Blood brain barrier and vascular-neuronal interaction
• The role of innate immunity in CNS diseases and injuries

Berislav V. Zlokovic, MD, PhD

• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Ischemia and Stroke
• Activated Protein C System
• Amytrophic lateral sclerosis
• Blood-Brain Barrier
• Cerebral microcirculation and regulation of cerebral blood flow