Don Arnold
- Cellular Neurobiology
- Membranes & Transport
Alexandre Bonnin
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
Jeannie Chen
- Signal transduction
- Photoreceptor function
- Retinal degeneration
- Retinal circuitry
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
Kathie Eagleson
- Development of Neuronal Diversity, Neural Circuitry and Synapses in Neocortical Networks
- Impact of early adverse experience on brain development
- Influence of sex on response to early life stress
Ksenia Gnedeva
- Sensory organ development and disease
- Hearing & Balance
- Retina
- Cellular and molecular basis of regeneration
- Gene therapy
Mark S. Humayun
- Electrical stimulation of the retina
- Retinal prosthesis
- Retinal disease
- Instrumentation for vitreoretinal surgery
Radha Kalluri
- cochlear mechanics, acoustics, nonlinear wave phenomena
- otoacoustic emissions and noninvasive testing of cochlear function
- sensory transduction in the auditory and vestibular periphery
- biophysics of sensory neurons
Anna Kamitakahara
- Gut-Brain Axis
- Interoception
- Neural Development
- Neural Control of Feeding Behavior and Metabolism
- Impact of Early Life Environment on Neural Development
Chien-Ping Ko
- Synaptic structure, function, formation, repair, and maintenance
- Synapse-glia interactions at the neuromuscular junction
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
- 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
Emily R. Liman
- Ion channel biophysics
- Sensory biology
- Pain and taste transduction
David McKemy
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
Giorgia Quadrato
- brain organoids
- pluripotent stem cells
- neural stem cells
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- autism
- single cell sequencing
- cell-cell interactions
Huizhong W. Tao
- Cellular neurobiology
- Developmental neurobiology
- Sensory neurobiology
- Central visual processing
Lu Wang
- Brain organoids/assembloids
- Neurological disorders
- Single-cell genomics
- Gene-environment interactions
Li I 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