Michael Bienkowski
Alexandre Bonnin
- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Hindbrain
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Nausea and Emesis
- Anorexia and cachexia
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Obesity
Meredith Braskie
- Alzheimer’s Disease Risk – Genetic and Environmental
- Resting State Functional MRI
- Structural MRI
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging
- Inflammation
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
Karolina Charaziak
- Systems neuroscience
- Physiology of hearing
- In vivo imaging and electrophysiology
- Inner ear mechanics & wave propagation
- Mathematical modeling
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Multimodal neuroimaging
- Machine learning, deep learning for clinical neuroscience
- Large-scale consortium neuroscience
- Neuroimaging genetics
- Neurodegeneration and aging
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
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
S. Duke Han
- Cognition
- Decision Making
- Aging
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroimaging
Bruce E. Herring
- Synaptic function
- Synaptic plasticity
- Neuropsychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Daniel P Holschneider
- Functional brain mapping of animal behaviors
- Behavioral and neurophysiologic characterization of animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders
- Technology development
Mark S. Humayun
- Electrical stimulation of the retina
- Retinal prosthesis
- Retinal disease
- Instrumentation for vitreoretinal surgery
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
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
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)
Jason J Kutch
- Neural mechanisms for muscle activation
- Engineering of non-invasive systems to study human motor function
- Neuromuscular disorders
- 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
Sook-Lei Liew
- Neural plasticity and neurorehabilitation
- Motor learning and recovery
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Neuroimaging
- Noninvasive brain stimulation
- Neurofeedback
- Brain computer interfaces
- Virtual reality
Lauren McElvain
- Cellular and circuit mechanisms of movement
- Synaptic and cellular physiology
- Neural circuit connectivity maps
- Circuit mechanisms of movement disorders
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
Beth A. Smith
- Infant Development
- Physical Therapy
- Neuromotor Control
Huizhong W. Tao
- Cellular neurobiology
- Developmental neurobiology
- Sensory neurobiology
- Central visual processing
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
Alan G. Watts
- Systems neuroscience
- Neural control of metabolism
- Ingestive behaviors
- Diabetes & Obesity
- Medical Imaging Computing
- Machine learning & Artificial Intelligence
- Multi-omics (genetics & proteomics)
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