- 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?
- Alzheimer’s Disease Risk – Genetic and Environmental
- Resting State Functional MRI
- Structural MRI
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging
- Inflammation
- Metabolic risk
- Amyloid & Tau
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Multimodal neuroimaging
- Machine learning, deep learning for clinical neuroscience
- Large-scale consortium neuroscience
- Neuroimaging genetics
- Neurodegeneration and aging
- Synapse development, function, and plasticity in Drosophila
- Sensory organ development and disease
- Hearing & Balance
- Retina
- Cellular and molecular basis of regeneration
- Gene therapy
- 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
- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Learning and memory
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Cognitive Impairment / Alzheimer’s
- Metabolism
- Mitochondrial biology
- Cellular homeostasis and stress response
- 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
- Development of Neuronal Diversity, Neural Circuitry and Synapses in Neocortical and Brainstem
- Autonomic Networks
- Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of Social-Emotional Behavior
- Gene regulatory networks
- Clinical studies of children with ASD and medical co-morbidities
- Impact of early adverse experience on brain development and behavior
- Translating neuroscience of early brain and child development for public policy changes
- Aging
- Cellular Neurobiology
- Microbial/Invertebrate Genetics
- Cancer
- motor control
- active sensing
- neural circuits
- Cellular neurobiology
- Developmental neurobiology
- Sensory neurobiology
- Central visual processing
- Alzheimer’s
- HIV
- Development
- Connectomics
- ENIGMA
- Genetics
- Neuroimaging Methods
- Diffusion Imaging
- Mathematics
- Bipolar Illness
- Lifestyle/Save the Brain See http://igc.ini.usc.edu
- Medical Imaging Computing
- Machine learning & Artificial Intelligence
- Multi-omics (genetics & proteomics)
- Alzheimer’s disease
- ApoE lipid metabolism