Don Arnold
- Cellular Neurobiology
- Membranes & Transport
- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Hindbrain
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Nausea and Emesis
- Anorexia and cachexia
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Obesity
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
James Dewey
- Function of the peripheral auditory system
- Cochlear mechanics and biophysics
- Inner ear imaging
- Basic mechanisms and diagnostic utility of sounds emitted by the ear (otoacoustic emissions)
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
Bruce E. Herring
- Synaptic function
- Synaptic plasticity
- Neuropsychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Mark S. Humayun
- Electrical stimulation of the retina
- Retinal prosthesis
- Retinal disease
- Instrumentation for vitreoretinal surgery
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
Anna Kamitakahara
- Gut-Brain Axis
- Interoception
- Neural Development
- Neural Control of Feeding Behavior and Metabolism
- Impact of Early Life Environment on Neural Development
Scott E. Kanoski
- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Learning and memory
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Cognitive Impairment / Alzheimer’s
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
Lauren McElvain
- Cellular and circuit mechanisms of movement
- Synaptic and cellular physiology
- Neural circuit connectivity maps
- Circuit mechanisms of movement disorders
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)
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
Pat Levitt
- 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
Emily R. Liman
- Ion channel biophysics
- Sensory biology
- Pain and taste transduction
Valter D. Longo
- Aging
- Cellular Neurobiology
- Microbial/Invertebrate Genetics
- Cancer
David McKemy
Jeffrey Moore
- motor control
- active sensing
- neural circuits
Aaron Nagiel
- Synaptogenesis
- Neural circuit formation
- Retinal development
- 3-dimensional retinal organoids
- Inherited retinal diseases
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
Larry Swanson
Huizhong W. Tao
- Cellular neurobiology
- Developmental neurobiology
- Sensory neurobiology
- Central visual processing
Alan G. Watts
- Systems neuroscience
- Neural control of metabolism
- Ingestive behaviors
- Diabetes & Obesity
Ruth I. Wood
- Sex: androgen control of male sexual behavior, sex differences in brain & behavior
- Drugs: anabolic-androgenic steroid abuse; ethanol and social behavior
- Cooperation: behavioral endocrinology of cooperative behavior
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