Don Arnold

  • Cellular Neurobiology
  • Membranes & Transport

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

  • Learning & Memory

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