• Food intake and body weight regulation
  • Hindbrain
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Neuroanatomy and circuits
  • Nausea and Emesis
  • Anorexia and cachexia
  • Chemotherapy
  • Cancer
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity

Karolina Charaziak

  • Systems neuroscience
  • Physiology of hearing
  • In vivo imaging and electrophysiology
  • Inner ear mechanics & wave propagation
  • Mathematical modeling

Constanza Cortes

  • Muscle-to-brain Axis
  • Exercise-mimicking therapeutics for disease of the nervous system
  • Neurogenesis
  • Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease
  • Neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Multimodal neuroimaging
  • Machine learning, deep learning for clinical neuroscience
  • Large-scale consortium neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging genetics
  • Neurodegeneration and aging

Dominique Duncan

  • Epilepsy
  • EEG
  • MRI
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Applied Harmonic Analysis
  • Diffusion Geometry
  • Biomedical Signal Processing
  • Nonlinear Filtering
  • Analysis and Modeling of Signals
  • Statistical Signal Processing
  • Virtual Reality

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

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

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

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

Kristan Leech

Sook-Lei Liew

  • Neural plasticity and neurorehabilitation
  • Motor learning and recovery
  • Stroke rehabilitation
  • Neuroimaging
  • Noninvasive brain stimulation
  • Neurofeedback
  • Brain computer interfaces
  • Virtual reality

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

Jessica Schwartzman

  • Risk/protective factors for adverse mental health outcomes
  • Neurodiversity
  • EEG/Event-related potentials
  • Eyetracking
  • Behavioral Observation
  • Clinical Interview

Beth A. Smith

  • Infant Development
  • Physical Therapy
  • Neuromotor Control

Carolee J. Winstein

  • Movement Science
  • Neurorehabilitation
  • Learning & Memory
  • Clinical Trials
  • Motor Systems
  • Repair and Recovery

Hussein Yassine

  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • ApoE lipid metabolism

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

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