- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Hindbrain
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Nausea and Emesis
- Anorexia and cachexia
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Obesity
Sarah W. Bottjer
- Learning & Memory
- Systems Neuroscience
- Cortex-Basal Ganglia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Emily R. Liman
- Ion channel biophysics
- Sensory biology
- Pain and taste transduction
Lauren McElvain
- Cellular and circuit mechanisms of movement
- Synaptic and cellular physiology
- Neural circuit connectivity maps
- Circuit mechanisms of movement disorders
David McKemy
Jeffrey Moore
- motor control
- active sensing
- neural circuits
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan
- Ion channel biophysics
- Sensory biology
- Pain and taste transduction
Lindsey Schier
- Gut-brain axis, neural-metabolic interactions, gustatory system, chemical senses, dietary learning and memory
Dong Song
- Hippocampal memory prostheses
- Experimental, theoretical and computational studies of the hippocampus
- Combined mechanistic and statistical modeling of nervous systems
- Mechanisms of learning and memory
- High-density conformal multi-electrode array
- Ultraminiaturized bioelectronics systems for neural recording and stimulation
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
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
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