- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Hindbrain
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Nausea and Emesis
- Anorexia and cachexia
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Obesity
Matthew Thomas Borzage
- Quantitative neuroimaging for neurovascular and metabolic applications
- Effects of trauma and chemical exposures on brain physiology
- Neurological disorders in development and aging
- Clinical trials with neuroimaging biomarkers
Sarah W. Bottjer
- Learning & Memory
- Systems Neuroscience
- Cortex-Basal Ganglia
Karolina Charaziak
- Sensory function of the inner ear
- Sensory hearing loss
- Objective tests of hearing
- Signal processing, wave propagation and biophysics of inner ear
Jeannie Chen
- Signal transduction
- Photoreceptor function
- Retinal degeneration
- Retinal circuitry
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)
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
Joel D. Hahn
- The structural organization of brain circuits
- The neurobiology of aggression
- Additional collaborative research: 1) The neurobiology of ingestive behavior (with Dr. Scott Kanoski); 2) Mouse brain architecture (with Dr. Hongwei Dong)
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
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
Jason J Kutch
- Neural mechanisms for muscle activation
- Engineering of non-invasive systems to study human motor function
- Neuromuscular disorders
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
Bartlett W. Mel
- Using computer models to study brain function at single cell and systems levels
- Role of active dendritic processing in the sensory and memory-related functions of pyramidal neurons
- Neuromorphic models of visual cortex; neurally-inspired approaches to image processing problems
Jeffrey Moore
- motor control
- active sensing
- neural circuits
Aaron Nagiel
- Synaptogenesis
- Neural circuit formation
- Retinal development
- 3-dimensional retinal organoids
- Inherited retinal diseases
Lindsey Schier
- Gut-brain axis, neural-metabolic interactions, gustatory system, chemical senses, dietary learning and memory
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
Carolee J. Winstein
- Movement Science
- Neurorehabilitation
- Learning & Memory
- Clinical Trials
- Motor Systems
- Repair and Recovery
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