Neuroscience Program Faculty and Their Research

Regular GSBS Faculty

Schahram Akbarian: 
Dopaminergic Signaling Induces Chromatin-Remodeling in Neurons. 
Mark Alkema: 
C. elegans behavorial genetics. 
Athena Andreadis: 
Regulation of transcription and RNA splicing in the central nervous system; relation between cytoskeletal elements and dementia.
Neil Aronin: 
Huntington’s disease.
Ingolf Bach: 
Neuronal Cell Fate Specification
Zheng-Zheng Bao: 
Molecular Mechanisms in Vertebrate Development
Claire Bénard
          Maintenance of nervous system architecture: making it is not good enough
Robert H. Brown, Jr.
          Chair, Department of Neurology
Vivian Budnik: 
Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Assembly and Plasticity
Roger Davis: 
Mechanisms by which growth factors regulate cellular proliferation.
Paul Dobner: 
Journal Club Director 
Regulation of neuroendocrine gene expression.
William Dube: 
Developmental disabilities:  Animal models and clinical studies.  
Patrick Emery: 
Seminar Director, 2009-2010
Circadian Rhythms and Photoreception in Drosophila.
Michael Francis: 
Mechanisms of neuronal signaling in C. elegans 
Marc Freeman: 
Unwrapping glial biology in Drosophila. 
Fen-Biao Gao
          Neuronal MicroRNAs and Neurodegeneration
Paul Gardner: 
Molecular analyses of ion channel genes and signal transduction pathways during neuronal differentiation.  Developmental studies of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene expression. Ion channel gene expression in schizophreniza.
Edward Ginns: 
Translational studies of neuropsychiatric disorders. Gene mapping, pharmacogenetics and gene expression profiling.  Transgenic and knock-out animal models.  Enyzme replacement and gene transfer therapies. Basic and clinical studies of lysosomal storage disorders.
Peter Grigg: 
Stretch sensor neurons in skin.
Lawrence J. Hayward: 
Ion channelopathies, motor neuron disease, and Neuromuscular Channelopathies.
Daniel Kilpatrick: 
Transcriptional control of neurogenesis.
Jean King: 
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
William Kobertz: 
Structure, function and modulation of ion channels.
John E. Landers
          Genetics of Familial and Sporadic ALS
José Lemos: 
Stimulus-secretion coupling at nerve terminals.
Hong-Sheng Li: 
Neuronal signal transduction and degeneration in the fly eye
Carlos Lois:
Assembly of neuronal circuits, neuronal replacement, and the cellular mechanisms of behavior
William McIlvane: 
Interdisciplinary studies of developmental disabilities
Haley E. Melikian: 
Cocaine- and antidepressant-sensitive monoamine transporters. Emphasis on transporter trafficking, regulation, and transporter structure-function relationships.
Teresa Mitchell: 
Cross-Model Development and Plasticity.
Maria Morabito: 
Regulation of Excitatory Synapses in Development and Disease.
David Paydarfar: 
Basis of oscillatory nerve activity.
Steven M. Reppert: 
Molecular neuroethology. (Reppert Lab)
Joel Richter: 
Translational control of synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory.
Ann Rittenhouse: 
Calcium channels and neuronal plasticity.
Evgeny Rogaev: 
Molecular genetic mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases and dementia.
Alonzo Ross: 
          Phosphatidylinositol phosphatase, PTEN, CNS stem cells, and NGF signal transduction.
Anthony J. Rothschild, M.D.:
          Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment of Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Schizophrenia
Charles Sagerström: 
          Zebrafish developmental neurobiology
Gary Schwarting: 
          Glycoproteins which regulate axon guidance and migration of neurons in the developing olfactory system.
William J. Schwartz: 
On the Neurobiology of Circadian Timekeeping.
Joshua J. Singer: 
Ion channel behavior and cellular physiological and biochemical processes.
Andrew Tapper: 
Neurobiology of Addiction.
Scott Waddell: 
          Drosophila Olfactory Memory
Ajay Wakhloo, M.D.
John Walsh: 
Modulation of ion channel activity.
David Weaver: 
Graduate Program Director 
Molecular physiology of circadian rhythms.
Motojiro Yoshihara: 
Synaptic physiology and activity-dependent plasticity
Zuoshang Xu: 
Neuronal cytoskeleton and motor neuron disease.
Nanyin Zhang
          Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Jianhua Zhou: 
Molecular Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Ronghua ZhuGe: 
Intracellular localized Ca2+ signaling.

Adjunct and Special GSBS Faculty

Susan Billings-Gagliardi: 
Developmental genetics, experimental study of myelin,cytological and ultrastructural methods.
James Crandall:
Neuronal Migration in the Embryonic Cerebral Cortex
Lawrence Lifshitz: 
Computer Vision and Image Processing