Neurobiology

Mark Alkema, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: C.elegans behavioral genetics

Gabriella Boulting, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Activity-dependent gene expression in the primate brain

Alexandra C. Byrne, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Mechanisms of axon regeneration and degeneration in the aging nervous system

Patrick Emery, PhD

Academic Role: Professor and Vice Chair

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Circadian Rhythms and photoreception in Drosophila.

Michael M. Francis, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity; Neuronal circuit development and function in C. elegans.

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Kensuke Futai, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: The roles of Inhibitory neurons in neuropsychiatric diseases.

Gilles Martin, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Drugs of abuse and memory; electrophysiology.

Haley E. Melikian, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Cocaine and antidepressant-sensitive monoamine transporters.

Claudio Punzo, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology, Department of Ophthalmology, Horae Gene Therapy Center

Focus: Neurodegeneration in the retina; retinitis pigmentosa.

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Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Neuron-glia interactions regulating synaptic circuit development and plasticity.

Andrew Tapper, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Director, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute

Focus: Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in addiction and neurological disease.

Travis C. Thomson, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Transposon regulation of neuromuscular junction plasticity

David R. Weaver, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Executive Director, NeuroNexus Institute
Director, Graduate Program in Neuroscience

Focus: Molecular regulation and physiological impact of circadian rhythms.

Yang Xiang, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Molecular and neural circuit mechanisms underlying behavior; light-evoked escape behavior.

Eviatar Yemini, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology

Focus: Neural activity and behavioral changes during development

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Jin Zhang, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology, Program in Molecular Medicine

Focus: Interplay of sensory systems and internal state; taste

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