The Neurosciences Program Faculty
Richard Aldrich
Regulation of membrane excitability, molecular basis of the gating of ion channels.
Barbara Barres
Development and function of glia.
Denis Baylor
Visual transduction.
Helen Blau
Gene therapy, molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling migration, differentiation and development of muscle cells.
Roland Ciaranello
Biochemical genetics of serotonin and dopamine receptors and of neurotransmitter metabolizing enzymes involved in psychiatric disorders.
William Dement
Psychopharmacology of sleep, electrophysiological characteristics of sleep mechanisms.
Lawrence Eng
Regulation of cytoskeletal proteins in astrocytes.
Russell Fernald
Molecular basis of visual system development and function.
John Gabrieli
Basis of human memory and its impairment in diseases such as AlzheimerÕs and global amnesia.
Rona Giffard
Cellular and molecular basis for neuronal injury triggered by glutamate receptors.
William Gilly
Control of cell function by membrane potential, depolarization-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, sorting and trafficking in neurons.
David Heeger
Human and computer vision, computational neuroscience, image processing and visual motion perception.
H. Craig Heller
Thermoregulation, CNS integration of information from temperature receptor, circadian rhythms.
Joan Kendig
Effect of anesthetics and analgesics on molecular components involved in impulse conduction and synaptic transmission.
Eric Knudsen
How the auditory system derives spatial information to lead to coordinated motor acts.
Brian Kobilka
Adrenergic receptor structure and function.
Ron Kopito
Secretion, molecular and cell biology of membrane-cytoskeletal interaction.
Seymour Levine
Environmental and behavioral regulation of neuroendocrine and brain monoamine systems.
Richard Lewis
How calcium oscillations are generated and how they regulate cellular functions.
Bruce MacIver
The action of CNS depressants in hippocampal slices.
Daniel Madison
Synaptic plasticity and pharmacological modulation of neuronal excitability in the CNS.
Mervyn Maze
Effects of general anesthetics on the quality and quantity of adrenergic response in the brain.
Susan McConnell
Developmental neurobiology, determination of neuronal fates in mammalian CNS, mechanism of axon guidance during development.
U. Jack McMahan
Cellular and molecular basis of synapse development and regeneration.
Daria Mochly-Rosen
Role of protein kinase C isozymes in signal transduction.
William Newsome
Neural processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior.
David Prince
Epilepsy, mechanisms of excitability of neurons in the mammalian cerebral cortex.
David E. Rumelhart
Development of Òbrain styleÓ or Òneurally inspiredÓ computational architectures.
Robert Sapolsky
Neuroendocrinology and physiology of stress, role of stress hormones in neuron death.
Richard Scheller
Cellular and molecular analysis of neurotransmitter storage and release at the synapse.
Howard Schulman
Molecular basis for neuronal plasticity in mammalian CNS. Signal transduction via calcium messenger.
Thomas Schwarz
Structure/function of potassium channels and synaptic release using genetics and molecular biology in Drosophila.
Matthew Scott
Control of cell fate and pattern formation by homeotic and segmentation genes.
Eric Shooter
Neurotrophic factors, biochemistry and molecular genetics of growth, differentiation, and regeneration of nerve cells.
Michael Simon
Development and signal transduction in Drosophila visual system.
Marion Smith
Biochemistry of myelin and its regulation in normal and diseased systems.
Steven Smith
Imaging of signaling in neurons and glia, neuron growth and motility.
Gary Steinberg
Pathophysiology and pharmacology of focal cerebral ischemia.
Lawrence Steinman
Genetic basis of autoimmune neural disease.
Lubert Stryer
Molecular basis of calcium oscillations, signal transduction in the visual system.
Stuart Thompson
Control of membrane excitability, organization in small neuronal networks.
Richard Tsien
Molecular properties of calcium channels in relation to function of nerve and muscle, calcium signaling and synaptic plasticity.
Brian Wandell
Theoretical and experimental study of human and computer vision, especially the mechanisms of color vision and pattern perception.
Jeffrey Wine
Neural organization of behavior in invertebrate model systems. Regulation of ion channels by intracellular messengers.
Dona Wong
Regulation of catecholamine biosynthetic enzymes.