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.