Neuroscience
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Kari Allen, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Timing and ecological correlates of brain size evolution, brain proportions, and cranial anatomy in primates
- Use of cranio-dental anatomy to reconstruct ecological adaptations (e.g. Feeding ecology) in the fossil record
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Martha Bagnall, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Microcircuitry of sensory-motor transformations in the zebrafish
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Amy Bauernfeind, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Neuroanatomical and molecular variation in primates variation in primates
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Peter Bayguinov, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Optical microscopy in basic and translational neuroscience
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Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Anatomy and physiology of network of mouse visual cortex
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Harold Burton, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Sensorineural unilateral hearing loss (UHL)
- Blindness
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Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Mechanisms of peripheral nervous system (PNS) regeneration
- Identify potential targets for therapeutic interventions in central nervous system injury and traumatic PNS injuries
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Yao Chen, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- The dynamics of neuromodulators and intracellular signals and how they contribute to the function of neuromodulators, to learning, and to the function of sleep
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Harrison Gabel, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation that contribute to development and plasticity in the mammalian brain
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Edward Han, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
- Spatial coding in hippocampal neurons
- Neuronal circuit dynamics
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Naoki Hiratani, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Intersection between neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI)
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Timothy Holy, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Neural mechanisms of pheromone detection, recognition, and olfactory learning
- Novel optical methods for recording neuronal activity
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Cheng Huang, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Cellular, circuit and computational mechanisms of memory
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Adam Kepecs, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Identify neural processes underlying specific behavioral capacities in rodent models of cognition
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Ilya Monosov, PhD
Dept. of Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Neuronal circuits involved in uncertainty-processing
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Ashley Morhardt, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Molecular mechanisms underlying tauopathies
- Stem cell models of dementia
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Karen O’Malley, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Mechanisms underlying the specification, regulation, and neurodegeneration of dopaminergic and glutamatergic systems
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Hysell Oviedo, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Electrophysiology
- Circuit mapping
- Behavior
- 3D brain volume imaging
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Thomas Papouin, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Astrocytes in brain circuitry and brain computation
- Interplay between neuromodulation and gliotransmission
- How neuromodulators affect the activity of astrocytes
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Kristen Prufrock, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Chewing system evolution, development, and plasticity
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Linda Richards, PhD
Neuroscience
Research interests:
- Development, plasticity and function of the cerebral cortex
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Lawrence Salkoff, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- How ion channels function in physiology and behavior
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Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Eye-hand coordination
- Spatial memory
- Neuronal basis of fcMRI
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David Van Essen, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates: structure, function, connectivity, development, and evolution