School of Medicine

Research Interests:

• Computational principles that underlie brain development

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• Endogenous pain modulation
• Neuroendocrinology
• Racial and ethnic disparities in pain
• Biopsychosocial model of chronic pain

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• Using in vivo neuroimaging and biofluid measurements in humans to better understand the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease

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• Brain networks
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Human neuroimaging

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• Role of the human gut microbiome in health and disease, notably childhood undernutrition and obesity

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• Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (Biostatistics)

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• How brain metabolism changes with development and aging

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• Pediatric genetics
• Congenital malformation syndromes

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• Degenerative lumbar disease
• Cervical Myelopathy

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• Epilepsy
• Concussion
• Refractory seizures

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• Neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis using metabolic MRI and PET

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• Anemia

• Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease

• Outcomes after Critical Illness

• Neuroimaging

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• Healthcare access
• Genetic test interpretation
• Intellectual and developmental Disabilities
• Epilepsy

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• Brain tumors
• Brain development
• Stem cells

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• Molecular targets for drug development in cancer

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• Human genetics of neurological disorders
• Deep mutational scanning
• Zebrafish models of human disease

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• Elucidating the function of various brain macrophages in neuropathology and the molecular mechanisms driving these phenotypes

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• Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
• Spatial coding in hippocampal neurons
• Neuronal circuit dynamics

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• Identification of “omics” (proteomic, transcriptomic and genetic) factors associated with neurodegeneration

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• Advanced structural, functional, and diffusion MR acqusitions and analyses to study brain networks in healthy individuals and those with psychiatric conditions
• Endophenotypes (biological markers) of schizophrenia, psychosis, and early onset (pediatric) depression
• Quality control of MR data, including rigorous multi-site studies
  Temporal dynamics of the fMRI response

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• Neuropathic pain
• Acute and persistent post-surgical pain

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• Social determinants of health, disparities, biomarkers, and clinical outcomes in multiple sclerosis and related disorders

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• Psychiatric Genetics

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• Structural and functional neuroimaging
• Neuropsychological Assessment
• Forensic Neuropsychological Assessment

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• Uveitis
• Molecular signatures in uveitis
• Bioinformatics
• Therapeutic biomarkers
• Precision medicine

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• Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders
• Methodological research in genetic epidemiology

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• Clinical neuroscience of diabetes and related diseases - Wolfram Syndrome, Parkinson disease

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• Immune cells
• Cytokines
• Neuronal function
• Cognition and behavior

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• Intersection between neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI)

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• Innate immunity in the inner ear and its influence on inner ear fluid homeostasis and hair cell degeneration

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• Role of LINC complexes (Linkers of the Nucleoskeleton to the Cytoskeleton) in nucleokinesis and neuronal migration

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• Epileptic seizures
• Clinical semiology
• Neuro-imaging

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• Novel methods of hyperacute stroke care

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• How function is encoded by disordered protein regions

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• Cellular / Molecular / Biomarker studies of Alzheimer’s disease and neonatal brain injury

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• Brain biology and disease
• Acute and chronic responses to respiratory viruses

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• Neural mechanisms of pheromone detection, recognition, and olfactory learning
• Novel optical methods for recording neuronal activity

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• Organ donation

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• Stroke-induced neuroinflammation
• Multi-omic approaches to study neuroinflammation following stroke

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• New methods for the treatment of sepsis

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• Health equity
• Early intervention and sickle cell disease
• Neurodevelopmental delay

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• Corneal epithelial wound healing
• Corneal neovascularization
• Corneal stromal dystrophies
• Corneal Stem cells and Dry eye

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• Cellular, circuit and computational mechanisms of memory

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• Glutamate receptors
• Synaptic transmission
• Stem cell differentiation

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• Post stroke and brain injury rehabilitation
• Musculoskeletal disorders with functional deficits
• Multiple Sclerosis rehab care

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• Idiopathic subglottic stenosis
• Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
• Hearing impairments caused by voice disorders

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• Ionic mechanisms of excitotoxic neuronal cell death

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• Novel bioinformatics tools to unique longitudinal datasets to create a predictive models for neurodegenerative diseases

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• Molecular mechanism of aging and longevity in mammals

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•  Identifying specific metabolic pathways that underlie sex differences in nutrient uptake and metabolism (glioblastoma)