Neuroscience
| Faculty | Research Area(s) |
|---|---|
 Carolyn Adler |
Stem cell biology in planarian flatworms; organ regeneration; transcriptional and cell biological responses to tissue injuries; animal behavior - lab |
 Richard A. Cerione |
Signal transduction growth factor receptors; protein structure; drug design and chemical biology; signaling cues that direct cell proliferation, differentiation and development - lab |
 Jonathan Cheetham |
Regenerative medicine; peripheral nerve injury and repair; laryngeal function - lab |
 Ruth Collins |
Pharmacology; cancer cell biology; small GTPase regulation of intracellular traffic and cellular growth control - lab |
 Matthew DeLisa |
Molecular biotechnology; protein biogenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering - lab |
 Joseph Fetcho |
Motor control with a focus on hindbrain and spinal cord; optical and genetic approaches for studying neuronal structure and function; regeneration - lab |
 Chun Han |
mechanisms of dendrite morphogenesis and neurodegeneration using Drosophila sensory neurons as a model system - lab |
 Gunther Hollopeter |
Molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking in multicellular systems, in vivo imaging and CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering in C. elegans, protein biochemistry and structural biology of clathrin adaptor complexes - lab |
 Fenghua Hu |
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration - lab |
 Toshi Kawate |
Structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins that regulate extracellular signaling |
 Alex Kwan
|
Use systems neuroscience approaches to measure impact of psychiatric drugs on neural circuits; optical imaging and perturbation experiments to study neural dynamics; exploring methods to image multiple fields of view and at multiple depths - lab |
 David Lin |
Axon guidance; neurodevelopment; epilepsy; autism; genomics - lab |
 Maurine Linder |
Regulation of cell signaling by protein lipidation |
 Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou |
gene-regulatory mechanisms that generate diversity during brain development; probe function of human genetic variants linked to autism - lab |
 Motoko Mukai |
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs); neuroendocrine regulation; reproductive, developmental, and metabolic health effect of toxic compounds found in food - lab |
 Linda Nowak |
Neurosciences; cellular physiology; receptor pharmacology; membrane biophysics |
 Nozomi Nishimura
|
vasculature, immune, inflammatory systems and cells native to a tissue interact in disease states - lab |
 Kimberly O'Brien |
Calcium metabolism and bone health; control of maternal/fetal nutrient; partitioning and cellular mineral transport; micronutrient status in international settings; development of mass spectrometric methodology; pediatric bone health; pregnancy and mineral metabolism in adolescents - lab |
 Chris B. Schaffer |
Advanced optical techniques used to observe and manipulate in vivo biological systems with the goal of developing microscopic scale understanding of normal and disease-state physiological processes - lab |
 Luis Schang |
Role of cellular protein, lipids, and glycans play in viral infection |
 Carolyn Sevier |
Signaling of cellular oxidative stress; molecular mechanisms used by cellular pathways that sense and signal redox imbalances within the cell - lab |
 Paul Soloway |
Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms in mammals; Chromatin changes associated with neuropathy using single cell analyses - lab |
 Melissa Warden |
Motivated behavior, reward, decisions, neural circuits, neuromodulators, prefrontal cortex, optogenetics, imaging, neurophysiology - lab |
 Haiyuan Yu |
The Yu group performs research in the broad areas of Network Systems Biology. We use integrated computational-experimental systems biology approaches to determine protein interactions and complex structures on the scale of the whole cell. In particular, we focus on protein-protein and gene regulatory networks and seek to understand how such intricate systems evolve and how their perturbations lead to human diseases, especially autism spectrum disorder and cancer. |
 Gary R. Whittaker |
Entry of viruses into host cells; receptor binding; cleavage-activation of membrane fusion, focusing on structure-function analysis of human and avian - lab |
 Chris Xu |
Biomedical imaging and fiber optics - lab |