Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Neuroscience
Richard Libby Lab
My research is focused on the role of neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative disease, specifically in glaucoma, and identifying molecular mechanisms required for retinal ganglion cell degeneration.
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Neuroscience
Patricia White Lab
I'm currently investigating the underlying genetic mechanisms that render individuals susceptible to noise-induced hearing loss, specifically the role of the transcription factor FOXO3 and its downstream targets. I utilize a number of histological and microscopic imaging techniques in the murine cochlea to determine what damage pathways are activated upon exposure to acoustic insults.
Professor
Associate Chair
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
My lab's research is focused on understanding mechanisms involved in opioid tolerance and dependence and in developing medications to treat opioid use disorder. We are interested in understanding the mechanisms by which fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) reduces opioid preference, tolerance and dependence. We also study opioid signaling through different Galpha subunits and different Ggamma subunits. Preliminary results suggest that both Galpha and Ggamma subunits regulate the potency of certain opioids in signaling downstream.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
I am interested in structure-function relationships in the early visual system and how activity in identified neuronal circuits contributes to visual perception. We also examine how attention alters the way visual information is encoded in visual circuits.
Professor
Department of Environmental Medicine
Department of Public Health Sciences
My research focuses on the effects of environmental chemical exposures on brain and behavior.
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Neuroscience
Krishnan Padmanabhan Lab
I am interested in studying how internal states and memories alter the way we interact with the world around us. More specifically I am studying a connection between the hippocampus, a brain area involved in memories and internal states, and the olfactory bulb, an early sensory processing area. The goal of this research is to understand the function of this connection within the brain and to more broadly understand how our constantly changing environments alter the way we perceive odors and encode them within our brains.
Ph.D. Student
Department of Neuroscience
Laurel Carney Lab
I'm studying the physiology and performing computational modeling of pitch encoding in the inferior colliculus.
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry
As a physician-scientist, my broad research goal is a translational one: to elucidate the core neuroanatomic circuitry involved in psychiatric symptoms at a cellular and synaptic level. Our lab is focused on the complexities of the nonhuman primate amygdala which is critical to emotional assessments, and the organization of circuits associated with the amygdala. We're particularly interested in whether early environmental events can shift amygdala cellular and/or circuit development in animals, with consequences for uniquely primate behavioral developments, including specific social behaviors.
Research Assistant Professor
Multiphoton and Analytical Imaging Center (MAGIC)
Department of Neuroscience
I am the technical director of the multiphoton research core facility, and mainly working on maintaining, innovating and expanding the technical and experimental capabilities of microscopy at the university. My research involves developing new multiphoton imaging capacities and image analysis tools for various experiment settings.
Dean's Professorship
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Department of Psychiatry
My research focus is the cortico-cortical and cortico-basal ganglia circuits that underlie learning and decision-making. Pathology in networks is implicated in several mental health disorders including drug addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and anxiety. The lab addresses the interface across networks that integrate information across functional domains. These studies are central for understanding abnormalities in connectivity that are linked to specific diseases and in developing therapeutic targets for invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation targets.
Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
Center for Visual Science
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Institute for Optics
My research interests include mechanisms of light-induced retinal damage and development of non-invasive fluorescence imaging techniques to study retinal function in healthy and diseased eyes.
Director of Research
Department of Ophthalmology
James V. Aquavella, MD Professorship in Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology
Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
Center for Visual Science
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Institute for Optics
My research aims to understand how the damaged, adult visual system can repair itself. To what extent can it do so? What are the principles governing such processes? How can knowledge we gain enhance vision restoration efforts?
Director
Cancer Control and Psychoneuroimmunology Laboratory
Co-Director
NCI R25/T32 Clinical and Translational Cancer Control Research Training Program
Director of Translational Research
URCC NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Base
Department of Surgery, Cancer Control
Department of Radiation Oncology
Department of Neuroscience
My areas of expertise are in psychoneuroimmunology, immunology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. In addition to a focus on cognition and cancer, my lab is broadly interested in many aspects of research related to quality of life improvement and side effect management in cancer.
Assistant Professor
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
My research focuses on cognitive and perceptual underpinnings of language learning and communication. In particular, I investigate how language users track and use subtle variations of speech prosody (e.g., intonation, tempo, vocal features) to draw inference over the speaker's intentions and emotions.
Director
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Center for Visual Science
My specific interests lie in understanding how visual activity shapes the structure and function of connections between neurons in the visual cortex. During the critical period, closure of one eye leads to a shift in the responses of neurons towards the open eye. My lab's current work focuses on the structural basis for this rapid ocular dominance plasticity using in vivo two-photon microscopy to elucidate single cell structure deep in the intact brain.
Professor
Department of Biomedical Genetics
Department of Neuroscience
My research focus is understanding the impact of genetic, environmental and viral insults on brain development and neurological disorders.
Research Associate
Center for Visual Science
I am a vision researcher with interests in both basic science and translational questions. I specialize in applying advanced imaging technology to explore retinal function in the living eye. Recent work has focused on exploring optogenetic and cell-based vision restoration therapies and the physiology of the fovea.
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Neuroscience
Julie Fudge Lab
My research seeks to understand social-emotional processing in primates by examining 1) neuroanatomical connectivity between the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and striatum, 2) changes in amygdala cellular development during normal postnatal growth, and 3) changes in amygdala cellular development and social behavior in response to negative early-life experience. I use a combination of tract tracing, histology, microscopy, stereology, and behavioral analysis techniques for this work.
Director
Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Department of Biomedical Genetics (secondary)
My research focuses on the genetic underpinnings of sex differences in animal behaviors and their nervous systems.
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Neuroscience
Farran Briggs Lab
I am interested in structure-function relationships in the early visual system and how activity in identified neuronal circuits contributes to visual perception. We also examine how attention alters the way visual information is encoded in visual circuits.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Center for Visual Science
While auditory and visual information are combined in many sites of the human brain, the combining of face and vocal information for effective communication has been shown to occur in specialized regions of the temporal and frontal lobes. Work in my laboratory is focused on how the ventral prefrontal cortex represents high level auditory information and the neuronal mechanisms which underlie integration of complex auditory and visual information, primarily face and vocal information during communication.
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Neuroscience
Farran Briggs Lab
In my graduate research, I am studying the mechanisms by which attentional processes are implemented at the level of single neurons and neuronal circuits in early visual brain areas. What are the rules governing the attentional modulation of neuronal responses? How do these rules depend on the animals' behavioral goals? A better understanding of these rules will reveal how our brains can focus on the most behaviorally relevant sensory information from the vast amount of sensory information available at any given time.
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Medicine
My research interests include sex-dependent neurotoxicity of endocrine disrupting chemicals, fetal origins of behavioral disorders, and endocrine-epigenetic mechanisms of nervous system development.
Assistant Professor
Department of Imaging Sciences
Department of Neuroscience
I'm interested in the clinical applications of advanced neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI), MR Spectroscopy (MRS), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), morphometry, Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) and Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC).
Research Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Otolaryngology
I study genetic mouse models for hearing restoration after noise and drug damage.
Ph.D. Student
Department of Neuroscience
Farran Briggs Lab
I am studying the plasticity of the early visual system. Specifically, I look at the effect of visual training on clinical cortically-blind populations and the effect of loss of retinal inputs on animal models.