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neuroscience program faculty by department

Biochemistry
  • Nicholas W. Seeds, Ph.D., Professor
    Developmental neurobiology: molecular aspects of neuronal migration and neurite outgrowth.
  • John M. Stewart, Ph.D., Professor
    Neuropeptide biology and chemistry.
  • Leslie Krushel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Mechanisms and regulation of protein synthesis in the nervous system.
Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Kristin Bruk Artinger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Developmental mechanisms involved during vertebrate embryogenesis.
  • Linda A. Barlow, Ph.D., Associate Professor
    Molecular-, cellular-, and tissue-level mechanisms that generate and pattern the taste system during embryogenesis.
  • Steven G. Britt, M.D., Associate Professor
    Molecular genetics of eye development and color vision.
  • John H. Caldwell, Ph.D., Professor
    Ion Channels in the nervous system.
  • Thomas E. Finger, Ph.D., Professor
    Chemical senses (taste, smell and trigeminal); receptor cell development and differentiation; transmission and processing of primary sensory information.
  • Diego Restrepo, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Program
    Neurobiology of olfaction at the systems and cellular levels, neural implants.
Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Alberto Costa, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor,
    Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology.
  • Curt R. Freed, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
    Neuropharmacology and Neurotransplantation.
Pharmacology
  • K. Ulrich Bayer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Molecular memory in signal transduction and neuronal function.
  • Michael D. Browning, Ph.D., Professor
    Molecular mechanisms of neuronal function with particular emphasis on protein phosphorylation.
  • Mark Dell'Acqua, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Postsynaptic protein kinase and phosphatase signaling complexes in synaptic plasticity.
  • Robert Freedman, M.D., Professor
    Basic and clinical psychopharmacology.
  • Kim A. Heidenreich Ph.D., Professor
    Molecular mechanisms of insulin and insulin-like growth factor action in the central nervous system.
  • Sherry S. Leonard, Ph.D., Professor
    Molecular neurobiology of schizophrenia.
  • William A. Sather, Ph.D., Associate Professor
    Structural basis of calcium channel function.
  • James M. Sikela, Ph.D., Professor
    Evolutionary neurogenomics, genome organization and human genetic disease.
  • Alexander Sorkin, Ph.D., Professor
    Mechanisms of endocytosis of epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor.
  • Richard Traystman, Ph.D., Professor
    Control of the cerebrovasculature and brain metabolism in focal and global cerebral ischemia, and cellular and molecular mechanisms of injury and neuroprotection following ischemia.
  • Nancy R. Zahniser, Ph.D., Professor
    Regulation of neurotransmitter release, transporters and receptors in brain; mechanisms underlying cocaine and ethanol actions.
Pediatrics
Physiology
Psychiatry
Miscellaneous
Neurology
  • Ken Tyler, M.D., Professor
    Molecular and genetic basis of virus-induced cell death (apoptosis) and pathogenesis using the reovirus model.
Affiliate Members
  • Cell and Developmental Biology
    • Trevor Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor
      the role of transcription factors in mammary gland development and breast cancer.
  • Pharmacology
  • Physiology

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