Neurobiology Program
Our Faculty
| Irina Anselm | Neurometabolic diseases and general neurology, Mitochondrial disorders |
| Lino Becerra | Neuroradiology |
| David Bellinger | Central nervous system toxicity |
| Larry Benowitz | Brain rewiring after injury |
| David Borsook | Neuroradiology |
| William Bosl | Clinical neuroinformatics, pediatric cognitive disorders, autism, neurotechnology for global mental health |
| Michelle Bosquet Enlow | Infant emotional and biological development |
| Chinfei Chen | Synaptic plasticity |
| David Clapham | Electrophysiology |
| Kathryn Commons | Central serotonin neurobiology |
| Gabriel Corfas | Neuron-glia interactions: their mechanisms and their roles in development and disease |
| Michael Costigan | Pain and regeneration |
| Basil Darras | Neuromuscular disorders, including muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy |
| David DeMaso | Relationship of physical health/mental health |
| Michael Do | Regulation of physiology and behavior by light |
| Elizabeth Engle | Congenital eye movement disorders |
| Michela Fagiolini | Experience-dependent visual plasticity; neurodevelopmental disorders, including Rett syndrome |
| Nadine Gaab | Human auditory system; reading and language impairments |
| Gwenaelle Geleoc |
Functional development of sensory hair cells in the inner ear |
| Ali Gholipour | Medical image processing |
| Eugene Goldfield | Sensorimotor control in infants, including swallowing difficulties and mobility in premature infants; development of medical devices |
| Ellen Grant | Pediatric MRI systems, MRI processing tools |
| Xi He | Cell-cell communication; early nervous system development; Wnt family of secreted morphogens and signaling; cancer, skeletal and neurological diseases |
| Zhigang He | Axon regeneration |
| Gena Heidary | Ophthalmology |
| Max Heiman | Neuronal shape and wiring in C. elegans |
| Takao Hensch | Critical periods in brain development and disease |
| Jeffrey Holt |
Molecular basis of sensory signals in hearing and deafness |
| Laurie Jackson-Grusby | Epigenetic control mechanisms, cancer stem cells |
| Peter Kang | Genetics of muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular disorders |
| Hannah Kinney | Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) |
| Daniel Kohane | Pain; peritoneal and other adhesions; intracranial drug delivery; microfluidics; tissue engineering |
| Gabriel Kreiman | Computations in the brain and the functional architecture of neuronal circuits |
| Louis Kunkel | Muscular dystrophy |
| Carole Landisman | Electrical and chemical signaling in the thalamus and cortex |
| Maria Lehtinen | The brain-CSF interface: Neural stem cells and disease |
| Alan Leviton | Epidemiology of brain damage in preterm newborns |
| Joseph Madsen | Hydrocephalus, epilepsy, brain biomechanics, robotics |
| Joseph Majzoub | Neuroendocrinology |
| Robert Mulkern | Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging spectroscopy |
| Charles Nelson | Developmental medicine, cognitive neuroscience |
| Darren Orbach | Cerebral electromagnetic activity, encephalographic functional magnetic resonance imaging (efMRI) |
| Michael Paldino | Neuroradiology |
| Xianhua Piao | Molecular basis of brain development and malformation |
| Tina Young Poussaint | Neuroimaging |
| Scott Pomeroy | Molecular and cellular biology of brain tumors |
| Michael Rivkin | Cognitive disorders and brain development |
| Paul Rosenberg | Physiology and pathophysiology of glutamate transporters in the central nervous system; molecular mechanisms of brain injury; mechanisms of homeostatic sleep regulation |
| Alexander Rotenberg | Traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, non-invasive brain stimulation |
| Mustafa Sahin | Axon development and neurological disease |
| Thomas Schwarz | Neurotransmitter secretion, membrane trafficking, synapse development, axonal transport, Parkinson's disease |
| Michael Scott | Moyamoya syndrome |
| Yang Shi | Epigenetic mechanisms |
| Edward Smith | Brain tumors, including pituitary tumors; cerebrovascular disease, including Moyamoya syndrome and arteriovenous malformations; skull base lesions |
| Janet Soul | Causes and prevention of brain injury in newborns |
| Hanno Steen | Proteomics |
| Judith Steen | Synaptic plasticity, spinal muscular atrophy, mass spectrometry-based proteomics and computation |
| Beth Stevens | Neuron-glia signaling; synapse development and plasticity |
| Ralph Suarez | Mapping brain systems with fMRI and DTI imaging, particularly in context of disease-induced cognitive impairment |
| Joseph Volpe | Brain injury in premature infants |
| Christopher Walsh | Genetics of brain development; structural brain malformations |
| Benjamin Warf | Chiari malformation, congenital malformations, hydrocephalus, spina bifida, ventriculoscopy/endoscopy |
| Simon Warfield | Medical image analysis |
| Clifford Woolf | Pain; formation of neural circuits; regeneration |
