Research Area

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