Our Faculty | Overview
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center faculty, all with co-appointments at Harvard Medical School/University, comprise internationally recognized investigators spanning computational, molecular, cell, and systems biology, working in a highly collaborative environment on different model organisms and with access to state-of-the-art equipment and cores.
| Todd Anthony |
Genetic dissection of neural circuits that control stress-induced behavioral states |
| Larry Benowitz |
Optic nerve regeneration and CNS reorganization after injury |
| Chinfei Chen |
Synaptic plasticity |
| Michael Crickmore |
Neurobiology of motivational states |
| Michael Do |
Regulation of physiology and behavior by light |
| Elizabeth Engle |
Congenital eye-movement disorders |
| Michaela Fagiolini |
Experience-dependent visual plasticity; neurodevelopmental disorders, including Rett syndrome |
| Gwenaelle Geleoc |
Functional development of sensory hair cells in the inner ear |
| Xi He |
Cell-cell communication; early nervous system development; Wnt family of secreted morphogens and signaling; cancer, skeletal and neurologic diseases |
| Zhigang He |
Axon regeneration |
| Takao Hensch |
Critical periods in brain development |
| Jeffrey Holt |
Molecular basis of sensory signals in hearing and deafness |
| Gabriel Kreiman |
Computations in the brain and the functional architecture of neuronal circuits |
| Wei-Chung Lee |
Structure, function, and development of neural circuits |
| Jonathan Lipton |
Circadian rhythms, neurological disease, translation |
| Annapurna Poduri |
Epilepsy genetics |
| Scott Pomeroy |
Molecular and cellular biology of brain tumors |
| 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 |
Noninvasive brain stimulation; epilepsy; traumatic brain injury |
| Mustafa Sahin |
Axon development and neurologic disease |
| Thomas Schwarz |
Neurotransmitter secretion, membrane trafficking, synapse development, axonal transport; Parkinson's disease |
| Judith Steen |
Neurodegenerative diseases, proteomics and bioinformatics |
| Beth Stevens |
Neuron-glia signaling; synapse development and plasticity |
| Hisashi Umemori |
Wiring the functional brain |
| Clifford Woolf |
Pain, formation of neural circuits, regeneration |