Major Research Areas
Neuroscience
The Nervous system regulates virtually every organ in the body. It is responsible for our perceptions, thoughts, and responses to the world around us. Using molecular, cellular, and systems-level approaches, neuroscientists at SUNY Upstate aim to improve our understanding of normal and abnormal nervous system function. Major research areas include the mechanisms of nervous system development and regeneration, the organization and plasticity of neuronal connections, the genetic bases of neurological and psychiatric disorders, neural processing in the living nervous system, and the neurobiology of disease.
Robert Barlow, Ph.D.
Professor
Neural basis of visual behavior; computational models of neural coding; circadian and metabolic modulation of human visual sensitivity. |
Michael Meguid, M.D.
Professor
Neurophysiological regulation of food intake. |
Blair Calancie, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoiperative electrophysiology. |
Frank Middleton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular basis of cortical-basal ganglia and cortical-cerebellar circuit formation and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease. |
Peter Calvert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of protein transport and localization in retinal neurons;
mechanisms of retinal degenerative diseases |
Michael Miller, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Factors that regulate the proliferation, migration, and survival/death of neurons in the developing brain; models of fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. |
Gregory Canute, M.D.
Associate Professor
Genetics and Gene Therapy of Brain Tumors |
Sandra Mooney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cell death and survival in the developing brain; Mechanisms of ethanol toxicity; models of fetal alcohol syndrome and autism. |
Russell Durkovic, Ph.D.
Professor
Examination of processes underlying recovery from spinal cord injury in the salamander. |
Brad Motter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Visual Neurophysiology;
Visual Attention;
Visual Search Behavior |
Stephen Glatt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics |
Nancy Nussmeier, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Stroke after cardiac surgery, cerebral protection during cardiac surgery, gender-related surgical outcomes |
Charles Hodge, M.D.
Professor
Mechanisms of cortical plasticity and cortical reorganization after injury. |
Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cerebral cortex development. |
Brian Howell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The signal transduction events that regulate the functional organization of neurons in the brain, and the phenotypes caused by defects in the genes that encode these signaling molecules. |
Francesca Pignoni, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neurogenesis; Retinal Progenitor Cells Specification and Proliferation; Genetic Control of Stem Cell Identity and Maintenance; Genetic Pathways in RPE Formation; Disease Genes Analysis in Drosophila
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Huaiyu Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular studies of brain malformations. |
Dawn Post, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cancer treatment using oncolytic viruses and gene therapy |
Burk Jubelt, M.D.
Professor
CNS acute and chronic polio- and entero-virus infections. |
Dennis Stelzner, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS regeneration, spinal cord injury research, and neural plasticity. |
Wendy Kates, Ph.D.
Professor
Anatomic and functional imaging investigations of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders |
Daniel Tso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception, studied through physiological, anatomical and functional imaging techniques. |
Barry Knox, Ph.D.
Professor
Visual transduction, Gene Expression, Membrane proteins |
Mary Lou Vallano, Ph.D.
Professor
Neuronal survival and development. |
Andrzej Krol, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular and dynamic imaging.
Image registration and fusion.
Tomographic reconstruction.
Ultrafast laser-based x-ray source.
Brain deformation quantification between mutant and normal mouse. |
Richard Veenstra, Ph.D.
Professor
Regulation of connexin-specific-gap-junctions; gap junction channel biophysics. |
Michael Lyon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Age-related changes in the laryngeal muscles and vocal folds. |
Brent Vogt, Ph.D.
Professor
Structure, functions, and pathologies of cingulate cortex. |
Paul Massa, Ph.D.
Professor
Regulation of cytokine-induced gene expression in oligodendrodcytes.
Regulation of innate immune responses in glial cells.
Unique control of NF-kappaB activation in neurons.
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Richard JH Wojcikiewicz, Ph.D.
Professor
Intracellular signaling via InsP3 receptors and the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. |
Russell Matthews, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Role of glycoproteins in oncogenesis and brain development |
Steven Youngentob, Ph.D.
Professor
In utero ethanol exposure and chemsensory systems plasticity, olfactory signal transduction, peripheral and central mechanisms of odorant quality coding. |
James McCasland, Ph.D.
Professor
Cortical plasticity, development of somatotopic representations in cortex |
Michael Zuber, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The molecular basis of retinal stem cell formation; regulating retinal stem/progenitor cell proliferation; using retinal stem/progenitor cells to heal the injured or degenerating retina. |
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