Major Research Areas
Disorders of the Nervous System
Our research builds on current strengths in three areas: Neurobiology of Behavioral Disorders; Disorders of the Visual System; and Neural Injury, Neurodegeneration and Repair.
We have basic and clinical researchers with expertise in the neurosciences, molecular genetics and epigenetics, behavioral science and brain imaging as they relate to several behavioral disorders. These include ADHD, schizophrenia, autism, VCFS and FASD. Significant research is dedicated to retinal development and function, as well as practical treatments for blinding diseases. Work in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, is growing.
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. |
Edward Berry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biological energy transduction by membrane protein complexes, with emphasis on oxidative phosphorylation and photosynthesis. |
Frank Middleton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular basis of cortical-basal ganglia and cortical-cerebellar circuit formation and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease. |
Blair Calancie, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoiperative electrophysiology. |
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. |
Peter Calvert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of protein transport and localization in retinal neurons;
mechanisms of retinal degenerative diseases |
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. |
Gregory Canute, M.D.
Associate Professor
Genetics and Gene Therapy of Brain Tumors |
Brad Motter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Visual Neurophysiology;
Visual Attention;
Visual Search Behavior |
Xin Jie Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mitochondrial biogenesis and inheritance, aging and aging-related degenerative diseases. |
Nancy Nussmeier, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Stroke after cardiac surgery, cerebral protection during cardiac surgery, gender-related surgical outcomes |
Russell Durkovic, Ph.D.
Professor
Examination of processes underlying recovery from spinal cord injury in the salamander. |
Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cerebral cortex development. |
Stephen Glatt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics |
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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Charles Hodge, M.D.
Professor
Mechanisms of cortical plasticity and cortical reorganization after injury. |
Dawn Post, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cancer treatment using oncolytic viruses and gene therapy |
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. |
Dennis Stelzner, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS regeneration, spinal cord injury research, and neural plasticity. |
Huaiyu Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular studies of brain malformations. |
Daniel Tso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception, studied through physiological, anatomical and functional imaging techniques. |
Ziwei Huang, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Discovery and mechanism of action of new pharmacological agents for cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, infectious disease, and stem cell-based regenerative medicine.
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Mary Lou Vallano, Ph.D.
Professor
Neuronal survival and development. |
Burk Jubelt, M.D.
Professor
CNS acute and chronic polio- and entero-virus infections. |
Richard Veenstra, Ph.D.
Professor
Regulation of connexin-specific-gap-junctions; gap junction channel biophysics. |
Patricia Kane, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Vacuolar H+ATPases (structure, function, assembly and regulation), cellular pH homeostasis, cellular stress responses, protein sorting, genomics, yeast as a model system |
Andrea Viczian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mammalian retinal stem cells formation; molecular mechanism of retinal cell fate decisions; using cell replacement therapy to heal the blinded eye. |
Wendy Kates, Ph.D.
Professor
Anatomic and functional imaging investigations of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders |
Brent Vogt, Ph.D.
Professor
Structure, functions, and pathologies of cingulate cortex. |
Barry Knox, Ph.D.
Professor
Visual transduction, Gene Expression, Membrane proteins |
Stephan Wilkens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Structure and Mechanism of Membrane Bound Transport Proteins |
Michael Lyon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Age-related changes in the laryngeal muscles and vocal folds. |
Richard JH Wojcikiewicz, Ph.D.
Professor
Intracellular signaling via InsP3 receptors and the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. |
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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Steven Youngentob, Ph.D.
Professor
In utero ethanol exposure and chemsensory systems plasticity, olfactory signal transduction, peripheral and central mechanisms of odorant quality coding. |
Russell Matthews, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Role of glycoproteins in oncogenesis and brain development |
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. |
James McCasland, Ph.D.
Professor
Cortical plasticity, development of somatotopic representations in cortex |
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