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Upstate Medical university Neuroscience

Faculty

Developmental Neuroscience

Blair Calancie, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoiperative electrophysiology.
James McCasland, Ph.D.
Professor
Cortical plasticity, development of somatotopic representations in cortex
Gregory Canute, M.D.
Associate Professor
Genetics and Gene Therapy of Brain Tumors
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.
David Carter, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Interim Chair
Enhancing Central Nervous System (brain & spinal cord) plasticity & repair; Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy
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.
Huaiyu Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular studies of brain malformations.
Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cerebral cortex development.
Wendy Kates, Ph.D.
Professor
Anatomic and functional imaging investigations of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders
Eduardo Solessio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Barry Knox, Ph.D.
Professor
Visual transduction, Gene Expression, Membrane proteins
Dennis Stelzner, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS regeneration, spinal cord injury research, and neural plasticity.
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.
Mary Lou Vallano, Ph.D.
Professor
Neuronal survival and development.
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.