Research and teaching in the neurosciences at Iowa are consolidated in three partially overlapping research tracks.
Faculty members may be associated with more than one research track.
| Christopher Benson, M.D. |
Molecular mechanisms of cardiac sensation |
| Mark W. Chapleau, Ph.D. |
Neural mechanisms of cardiovascular regulation. Baroreflex function in health and disease |
| Michael Dailey, Ph.D. |
Development and Remodeling of Neurons and Glia in Mammalian Brain Tissues |
| Beverly Davidson, Ph.D. |
Neurodegenerative diseases and gene transfer. |
| Daniel Eberl, Ph.D. |
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of hearing and auditory behavior |
| Minnetta Gardinier, Ph.D. |
CNS myelination and oligodendroglial cell biology |
| Pedro Gonzalez-Alegre, M.D. |
Neurobiology of diseases of the basal ganglia |
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| Donna L. Hammond, Ph.D. |
Neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of central nervous system (CNS) pathways that convey pain; bulbospinal pathways that mediate the production of analgesia |
| Douglas W. Houston, Ph.D. |
Molecular mechanisms involved in the control of cell fate determination and pattern formation in early vertebrate nervous system development |
| Wayne Johnson Ph.D. |
Molecular mechanisms of sensory signal transduction |
| Alan Kay, Ph.D. |
Firing dynamics of neurons in the mammalian cerebral cortex |
| Toshihiro Kitamoto, Ph.D. |
Genetics of complex behavior |
| Gloria Lee Ph.D. |
Neuronal cytoskeleton, signal transduction, and neurodegenerative diseases |
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| Steven A. Moore, M.D., Ph.D. |
Muscular dystrophy and developmental neurobiology |
| Nicholas J. Pantazis, Ph.D. |
Fetal alcohol syndrome: mechanisms and prevention of detrimental effects of ethanol on the developing nervous system, Neuronal development |
| Stanley Perlman, M.D., Ph.D. |
Localization of virus and cell-mediated immune response in mice developing demyelination after infection with mouse hepatitis virus |
| Robert Philibert, M.D., Ph.D. |
Behavioral genetics |
| Andrew F Russo Ph.D. |
Neuronal control of gene expression |
| Curt D Sigmund, Ph.D. |
Neural Control of Blood Pressure Regulation |
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| Christopher Stipp, Ph.D. |
Cell surface interaction maps and neuronal cell motility and function |
| Stefan Strack, Ph.D. |
Protein phosphatase 2A in neuronal signal transduction |
| Yuriy M. Usachev Ph.D. |
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pain transmission and neurodegeneration. |
| Joshua Weiner, Ph.D. |
Molecular Control of Synapse Formation and Synaptic Specificity |
| Michael J Welsh, M.D. |
Ion channels and their abnormalities in disease |
| John A Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D. |
Role of acid sensing ion channels in fear related behavior |
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| Chun-Fang Wu, Ph.D. |
Ion channels, activity-dependent neural plasticity, and learning behavior in Drosophila |
“This is a great place—perhaps the best place—to do cognitive neuroscience research with neurological patients. There is excellent functional imaging work going on here, too, as well as a very interesting assortment of molecular and cellular research.”