Molecular / Cellular Faculty

• Christopher Benson, M.D.
  
  Molecular mechanisms of cardiac sensation
• Kevin Campbell Ph.D.
  
  Neuromuscular Disease: Biology of Muscular Dystrophy and Associated CNS Abnormalities
• 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.
  
  Gene therapy for neurological diseases
• Daniel Eberl Ph.D.
  
  Auditory mechanisms in Drosophila
• Minnetta Gardinier Ph.D.
  
  CNS myelination and oligodendroglial cell biology
• Pedro Gonzalez-Alegre M.D.
  
  Neurobiology of diseases of the basal ganglia
• 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
• Meredith Hay Ph.D.
  
  Understanding of central nervous system mechanisms regulating blood pressure; study sex differences in disease and physiology
• Johannes Hell Ph.D.
  
  Synapse, glutamate receptors, Calcium channels, protein kinases, PKA, CaMKII, Pyk2, Src, PSD-95, postsynaptic, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, Huntington’s disease, epilepsy assembly of postsynaptic signaling complexes and neurodegenerative diseases
• Mary Horne Ph.D.
  
  Novel Cyclin Functions in Cell Cycle Arrest, Differentiation and Programmed Cell Death
• 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
• Michel Ladouceur Ph.D.
  
  Neuro-rehabilitation of walking
• Gloria Lee Ph.D.
  
  Neuronal cytoskeleton, signal transduction, and neurodegenerative diseases
• 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
• Herbert Proudfit Ph.D.
  
  Neural circuits that control pain
• Andrew Russo Ph.D.
  
  Neuronal control of gene expression
• Erwin Shibata Ph.D.
  
  Caveolae-dependent regulation of ion channels
• Curt Sigmund Ph.D.
• Neural Control of Blood Pressure Regulation
• 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
• Joshua Weiner Ph.D.
  
  Cell Adhesion Molecules in Nervous System Development and Function
• Michael Welsh M.D.
  
  Ion channels and their abnormalities in disease
• John Wemmie M.D., Ph.D.
  
  Role of acid sensing ion channels in fear related behavior.
• Chun-Fang Wu Ph.D.
  
  Ion channels, activity-dependent neural plasticity, and learning behavior in Drosophila