Ted Abel, PhD
Professor; Director, Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience
Department
Neuroscience & Pharmacology
Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Biography
Introduction
Research in the Abel lab focuses on the molecular mechanisms of memory storage and the molecular basis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. We use mouse models to examine the role of molecular signaling pathways as well as transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of gene expression in defining how neural circuits mediate behavior.
Current Positions
- Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
- Director, Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience
- Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Professor of Psychiatry
- Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Education
- BA in Chemistry, Swarthmore College
- M Phil in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University
- Molecular mechanisms of long-term memory storage in Neurobiology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, HHMI
Graduate Program Affiliations
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Biomedical Science (Molecular Medicine)
- Biomedical Science (Molecular Physiology and Biophysics)
- Biomedical Science (Pharmacology)
- Neuroscience
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
- Research in the Abel lab focuses on the molecular mechanisms of memory storage and the molecular basis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. We use mouse models to examine the role of molecular signaling pathways as well as transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of gene expression in defining how neural circuits mediate behavior.
Research areas
- Cellular and molecular neuroscience
- Systems neuroscience
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Gene regulation
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Memory loss
- Autism and intellectual disabilities
- Psychiatric disorders
- Hippocampus
- Striatum
- Sleep
- Developmental neuroscience
- Learning
- Memory
- Fear learning
- Limbic System
- Transgenic models
- Animal behavior
- In vitro electrophysiology
- Molecular biology
