Primary Faculty

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Elucidating the neuronal processes that guide motivation

Professor Emeritus

Research Areas
Transcriptional regulation of GFAP, development of GFAP promoters for transgene expression in astrocytes, and GFAP mutations as a cause of Alexander disease

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Molecular mechanisms of rare disease, COVID-19, neuropsychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy), drug screening, hormonal signaling, development, reproduction

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Synaptic and cellular organization and processing in the neocortex and thalamus, with an emphasis on sensory systems

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Memory and fear

Associate Professor
Director, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
Michael J. Fiedlander, PhD Heersink Endowed Professorship

Research Areas
Neurogenetics, substance use disorders, learning and memory, epigenetics, gene regulation and gene editing

Professor
Director, Neuroengineering and Brain-Computer Interface Initiative (NBCII)

Research Areas
Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; ion channels and synaptic function; neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities

Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Co-Director, Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)
Associate Scientist, Civitan International Research Center

Research Areas
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of structural and functional plasticity; memory; mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disabilities

Associate Professor
Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs
Faculty Onboarding
SOM Director Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Theme
Research Areas
Molecular mechanisms of retinal degenerations due to genetic mutations and/or light damage; protein trafficking in photoreceptors and neurons; rod and cone disk cytoskeletal regulation

Professor Emeritus
Research Areas

Neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities; ion channels and synaptic function

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Circuit mechanisms that regulate motivated behavior and addiction with a specific focus on subcircuits in the interconnected nuclei of the ventral basal ganglia.

Assistant Professor
Managing Director, UAB Biological Data Science Core (U-BDS)

Research Areas
Transcriptomics, epigenomics, computational biology, pipeline and workflow development

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Synaptic transmission and plasticity, neurotrophins, neuron-glia interaction, motor and social behavior, neurodevelopmental disorders

Distinguished Professor
Triton Endowed Professorship
Director, NINDS Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program
Director, T32 Training Program in Cognition & Cognitive Disorders
Co-Director for Research, IRACDA-MERIT Program
Co-Chair, SoM Black/African-American Faculty Association
SOM Office for Diversity & Inclusion Faculty Liaison
Research Areas
Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; epigenetics, non-coding RNAs; gene transcription; epilepsy disorders; neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities

Associate Professor
Director, Civitan Translational ASD/NDD Research Core

Professor

Research Areas
Neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities; learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; ion channels and synaptic function; neurotransmitter and neurotrophin receptors and cell signaling

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Preclinical behavioral pharmacology using rodent self-administration models of addiction, optogenetic and chemogenetic dissection of neural circuit function, neural circuitry and mechanisms underlying extinction memory, and the intersection of aversion and reward in systems neuroscience.

Professor
Director, Civitan International Research Center
Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Virginia B. Spencer Endowed Chair
Research Areas
Autism, intellectual disability, cognitive dysfunction

Professor

Research Areas
Neurotransmitter and neurotrophin receptors and cell signaling; learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; ion channels, synaptic function, neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Biology of neurodegeneration and dementias; circadian dysfunction; therapeutic drug development and behavioral interventions.