Primary Faculty

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

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

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Addiction; learning and memory; epigenetics; non-coding RNAs

Professor

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
Faculty Onboarding
School of Medicine 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
Research Areas

Neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities; ion channels and synaptic function

Professor

Research Areas
Ion channels, synapses and addiction

Associate Professor
Director, NINDS Neuroscience Roadmap Scholar Program; Associate Scientist, Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging; Associate Scientist, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center

Research Areas
Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; epigenetics, non-coding RNAs; gene transcription; epilepsy disorders; neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities

Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Director, Civitan Translational ASD/NDD Research Core

Research Areas
Autism

Professor

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

Professor

Research Areas
Glial biology; ion channels and synaptic function; systems neuroscience and vision

Professor
Director, Civitan International Research Center
Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Virginia B. Spencer Endowed Chair  

Research Areas
Autism, intellectual disability, cognitive dysfunction

Professor
Co-Director, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
Co-Director, Neuroscience Graduate Theme, Graduate Biomedical Science

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

Professor

Research Areas
Role of phosphoinositides in developmental neurobiology

    Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology

Research Areas
Thyme Lab

Associate Professor
Co-director, Civitan International Neuroimaging Laboratory

Research Areas
Cognitive neuroscience

Associate Professor

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

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Nervous system development; ubiquitin; protein degradation