Faculty

  • Ahmed Abdelfattah

    Assistant Professor, Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Assistant Professor of Brain Science, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Neurogenetics; Protein Dynamics

    Research interests: Protein engineering, fluorescence imaging, and advanced genetic approaches to visualize and study the brain.

  • Arturo Andrade Andrade

    Associate Professor of Neuroscience (Research), Associate Professor of Brain Science (Research)

    Research Area(s): Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Elucidating cell-specific mechanisms of neuronal activity and drug action including opioids and cannabinoids

  • Gilad Barnea

    Professor, Department of Neuroscience

    +1 401 863-3126

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research interests: We develop and use a combination of tools to study how neural circuits process sensory information about the environment and integrate it with information about the internal state of the animal to produce the appropriate behavioral responses to the changing environment. We use mice and fruit flies as models.

  • Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests:Developing high- throughput genomic techniques to identify functional cis-elements in the genome.

  • Alexander Fleischmann

    Professor of Brain Science, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Neural circuit generation of sensory perception and behavior. 

  • Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research

    Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Neurogenetics

  • Professor, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurological disease

  • Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Understanding the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying aging and longevity using the model system, Drosophila melanogaster.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain wiring

  • Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: We investigate how memories for appetitive stimuli are encoded in the brain and how drugs of abuse affect the molecular pathways in these circuits to result in aberrant motivational response. We combine genetics, behavior, in vivo imaging in behaving animals, molecular biology and biochemistry to address this.

  • Professor, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: I study the expression, regulation, and function of voltage-gated calcium ion channels in different regions of the nervous system. I am also interested in their role in chronic pain and psychiatric disorders.

  • Sofia Lizarraga

    Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Sidney Frank Hall 168/171

    Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Neurodevelopmental disorders with a focus on autism.

  • Sonia Mayoral

    ROBERT J. AND NANCY D. CARNEY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: I'm a cellular neuroscientist interested in studying cell-cell interactions in the brain focused around the development and function of oligodendrocytes, specialized glial cells that wrap myelin around neurons. 

  • Mencoff Family Professor of Biology , Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Professor of Brain Science, Carney Institute for Brain Science

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Normal molecular mechanisms of brain development, and genetic perturbations that underlie disorders of human cognitive development.

  • Professor, Department of Neuroscience

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: How neurons build synaptic connections that reliably control behavior while maintaining the ability to modulate their function over a lifetime of new experiences and environments with a focus on gene regulation in the nervous system and mechanistic studies of genes associated with neurological disorders.

  • Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: We are interested in evolution of brain function and behavior. Our primary model system is Drosophila, the fruit fly, for its powerful traditional and molecular genetics. Our main question is - how do genomes encode and regulate proteins involved in rapid electrical and chemical signaling in the brain, normally and in disease?

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: Molecular Mechanisms of Development and Aging.

  • Kristi Wharton

    Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests: How signaling molecules facilitate the communication between cells.