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Name Email/phone Interests include:
Chen, Gong  
  • Associate Professor of Biology
gongchen@psu.edu
814-865-2488
   (University Park) 		Molecular mechanism of synaptogenesis and plasticity.
Lai, Zhi-Chun  
  • Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
zcl1@psu.edu
814-863-0479
   (University Park) 		Growth Control and Cancer Genetics
Liu, David  
  • Associate Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
dxl39@psu.edu
717-531-4168
   (Hershey) 		Regulation of neuronal cell death and neural differentiation.
Liu, Si-Qiong (June)  
  • Assistant Professor of Biology
sjl16@psu.edu
814-865-6063
   (University Park) 		Activity-induced lasting changes in synaptic transmission, and learning and memory.
Luscher, Bernhard  
  • Professor of Biology
  • Interim Co-Director, Penn State Neuroscience Institute
bxl25@psu.edu
814-865-5549
   (University Park) 		Development and regulation of GABAergic inhibitory synapses; neural substrates regulating anxiety and cognition.
McLaughlin, Patricia  
  • Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
  • Director, Graduate Program in Anatomy
pxm9@psu.edu
717-531-6414
   (Hershey) 		Growth factors and receptors in brain and heart development and cancer.
Mitchell, Pamela (Pam)  
  • Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  • Associate Professor of Biology
pjm23@psu.edu
814-865-5802
   (University Park) 		Regulation of gene expression during mouse and Drosophila embryogenesis.
Ordway, Richard (Rick)  
  • Associate Professor of Biology
  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Genetics
rwo4@psu.edu
814-863-5693
   (University Park) 		Cellular neurobiology using Drosophila.
Patterson, Randen  
  • Assistant Professor of Biology
rlp25@psu.edu
814-865-1668
   (University Park) 		Hormonal and growth factor regulation of neuronal calcium; the role of calcium in neuronal development.
Rolls, Melissa  
  • Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Director, Center for Cellular Dyamics
mur22@psu.edu
814-867-1395
   (University Park) 		Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons.
Thomas, Graham  
  • Associate Professor of Biology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
gxt5@psu.edu
814-863-0716
   (University Park) 		Roles of the cytoskeleton at the cell membrane in epithelial cells, including issues of cell polarity and adhesion, cell signaling, and morphogenesis.
Whim, Matthew  
  • Assistant Professor of Biology
mdw13@psu.edu
814-863-3891
   (University Park) 		Regulation of neuropeptide exocytosis.
Zagon, Ian  
  • Distinguished Professor of Neural and Behavioral Science
  • Director, Program on Education in Human Structure
isz1@psu.edu
717-531-8650
   (Hershey) 		Peptides and receptors in development, cancer, cell renewal, wound healing, angiogenesis, cornea, neurodegeneration, diabetes and Crohn's Disease.