People who work in Neuroscience
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Kevin Alloway
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 814-867-6413 • Email address kda1@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural circuits; information processing; sensorimotor integration; neuropathology of chronic pain.
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Peter Arnett
- Professor of Psychology
- Director of Clinical Training
Phone number 814-863-1733 • Email address paa6@psu.edu
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Alistair Barber
- Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Phone number 717-531-6506 • Email address abarber@psu.edu
Research interests:Neurodegeneration in diabetic retinopathy. "This project studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in diabetic retinopathy, a common complication of diabetes that can lead to vision loss. The lab examines how changes in visual function may be explained by degeneration in the synapses and neurons of the retina in diabetic animal models."
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Colin Barnstable
- Professor and Chair, Neural & Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 717-531-3631 • Email address cjb30@psu.edu
Research interests:How interacting networks of transcription factors and signal transduction molecules guide the development of precursor/stem cells into mature neurons. Role of these networks in neurodegenerative diseases. Factors that can act as neuroprotective agents.
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Paul Bartell
- Assistant Professor of Avian Biology
Phone number 814-867-2365 • Email address pab43@psu.edu
Research interests:Neurobiology of biological clocks; the role of circadian clocks and circannual timers in regulating physiology and behavior.
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Sheri Berenbaum
- Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics
Phone number 814-865-6140 • Email address sberenbaum@psu.edu
Research interests:Development and neuroendocrine basis of human sex-typed cognition and social behavior.
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Melvin Billingsley
- Professor of Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-6028 • Email address mlb8@psu.edu
Research interests:Mechanisms of calcium-induced signal transduction in brain, focusing on calmodulin-mediated enzymes. Isolation and characterization of novel, neuron-specific genes, with emphasis on those involved in neurotoxic actions of various agents.
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Edward Bixler
- Professor of Psychiatry
- Vice-Chair of Research
Phone number 717-531-5556 • Email address ebixler@psu.edu
Research interests:Patterns and mechanisms of sleep.
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Robert Bonneau
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone number 717-531-4078 • Email address rhb3@psu.edu
Research interests:Neuroendocrine-mediated modulation of immunity to viral pathogens.
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Victoria Braithwaite
- Professor of Fisheries and Biology
- Co-Director, the Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition
Phone number 814-865-4675 • Email address vab12@psu.edu
Research interests:Animal cognition and behavior, development of behavior, behavioral ecology.
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Kirsteen Browning
- Assistant Professor, Neural and Behavioral Health
Phone number 717-531-8267 • Email address knb13@psu.edu
Research interests:Vagally-medicated regulation of gastrointestinal reflexes, particularly in modulation of sensory signaling
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Douglas Cavener
- Professor and Head of Biology
Phone number 814-865-4562 • Email address drc9@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of central nervous system functions through control of protein synthesis and translation initiation.
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Sonia Cavigelli
- Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Phone number 814-863-0210 • Email address s-cavigelli@psu.edu
Research interests:Influence of temperament and social status on stress and health; individual differences in stress and health in the natural environment; development of temperament/personality.
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Gong Chen
- Associate Professor of Biology
Phone number 814-865-2488 • Email address gongchen@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular and cellular mechanism of learning and memory, synapse formation and synaptic plasticity.
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John Collins
- Professor of Physics
Phone number 814-863-0783 • Email address collins@phys.psu.edu
Research interests:Algorithms of neural computation for learning and memory; relationship between neuronal and behavioral phenomena.
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James Connor
- Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair Department of Neurosurgery
Phone number 717-531-4541 • Email address jrc3@psu.edu
Research interests:Iron transport and toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases/oxidative cell injury.
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Rebecca Corwin
- Professor of Nutritional Neuroscience
Phone number 814-865-6519 • Email address rxc13@psu.edu
Research interests:Neurobiology of binge-type behavior.
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Nancy Dennis
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
Phone number 814-865-1712 • Email address nad12@psu.edu
Research interests:My research focuses on elucidating the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support learning and memory in young and older adults.
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Min Ding
- Professor of Marketing
Phone number 814-865-0622 • Email address mqd9@psu.edu
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Patrick James Drew
- Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Phone number 814-863-1473 • Email address pjd17@psu.edu
Research interests:Control and development of the cerebral blood flow, neurovascular coupling.
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John Ellis
- Professor of Psychiatry & Pharmacology
- Director of Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory
Phone number 717-531-4241 • Email address johnellis@psu.edu
Research interests:Mechanistic and molecular investigations of activation and allosteric regulation of G protein-coupled receptors.
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Paul Eslinger
- Professor of Neurology
Phone number 717-531-8692 • Email address peslinger@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural substrates of human cognition and learning.
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Jidong Fang
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Phone number 717-531-5435 • Email address jfang@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation and function of sleep.
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Willard Freeman
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
- Director, Functional Genomics Core Facility
• Email address wfreeman@psu.edu
Research interests:Researching the systems biology of psychiatric disorders, more specifically, alterations in brain mRNA and protein expression with drug abuse, alcoholism, and schizophrenia.
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Lisa Gatzke-Kopp
- Assistant Professor of Human Development
Phone number 814-867-2371 • Email address lmk18@psu.edu
Research interests:My research expertise and interests are in the area of developmental neuroscience of psychopathology.
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Charles Geier
- Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Phone number 814-865-1728 • Email address cfg2@psu.edu
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Rick Gilmore
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Director of Human Imaging, SLEIC
Phone number 814-865-3664 • Email address rogilmore@psu.edu
Research interests:The cognitive neuroscience of perception, memory, and action in infancy and early childhood.
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Bruce Gluckman
- Associate Director, Penn State Center for Neural Engineering
- Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Phone number 814-865-0178 • Email address brucegluckman@psu.edu
Research interests:The dynamics of neural systems, how group dynamics form or emerge from the coupled dynamics of individual units, and how to measure and interact with these systems.
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Jinger Gottschall
- Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
Phone number 814-867-2318 • Email address jsg20@psu.edu
Research interests:Studying walking and running by combining the disciplines of cardiovascular physiology, neuromuscular physiology, and mechanical engineering.
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Patricia Grigson
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Co-Chair Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Phone number 717-531-5772 • Email address psg6@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural basis of reward comparison.
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Andras Hajnal
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences and Surgery
Phone number 717-531-5735 • Email address ahajnal@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural Regulation of Eating: Taste and reward functions in obesity, diabetes and following gastric bypass surgery.
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John E Hayes
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
- Director of Sensory Evaluation Center
Phone number 814-863-7129 • Email address jeh40@psu.edu
Research interests:iHuman Chemosensory Psychophysics; Influence of genetic variation on sensations from food; Acquisition of preference for innately aversive stimuli
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Frank Hillary
- Associate Professor of Psychology
Phone number 814-865-5849 • Email address fgh3@psu.edu
Research interests:A primary focus of my research is to examine the influences of injury and disease on functional brain organization.
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Gregory Holmes
- Associate Professor, Neural and Behavioral Science
Phone number 717-531-0003 •
Research interests:Dr. Holmes' research focuses upon derangements in autonomic nervous system reflexes following traumatic brain or spinal cord injury. His laboratory combines clinically relevant experimental models of brain and spinal cord injury with physiological, neurochemical and immunohistochemical techniques. Particular emphasis in his laboratory has been placed on gastrointestinal and reproductive changes after injury.
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Jun Huang
- Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Phone number 814-863-4209 • Email address juh17@psu.edu
Research interests:Explores nanoscience and nanotechnology at the interface of physics, materials, engineering and biology.
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Xuemei Huang
- Associate Professor of Neurology
Phone number 717-531-1893 • Email address xuh15@psu.edu
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Timothy Jegla
- Assistant Professor of Biology
Phone number 814-865-1668 • Email address tjj3@psu.edu
Research interests:We are interested in understanding how ion channels control signaling in the nervous system. We focus on potassium channel-mediated control of firing threshold and ionic mechanisms involved in the generation and processing of sensory potentials. Our research relies on a combination of mouse genetics, electrophysiology, cell biology and compound screening approaches.
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Dezhe Jin
- Associate Professor of Physics
Phone number 814-863-6673 • Email address dzj2@psu.edu
Research interests:Computational models of neural basis of motor control and learning; theoretical analysis of biological neural networks.
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Byron Jones
- Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Pharmacology
Phone number 814-863-0167 • Email address bcj1@psu.edu
Research interests:Pharmacogenetics of psychotropic drug action; role of iron in neurobehavioral development.
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Uhnoh Kim
- Associate Professor of Neurosugery
Phone number 717-531-0003 • Email address ukim@psu.edu
Research interests:Cellular and synaptic mechanisms that underlie the synchronous oscillatory activity in three different neural systems of the mammalian brain: the thalamo-cortical, limbic forebrain-habenular, and subthalamo-pallidal systems.
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Laura Klein
- Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Phone number 814-865-8813 • Email address lxk18@psu.edu
Research interests:Biobehavioral effects of stress on drug abuse in humans and animals; sex differences in neuroendocrine and behavioral stress responses; nicotine regulation of stress reactivity.
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Alexay Kozhevnikov
- Assistant Professor of Physics
Phone number 814-865-6873 • Email address akozhevn@phys.psu.edu
Research interests:How activity of neurons in the brain of a songbird codes for the bird�s song.
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Zhi-Chun Lai
- Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Cell and Developmental Biology
Phone number 814-863-0479 • Email address zcl1@psu.edu
Research interests:Signal Transduction, Growth Control, and Cancer Genetics
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Robert Levenson
- Professor of Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-4545 • Email address rlevenson@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of dopaminergic neurotransmission; links between dopamine signaling and drug addiction and reward.
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Ping Li
- Professor of Psychology/Linguistics/Information Sciences
- Co-Chair, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
- Co-Director, the Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition
Phone number 814-863-3921 • Email address pul8@psu.edu
Research interests:My research aims at understanding the relationships among language, brain, and culture.
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Aimin Liu
- Associate Professor of Biology
Phone number 814-865-7043 • Email address axl25@psu.edu
Research interests:The regulation of cell fate and polarity in mammalian central nervous system and sensory organs.
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Lyle N Long
- Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering, and Mathematics
- Director, Graduate Minor Program in Computational Science
Phone number 814-865-1172 • Email address lnl@psu.edu
Research interests:Computational and theoretical biophysics, including spiking neural networks and cognitive robots.
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Bernhard Luscher
- Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry
- Director, Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders (CMIND)
Phone number 814-865-5549 • Email address bxl25@psu.edu
Research interests:Development and regulation of GABAergic inhibitory synapses; neural substrates regulating anxiety and cognition.
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Richard Mailman
- Professor and College of Medicine Distinguished Senior Scholar
Phone number 717-531-3666 • Email address rbm17@psu.edu
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Yingwei Mao
- Assistant Professor of Biology
Phone number 814-867-4739 • Email address yzm1@psu.edu
Research interests:Researching the mechanisms that regulate neurogenesis using cellular and mouse models.
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Patricia McLaughlin
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Graduate Program in Anatomy
Phone number 717-531-6414 • Email address pxm9@psu.edu
Research interests:Growth factors and receptors in brain and heart development and cancer.
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Ralph Norgren
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 717-531-6921 • Email address rxn5@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural bases of motivation and reward.
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Richard Ordway
- Professor of Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics
Phone number 814-863-5693 • Email address rwo4@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular analysis of synaptic mechanisms in Drosophila.
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Ann Ouyang
- Professor of Medicine
Phone number 717-531-8741 • Email address aouyang@psu.edu
Research interests:The role of the brain-gut axis in gastrointestinal disorders. Nociceptive pathways from the gastrointestinal tract.
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Charles Palmer
- Professor of Pediatrics
Phone number 717-531-1358 • Email address cpalmer@psu.edu
Research interests:Perinatal hypoxic ischemic brain injury. Inhibition of microglial activation. Pain and stress in the newborn infant.
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Thomas Pritchard
- Associate Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 717-531-6410 • Email address tcp1@psu.edu
Research interests:Central correlates of gustatory perception.
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Chester Ray
- Professor of Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Phone number 717-531-5110 • Email address car20@psu.edu
Research interests:Vestibular regulation of the sympathetic nervous system, exercise and autonomic function.
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William Ray
- Professor of Psychology
Phone number 814-863-1726 • Email address wjr@psu.edu
Research interests:Psychophysiology of cognitive and motor processes.
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Frank Ritter
- Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Phone number 814-865-4453 • Email address fer2@psu.edu
Research interests:Modeling effects of stress and behaviour moderators on cognition within cognitive architectures.
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Melissa Rolls
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Director, Center for Cellular Dynamics
Phone number 814-867-1395 • Email address mur22@psu.edu
Research interests:# Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons. [ Edit this summary ] # Genetics � Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons.
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Victor Ruiz-Velasco
- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Phone number 717-531-6076 • Email address vruizvelasco@psu.edu
Research interests:Study of mechanisms by which second messengers, particularly G proteins, modulate voltage-dependent N-type Ca2+ channels following G protein-coupled receptor activation.
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Robert L Sainburg
- Professor of Kinesiology
- Professor of Neurology
Phone number 814-865-7938 • Email address rls45@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural mechanisms underlying control of multijoint arm movements in humans.
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Kathyrn Suzanne Scherf
- Assistant Professor, Psychology
Phone number 814-867-2921 • Email address kss23@psu.edu
Research interests:Development of face and object representation in typically developing children and children with developmental disorders
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Steven Schiff
- Director, Penn State Center for Neural Engineering
- Brush Chair Professor of Engineering
- Professor of Neurosurgery
- Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Phone number 814-863-4210 • Email address sschiff@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural engineering, neurosurgery, epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease, wave mechanics, brain machine interfaces, EEG, electrical fields, and control theory.
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Zachary Simmons
- Professor of Neurology
Phone number 717-531-1802 • Email address zsimmons@psu.edu
Research interests:Pathogenetic mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Nutrition in ALS.
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Ian Simpson
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 717-531-4156 • Email address ixs10@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of cerebral nutrient transport and metabolism, and their role in stroke.
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Semyon Slobounov
- Professor of Kinesiology
Phone number 814-865-3146 • Email address sms18@psu.edu
Research interests:Psychophysiology of human movement.
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Sean Stocker
- Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
• Email address sds33@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural control of the circulation and cardiovascular system in salt-sensitive and obesity-induced hypertension"
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Thyagarajan Subramanian
- Professor of Neurology and Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Movement Disorders Program
Phone number 717-531-1804 • Email address tus16@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural Transplantation and gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders. Basal ganglia pathophysiology. Stem cell biology and immunology of transplantation. Preclinical and clinical therapeutics in movement disorders.
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Joan Summy-Long
- Professor of Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-8290 • Email address jsl2@psu.edu
Research interests:Dendritic release of neuropeptides and cytokine interactions in the magnocellular system.
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Xiaorui Tang
- Assistant Professor Neural & Behavioral Science
Phone number 717-531-8264 • Email address xxt2@psu.edu
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Richard Tenser
- Professor of Neurology, and Microbiology and Immunology
Phone number 717-531-1801 • Email address rtenser@psu.edu
Research interests:Latent and slow virus infections of the nervous system; multiple sclerosis.
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Joyce Tombran-Tink
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Science
Phone number 717-531-8264 • Email address jxt57@psu.edu
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Renato Alberto Travagli
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 717-531-5144 • Email address rat13@psu.edu
Research interests:Central nervous system control of cellular and synaptic functions of the automatic nervous system in health and disease (stress and inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract).
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Emmy Truckenmiller
- Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Phone number 717-531-8147 • Email address met11@psu.edu
Research interests:Neuro-endocrine modulation of dendritic cell function (maturation, antigen presentation, cytokine production, migration) in the initial steps of T cell-mediated anti-viral/tumor immunity.
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David Vandenbergh
- Associate Director of the Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences
- Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Phone number 814-863-8430 • Email address djv4@psu.edu
Research interests:Control of neuronal gene expression by drugs of abuse; QTL identification of behaviorally-relevant genes.
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Kent Vrana
- Elliot S. Vesell Professor and Chair of Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-8285 • Email address kvrana@psu.edu
Research interests:Functional genomics and proteomics of the nervous system.
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Hanspeter Waldner
• Email address hpwaldner@psu.edu
Research interests:Determine the mechanisms that maintain tolerance or induce T cell responses to self antigens, resulting in resistance or susceptibility to autoimmune diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis or Type 1 diabetes.
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Andrew Webb
- Professor of Bioengineering
Phone number 814-865-0459 • Email address agw3@psu.edu
Research interests:Development of magnetic resonance and optical imaging techniques to study cognitive function.
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Judith Weisz
- Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Phone number 717-531-8142 • Email address jxw7@psu.edu
Research interests:Neural integration of reproduction: steroids and cytochrome P-450.
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Stephen Wilson
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
Phone number 814-865-6219 •
Research interests:Addictive behavior, with a specific focus on cigarette smoking
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Qing Yang
- Professor of Radiology
Phone number 717-531-5858 • Email address qyang@psu.edu
Research interests:Brain mapping with functional MRI and in vivo pathological evaluation of Alzheimer's disease with quantitative MRI.
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Ian Zagon
- Distinguished Professor of Neural and Behavioral Science
- Director, Program on Education in Human Structure
Phone number 717-531-8650 • Email address isz1@psu.edu
Research interests:Peptides and receptors in development, cancer, cell renewal, wound healing, angiogenesis, cornea, neurodegeneration, diabetes and Crohn's Disease.
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Samuel Zhang
- Assistant Professor of Neural & Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 717-531-8480 • Email address ssz3@psu.edu
Research interests:Signal transduction in mammal development and pathogenesis. Systems biology of neural development and function.
