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Program Leadership and Coordinators
Sonia Cavigelli
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Neuroscience
- Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Cassie Vomero
- Academic Program Coordinator: Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
- Neuroscience: Biotechnology Masters
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Frank Hillary
- Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neurology
Effects of brain injury and disease on functional brain organization; EEG and MRI-based examination of neuroplasticity in. . .
Vasant Honavar
- Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and AI
- Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology
Statistical machine learning algorithms for predictive modeling; modeling and inference of biological networks;. . .
Xiaogang Hu
- Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Kinesiology, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Neural-machine interface, somatosensory feedback, neural control of biological and bionic hands, neuromuscular disorder.
Timothy Jegla
- Emphasis Area Representative, Molecular and Evolutionary Genetics
- Associate Professor of Biology
Functional evolution of eukaryotic ion channels and evolution of neuronal signaling and cell structure.
Dezhe Jin
- Associate Professor of Physics
Computational models of neural basis of motor control and learning; theoretical analysis of biological neural networks.
Helen Kamens
- Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Identification of genetic mechanisms that contribute to complex behaviors with a special emphasis on alcohol and tobacco use.
Reuben Kraft
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Computational methods and high performance computing to examine brain neurotrauma biomechanics; human structural connectome. . .
Janine Kwapis
- Director of the Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders
- Associate Professor of Biology
Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms underlying learning and memory and age-related memory impairments.
Nina Lauharatanahirun
- Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Biomedical Engineering
Using computational modeling, behavioral economic paradigms, and functional neuroimaging (fMRI/EEG) to understand the neural. . .
Aimin Liu
- Associate Professor of Biology
Biogenesis and function of cilia in mammalian embryonic development.
Yingwei Mao
- Professor of Biology
Regulation of neurogenesis using cellular and mouse models; analysis of abnormal neural progenitor cell (NPC) proliferation. . .
Jean-Michel Mongeau
- Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering
Dipanjan Pan
- Huck Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
- Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine
David Puts
- Huck Associate Director for Graduate Education
- Professor of Anthropology
Understanding both the endocrine mechanisms underlying human sexual differentiation and the evolution of these mechanisms,. . .
Frank Ritter
- Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Psychology, Cognitive Science
Modeling effects of stress and behavior moderators on cognition within cognitive architectures.
Melissa Rolls
- Lead Huck Graduate Chair
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons. The cellular basis of neuronal polarity and neuronal responses to injury. . .
Robert Sainburg
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology
- Professor of Kinesiology and of Neurology
The neural mechanisms that underlie control, coordination, and learning of voluntary movements in humans. Functional. . .