Joanne Conover
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: Neural stem cell biology and its application in neurodegenerative disease
Alexander Jackson
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: Cellular and synaptic neurophysiology of neural circuits in the mammalian hypothalamus that regulate fundamental behavioral states such as sleep, arousal and feeding
Rahul Kanadia
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: The role of posttranscriptional gene regulation during vertebrate development.
Joseph LoTurco
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: Understanding mechanisms that direct development of the neocortex. Currently, a combination of molecular genetics, patch clamp electrophysiology, and cell culture are being used to study the mechanisms that regulate neurogenesis in the cerebral cortex.
Karen Menuz
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: How the molecular and cellular environment surrounding olfactory neurons influences their activity, and ultimately odor-driven behaviors.
Barbara Mellone
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Research Interests: Regulation of chromosomes segregation during cell division in higher eukaryotes and the contribution of centromeres and kinetochores in this process. We use a variety of molecular, cell biological, biochemical, and genetic approaches. We are also interested in determining how our findings apply to humans, and to diseases related to chromosome dysfunction, such as mental retardation and cancer.
Daniel Mulkey
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: Investigations on the electrophysiological characteristics of mammalian neurons in brainstem regions associated with respiratory control, specifically defining properties unique to respiratory chemoreceptors. I am also interested in the cellular mechanisms by which chemoreceptors sense changes in CO2/pH.
Linnaea Ostroff
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: How synaptic changes mediate learning and memory, and particularly in how animals learn to differentiate between safety and danger
John Salamone
Department of Psychological Sciences
Research Interests: Psychopharmacology; Neurochemistry and behavior; Behavioral functions of dopamine and acetylcholine; Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, depression.
Daniel Schwartz
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: Computational and experimental techniques to discover, catalog, and functionally understand short linear protein motifs.
Jianjun Sun
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: Research in the laboratory focuses on reproductive physiology and ovarian cancer. Powerful genetic tools in Drosophila will be applied to decipher the formation and physiological function of the secretory cells in the female reproductive tract, the cells of origin of ovarian cancer.
Anastasios Tzingounis
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Research Interests: Cellular neuroscience, intrinsic mechanisms that prevent epileptogenesis.