Updated January 2019
| Mentor | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|
| Chris Baker | cognitive neuroscience, high-level vision, cortical visual processing, large-scale cortical circuitry, learning, functional and structural plasticity, MEG, fMRI |
| Laura Bradfield | decision-making, learning and memory, reward and punishment, context processing, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, basal ganglia |
| Savio Chan | basal ganglia, membrane excitability, synaptic transmission, transcriptomic analysis, Parkinson’s disease |
| Anis Contractor | glutamate receptor, synaptic plasticity, synaptic transmission, fragile X, autism |
| Christie D. Fowler | motivated behavior, substance abuse, drug dependence, reward, reinforcement |
| Gianluca Gallo | axon, growth cone, actin, tubulin, microfilaments/actin filaments, microtubules, neurofilaments, axon branching/sprouting, axon guidance, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, signaling, nerve growth factor, neurotrophins, intracellular traffic, axotomy, plasticity, traumatic brain injury, regeneration, filopodia, lamellipodia |
| Geoffrey Ghose | visual cortex, neural coding, rapid decision-making, attention, functional organization |
| Saskia Haegens | oscillations, rhythms, attention, working memory, LFP, MEG, ECoG, somatosensory system |
| Christian Hansel | cerebellum, central physiology, developmental disorders, eye movements, intrinsic membrane properties, ion channels, network interactions, neurotransmitters and signaling molecules, physiological methods, staining, tracing, and imaging techniques, synaptic plasticity, synaptic transmission, calcium, cerebellum, dendritic, neurons, plasticity, purkinje, spine, synaptic, transmission |
| Mary Heinricher | pain, pain-modulation, behavioral pharmacology, migraine, headache, photophobia, opioids, analgesia, cannabinoids, chronic pain, TBI |
| Mihaela Iordanova | associative learning, dopamine, amygdala, reward, fear, prefrontal cortex, prediction error, in vivo electrophysiology |
| Thorsten Kahnt | reward, motivation, decision-making, associative learning, olfaction |
| Dimitri Krainc | lysosomes, autophagy, neurodegeneration, neurogenetics, mitochondria |
| Mark Laubach | prefrontal cortex, striatum, multielectrode, field potential, optogenetics, neural coding |
| Ifat Levy | decision-making, uncertainty, risk, reward, neuroimaging, neuroeconomics, adolescence |
| Mary Kay Lobo | striatum, nucleus accumbens, basal ganglia, direct and indirect pathways, drug abuse |
| Joseph LoTurco | neocortex, pyramidal neuron, neuronal migration, neural stem cell, cortical malformation, epilepsy, neurogenesis, neurodevelopmental disorders |
| Nathan Marchant | behavioural neuroscience, learning, motivation, addiction, punishment, compulsive drug use, relapse, hypothalamus, hippocampus, ventral striatum |
| BethAnn McLaughlin | neurodegeneration, apoptosis, autophagy, mitochondrial function, redox signaling, stroke |
| Gavan McNally | learning, motivation and emotion, fear, reward, addiction |
| David Pleasure | myelination, multiple sclerosis, oligodendroglia, Schwann cells, neuropathy, leukodystrophy |
| Lucas Pozzo-Miller | BDNF, dendritic spines, hippocampus, intracellular Ca2+ signaling |
| Matthew Rasband | axon, myelin, node of Ranvier, Na+ channel, K+ channel, neuron-glia interactions |
| Carlo Sala | synaptic plasticity, synaptogenesis, dendritic spines, postsynaptic mechanisms |
| Krish Sathian | perception, multisensory, crossmodal, somatosensory, touch, neurorehabilitation, fMRI |
| Laura Schrader | hippocampus, ion channels, acute stress, chronic stress |
| Hyojung Seo | prefrontal cortex, higher cognition, learning, decision-making, neurophysiology |
| Barry Setlow | learning, decision-making, addiction, drug self-administration, behavioral pharmacology |
| Wayne S. Sossin | protein translation, protein kinases, synaptic plasticity, memory, aplysia |
| Donna Wilcock | glial cells, neuroinflammation, cerebrovascular disease, neurovascular unit, Alzheimer’s disease |