Updated November 2023
| Mentor | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|
| Regina Armstrong | demyelination, remyelination, neural stem cell, oligodendrocyte progenitor cell, oligodendrocyte, myelin, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, axon damage, white matter, therapeutic, regeneration, astrogliosis, neuropathology, neuroimaging |
| Laura Bradfield | Decision-making, Learning and Memory, Reward and punishment, Context processing, Prefrontal cortex, Hippocampus, Basal Ganglia |
| Joanne Conover | developmental neurobiology, neurogenesis, gliogenesis, stem cells, stem cell niche, migration, CSF, ventricular system, aging, hydrocephalus, neurodegenerative diseases |
| Anis Contractor | glutamate receptor, synaptic plasticity, synaptic transmission, fragile X, autism |
| Andre Cravo | timing, expectations, attention, perception, EEG, psychophysics |
| Gregory Dussor | headache, migraine, pain, sensory signaling, dorsal root ganglia, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord dorsal horn, trigeminocervical complex, meninges, dura mater, CGRP, AMPK, prolactin, protease-activated receptors, ion channels, TRP channels, ASICs, patch-clamp electrophysiology, transcriptomics |
| Marla Feller | retina, activity-dependent development, synaptic physiology, two-photon calcium imaging |
| Antonio Ferrer-Montiel | ion channels, thermoTRPs, voltage-gated channels, GPCRs, pain, nociception, nociceptors, neuroinflammation, neuropathic, migraine, CIPN, exocytosis, neuropharmacology, drug discovery, analgesics, peripheral nervous system |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Josef Kapfhammer | Purkinje cell dendritic development, spinocerebellar ataxia, neurodegeneration, process outgrowth, axonal and dendritic pathfinding, neural repair, axonal repair, inhibitors of neurite growth, cerebellar slice cultures, activity of protein kinase C gamma, cerebellar synaptic connectivity |
| Thomas Kash | plasticity, amygdala, neuropeptides, serotonin, PAG, alcohol, ethanol, pain, opioids, fear, stress, CRF, NPY |
| Julian Keil | Multisensory integration, perception, attention, sensory processing, neural oscillations, MEG, EEG |
| Anne Keitel | Speech processing, music processing, rhythm processing, neural oscillations, MEG/EEG, functional brain organization, neural tracking |
| Satoshi Kida | Behavioral/Cognitive, Systems/Circuits; learning and memory, memory consolidation, memory reconsolidation, memory extinction, memory retrieval, memory forgetting, fear memory, social memory, spatial memory, object memory, hippocampus, amygdala, mPFC, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), Cellular/Molecular; gene expression regulation, transcription, translation, posttranslational modification, protein degradation, signal transduction, neurogenesis, Neurobiology of Disease; PTSD, stress, anxiety, mouse model |
| Kumar Narayanan | prefrontal cortex, dopamine, basal ganglia, striatum, optogenetics, neuronal ensemble recordings, local field potentials, Parkinson’s disease, executive function, interval timing, temporal control of action, D1-type dopamine receptors, errors, cognitive control |
| Marius Peelen | cognitive neuroscience, high-level vision, attention, neuroimaging, concepts, scene perception, object perception, social cognition |
| David Pleasure | myelination, multiple sclerosis, oligodendroglia, Schwann cells, neuropathy, leukodystrophy |
| Lucas Pozzo-Miller | BDNF, dendritic spines, hippocampus, intracellular Ca2+ signaling |
| Jocelyn Richard | reward, motivation, addiction, alcohol use disorder, associative learning, behavioral neuroscience, systems neuroscience, striatopallidal circuits |
| Viji Santhakumar | interneurons, inhibition, hippocampus, dentate gyrus, electrophysiology, computational modeling, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, circuits, synapse, neuro-immune interactions, neurogenesis |
| Barry Setlow | learning, decision-making, addiction, drug self-administration, behavioral pharmacology |
| Wayne S. Sossin | protein translation, protein kinases, synaptic plasticity, memory, aplysia |
| Arielle Tambini | memory, hippocampus, memory consolidation, memory reactivation, replay, hippocampal interactions, TMS, TMS-fMRI, targeted memory reactivation, awake rest |
| Catherine Weisz | auditory, hair cell, synapse, spiral ganglion, olivocochlear, patch-clamp electrophysiology, cochlea, dendrite, GABA, glutamate, ribbon synapse |
| Malte Wöstmann | attention, psycho-acoustics, auditory cognition, electrophysiology (EEG, MEG), neural oscillations, human language and speech processing, hearing loss |
| Benedikt Zoefel | Neural Oscillations, Auditory Perception, Speech, Rhythm, Synchrony, Entrainment, Phase, Electroencephalography (EEG), Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS), Neurofeedback |