# Neurosciences

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#### Neurosciences Graduate Program

Brenda Bloodgood, PhD,*Director, Biology*

Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, *Associate Director, Adjunct/Biology*

Victoria Risbrough, PhD, *Associate Director*, *Psychiatry*

#### Professors

Henry Abarbanel, PhD, *Physics*

Susan Ackerman, PhD, *Cellular and Molecular Medicine*

Thomas Albright, PhD, *Adjunct/Psychology and Neurosciences*

Adam Aron, PhD*, Psychology*

Maksim Bazhenov, PhD, *Medicine*

Darwin K. Berg, PhD, *Biology-Neurobiology Section*

Mark W. Bondi, PhD, *Psychiatry*

James B. Brewer, MD, PhD, *Radiology and Neurosciences*

Joan Heller Brown, PhD, *Pharmacology*

Richard Buxton, PhD, *Radiology*

Nigel Calcutt, PhD, *Pathology*

Edward M. Callaway, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences and Biology*

Wendy Campana, PhD, *Anesthesiology*

Gert Cauwenberghs, PhD, *Bioengineering*

Andrea Chiba, PhD, *Cognitive Science*

Andrew Chisolm, PhD, *Biology*

Jerold Chun, MD, PhD, *Adjunct/Pharmacology*

Don Cleveland, PhD, *Medicine/Neurosciences*

Hollis Cline, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences*

Eric Courchesne, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Anders M. Dale, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Antonio De Maio, PhD, *Surgery*

Karen Dobkins, PhD, *Psychology*

Mark H. Ellisman, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Lawrence Frank, PhD, *Radiology*

Fred H. Gage, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences and Biology*

Douglas R. Galasko, MD, *In Residence/Neurosciences*

Timothy Gentner, PhD, *Program Director, Psychology and Biology*

Mark A. Geyer, PhD, *In Residence/Psychiatry and Adjunct/Neurosciences*

Joseph G. Gleeson, MD, *Neurosciences*

Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, PhD, *Cellular and Molecular Medicine*

Ralph Greenspan, PhD, *Biology*

Eric Halgren, PhD, *Radiology*

Shelley Halpain, PhD, *Biology*

Bruce A. Hamilton, PhD, *Medicine*

Vivian Y. H. Hook, PhD, *Pharmacology*

Terry L. Jernigan, PhD, *Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology*

Yishi Jin, PhD, *Biology*

Michael W. Kalichman, PhD, *Adjunct/Pathology*

Alexander Sasha Kauffman, PhD, *Reproductive Medicine*

David Kleinfeld, PhD, *Physics*

Edward Koo, MD, *Neurosciences*

Marta Kutas, PhD, *Cognitive Science and Adjunct/Neurosciences*

Albert La Spada, MD, PhD, *Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine*

Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Jill Leutgeb, PhD, *Biology*

Stefan Leutgeb, PhD, *Biology*

Stuart Lipton, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

John Liu, PhD, *Adjunct/Ophthalmology*

Loren Looger, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Eduardo Macagno, PhD, *Biology*

Eliezer Masliah, MD, *Neurosciences and Pathology*

Mark Mayford, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Pamela Mellon, PhD, *Neurosciences and Reproductive Medicine*

William C. Mobley, MD, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Alysson Muotri, PhD, *Pediatrics, Cellular and Molecular Medicine*

Abraham Palmer, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Gentry N. Patrick, PhD, *Biological Sciences*

Martin Paulus, MD, *In Residence/Psychiatry*

Samuel Pfaff, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurobiology*

Barbara Ranscht, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences*

John Ravits, MD, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Jong Rho, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Victoria Risbrough, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Marisa Roberto, PhD, *Adjunct*/*Neurosciences*

Allen F. Ryan, PhD, *Surgery and Adjunct/Neurosciences*

David P. Salmon, PhD, *In Residence/Neurosciences*

Nicholas Schork, PhD, *Adjunct/Psychiatry*

Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD, *Biology and Adjunct/Neurosciences, Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Engineering, and Physics*

Katerina Semendeferi, PhD, *Anthropology*

John Serences, PhD, *Psychology*

Tatyana Sharpee, PhD, *Adjunct/Physics*

Gabriel A. Silva, PhD, *Bioengineering*

Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, *Biology*

Larry R. Squire, PhD, *Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurosciences*

Scott Sternson, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Lisa Stowers, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences*

Neal Swerdlow, MD, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Michael A. Taffe, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Palmer W. Taylor, PhD, *Pharmacology*

Doris A. Trauner, MD, *Neurosciences and Pediatrics*

Kay Tye, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Jing Wang, PhD, *Biological Sciences*

Miles Wilkinson, PhD, *Reproductive Medicine*

Gene Yeo, PhD, *Cellular and Molecular Medicine*

Binhai Zheng, PhD, *Neuroscience*s

Yimin Zou, PhD, *Biology*

#### Associate Professors

Nicola Allen, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Stephan Anagnostaras, PhD, *Psychology*

Brenda Bloodgood, PhD, *Program Director,* *Biology*

Jack Bui, MD, PhD, *Pathology*

Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Todd Coleman, PhD, *Bioengineering*

Virginia de Sa, PhD, *Cognitive Science*

Stephanie Dulawa, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Pascal Gagneux, PhD, *Cellular and Molecular Medicine*

Oliver George, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Hector M. Gonzalez, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Donna Gruol, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences*

Xin Jin, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

William Joiner, PhD, *Pharmacology*

Takaki Komiyama, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Byungkook Lim, *PhD, Biology*

Chitra Mandyam, PhD, *Adjunct/Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science*s

Michael McCarthy, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Cory Miller, PhD, *Psychology*

Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Douglas Nitz, PhD, *Cognitive Science*

Pam Reinagel, PhD, *Biology*

John Reynolds, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences*

Robert Rissman, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Ayse Saygin, PhD, *Cognitive Science*

Bradley Voytek, PhD, *Cognitive Science*

David Welsh, MD, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Jared Young, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Angela Yu PhD, *Cognitive Science*

Eric Zorrilla, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences*

#### Assistant Professors

Mikio Aio, PhD, *Halıcıoğlu Data Sciences Institute*

Johnatan Aljadeff, PhD, *Biology*

Kenta Asahina, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, PhD, *Psychology*

Matthew Banghart, PhD, *Biology*

Marcus Benna, PhD, *Biology*

Divya Bolar, PhD, *Radiology*

Timothy Brown, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Nicole Coufal, PhD, *Pediatrics*

Richard Daneman, PhD, *Pharmacology*

Pamela Desplats, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Judith Fan, PhD, *Psychology*

Vikash Gilja, PhD, *Electrical and Computer Engineering*

Stacy Glasgow, PhD, *Biology*

Christina Gremel, PhD, *Psychology*

Sung Han, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Thomas Hnasko, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Anastasia Kiyonaga, PhD, *Cognitive Science*

Kobi Koffler, PhD, MBA, *Neurosciences*

Giordano Lippi, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Matthew Lovett-Barron, PhD, *Biology*

Marcelo G. Mattar, PhD, *Cognitive Science*

Alejandro Meruelo, PhD, *Adjunct/Psychiatry*

Gal Mishne, PhD, *Halıcıoğlu Data Sciences Institute*

Jyoti Mishra, MD, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Eran Mukamel, PhD, *Cognitive Sciences*

Nicholas Oesch, PhD, *Psychology*

Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD, *Biology*

Lara Rangel, PhD, *Cognitive Sciences*

Cory Root, PhD, *Biology*

Nathan Shaner, PhD, *Neurosciences*

Matthew Shtrahman, PhD, *Adjunct/Neurosciences*

Christine Smith, PhD, *Psychiatry*

Viola Stoermer, PhD, *Psychology*

Chi-Ying Su, PhD, *Biology*

Francesca Telese, PhD, *Medicine*

Li Ye, PhD, *Adjunct/Biology*

Amir Zarrinpar, MD, PhD, *Medicine*

Fadel Zeidan, PhD, *Neurosciences*