studies how social experiences and internal states shape behavior
All in Assistant Professor
Dr. Jennifer Resnik
studies the neuroscience of auditory processing and perception in health and disease
Dr. Victoria Abraira
studies how the brain and spinal cord control our sense of touch
Dr. Abhilasha Joshi
studies the neuroscience of action, cognition, and timing
Dr. Barbara Juarez
studies the neurological basis of substance-use disorders
Dr. Brielle Ferguson
studies the circuit mechanisms of attention dysfunction
Dr. Annie Ciernia
studies the epigenome in brain development
Dr. Lillian Brady
studies sex differences and hormonal regulation of neural circuit activity underlying environmental context-reward associations in substance use disorders
Dr. Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
studies the neural underpinnings of the sense of self-motion and orientation in space.
Dr. Jessica Osterhout
studies neuro-immune interactions and the neural circuits underlying sickness symptoms.
Dr. Isabella Wagner
studies how the human brain allows us to flexibly adapt to new experiences, learn new information and form long-lasting memories
Dr. Autumn Ivy
studies how early-life exercise can influence the development of cognitive functions
Dr. Farzaneh Najafi
studies cortical and cerebellar mechanisms underlying predictive processing using electrophysiological and optical methods in awake behaving mice.
Dr. Liberty Hamilton
studies how speech sounds are represented in the brain using intracranial recordings from epilepsy patients and scalp EEG.
Dr. Tingting Wang
studies how glial cells regulate homeostatic plasticity, and uses transcriptomic and electrophysiological techniques to study how their functions change in disease states.
Dr. Helen Schwerdt
develops and applies new tools to study neurochemical signaling in learning and disease.
Dr. Marta Garrido
studies how the brain makes predictions and adapts to novel or uncertain environments, and how these mechanism are altered by mental illness
Dr. Malavika Murugan
studies social recognition and social decision making, and how social and non-social rewards are differentially encoded in the brain.
Dr. Ilary Allodi
studies the inhibitory/excitatory changes of the neuronal circuits involved in the pathophysiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia
Dr. Cláudia Almeida
Dr. Cláudia Almeida studies how neuronal trafficking dysfunction underlies synapse loss during aging and Alzheimer's disease.