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Faculty
Mentor eligible Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP) faculty are tenured or tenure-track members of the University of Rochester Faculty. Each has strong research interests in the neurosciences, and makes important contributions to the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.
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Perceptual development in infants |
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Neurocognitive and communication deficits in autism and other developmental disabilities |
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Pharmacology of brain and lymphocytic opioid receptors |
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Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy, novel in vivo imaging and measurement techniques, tumor biology, angiogenesis |
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Auditory Neuroscience; neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids. |
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Understanding the contribution of environmental chemical exposures to human diseases and disorders of the nervous system. |
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The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception. |
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Auditory neurophysiology, neural circuitry and information processing, and computational neuroscience. |
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Visual neuroscience; multi-sensory integration; neural coding; linking neurons to perception |
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Neuropathogenesis of AIDS |
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Molecular mechanisms of neuropeptide signal transduction |
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Calcium channel structure and function |
Dirksen Lab |
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Functioning of cerebral neocortex, using neurophysiologic and psychophysical methods to examine mechanisms of spatial orientation |
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Neural control of coordinated movements |
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Molecular biology of programmed cell death |
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Anatomy and neurochemistry of brain regions associated with symptoms in major psychiatric illnesses |
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Development and degenerative diseases of sensory neurons, gene regulation |
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Molecular mechanisms and potential pharmacological and gene therapeutic interventions for neurologic disease associated with HIV-1 infection of the central nervous system. |
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Stem Cell Research |
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Basal ganglia and degenerative diseases |
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To define the transcriptional programs driving selective vulnerability and delayed neuron loss after stroke |
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Reward and Decision Making |
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Synaptic pharmaco-physiology of vestibular efferent-afferent interactions |
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Nervous system injury and regeneration using tissue engineering techniques; traumatic brain injury |
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Neural mechanisms of visual recovery in the adult; advanced physiological optics in the awake-behaving cat |
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Mitochondrial dysfunction and the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration |
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G protein coupled receptor signaling and modulation of ion channels in neurons |
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Molecular development of the inner ear; regeneration; congenital deafness and vestibular dysfunction |
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Perception of 3D surface structure and depth; Bayesian models of visual perception |
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Neurobiology of glaucoma; specifically the death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the output neurons of the retina. |
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Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss, at both the molecular and systems levels |
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Role of NF-Kappa B in neuronal survival and function |
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Imaging synaptic structure and function in the visual system. |
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Biological and molecular mechanisms governing precursor cell division, differentiation, and survival in the brain |
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Organization of visual cortex in humans and non-human primates |
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Physiology of movement, function of the basal ganglia, pathophysiology of movement disorders, and development of motor control |
Mink Lab |
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Psychoneuroimmunology |
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Neurosurgery |
Nedergaard Lab |
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Integrative Physiology |
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Vestibular anatomy and physiology, recovery from vestibular injury, vestibular control of head unrestrained gaze. |
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Acquisition of language; and the relationship between language acquisition and language structure |
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Stem cell medicine |
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Hormonal control of neural and behavioral development |
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Neurobiology of learning and memory |
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Normal and pathological roles of cyclooxygenase in glia and neurons; Alzheimer's Disease |
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Neural-immune interactions |
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Processing of complex acoustic signals in the central auditory system; echolocation; aging effects on central auditory system |
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Toxicant exposure and brain development |
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Visual, vestibular, and adaptive control of spatial orientation and balance |
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Cortical mechanisms of visual perception and memory |
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Genetics and genomics of nervous system development in the Nematode C. elegans |
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Organization and functions of the primate prefrontal cortex |
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Neural Control of Individuated Finger Movements |
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Targeted therapy for neural crest tumors; neurodegenerative disease. |
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Vestibular systems, motor learning, physiological models, multi-sensory integration |
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Neuron-neuroglia interactions |
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Neural mechanisms of visual perception in normal and special populations |
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Regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression in the nervous system |
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Neurogenetic disorders |
Thornton Lab |
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Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection |
Tieu Lab |
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Sensory regeneration of the inner ear, or hair-cell regeneration |
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Vision science, advanced ophthalmic technologies |
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