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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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Development of HSV amplicon-based gene therapy for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases |
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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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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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Molecular mechanisms of prion propagation and pathogenesis |
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Identify the expression patterns of the major categories of stem and progenitor cells of the adult human brain and to use that information to define the signaling pathways that distinguish one progenitor from another, as well as those that distinguish brain tumor stem and progenitor cells from their normal counterparts. |
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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 |
Kammermeier Lab |
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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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Stem Cells in the mammalian CNS / Gestational insults and embryonic CNS development / Astrocyte dysfunction |
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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 |
Moynihan Lab |
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The basic biology of glial cells in the CNS and the role of astrocytes in several neurological diseases, including stroke, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, tremor, and ALS. Research is aimed at defining new strategies for the treatment of neurological diseases that target astrocytic dysfunction. |
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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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Neural Diseases and Neoplasia |
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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 Circuitry Underlying Memory-Guided Sensory Decisions |
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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 |
Tank Lab |
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Neurogenetic disorders |
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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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