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Brandon Bader
Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

Developmental neurobiology

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Revathi Balasubramanian
Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

Role of transcription factors in retinal neurogenesis

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Shiona Biswas
Ph.D.in Neuroscience

Transcription factors involved in embryonic and early postnatal development of the CNS

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Matthew Cavanaugh
    TBD

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    Adrianne Chesser
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    Mitochondrial function as a function of impaired fission and fusion in Parkinson's disease

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    Christina Cloninger
    Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

    Sensory Integration of Visual and Auditory Motion

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    Lauren Cummings
    TBD

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    Anasuya Das
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    Perceptual Learning of Visual Motion in Cortical Blindness

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    Ryan Dawes
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    Effect of psychological stress on breast cancer growth and progression

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    Danielle deCampo
    Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

    Functional plasticity in neuronal circuits, effects of stress on neuronal circuits involved in mood disorders

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    Kelli Fagan
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    Sex differences in the nervous system

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    Berkeley Fahrenthold
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    The prefrontal-basal ganglia circuit and its role in psychiatric disorders

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    Julianne Feola
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    Neurodegeneration and Mechanisms of Protection in Stroke and Hypoxic Signaling

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    Kimberly Anjali Fernandes
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    Plasticity in the adult brain

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    Simantini Ghosh
    Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

    Neuroinflammation under neurodegenerative conditions. More specifically, studying the effects of sustained Interleukin 1 beta overexpression on Alzheimer's disease pathology in transgenic mice

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    Colin Lockwood
    Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

    Systems neuroscience

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    Rebecca Lowery
    Ph.D.in Neuroscience

    The role of microglia in synaptic plasticity

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    Evan McConnell
    Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

    Neuroglial signaling specifically how neurons talk to astrocytes and vice versa.

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    Heather Natola
      TBD

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      John O'Donnell
      Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

      Astrocytic Responses to Neuromodulators

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      Adam Pallus
      Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

      Neural control of movement and orienting behaviors

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      Susanne Meredith Pritchard
      Ph.D.in Neuroscience

      The effect of different pathological forms of tau protein on mitochondrial morphology

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      Imran Punekar
      • Mink Lab
      Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

      Movement disorders, specifically in Deep Brain Stimulation recipients suffering from Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases.

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      Rebecca Rausch
        TBD

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        Fatima Rivera-Escalera
        Ph.D.in Neuroscience

        Interactions between the nervous and immune systems; neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease.

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        Michele Lavinia-Ann Saul
        Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

        Juvenile stress and the development of the amygdala.

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        Grayson Sipe
        Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

        Roles of Microglia During Synaptic Plasticity

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        Brianna Sleezer
        TBD

        Neural correlates of maladaptive decision-making in addiction

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        Nathan Anthony Smith
        Ph.D.in Neuroscience

        Astrocytes role in synaptic transmission and blood flow

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        Irina Statnikova
        • Mink Lab
        Ph.D.in Neuroscience

        Basal ganglia circuitry and function

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        Aleta Steevens
          TBD

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          Jennifer Stripay
          TBD

          Identifying novel therapeutic targets in glioblastoma

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          Wei Sun
          Ph.D.in Neuroscience

          Astrocytes in neurodegenerative disease

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          Xiaowei Wang
          Ph.D.in Neuroscience

          Traumatic brain injury and repair

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          Helen Shinru Wei
          Ph.D.in Neurobiology & Anatomy

          Astrocytic control of cerebral microcirculation

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          Laura Yunes-Medina
          TBD