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Research Education Opportunities

Accepted students will chose which University of Rochester lab they will work in for the 10 weeks. Along with an assigned graduate student or post-doc acting as a ‘bench mentor,’ each student will have two faculty mentors for the duration of the program - the lab’s principal investigator and a faculty member from CCNY. These mentors will coordinate programming, evaluation, and support for each student during their time in the program.

Farran Briggs
Farran Briggs, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Dept. Neuroscience
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Sciences A&S

Research Interest: Focus on understanding how specific neuronal circuits in the early visual system encode visual information and how attention impacts the encoding of visual information.
Laurel Carney
Laurel Carney, Ph.D.

Marylou Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience

Research Interest: Auditory Neuroscience; neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids.
Greg DeAngelis
Greg DeAngelis, Ph.D.

George Eastman Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience

Research Interest: Visual neuroscience; multi-sensory integration; neural coding; linking neurons to perception.
David Dodell-Feder, Ph.D.
David Dodell-Feder, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience

Research Interest: How we process social information, make meaningful social connections, and how these processes vary across the full spectrum of health and psychiatric illness with a particular focus on schizophrenia-spectrum disorders using behavioral and neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI) methods.
Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, Ph.D.
Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Research Interest: Understanding the neural mechanisms that mediate sensation and action with our hands.
John Foxe
John Foxe, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience
Professor, Center for Visual Science A&S

Research Interest: Basic neurophysiology of schizophrenia and autism.
Julie Fudge
Julie Fudge, Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Research Interest: Anatomy and neurochemistry of brain regions associated with symptoms in major psychiatric illnesses.
Brian Keane
Brian Keane, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Center for Visual Science A&S

Research Interest: How the visual system transforms spatiotemporally fragmented retinal images into discrete representations of objects and how this transformation becomes compromised during serious mental illness.
Ed Lalor
Ed Lalor, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience

Research Interest: The electrophysiology of human sensation, perception and cognition, especially in naturalistic environments.
Ania Majewska
Ania Majewska, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Research Interest: Glia-neuron interactions during synaptic plasticity in health and disease.
Julian Meeks
Julian Meeks, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Pediatrics

Research Interest: Investigation of the molecules, receptors, and neural circuits that influence social interactions, including the actions of mammalian pheromones.
Kerry O'Banion
Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Research Interest: Defining neuro-inflammatory processes that contribute to pathology and disease progression in Alzheimer's disease, as well as late CNS effects following radiation exposure.
John Olschowka
John Olschowka, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Research Interest: Mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration within the CNS, primarily Glial Cells and Vascular components of the brain.
Krishnan Padmanabhan
Krishnan Padmanabhan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Center for Visual Science

Research Interest: Experimental and Computational Approaches to Sensory Perception.
Doug Portman
Doug Portman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Genetics, Neuroscience, and Biology

Research Interest: Neural circuit development and function; Genetic control of behavior; Sex differences in neurobiology.
Adam Snyder
Adam Snyder, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience

Research Interest: Activity in groups of neurons is dynamically coordinated to control information processing for goal-directed action.
Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Ph.D.
Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Research Interest: Use virtual reality (VR), multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and machine learning to elucidate the psychological and neural signatures of psychopathologies.
Duje Tadin, Ph.D.
Duje Tadin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; Assoc. Prof., Departments of Neuroscience and Center for Visual Science

Research Interest: Understanding neural mechanisms of human visual perception using psychophysics, brain stimulation and computational modeling. Current work includes the study of vision in stroke, low-vision, TBI, autism, cognitive aging and schizophrenia.
Kuan Wang
Kuan Wang, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Research Interest: Neural circuit mechanisms underlying cognitive control of sensorimotor functions.