Faculty & Research
The Department of Neuroscience is very research intense and is involved in numerous topics of interest. Students can identify potential research mentors before enrollment. The faculty who participate in the MS in Integrative Neuroscience graduate program are listed below. You may find more information about any faculty member and their research by clicking on their name.
Faculty & Research
| Name | Research | Title |
| Mark Burns, PhD | Traumatic brain injury and dementia | Professor & Vice-Chair Department of Neuroscience
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| Lee Campbell, PhD | CRISPR/Cas9, microglia, drugs of abuse | Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience
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| Katherine Conant, MD | The role of proteolysis in synaptic structure and function | Professor Department of Neuroscience
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| Rebekah Evans, PhD | Neural dynamics and functional connectivity in brain structures that degenerate in Parkinson’s disease | Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience
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| Xiong Jiang, PhD | Functional imaging of neurological disorders | Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience |
| Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, PhD | Neuroinflammation, Parkinson’s disease and HAND | Professor & Chair Department of Neuroscience; Director of Graduate Studies |
| Bevan Main, PhD | Traumatic brain injury and neuroinflammation | Assistant Professor Medical Educator Department of Neuroscience; Co-director of Graduate Studies |
| Italo Mocchetti, PhD | Neuroscience of neurotrophic factors | Professor Department of Neuroscience |
| Joan Orpella, PhD | Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience | |
| Josef Rauschecker, PhD/DSc | Cortical plasticity and neuronal networks in sensory systems | Professor Department of Neuroscience |
| Bill Rebeck, PhD | APOE and Alzheimer’s disease | Professor Department of Neuroscience |
| Max Riesenhuber, PhD | Computational cognitive neuroscience, object recognition across sensory modalities, neural bases of reading and speech processing, multitasking, neuromorphic learning, augmented cognition | Professor Department of Neuroscience |
| Ella Striem-Amit, PhD | Sensory and motor deprivation using behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques | Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience
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| Michael Ullman, PhD | Cognitive neuroscience of language and memory | Professor Department of Neuroscience |
| Jian-Young Wu, PhD | Cortical population activity and dynamics | Professor Department of Neuroscience |
Faculty of the Department of Neuroscience participate in the teaching of courses in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience and the School of Medicine.