ABOUT THIS KIND OF RESEARCH

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FACULTY INVOLVED
 

• Carlos Aizenman
  Research: Studying the role of experience in the development of neural circuits, by focusing on the development of the tadpole visual system.
  
  Graduate program: Neuroscience
  
  
• Elaine Bearer
  Research: Molecular mechanisms of acting dynamics in growth cones and in axoplasmic transport.
  
  Graduate programs: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry; Pathobiology; Neuroscience; Physiology
   
• David Berson
  Research: Structure and function of retinal output channels.
  
  Graduate programs: Neuroscience; Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
   
• Barry Connors
  Research: Understand the neocortex by studying its individual neurons, synapses, and transmitters and their collective behavior.
  
  Graduate programs: Neuroscience; Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology
   
• John Donoghue
  Research: Motor skill learning.
  
  Graduate program: Neuroscience
  
  
• Anna Dunaevsky
  Research: Molecular and celluar mechanisms of synapse formation.
  
  Graduate program: Neuroscience

• Justin Fallon
  Research: Synapse formation and plasticity. Mechanisms of muscular dystrophy and Fragile X mental retardation.
  
  Graduate programs: Neuroscience; Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
   
• Edward Hawrot
  Research: Structure-function analysis of neurotransmitter receptors and neurotoxins.
  
  Graduate programs: Neuroscience; Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry; Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
   
• Conrad Johanson
  Research: The area of cerebrospinal fluid neurochemistry and the transport of substances from blood to brain (blood-brain barrier) in development and in disease states.
  
  Graduate programs: Physiology; Neurobiology and Artificial organs-biomaterials; Pharmacology and Anesthesiology
   
• Julie Kauer
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• Diane Lipscombe
  Research: Molecular and cellular studies of neuronal calcium channels.
  
  Graduate programs: Neuroscience; Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry; Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
   
• Arto Nurmikko
  Research: Development of neural recording and dynamical imaging techniques using advanced micro- and optoelectronics component technologies. Development and implementation of approaches to brain-machine interfaces for bidirectional communication.
  
  Graduate programs: Electrical Engineering, Physics
   
• Anita Zimmerman
  Research: Structure and function of ion channels; photoreceptors.
  
  Graduate programs: Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology; Neuroscience