Emeritus Faculty
Michael Beecher | Auditory communication in birds.
Eliot Brenowitz | Neural basis of biologically relevant behavior in animals and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of plasticity in adult brains.
Steven Buck | Focuses on human color vision and linking perceptual visual experience and the underlying neural/genetic substrate.
Howard Chizeck | Biorobotics, telerobotics and neural engineering.
Mark Cooper | Gastrulation and neurulation in zebrafish embryos; cell motility.
Raimondo D’Ambrosio | Pathophysiology of glial cells and basic mechanisms of epilepsy. Specific current interest include glial extracellular ion homeostasis in traumatic brain injury, stroke and posttraumatic epilepsy; membrane potassium channels; edema.
Thomas Daniel | Sensorimotor control of animal movement.
Jaime Diaz | Impact of brain development on human behavior.
Peter Detwiler | Signal transduction in retinal photoreceptors.
Eberhard Fetz | Properties of cortical and spinal neurons controlling limb movement in primates; dynamic neural network modeling; implanted recurrent brain-computer interfaces.
Stanley Froehner | Molecular basis of synapse formation and function.
Bertil Hille | Modulation of ion channels by G protein coupled receptors and membrane phosphoinositide lipids.
William Moody | The role of spontaneous activity in cortical development, with some emphasis on the basic mechanisms underlying pediatric epilepsy.
Neil M. Nathanson | Regulation of expression and function of muscarinic and neurokine receptors.
Lee Osterhout | Psychological and neural underpinnings of human language; psychophysiological studies of human language and memory.
Farrel R. Robinson | Cerebellar control of movements using monkey eye movements as a model.
Edwin Rubel | Development and habilitation of the inner ear and CNS auditory pathways.
Robert Steiner | Reproductive neuroendocrinology.
Daniel Storm | Molecular and cellular basis of long-term memory and memory persistence using an interdisciplinary approach.
Gregory W. Terman | Neurophysiology and pharmacology of synaptic plasticity in pain transmission pathways of the central nervous system as a model for the pathogenesis of chronic pain.