PhD Program Participating Faculty
The Graduate Program in Neuroscience pulls in faculty from a multitude of departments at Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Acosta-Martinez, Maricedes
(Physiology & Biophysics)
Neuroendocrine regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad (HPG) axis
Albeanu, Dinu Florin
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Anderson, Brenda J.
(Psychology)
Neuroanatomical and metabolic plasticity
Ballas, Nurit
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Regulation of gene expression by specific transcription factors during brain development
and the implications of their loss on brain function and manifestation of neurological
disorders
Biegon, Anat
(Radiology)
Brain function in health and disease, sex differences and cancer
Borniger, Jeremy C.
(Cold Spring Harbor)
Mechanistic interactions between the brain and cancer, systems neuroscience
Brinkman, Braden
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Neural coding and computation; collective dynamics in neural circuits; how circuit
architecture shapes function (and vice versa)
Cheadle, Lucas
(Cold Spring Harbor)
Microglial interactions with synapses in the brain, sensory-induced changes in microglia
Collins III, William F.
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Motoneuron physiology and plasticity
Colognato, Holly
(Pharmacology)
Extracellular matrix in the brain: roles during development and during neurodegeneration
(Cold Spring Harbor)
Data driven models of neural responses and behaviors by coupling data collection with
model training during closed loop experiments
DeLorenzo, Christine
(Psychiatry)
Biomarkers of Major Depressive Disorder, Antidepressant Treatment Response, Prediction,
Multimodal Brain Imaging, PET Radioligands
Dill, Kenneth
(Chemistry & Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology)
Properties of Proteins
Djuric, Petar
(Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Signal analysis, modeling, and processing
Dubnau, Josh
(Neurobiology and Behavior, Anesthesiology)
Genetic dissection of memory in Drosophila
Enikolopov, Grigori
(Anesthesiology)
Neurogenesis, stem cells, signal transduction
Fontanini, Alfredo
(Neurobiology and Behavior)
Neurophysiology of gustatory system and motivation in behaving rodents
Frohman, Michael
(Pharmacology)
Regulation of exocytosis and cell shape by signaling proteins
Ge, Shaoyu
(Neurobiology and Behavior)
Molecular mechanisms and function of new neurons in the brain
Hou, Helen
(Cold Spring Harbor)
Neural mechanisms underlying the dynamic control of facial expression using rodents
as a model
Hu, Chi-Kuo
(Biochemistry)
Dormancy, diapause in African Killifish
Kernan, Maurice
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Mechanosensory transduction in Drosophila; ciliogenesis; polycystins in sperm storage and competition
Kritzer, Mary
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Sex differences in cortical microcircuitry
La Camera, Giancarlo
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Theoretical neuroscience; plasticity, learning and behavior
Laughlin, Scott
(Chemistry)
Chemical strategies for deciphering neural circuitry
Li, Bo
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Understanding the synaptic mechanisms underlying adaptive and maladaptive behaviors
Maffei, Arianna
(Neurobiology and Behavior)
Experience-dependent rewiring of cortical circuits
McKinnon, David
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Molecular control of neuron firing properties
Mofakham, Sima
(Neurosurgery)
Computational Neuroscience, sTBI, novel facial recognition software to identify mood
Mujica-Parodi, Lilianne
(Biomedical Engineering)
Functional neuroimaging (fMRI, near-infrared spectroscopy, EEG) and computational
neurobiology of human limbic regulation
Parsey, Ramin
(Psychiatry)
Depression, Dementia and brain imaging technologies such as Positron Emission Tomography
Plotkin, Joshua
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Functional microcircuitry of the basal ganglia in normal and disease states
Puopolo, Michelino
(Anesthesiology)
Cellular neurophysiology of nociceptor (pain-sensing) neurons
Riessland, Markus
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Neurodegenerative diseases
Shea, Stephen
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Neuroethology of natural olfactory and auditory communication behavior in mice
Shelly, Maya
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Molecular mechanisms of embryonic brain development; Axon regeneration; Neurodegenerative
disorders
Sher, Roger
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Neurodegeneration
Shrestha, Prerana
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Dynamics of protein synthesis regulation in memory systems
Sirotkin, Howard
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Molecular genetics of vertebrate neural patterning
Smaers, Jeroen
(Anthropology)
Macroevolutionary study of the brain
Solomon, Irene C.
(Physiology & Biophysics)
Neural control of respiratory and cardiovascular function
Tang, Shao-Jun
(Anesthesiology)
Molecular, cellular, and circuitry mechanisms in pain pathogenesis
Tollkuhn, Jessica
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Sex differences in the brain and behavior
Tsirka, Styliani-Anna (Stella) E.
(Pharmacology)
Neuronal-microglial interactions in the physiology and pathology of the central nervous
system
Van Aelst, Linda
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Signal Transduction; Ras and Rho proteins; tumorigenesis; neuronal development and
disorders
Van Snellenberg, Jared
(Psychiatry)
Neural underpinnings of psychotic and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia and related
disorders
Wang, Siwei
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Computational neuroscience
Wollmuth, Lonnie
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission
Xiong, Qiaojie
(Neurobiology & Behavior)
Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
Zador, Anthony
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
How does the cortex solve the cocktail party problem?
Zhu, Donghui 'Don'
(Biomedical Engineering)
Aging and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's