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Don Anderson
Research Scientist, NRI
Director of the
Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration
Study of basic cellular and molecular processes that cause the blinding
human disease known as age-related macular degeneration.
Osnat M. Ben-Shahar
Researcher, Psychology
Dr. Ben-Shahar is interested in neuroadaptations that result from, and mediate, drug abuse. For this purpose, she uses a model for drug addiction in which some rats show compulsive drug-taking behavior reminiscent of the pattern seen in drug addicts and some show the stable controlled pattern of drug taking behavior reminiscent of the recreational use in human drug-users. Dr. Ben-Shahar investigates the neuronal changes that are associated with these different patterns of drug-taking behavior using immunohistochemistry and receptor autoradiography. In order to find what are the general motivational changes that are associated with drug use and addiction, these rats are also tested on various behavioral tests that explore motivational change. Dr. Ben-Shahar also uses the methods of western immunoblotting and micro-PET imaging.
Dennis O. Clegg
Professor, MCDB
Molecular control of neuronal development; extracellular matrix
factors and growth factors that influence cell fate, cell differentiation,
gene regulation, axonal pathfinding, and synapse formation.
Stuart
C. Feinstein
Professor, MCDB
Co-Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute
Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Neuronal Development; Biochemistry
of Neurodegenerative Diseases; Structure, Function and Regulation
of the Microtubule Associated Protein, Tau; Cytoskeletal Regulation.
Feinstein Lab Website
Steven K. Fisher
Professor, MCDB
Ultrastructure; cell biology of vertebrate retina, retinal degeneration
and regeneration.
Retinal Cell Biology Lab website
Michael Gazzaniga
Professor, Psychology
Claudia Gottstein
Adjunct Assistant Professor, MCDB
Research Scientist, NRI
Director, Biological Nanostructures Laboratory, CNSI
Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Initiation; Translational Cancer Research, Angiogenesis and Nanomedicine.
Biological Nanostructures Lab website
Scott Grafton
Professor, Psychology
Don Graves
Research Scientist
Roger Ingham
Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Gerald H. Jacobs
Professor, Psychology
The biology of mammalian vision.
Skirmantas Janusonis
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Neurobiology of autism and brain development.
Lincoln V. Johnson
Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, NRI
Associate Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute
Associate Director of the Center
for the Study of Macular Degeneration
Study of basic cellular and molecular processes that cause the blinding
human disease known as age-related macular degeneration.
Mary
Ann Jordan
Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, MCDB
The function and regulation of microtubule polymerization and dynamics
by anti-cancer drugs and endogenous cellular regulators, both in
living cells and in vitro.
Tod
Kippin
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Study of the functional consequences of and mechanisms that govern
neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain.
Ken
Kosik
Professor, MCDB
Co-Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute
John Lew
Associate Professor, MCDB
Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction and cell cycle controlproteins.
Geoff
Lewis
Research Scientist, NRI
The cellular and molecular effects of retinal detachment and reattachment
Retinal Cell Biology Lab website
Dzwokai
"Zach" Ma
Assistant Professor, MCDB
The regulatory mechanisms of receptor/channel trafficking and the
physiological consequences of such regulation in the nervous system.
Stanley Parsons
Professor, Chemistry
Structure and function of the cholinergic synaptic vesicle.
Monte
Radeke
Associate Project Scientist, NRI
Benjamin Reese
Professor, Psychology
Development and organization of the visual system; developmental
neurobiology and neuroplasticity
Reese Lab Website
Joel Rothman
Professor. MCDB
Molecular and genetic control of development in the nematode C.
elegans; regulation of programmed cell death; mechanisms of
tumorigenesis.
Charles
E. Samuel
C.A. Storke Professor
Molecular biology of animal virus-cell interactions; antiviral mechanisms
of interferon action; translational control of gene expression in
mammalian cells; RNA editing.
William C. Smith
Associate Professor, MCDB
Vertebrate developmental biology; growth factors and axis specification
in Xenopus.
Megan T. Valentine
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Our experiments employ state-of-the-art nanoscale manipulation and measurement techniques to probe diverse biological materials on length scales from that of single proteins (a few nanometers) to that of entire cells (~ 100 microns or more). This highly interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of engineering, physics, biology and chemistry.
Megan T. Valentine
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Our experiments employ state-of-the-art nanoscale manipulation and measurement techniques to probe diverse biological materials on length scales from that of single proteins (a few nanometers) to that of entire cells (~ 100 microns or more). This highly interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of engineering, physics, biology and chemistry.
Carol A. Vandenberg
Associate Professor, MCDB
Biophysics and biochemistry of ion channels in nerve and cardiac
muscle membranes; molecular mechanisms of channel gating, ion permeation
and signal transduction; neurophysiology.
Thomas
Weimbs
Associate Professor, MCDB
Molecular mechanisms involved in membrane protein trafficking in
polarized epithelial cells.
Leslie Wilson
Professor, MCDB
Biochemistry of cytoskeletal proteins; microtubule polymerization
and dynamics; regulation of microtubule dynamics by anticancer drugs
and neuronal microtubule-associated proteins.
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