Credit: Matthieu Louis

Neuroscience, like essentially all other sub-disciplines in the life sciences, has become more and more dependent upon new, creative and cutting edge high resolution, high sensitivity technologies. NRI investigators are actively developing new technologies that push the frontiers forward, from imaging individual molecules at one extreme to examining neural activity in the whole brain at the other extreme, building genetic reagents and developing computational analysis techniques to analyze neural networks and brain function.

Researchers

Assistant Professor
The goal of our lab is to develop novel single-cell sequencing technologies to understand how variability in the epigenome regulates gene expression heterogeneity and cell fate decisions.
Professor
The Han lab uses advanced electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy tools to pursue the study of biomolecular structure, molecular interactions, dynamics and functional processes with atomic and molecular-level insight.
Professor
The goal of our lab is to build useful gadgets. Current projects include multi-electrode probes for neuron cell cultures and multi-sensor biofeedback devices to help people overcome chronic pain.
Co-Director NRI
Harriman Professor of Neuroscience
Neural plasticity including the molecular basis of plasticity, the evolution of synapses, and disease-related impairments of plasticity such as occurs in Alzheimer's disease.
Associate Professor
Combining theory and experimentation to understand how navigational decisions come about in terms of neural-circuit computation.
Professor
Computer vision, machine learning, microscopy image analysis, image segmentation, classification, tracking.
Assistant Professor
Genetically encoded biomolecular sensors for probing neural activity and cell function noninvasively in living animals using  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Associate Professor
Systems neuroscience, neuroethology, and genetics, applied to dissecting the neural circuits that control a flexible motor sequence of grooming in fruit flies.
Co-Director, UCSB Brain Initiative
Associate Professor
Neuroengineering multiphoton imaging systems. Studying how neurons and their networks compute. Mouse visual system, behavior, large scale networks with subcellular resolution.
Assistant Professor
Studies how the brain represents information in support of goal-directed behavior using computational neuroimaging.
Professor
Prof. Valentine’s research focuses on the mechanics of cells and tissues and the design of bio-inspired materials.
Professor
Attention disorders and media-multitasking, moral judgment and conflict in narratives, media violence and aggression, persuasion neuroscience, cognitive control and flow experiences.