Department of Neurobiology
 

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neurobiology Faculty:

Detre Professor and Chair:
Susan Amara, Ph.D.

Molecular and cellular biology of neurotransmitter transporters

Faculty:

Elias Aizenman, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration Cellular electrophysiology Environmental neurotoxicology

Guo-Qiang Bi, Ph.D.
Development and plasticity of neural circuits

Mee Choi, Ph.D.

Richard Dum, Ph.D.

Erika Fanselow. Ph.D.
Inhibitory Circuitry of the Neocortex

Willi M. Halfter, Ph.D.
Axonal pathfinding in the developing chick visual system

Donna S. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Cortical control of voluntary movement

John P. Horn, Ph.D.
Synaptic Integration in Sympathetic Ganglia and in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

Allen L. Humphrey, Ph.D.

H. Richard Koerber, Ph.D.
Organization and plasticity in the spinal dorsal horn

Paul Kullmann, Ph.D.

Carl F. Lagenaur, Ph.D.
Neurite outgrowth and synaptogenesis

Cynthia Lance-Jones, Ph.D.
Motoneuron development and spinal cord patterning

Pakming Lau, Ph.D.

Laura Lillien, Ph.D.
CNS stem cells

Yong-Jian Liu, M.D.
Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying synaptic transmission

A. Paula Monaghan-Nichols, Ph.D.
Genetic analysis of vertebrate CNS development

Ole V. Mortensen, Ph.D.
Regulation of biogenic monoamine transporters

Nathalie Picard, Ph.D.
1) Functional anatomy of the cortical motor areas in primates Motor learning, and 2) Plasticity of the motor system

Steven A. Prescott, M.D. Ph.D.
Computational Basis of Pain Processing

Andrew B. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Cerebral basis for volitional movement and cortical neural prosthetics.

Daniel J. Simons, Ph.D.
Sensory physiology of the cerebral cortex

Peter L. Strick, Ph.D.
1) Control of Voluntary Movement by the Cerebral Cortex, 2) Motor and Cognitive Functions of the Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum, and 3) Unraveling the Circuitry of the Central Nervous System.

Edda (Floh) Thiels, Ph.D.
Behavioral, biochemical, and physiological analysis of learning and memory

Gonzalo Torres, Ph.D.
1) Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Monoamine Transporters, and 2) Neurobiology of the Dystonia-Linked TorsinA Protein

Robert Turner, Ph.D.
Basal ganglia and cortex in health and disease

Meel Velliste, Ph.D.

Joseph Yip, Ph.D.
Neuronal migration and axonal guidance


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