| Name | Area of Emphasis | Institution |
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Anderson, Rindy | Behavioral ecology, communication, cognition, sexual selection | FAU College of Science | Assis, Raquel | Data science applications in evolutionary genomics | FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science | Barenholtz, Elan | Psychophysical and computational approaches to visual and multisensory perception and recognition. | FAU Psychology and Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences | Besser, Lilah | Investigating social and built environments and brain health across the life course, neighborhood environments that can help maintain cognitive function into older ages, reduce ADAD risk, and allow for aging in place | FAU Urban and Regional Planning; FAU Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention | Bidaye, Salil | Neuronal control of locomotion | Max Planck Florida Institute | Blakely, Randy D. | Synaptic Genetics, Neurochemistry and Pharmacology; Animal Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Transporter Proteins and Psychoactive Drugs | FAU Brain Institute | Bolton, M. McLean | Disorders of neural circuit function | Max Planck Florida Institute | Carvelli, Lucia | Molecular mechanisms of drug addiction; pharmacology and physiology of dopaminergic synapses | FAU Harriet L.
Wilkes Honors College | Claiborne, Brenda | Neuronal development in human hippocampal formation and learning in aged individuals | FAU College of Science | Davis, Ronald L. | Molecular and cellular basis for learning; diseases that affect learning and memory | The Scripps Research Institute | Dawson-Scully, Ken | Neurobiology of cellular stress and neuroprotection using live cell imaging, electrophysiology and behavior genetics | Nova Southeastern University | Duboue, Erik | Effects of early stress on brain circuitry and function and the etiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | FAU Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College | Fields, Gregg B. | Extracellular matrix biochemistry, synthetic protein design and construction | FAU Chemistry and Biochemistry; Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology | Fitzpatrick, David | Functional organization and development of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, neural basis of visual perception | Max Planck Florida Institute | Fontenas, Laura | Developmental neurobiology, glia - from neural precursors to myelinating cells, and nervous system transition zones | FAU College of Science | Ghoraani, Behnaz | Biomedical signal analysis, data science, machine learning, deep learning, long-term and continuous health monitoring, remote and personalized therapeutic management, Cardiac electrophysiology, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease | FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science | Godenschwege, Tanja | Molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurodevelopment, cellular basis of neurological disorders and drug discovery | FAU College of Science | Grant, Patrick | Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics | Biomedical Science, FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Guthrie, Kathleen | Neurobiology | Biomedical Science, FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Hahn, William | Deep learning neural networks, sparse modeling, compressed sensing, adversarial networks, and reinforcement learning models of brain function. | FAU Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences | Hallstrom, Jason | Sensing systems, data management, affective computing, software engineering | FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science | Hansen, Carl | Understanding G-protein mediated signaling inputs regulating angiogenesis | FAU College of Science | Inagaki, Hidehiko | Neural dynamics and cognitive functions | Max Planck Florida Institute | Isgor, Ceylan | Neuromorphological, behavioral and molecular consequences of chronic, variable stress during peripubertal-juvenile period in rats | Biomedical Science, FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Isom, Daniel | pH regulation of cell signaling, drug discovery, informatics | Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami | Ja, William | Molecular genetics of aging, behavior and disease | The Scripps Research Institute | Jia, Kailiang | Molecular regulation of aging | FAU College of Science | Kelso, Scott | Mechanisms of self-organization underlying the coordination of brain and behavior. | FAU Psychology and Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences | Khamoui, Andy | Use of pre-clinical mouse models and human subjects to study cancer cachexia, skeletal muscle biology, exercise physiology, and mitochondrial function in health and disease. | FAU Exercise Science and Health Promotion | Li, Dawei | Genomics and bioinformatics | FAU Biomedical Science | Macleod, Greg | Mitochondrial support of neurotransmission, pH influences on synaptic plasticity, neurotransmission and aging | FAU Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College | Mari, Frank | Peptides and proteins of marine origin, especially those from predatory venomous mollusks belonging to the genus Conus (cone snails), biochemically and functionally characterize components of interest | Hollings Marine Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Miller, Courtney | Neurobiological underpinnings of memory disorders, with the goal of developing novel therapeutics | The Scripps Research Institute | Milton, Sarah L. | Vertebrate anoxia tolerance, marine turtle physiology | FAU College of Science | Murphey, Rod | Development and degeneration of synapses | FAU College of Science | Page, Damon | Genetic regulation of growth and connectivity in the developing brain, and how cognition is shaped by the interplay of these "hard-wiring" processes and adaptation via plasticity. | The Scripps Research Institute | Puthanveettil, Sathyanarayanan | Molecular and cellular basis of long-term memory storage and its disorders | The Scripps Research Institute | Rangaraju, Vidhya | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neuroenergetics | Max Planck Florida Institute | Robishaw, Janet | Genomics and Precision Medicine | Biomedical Science, FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine | Rumbaugh, Gavin | How synaptic proteins actively contribute to memory formation and storage | The Scripps Research Institute | Shanbhag, Venkatesh | Organic Synthesis, Bio-active molecules, Natural Products | Department of Chemistry and Physics, Nova Southeastern University | Shen, Wen | Neurophysiology, receptor pharmacology, synapsis, glutamate toxicity | Department of Biomedical Science, FAU | Stackman, Jr., Robert W. | Learning and memory | Department of Psychology and Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, FAU | Stern, Sarah | Neuroscience, Neural Circuits and Behavior, Transcriptomics | Max Planck Florida Institute | Tao, Rui | Neural circuits affected by drug abuse, Psychostimulant-induced hallucinations, Environmental factor-dependent effects of psychostimulants | Department of Biomedical Science, FAU | Telkes, Ilknur | Biomedical signal processing and machine learning, neural markers, neuromodulation implants (e.g., spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation), chronic pain, movement disorders, clinical research, medical technologies | FAU College of Medicine | Toll, Lawrence | Neuropharmacology of opioid and nicotinic receptors with respect to pain
and drug abuse | FAU College of Medicine | Van Praag, Henriette | Regulation and function of adult hippocampal neurogenesis | Department of Biomedical Science, FAU | Varela, Carmen | Thalamic circuits and their contribution to the mechanisms of learning. | FAU Psychology | Vertes, Robert | Behavioral neuroscience, functional organization of the brainstem and its role in controlling the activity of the forebrain and neurophysiology of sleep | Department of Psychology and Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, FAU | Wang, Yingxue | Neuronal mechanisms of episodic memory | Max Planck Florida Institute | Wei, Jianning | Neurodegenerative disorders | Department of Biomedical Science, FAU | Weissbach, Herbert | Effect of oxidative stress on normal and cancer cells | FAU College of Science | West, Lyndon | Discovery of pharmacologically-active metabolites from marine invertebrates, anti-cancer and anti-microbial agents, use of stem cells in developing new drugs for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases | FAU Chemistry and Biochemistry | Wu, Jang Yen | Neurotransmission and brain disorders | Department of Biomedical Science, FAU | Xu, Baoji | How neural circuits are formed, modified, and maintained in the brain | The Scripps Research Institute | Yasuda, Ryohei | Neuronal signal transduction | Max Planck Florida Institute |
