Bio 500N/U Mentors

biophysics, cancer, imaging, mathematical modeling, neurobiology

• Email: ackerman@wustl.edu

astrocytes, plasticity, circuits, development, myelination

• Email: sarah.ackerman@wustl.edu

Function and modulation of transmitter-gated ion channels

• Email: akk@wustl.edu

Understanding the endogenous opioid systems to defeat addiction, ameliorate affective disorders, and relieve chronic pain.

• Email: al-hasanir@wustl.edu

Develop novel imaging methods to deepen our understanding on pathophysiology and improve clinical diagnosis and patient management

• Email: hongyuan@wustl.edu

Alzheimer’s disease, HIV, Down Syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Autoimmune encephalitis

• Email: bances@wustl.edu

Innate immunity and immune effector mechanisms in the retina; oxidative stress and cell death; models of developmental angiogenesis and neovascularization; inflammation and photoreceptor survival; macular degeneration

• Email: apte@vision.wustl.edu

Uncovering novel regulators of glycolytic and mitochondrial metabolism at the synapse and their role in the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease

• Email: ghazaleh@wustl.edu

His research interests include intraoperative awareness, postoperative cognitive alteration, brain monitoring during surgery, and postoperative outcomes.

• Email: AVIDANM@WUSTL.EDU

Quantification of zebrafish behavior using automated tracking software; or, design and implementation of Crispr/Cas9-based transgenesis in zebrafish to revel populations of spinal neurons

• Email: bagnall@wustl.edu

Sensation, perception and cognitive processing of sounds and speech

• Email: dbarbour@biomed.wustl.edu

Neurobiological and Psychological Mechanisms of Cognitive and Emotional Control: Normative Function and Abnormalities in Psychiatric Disorders

• Email: dbarch@wustl.edu

Alzheimer disease pathophysiology

• Email: batemanr@wustl.edu

novel optical imaging technology, neural activity, stroke recovery

• Email: aqbauer@wustl.edu

The application of nonlinear dynamics and vibrations to mechanical and biomedical systems

• Email: pvb@wustl.edu

We study the evolutionary, genetic, molecular, cellular, and behavioral mechanisms underlying the interaction of animals with their physical and social environments.

• Email: benshahary@wustl.edu

The integration of MRI and PET using simultaneous acquisition (combined PET-MRI scanning) in both Alzheimer’s disease and brain tumor research

• Email: benzingert@wustl.edu

My research program focuses on studying connectivity networks in the human brain using advanced MRI imageanalysis methods

• Email: janine.bijsterbosch@wustl.edu

fMRI, imaging, movement disorders, Tourette syndrome, pharmacology, PET

• Email: kevin@wustl.edu

Function of the Cerebellar-brainstem loop in motor control, spatial navigation and motor learning

• Email: pablo@wustl.edu

G protein-coupled receptor signaling in physiology and disease

• Email: kblumer@wustl.edu

How genetic variation and environmental experience contribute to individual differences in brain function, behavior, and psychopathology

• Email: rbogdan@WUSTL.EDU

Child and adolescent psychiatry, early onset depression, autism, pervasive developmental disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette’s disorder, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, neuropsychiatry

• Email: botteronk@wustl.edu

Studies of cognitive (executive) control and prefrontal cortex function using cognitive neuroscience methods (fMRI, computational, behavioral, clinical)

• Email: tbraver@wustl.edu

Cell biology of developing nerve and muscle cells

• Email: bridgmap@wustl.edu

Nerve injury, nerve regeneration, intra-operatively, mechanisms of inhibiting Wallerian degeneration, Schwann cell dedifferentiation

• Email: brogand@wustl.edu

We and collaborators seek to understand the biological pathway that controls degeneration and regeneration in these important cells.

• Email: wbuchser@wustl.edu

Structure and physiology of neuronal circuits in mouse visual cortex

• Email: burkhala@pcg.wustl.edu

Pharmacology and chemical biology of nuclear receptors.

• Email: burristhomas@wustl.edu

Structure and physiology of neuronal circuits in mouse visual cortex

• Email: harold@pcg.wustl.edu

Research falls within the category of Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology, with emphasis on the cognitive and behavioral sequelae associated with movement disorders, particularly Parkinson disease and Tourette Syndrome.

• Email: meghanc@wustl.edu

Ion channel, migraine, headache, chronic pain, synaptic transmission, neuronal excitability, electrophysiology

• Email: caoy@wustl.edu

We study animal communication, sensory processing, and brain evolution

• Email: carlson.bruce@wustl.edu

Network plasticity as it pertains to neurorehabilitation, particularly in recovery from stroke

• Email: ACarter22@WUSTL.EDU

understanding how oxysterols influence neuroinflammation, synaptic dysfunction and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease

• Email: cashikar@wustl.edu

Understanding the biological and psychological mechanisms of endogenous opioids in affect, motivation, and metabolism.

• Email: castro.d@wustl.edu

Cellular, Molecular and Epigenetic control of axon regeneration

• Email: cavalli@wustl.edu

Exploring neuromorphic architectures using silicon and biological neurons; Novel self-powered neural recording systems

• Email: shantanu@wustl.edu

pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, inflammation, CNS immune responses, myeloid cell responses

• Email: achaney@wustl.edu

molecular mechanisms of opioid receptor signaling, nanobodies, X-ray, Cryo-EM, opioid receptor signaling

• Email: taoche@wustl.edu

Personalized medicine/Pharmacogenetics, smoking cessation treatments, cross-population studies of smoking, gene-environmental interactions, and longitudinal studies

• Email: li-shiun@wustl.edu

Combines biology, engineering, and medicine to develop ultrasound techniques for noninvasive, targeted, and personalized cancer treatment

• Email: hongchen@wustl.edu

Gene expression regulation, transcription factors, epigenetic regulators, photoreceptor development and degeneration, mouse models, gene therapy

• Email: chen@vision.wustl.edu

Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas

• Email: chenshiming@wustl.edu

Understanding the function of neuromodulators and sleep through the spatiotemporal dynamics of molecular signals

• Email: yaochen@wustl.edu

I am interested in the structure and function of neuronal ligand-gated ion channels, and the mechanism of channel modulation by endogenous lipids or exogenous drugs such as general anesthetics.

• Email: wayland.cheng@wustl.edu

The interface between systems and control engineering, neuroscience and neural medicine

• Email: shinung@WUSTL.EDU

Alzheimer’s disease, drug and target discovery, endocytosis, in vivo microdialysis, synaptic transmission

• Email: cirritoj@neuro.wustl.edu

Analysis of the temporally regulated program of retinal cell type specification

• Email: brian.s.clark@wustl.edu

Batten Disease, Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, NCL, Lysosomal Storage Disease, pathogenesis, pre-clinical therapies, enzyme replacement, gene therapy

• Email: cooperjd@wustl.edu

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