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JELLE ATEMA, Professor of Biology; PhD, University of Michigan


CARMELLA ABRAHAM, Professor of Biochemistry, School of Medicine;
PhD, Harvard University

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HELEN BARBAS, Professor of Health Sciences (Sargent);
PhD, McGill University

MICHAEL J. BAUM, Professor of Biology; PhD, McGill University

MARLENE OSCAR BERMAN,Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM),Professor of Neurology (Neuropsychology), BUSM, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, BUSM, Professor and Director, Behavioral Neuroscience Ph.D. Program, BUSM

MARK BITENSKY, Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
College of Engineering; MD, Yale Medical School

GENE BLATT, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology;
PhD, Thomas Jefferson University

DANIEL H. BULLOCK, Associate Professor of Cognitive and
Neural Systems and Psychology; PhD, Stanford University

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GLORIA V. CALLARD, Professor of Biology; PhD, Rutgers University

GAIL A. CARPENTER, Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and
Mathematics; PhD, University of Wisconsin

JAMES A. CHERRY, Associate Professor of Psychology; PhD,
North Carolina State University

MICHAEL A. COHEN, Associate Professor of Cognitive and
Neural Systems and Computer Science; PhD, Harvard University

STEVEN H. COLBURN, Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JAMES J. COLLINS, Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Supervisor, Motion Analysis Laboratory at the NeuroMuscular Research
Center; PhD, University of Oxford (England)

PAUL B. COOK, Assistant Professor of Biology; PhD, University of
California, Berkeley

M. CARTER CORNWALL, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine; BS, PhD, University of Utah

ALICE CRONIN-GOLOMB, Professor of Psychology; PhD, California Institute of Technology.
Research Interests: (1) The relation between sensory and cognitive function in neurodegenerative disease; in particular, visual cognition in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD); (2) The effect of visual and spatial impairments on daily function in AD and PD, with specific interest in the development of interventions to
improve everyday abilities; (3) Neural circuitry of visuospatial function, especially in Parkinson's disease; (4) Vision and cognition in normal aging.Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, aging, vision, cognition.

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CHARLES DELIS, Professor of Science and Engineering; Dean Emeritus,
College of Engineering; PhD, Physics, New York University

CARLO J. DE LUCA , Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Director, NeuroMuscular Research Center; Research Professor,
Department of Neurology; PhD, Queens University (Canada)

VINCENT E. DIONNE, Professor of Biology; PhD, University of Arizona

WILLIAM FORD DOLPHIN, Research Assistant Professor in
Biomedical Engineering and Biology; PhD, Boston University

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URI TZVI EDEN, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics;Ph.D. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Research Interests: My research focuses on developing mathematical and statistical methods to analyze neural spiking activity. This work integrates methodologies related to model identification, statistical inference, signal processing, and stochastic estimation and control, and expands these methodologies to incorporate point process observation models, making them more appropriate for modeling the dynamics of neural systems observed through spike train data. Keywords: Neuroscience, Statistics, Data Analysis, Modeling, Point Processes.

HOWARD EICHENBAUM, Professor and Chairman of Psychology;
Director of Center for Memory and Brain; PhD, University of Michigan

SOLOMON R. EISENBERG , Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Associate Chairman of Undergraduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering;
Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering;
ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WILLIAM D. ELDRED, Professor of Biology; Director of the Program in
Neuroscience; Professor in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and
Biochemistry Program; Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Research Fellow; PhD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Research Interests: My research is focused on studying the role of the gaseous neurotransmitters, nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide in visual processing. We are also interested in their associated signal transduction pathways and  the role of these molecules in ocular pathology .Key words:  retina, nitric oxide, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide,diabetes.

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DAVID H. FARB, Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology; PhD,
Brandeis University

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J. FERNANDO GARCIA_DIAZ, Associate Professor of Physiology and
Biophysics; PhD, Universidad de Malaga, Spain.

TERRELL T. GIBBS, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology; PhD, Harvard Medical School

L. DONALD GILMORE, Senior Design Engineer/Supervisor,
Design Laboratory at the NeuroMuscular Research Center;
ABEE, Wentworth Institute of Technology

GERALD GOTTLIEB, Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Supervisor, Motor Control Laboratory at the NeuroMuscular Research
Center; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

STEPHEN GROSSBERG, Wang Professor of Cognitive and NeuralSystems, Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and BiomedicalEngineering; Director, Center for Adaptive Systems; Chairman,Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems; PhD, Rockefeller University
Research Interests: I develop brain models of vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and language; development; attentive learning and memory; cognitive information processing; reinforcement learning and motivation; cognitive-emotional interactions; navigation; sensory-motorcontrol and robotics; and mental disorders. These models involve many parts of the brain, ranging from perception to action, and multiple levels of brain organization, ranging from individual spikes and their synchronization to cognition. I also carry out analyses of the mathematical dynamics of neural systems, and transfer biological neural models to applications in neuromorphic engineering and technology.

FRANK GUENTHER, Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural
Systems; PhD, Boston University
Research Interests: Professor Guenther is a computational and cognitive neuroscientist specializing in speech and sensorimotor control. His research combines theoretical modeling with behavioral and neuroimaging experiments to characterize the neural computations underlying these faculties in humans. He is also involved in the development of speech prostheses that utilize brain-computer interfaces to restore synthetic speech to paralyzed individuals. Keywords: computational neuroscience; speech; fMRI; neural prosthetics.

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CATHERINE HARRIS, Assistant Professor of Psychology; PhD,
University of California, San Diego

MICHAEL HASSELMO , Professor of Psychology, Center for Memory
and Brain; DPhil, Oxford University

ROBERT E. HAUSMAN, Professor of Biology; PhD, Northwestern University

KENNETH HOLT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy; PhD,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

ALLYN E. HUBBARD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering; PhD,
University of Wisconsin

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KATHLEEN M. KANTAK, Professor of Psychology; PhD, Syracuse University

GARY B. KAPLAN, Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Psychology; MD, Hahnemann University School of Medicine.
Research Interests:Drugs of abuse mediate their rewarding, activating, motivational effects by activating neural pathways originating in the ventral tegmental area and projecting to cortical and limbic regions. As a result of changes in these pathways, drug dependent individuals are hypersensitive to drugs and drug-related cues and contexts after long periods of abstinence or even extinction learning. Our research paradigms in addiction examine the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors in the ventral tegmental area of the midbrain. We examine the effects of GABA receptor agents on opiate sensitization, reward, extinction learning, and drug priming induced reacquisition. We are interested in understanding how these agents alter addiction related learning processes and neural plasticity in circuits mediating motivational and cognitive functions. Such research defines the mechanisms related to drug relapse and defines novel therapeutic targets of interest for clinical studies. We utilize state-of-the-art methods in behavioral neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and neurochemistry to study these neural systems in addiction.
 
Our lab is also involved in translational research that examines the effects of pharmacological agents in human addiction. We test the effects of various pharmacological agents on nicotine craving and withdrawal in smokers and in smokers with schizophrenia. Our translational work uses "bench to bedside" approaches in examining the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction and related neuropharmacological treatment approaches to this chronic relapsing disorder of addiction.
 
Key words: addiction, opiate, GABA, reward, extinction

THOMAS KEMPER, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Pathology,
and Neurology; MD, University of Illinois School of Medicine

GERALD KIDD, Jr, Associate Professor of Communications Disorders;
PhD, Biomedical Engineering

DAE SHIK KIM, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology; PhD,Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany

MARK A. KON, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics; PhD,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; also affiliated with Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Research Interests: Mark Kon works in artificial neural networks and their applications. He works in learning theory, including network learning and machine learning approaches. He has worked on the theory of feedforward neural networks, and is currently applying various forms of learning in bioinformatic applications, in particular in DNA transcription informatics .Keywords: feedforward neural networks, learning, machine learning, artificial neural networks, bioinformatics, computational biology

NANCY KOPELL, Professor of Mathematics; PhD, University of California,Berkeley .
Research Interests: I am interested in the dynamics of the nervous system assocated with cognition. This includes a study of how the brain produces the various rhythms associated with different cognitive states, how those frequency bands interact in different tasks and modulatory environments, and what goes wrong with the rhythms in neurological disorders. I work on models, collaboratively with a range of experimentalists and clinicians Keywords: gamma rhythms, theta rhythms, attention, schizophrenia

THOMAS H. KUNZ, Professor of Biology; PhD, University of Kansas

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SUSAN E. LEEMAN, Professor of Pharmacology; PhD, Radcliffe College

SIMON LEVY, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; PhD,Boston University

JACQUELINE A. LIEDERMAN, Associate Professor of Psychology; PhD, University of Rochester

JEN-WEI LIN, Professor of Biology; PhD, SUNY—Buffalo

JENNIFER LUEBKE , Associate Professor of Anatomy and
Neurobiology; PhD, Boston University
Research Interests:The Luebke laboratory is interested in the electrophysiological and morphological properties of neocortical neurons in the rodent and primate prefrontal cortex across the lifespan.  We study normative intrinsic membrane properties (eg. action potentials and ionic currents) and synaptic response properties as well as detailed morphological properties (eg. dendritic architecture and spines) of these neurons.  In addition to normative studies, we also examine the effects of normal aging on these properties in the rhesus monkey and the effects of beta-amyloid and tau on these properties in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. keywords:whole cell patch clamp, confocal microscopy, in vitro slice, normal aging, Alzheimer's disease, rhesus monkey, transgenic mice

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HENGYE MAN, Assistant Professor of Biology; PhD, University of Toronto

HENRY MARCUCELLA, Professor of Psychology; PhD, Boston University

MELANIE L. MATTHIES, Communications Disorders, Biomedical
Engineering; PhD, University of Illinois

ENNIO MINGOLLA, Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and
Psychology; PhD, University of Connecticut

MARK MOSS, Chairman, ad interim, and Professor of Anatomy and
Neurobiology; PhD, Northeastern University

DAVID I. MOSTOFSKY , Professor of Psychology; PhD, Boston University

DAVID C. MOUNTAIN, Jr., Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Associate Research Professor, Otolaryngology, School of Medicine; PhD,
University of Wisconsin

RICHARD H. MYERS, Professor of Neurology, PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests:My interests are in the genetic basis for adult onset
neurodegenerative diseases and the neurobiological mechanisms
influencing disease onset and progression. My lab has a long standing
interest in Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease and more
recently has become involved in the study of genetic aspects of
obesity and metabolic syndrome. Keywords: genetics, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, obesity, gene discovery.


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MARGARET A. NAESER Research Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine; Harold Goodglass Boston University Aphasia Research Center located at the VA Boston Healthcare System, JP; PhD, University of Wisconsin. www.bu.edu/naeser/acupuncture
Research Interests; Aphasia research focuses on recovery of speech and naming in chronic stroke patients with nonfluent aphasia. Overt naming fMRI studies (funded by Department of Veterans Affairs) are performed, pre- and post- treatment with the noninvasive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technique (funded by National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH; RO1 DC05672).  Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School is co-investigator; as well as H. Branch Coslett, M.D., Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Keywords:  adult aphasia, fMRI, TMS, stroke rehabilitation

ENRICO NASI, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; PhD,
Bryn Mawr College


S. HAMID NAWAB, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering/
Biomedical Engineering; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ALEXANDER NORBASH,Professor and Chairman of Radiology; MD University of Missouri, Kansas City; MHCM at Harvard School of Public Health

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LARS ODDSSON , Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, Muscle Fatigue Laboratory at the NeuroMuscular Research
Center; Dr.Med.Sci., Karolinska Institute (Sweden)

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DEEPAK PANDYA , Research Professor in Anatomy and Neurobiology;
MD, Gujarat University, India

CHRISTOPER PASSAGLIA, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering; PhD, Syracuse University
Research Interests: Dr. Passaglia's research focuses on how visual information is represented in the eye's input to the brain and how the representation changes as diseases, like glaucoma, inflict damage upon the retina. His laboratory tackles these issues by recording the electrical activity of neurons, visualizing neurons with anatomical stains, building computer models of the mechanisms that shape neural responses, and relating neural performance to visual behavior. Keywords: neuroscience, vision, retina, glaucoma.

ALAN PETERS, Waterhouse Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology;
PhD, University of Bristol, England
Research Interests:Studies are centered around the fine structural changes that occur during the normal aging of the cerebral cortex. To this end we are examining the brains of rhesus monkeys who have been behaviorally tested. Rhesus monkeys are a good model for examining the effects of normal aging on the brain since they do not get Alzheimers disease, which is always a confounding problem in using human brains to study normal aging. Key words: aging; cerebral cortex; electron microscopy.

R. CHRISTOPHER PIERCE , Associate Professor of Pharmacology and
Psychiatry; PhD, Indiana University

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DOUGLAS ROSENE, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology;
PhD, University of Rochester

KENNETH J. ROTHSCHILD, Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of
Physiology; Director, Molecular Biophysics Laboratory and Molecular
Biophysics Training Program; PhD, MIT

SERGE HENRI ROY, Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Supervisor, Muscle Fatigue Laboratory/Electrophysiology Laboratory at the
NeuroMuscular Research Center; ScD, Boston University

MICHELE RUCCI, Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems;
PhD, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy

SHELLEY J. RUSSEK, Professor of Pharmacology; PhD,
Boston University School of Medicine


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JULIE SANDEL, Professor and Vice Chairman of Anatomy and
Neurobiology; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JUDITH SCHOTLAND, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences (Sargent);
PhD, Northwestern University

ERIC L. SCHWARTZ, Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems,
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, and Anatomy and
Neurobiology; PhD, Columbia University

KAMAL SEN, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; PhD,
Brandeis University

BARBARA G. SHINN-CUNNINGHAM Associate Professor of
Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering; PhD,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
/Research Interests: Research focuses on how we process and perceive sound in everyday settings. Work explores how attention, object formation, spatial hearing, perceptual plasticity, and cross-modal interactions influence how we process and perceive sound (both for normal and impaired listeners). We use multiple approaches to explore these questions, including psychophysical experiments, computational modeling, and acoustic analysis (within the lab), and single-unit physiology, fMRI, and other physiological measures (with our collaborators). Keywords: attention, hearing, auditory scene analysis, spatial perception, modeling

DONALD SIWEK, Research Assistant Professor in Anatomy; PhD,
Boston University

JEAN-JACQUES SOGHOMONIAN, Associate Professor of Anatomy and
Neurobiology; PhD, University of Montreal

DAVID SOMERS , Associate Professor of Psychology; PhD, Boston University


CHANTAL E. STERN, Associate Professor of Psychology, Center for
Memory and Brain, Cognitive and Neural Systems; DPhil, Oxford University


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MALVIN C. TEICH, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics; PhD, Cornell
Research Interests:Dr. Teich is studying how acoustical and optical stimuli are encoded into sequences of action potentials at various locations in the auditory and visual systems. He has observed that sensory neural-spike patterns behave as fractal sequences of events, with rates that wax and wane over a broad range of time scales. He is also studying a new class of neural-based psychophysical models that view the ascending pathways of the auditory and visual systems as amplifying neural networks. These models suggest that detection noise likely originates in the central neural network, rather than at the periphery.
Keywords: neural coding, auditory system, visual system, fractal spike patterns, psychophysics

LOUIS TOTH, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Dr. Toth studies the physiology of developing and adult cortical cognitive circuitry, using electrophysiology, imaging and MRI techniques. He is also affiliated with the Center for Biomedical Imaging at BMC. Keywords: vision, cognition, behavior, development

JAMES TRANIELLO, Professor of Biology; PhD, Harvard University


JOE Z. TSIEN, Professor of Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering;
PhD, University of Minnesota

SUSAN TSUNODA, Assistant Professor of Biology; PhD, Washington
University School of Medicine.

Research Interests: In my lab, we combine Drosophila genetics with electrophysiological, biochemical, cell and molecular biological approaches to examine the subcellular localization to understand how signaling proteins and ion channels are organized in photoreceptors and neurons.  In particular, we examine the light-dependent translocation of transduction components between the signaling compartment and the cell body of photoreceptors, a strategy conserved in vertebrates that regulates long-term light adaptation.  In neurons, we examine mechanisms regulating the inactivation and dendritic localization of a voltage-gated K+ channel, Shal (Kv4). keywords:  Drosophila, phototransduction, ion channel trafficking, K+ channel


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LUCIA M. VAINA, Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Research
Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine; PhD, Sorbonne (France) and
Doctorat D'Etat es Sciences, National Politechnique Institute-Toulouse
(France)


SANDOR VAJDA, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; PhD,
Hungarian Academy of Science


DEBORAH VAUGHAN, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology;
Department Director of Graduate Studies; PhD, Boston University

MIEKE VERFAELLIE, Professor of Psychiatry Ph.D, University of Leuven, Belgium
Research Interest: The aim of my research program is to elucidate the cognitive and neural bases of various forms of human memory. This goal is accomplished through a detailed characterization of the memory deficits seen in patients with memory disorders secondary to brain injury resulting from neurological disease or injury, such as encephalitis, stroke, anoxia, or head trauma. The two main approaches used in my work are (1) a cognitive information processing analysis of memory deficits associated with specific brain lesions; and (2) a longitudinal characterization of the memory and executive impairments associated with specific clinical syndromes, such as cardiac arrest or blast-induced traumatic brain injury,  with the goal of developing theoretically motivated approaches to rehabilitation. keywords: neuroscience, amnesia, hippocampus, anoxia, traumatic brain injury.


HERBERT F. VOIG, Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Associate Research Professor, Otolaryngology, School of Medicine; PhD,
Johns Hopkins University


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MATT WACHOWIAK, Assistant Professor of Biology; PhD,
University of Florida
Research interests: We are interested in how the nervous system encodes odor information and how the brain processes this information. A major focus is on understanding olfaction in the awake, behaving animal and on how active odor sampling shapes this process. We use in vivo imaging with optical reporters of neuronal activity as a primary tool, complemented by
electrophysiological, behavioral and computational approaches to
understanding odor coding.

FRED WASSERMAN, Associate Professor of Biology; PhD,
University of Maryland

TAKEO WATANABE, Professor of Psychology; PhD, University of Tokyo

GLORIA WATERS, Professor of Health Sciences (Sargent), Dean of
Sargent College; PhD, Concordia University

JOHN A. WHITE, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; PhD,
Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

ERIC WIDMAIER, Associate Professor of Biology; PhD, University of
California at San Francisco


BENJAMIN WOLOZIN, Professor of Phamacology; MD, PhD, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine.

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AYAKO YAMAGUCHI, Assistant Professor of Biology; PhD, University of
California at Davis

BRYAN K. YAMAMOTO, Professor of Pharmacology; PhD.

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IRINA ZHDANOVA, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology;
PhD, Institute of Experimental Medicine


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