BU Neuroscience Faculty
(Graduate training faculty in GPN are listed under program description)
| Name | Department | Research Interest |
| CARMELA ABRAHAM | Biochemistry | Aging and Alzheimer’s |
| MARTIN ALBERT | Neurology | Language and the aging brain |
| JELLE ATEMA | Biology | Sensory biology, behavioral ecology |
| B | ||
| HELEN BARBAS | Health Science, Anatomy & Neurobiology | Organization of the prefrontal cortex; patterns of neural interactions. |
| MICHAEL J. BAUM, | Biology | Behavioral neuroendocrinology |
| MARLENE OSCAR BERMAN | Anatomy & Neurobiology | Alcoholism and aging |
| GENE BLATT | Anatomy & Neurobiology | Neuropathology of autism |
| JASON BOHLAND | Health Science | Speech |
| DANIEL H. BULLOCK | Cognitive & Neural Systems
Psychology |
Neural Models |
| C | ||
| GLORIA V. CALLARD | Biology | Neuroendocrinology |
| GAIL A. CARPENTER | Cognitive & Neural Systems
Mathematics |
Neural models of vision, synaptic transmission, and circadian rhythms |
| JAMES A. CHERRY | Psychology | Cellular mechanisms underlying cognitive and sensory processes. |
| MICHAEL A. COHEN | Cognitive & Neural Systems
Computer Science |
Speech and language processing, measurement theory, neural modeling, dynamical systems, art |
| STEVEN H. COLBURN | Biomedical Engineering | Modeling of binaural hearing performance |
| JAMES J. COLLINS | Biomedical Engineering | Noise-enhanced sensory dynamics, synthetic biology, and systems biology |
| M. CARTER CORNWALL | Physiology & Biophysics | Physiology and Biophysics |
| PIETRO COTTONE | Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics | Addictive behaviors |
| ALICE CRONIN-GOLOMB | Psychology | Vision cognition in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. |
| D | ||
| SUBIMAL DATTA | Psychiatry | Sleep |
| CHARLES DELISI | Biomedical Engineering | Experimental and computational methods for high throughput genomic and proteomic analysis. |
| CARLO J. DE LUCA | Biomedical Engineering | Motor control of normal and abnormal muscles |
| VINCENT DIONNE | Biology | Sensory biology: olfaction, pain |
| E | ||
| URI TZVI EDEN | Mathematics and Statistics | Mathematical and statistical methods to analyze neural spiking activity. |
| HOWARD EICHENBAUM | Psychology
Center for Neuroscience |
Learning and memory |
| SOLOMON R. EISENBERG | Biomedical Engineering | Electrically mediated phenomena in tissues and
biopolymers |
| WILLIAM D. ELDRED | Biology | Role of the gaseous neurotransmitters, nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide in visual processing. |
| F | ||
| DAVID H. FARB | Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | Cognition, anxiety, drug abuse, and the discovery of novel therapeutics using in vitro and in vivo models |
| LINDSAY A. FARRER | Medicine | Genetic risk factors in multiple diseases of the brain, including Alzheimer’s and addiction |
| ROBERT FERRANTE | Neurology, Pathology, Psychiatry | Translational neuroscience, transgenic models |
| G | ||
| CHRISTOPHER GABEL | Physiology & Biophysics | Neural regeneration in C. Elegens |
| J. FERNANDO GARCIA_DIAZ | Physiology & Biophysics | Expression & modulation of ion channels |
| TIM GARDNER | Biology | Neural circuit formation in songbirds. |
| TERRELL T. GIBBS | Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | Pharmacology of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators |
| L. DONALD GILMORE | NeuroMuscular Research Center | Neuromuscular research |
| STEPHEN GROSSBERG | Cognitive and Neural Systems | Vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and language |
| FRANK GUENTHER | Cognitive and Neural Systems | Speech production, speech perception, and sensory-motor control |
| H | ||
| XUE HAN | Biomedical Engineering | Optogenetics, neural circuitry, synchrony |
| DAVID HARRIS | Biochemistry | Molecular and cell biology of prion diseases |
| MICHAEL HASSELMO | Psychology | Memory-guided behavior |
| ROBERT E. HAUSMAN | Biology | Cell-cell interactions, cell adhesion complexes, contact-mediated regulation of gene expression |
| ANGELA HO | Biology | Molecular and cellular basis of synaptic function and Alzheimer’s disease |
| KENNETH HOLT | Physical Therapy & Athletic Training | Systems dynamics, control and coordination of locomotion |
| ALLYN E. HUBBARD | Biomedical Engineering | Auditory physiology; modeling; neurocomputing |
| J | ||
| ANGELA JEFFERSON | Neurology | Cardiac function, brain aging, Alzheimer’s disease |
| K | ||
| KATHLEEN M. KANTAK | Psychology | Addiction |
| GARY B. KAPLAN | Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Psychology | Addiction |
| TERENCE KEANE | Psychiatry | Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
| THOMAS KEMPER | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Neuropathology of aging |
| GERALD KIDD, Jr | Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Auditory perception and processing of complex sounds in multiple-sound environments |
| SWATHI KIRAN | Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences | Language processing and language recovery mechanisms |
| MARK A. KON | Mathematics and Statistics | Machine learning, bioinformatics, mathematical neural network theory |
| NANCY KOPELL | Mathematics | Rhythmic behavior in networks of neurons |
| CONAN KORNETSKY | Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | Drug addiction and behavioral pharmacology/psychology |
| THOMAS H. KUNZ | Biology | Behavioral and physiological ecology. |
| L | ||
| SUSAN E. LEEMAN | Pharmacology | Substance P, neurotensin, and neuroinflammation |
| SIMON LEVY | Physiology and Biophysics | Calcium signaling in nerve cells |
| JACQUELINE A. LIEDERMAN | Psychology | Neural mechanisms underlying behavior |
| KIMBERLY LEITE MORRIS | Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | Addictive disorders |
| JEN-WEI LIN | Biology | Electrophysiology and molecular mechanisms of secretion |
| JENNIFER LUEBKE | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Electrophysiological and morphological properties of neurons |
| M | ||
| HENGYE MAN | Biology | Synaptic plasticity, glutamate receptor, protein trafficking |
| HENRY MARCUCELLA | Psychology, Emeritus | Sign tracking, discrimination learning, schedules of reinforcement, and animal models of alcoholism |
| MELANIE L. MATTHIES | Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Speech perception in normal hearing and with hearing loss |
| ENNIO MINGOLLA | Cognitive and Neural Systems | Testing of neural network models of visual processes |
| MARK MOSS | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Interaction of the prefrontal cortices with the medial temporal lobe limbic system in cognition |
| DAVID I. MOSTOFSKY | Psychology | Psychoimmunology |
| DAVID C. MOUNTAIN | Biomedical Engineering | Auditory information processing |
| RICHARD H. MYERS | Neurology | |
| N | ||
| MARGARET A. NAESER | Neurology | Aphasia research |
| S. HAMID NAWAB | Biomedical Engineering | Signal processing for brain signals from electrical transmissions of neural activity |
| ALEXANDER NORBASH | Radiology | Intracranial Aneurysms |
| O | ||
| P | ||
| DEEPAK PANDYA | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Connectivity of cerebral cortex |
| CHRISTOPER PASSAGLIA | Biomedical Engineering | Visual information processing and transmission |
| ALAN PETERS | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Aging |
| PENNY PRATHER | Neurology | Developmental disorders |
| Q | ||
| WENDY QIU | Psychiatry and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics | Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease |
| R | ||
| JASON RITT | Biomedical Engineering | Sensorimotor behaviors; biological active sensing |
| DOUGLAS ROSENE | Physiology | Neural bases of cognitive decline |
| KENNETH J. ROTHSCHILD | Physics & Physiology | Energy Transduction, Ion Transport, and Signal Recognition |
| MICHELE RUCCI | Psychology, Biomedical Engineering | Active perception in biological and artificial systems |
| SHELLEY J. RUSSEK | Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | Inhibitory signal transduction, BDNF, novel treatments for epileptogenesis, autism and depression |
| S | ||
| VALENTINA SABINO | Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | Addiction and anxiety as modeled in behaving animals |
| JULIE SANDELL | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Vision and aging |
| JUDITH SCHOTLAND | Health Sciences | Neurophysiology, neuropharmacology and neuroanatomy |
| ERIC L. SCHWARTZ | Cognitive and Neural Systems
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Anatomy and |
Computational neuroscience, machine vision, neuroanatomy, neural modeling |
| KAMAL SEN | Biomedical Engineering | Neural substrates of selectivity for and discrimination of different categories of natural sounds |
| MICHAEL Y. SHERMAN | Biochemistry | Prion proteins and neurodegeneration |
| BARBARA G. SHINN-CUNNINGHAM | Cognitive and Neural Systems
Biomedical Engineering |
Auditory attention and auditory scene analysis. |
| CASSANDRA SMITH | Biomedical Engineering | schizophrenia, autism, epigenetics, metabolomics |
| DONALD SIWEK | Anatomy & Neurobiology | Neurobiology of sleep |
| JEAN-JACQUES SOGHOMONIAN | Anatomy & Neurobiology | Parkinson’s disease |
| DAVID SOMERS | Psychology | Visual perception and cognition |
| CHANTAL E. STERN | Psychology | Short-term and long-term memory |
| ROBERT STERN | Neurology | Alzheimer’s disease; brain trauma |
| CHRIS STREETER | Psychiatry | Addictive disorders |
| T | ||
| HELEN TAGER-FLUSBERG | Anatomy and Neurobiology
Psychology |
Autism |
| MALVIN C. TEICH | Electrical & Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering Physics |
Sensory signal processing |
| LOUIS TOTH | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Visual pathway |
| JAMES F. A. TRANIELLO | Biology | Behavioral ecology |
| V | ||
| LUCIA M. VAINA | Biomedical Engineering
Neurology |
Computational visual neuroscience |
| SANDOR VAJDA | Biomedical Engineering | Scientific computing, primarily optimization; computational chemistry and biology |
| DEBORAH VAUGHAN | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Aging |
| MIEKE VERFAELLIE | Psychiatry | Memory disorders |
| HERBERT F. VOIGT | Biomedical Engineering
Otolaryngology |
Auditory neurophysiology |
| W | ||
| FRED WASSERMAN | Biology | Animal behavior, bird song, territoriality |
| TAKEO WATANABE | Psychology | Motion perception, attention, perceptual learning, categorization learning, motion-form interaction, neon color spreading, and neural modeling |
| GLORIA WATERS | Speech,Language and Hearing | Localization of language functions |
| ERIC WIDMAIER | Biology | Neuroendocrinology |
| BENJAMIN WOLOZIN | Pharmacology | Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease |
| Y | ||
| Z | ||
| IRINA ZHDANOVA | Anatomy and Neurobiology | Circadian system in development and aging, and an impact of circadian factors on the effects of drugs of abuse |