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  Julia TCW

  Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics

  Prof. TCW is interested in understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Her research is focused on a mutant form of Apolipoprotein E (APOE), a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. These studies will provide an opportunity to evaluate the APOE genetic contribution to neurodegeneration associated with the disease by using brain cells derived from human induced pluripotent […]
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  Roberto Tron

  Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

  Prof. Tron previously served as a post-doctoral researcher with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie at the intersection of automatic control, robotics, and computer vision, with a particular emphasis on applications of Riemannian geometry and on distributed problems involving teams of multiple agents. Tron received his Ph.D. from John […]
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  Michael Wallace

  Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology

  The Wallace lab studies how specific circuits within the basal ganglia (BG) guide motivated behaviors, control goal-directed motor actions, and how these circuits are affected in disease. The lab has expertise in electrophysiology, molecular biology, genetics, in vivo optogenetics, computer programming, and in behavioral and imaging techniques. We apply these techniques and knowledge of BG […]
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  John White

  Professor & Chair, Biomedical Engineering

  Prof. White’s laboratory uses engineering approaches to understand how information is processed in the brain, with the goal of exploiting these findings to improve the human condition. Ongoing and future research questions include the following: Why is coherent electrical activity of the cortex necessary for mental processes like learning and memory? What factors control this […]
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  Benjamin Wolozin

  Professor, Pharmacology & Neurology

  The goal of our research is to understand the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, and then to use this understanding to develop novel interventions for disease. Much of our research focuses on the central concept of regulated protein aggregation. Protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases is classically thought to occur as an unwanted byproduct of protein misfolding. […]
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  Arash Yazdanbakhsh

  Research Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

  Dr. Yazdanbakhsh's research focuses on topics in human vision and its modeling, human electrophysiology, and psychophysics. Some specific projects include a new cortical model to approach the problem of figure-ground segregation and border-ownership, motion integration by multiscale sampling, and the spatio-temporal dynamics of neural receptive fields.
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  Meg Younger

  Assistant Professor, Biology

  Meg earned a BS in neural science with honors in 2004 from New York University. As an undergraduate, she worked with Justin Blau at NYU on circadian rhythms in Drosophila and with David Spray at Albert Einstein College of Medicine on mammalian gap junction channels. She went on to earn a PhD in neuroscience from […]
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  Venetia Zachariou

  Professor and Edward Avedisian Chair of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics

  Our research focuses on signal transduction and epigenetic mechanisms underlying CNS disorders and their treatment. We use advanced genetic mouse models, viral mediated gene transfer and multidisciplinary approaches to understand the network and cell type-specific mechanisms of chronic pain, addiction, stress, and depression. Current projects investigate the mechanism by which signal transduction complexes modulate drug […]
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  Ella Zeldich

  Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology

  Our lab is focusing on studying the cellular and molecular machinery mediating the connection between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease. We are utilizing 2D and 3D cellular models derived from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to investigate molecular mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration and demyelination in Alzheimer’s disease, ischemic stroke, and aging. Using iPS cells, […]