Faculty and Areas of Research
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Modification of the Cerebral Cortex by Sensory Experience |
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Development of Neural Control Tools and Application to Brain Disorders |
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Activity-Dependent Development of Synaptic Connections |
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How the Brain Learns and Generates Complex Sequential Behaviors |
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Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic and Circuitry Development and Psychiatric Disorders |
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Molecular Mechanisms Mediating Axonal Outgrowth and Brain Development |
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Brain Mechanisms that Underlie Fear, Anxiety and Stress |
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Neurophysiology of the Limbic System |
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Effects of SIRT1 on Neurodegenerative Diseases and Cognition |
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Genetics of Nervous System Development and Function in C. elegans |
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Pathology Mechanisms and Genetic Modifers in Huntington’s Disease |
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Biology of Cell Adhesion in Development and Disease |
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Epigenetic Control of Brain Development and Function |
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Non-Invasive Functional Imaging Methods to Study Neural Behavior |
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Molecular Basis of Selective Neurodegeneration |
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Neuronal Responses to Microbes in Caenorhabditis elegans |
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Development and Function of Inhibitory Circuits in the Brain |
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Correcting the Protein Misfolding that Drives Neurodegenerative Disease |
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Synapse Formation, Function and Plasticity in Drosophila |
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Characterization of Genes Involved in CNS Structural and Synaptic Plasticity |
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Genetic Analysis of Learning and Memory in Drosophila |
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Genetic Control of Nervous System Regeneration in Planarians |
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Brain Patterning and Morphogenesis in Zebrafish |
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Plasticity Mechanisms in the Developing and Adult Cerebral Cortex |
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Genetic Approaches to Learning and Memory Circuits in Mice |
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Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease and Epigenetic Regulation of Learning & Memory |
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Dissecting Neural Circuits Underlying Motivated Behaviors |
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Neuronal Plasticity, Ensemble Representations, Learning & Sleep |
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Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus |
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Optogenetic Approaches To Regulate Gene Function and Expression |
Applicants interested in the MCN program will be admitted through the Biology or Brain and Cognitive Sciences graduate program, details of which can be found at