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titleboxNEUROBIOLOGY, BIOPHYSICS AND DEVELOPMENT titlebox

Ibrahim Z. Ades, Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. Regulatory processes that govern eukaryotic cell development.


Ricardo C. Araneda, Assistant Professor (beginning Fall 2006); Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1997. Neuromodulation and sensory physiology of the olfactory system; mechanisms underlying the processing of olfactory
information in the context of behavior.


Karen Carleton, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Evolution of visual systems, visual communication and speciation, phototransduction, sensory genomics.


Catherine E. Carr, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984. Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in birds; evolution of the auditory system.


Avis H. Cohen, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977. Motor physiology and control; neuromorphic engineering; computational neuroscience with an emphasis on systems of coupled oscillators.


Marco Colombini, Professor; Ph.D., McGill University, 1974. Structure and mode of action of membrane transport systems; molecular basis for voltage control of channel-forming proteins.


Robert J. Dooling, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1975. Comparative psychoacoustics, hearing, vocal communication, and vocal learning in animals; hair cell regeneration and recovery of auditory function.


William J. Higgins, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1973. Neuromodulation; opiate receptors; intercellular communication among unicellular organisms.


William Hodos, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1960. Vision and visual system in birds; comparative neuroanatomy; evolution of brain and behavior; animal intelligence.


William R. Jeffery, Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1971. Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.


Patrick Kanold, (Assistant Professor, Biology) Mechanisms and circuits involved in the maturation of the cortical circuitry, development of patterned projection in the brain and the relation of synaptic maturation to critical periods, and development of the central auditory system.


Matthew W. Kelley, Adjunct Associate Professor, (National Institutes of Health); Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1993. Development of vertebrate auditory system, determination of cell fate, cellular patterning.


Hey-Kyoung Lee, Assistant Professor; Ph. D., Brown University, 1997. Cellular/molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation; synaptic function in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.


Cynthia F. Moss, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., Brown University, 1986; Comparative sensory physiology and behavior; auditory information processing in bats; psychophysical studies of spatial perception by sonar.


Stephen J. O'Brien, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health): Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971; Molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology.


Richard Payne, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Australian National University, 1982. Mechanisms of visual excitation in photoreceptors by injecting messenger molecules into cells and monitoring intracellular calcium release and the activity of ionic channels.


Christopher Platt, Adjunct Associate Professor (National Institutes of Health); Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1972. Sensory physiology; vestibular system; fine structure; comparative physiology.


David Poeppel, Professor (joint appointment with Department of Linguistics, UMCP); Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. Neural basis of speech and language, functional brain imaging.


Arthur N. Popper, Professor; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 1969. Function, development and evolution of the auditory system in non-mammalian vertebrates.


Michael Potter, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health); M.D., University of Virginia, 1949. Mouse immunogenetics; BALB/c monoclonal antibodies; genetic polymorphisms in wild mice.


Elizabeth Quinlan, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993. Development of the vertebrate visual system, cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory.


Jonathan Simon, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990. Neural processing, auditory computation, neurophysiology.


Sergei Sukharev, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1987. Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensation; mechano-activated ion channels, their structure and mechanisms of gating by membrane stretch.


David D. Yager, Affiliate Associate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989. Neuroethology and sensory biology; evolution of sensory systems; hearing in insects; CNS processing of auditory information.