Genes and Molecules
The nervous system is an amazingly complex aggregation of billions of cells and trillions of connections. Each connection, or synapse, is comprised of over a thousand different types of proteins and there is a remarkable diversity of cell and synapse types in the nervous system. Understanding such complexity requires identification of the molecular components, their genetic encoding, and control of their expression in the brain. Dynamic regulation of expression and localization is also a focus of research at this level. The Center for Neuroscience has numerous faculty working at this level. These faculty utilize many models systems, including Drosophila, rodent, non-human primate and human models to make rapid advances in this field.
Faculty studying genes and molecules
In-House
- Marie Burns, PhD
- William DeBello, PhD
- Diasynou Fioravante, PhD
- Mark Goldman, PhD
- John Gray, MD, PhD
- Tim Hanks, PhD
- Christina Kim, PhD
- Kimberley McAllister, PhD
- Alex Nord, PhD
- Gregg Recanzone, PhD
- Mitchell Sutter, PhD
- Martine Therrien, PhD
- W. Martin Usrey, PhD
- Jennifer Whistler, PhD
- Karen Zito, PhD
Affiliated
- Paul Ashwood, PhD
- Laura Borodinsky, PhD
- Lillian Cruz-Orengo, PhD
- Wenbin Deng, PhD
- Megan Dennis, PhD
- Elva Diaz, PhD
- Kyle Fink, PhD
- Cecilia Giulivi, PhD
- Qizhi Gong, PhD
- Fuzheng Guo, PhD
- Johannes Hell, PhD
- Andrew Ishida, PhD
- Janine LaSalle, PhD
- Anna La Torre Villa, PhD
- Pamela Lein, PhD
- Richard Maddock, MD
- John Morrison, PhD
- Karen Moxon, PhD
- Karl Murray, PhD
- Kwan Ng, MD, PhD
- Jan Nolta, PhD
- Martha O'Donnell, PhD
- David Olson, PhD
- Kassandra Ori-Mckenney, PhD
- David Pleasure, MD
- David Richman, MD
- Michael Rogawski, MD, PhD
- David Segal, PhD
- Kiarash Shahlaie, MD, PhD
- Sergi Simo, PhD
- Brian Trainor, PhD
- Konstantinos Zarbalis, PhD
- Min Zhao, MD, PhD
- Jie Zheng, PhD