Anderson, Lloyd ; Animal Science;

Stromer, Marvin ; Animal Science; Studying the muscle cell cytoskeleton and anchoring sites, such as Z lines, dense bodies, attachment plaques and costameres, for cytoskeletal and contractile component interactions. Molecular structures and mechanisms involved in membrane fusion during exocytosis.

Buss, Janice ; BBMB; Signal transduction during cellular differentiation, growth and oncogenesis; molecular mechanisms by which GTP-binding proteins and tyrosine kinases interact with membranes; covalent modification of proteins with lipids.

Robson, Richard ; BBMB;

Anantharam, Vellareddy ; Biomedical Sciences;

Day, Tim ; Biomedical Sciences; Our research is focused on the molecular and functional biology of the nervous systems of parasitic worms. We aim to understand the basic biology of these worms with the additional goal of identifying novel drug targets for control of parasitism. The worms that we study range from the human flatworm parasite Schistosoma mansoni (the agent of human schistomiasis in Africa, Asia and South America) all the way to the nematode parasite of soybeans, Heterodera glycines.

Greenlee, Heather ; Biomedical Sciences; Visual system: Development of the retina, differentiation and survival of photoreceptors. Alzheimer's disease: The effects of beta-amyloid on neuron survival and survival and differentiation of neural stem cells.

Hsu, Walter ; Biomedical Sciences;

Jeftinija, Srdija ; Biomedical Sciences; Research interests are mechanisms controlling the cellular signaling in glia-neuron interactions, in growth hormone secretion and in neural stem cells differentiation.

Kanthasamy, Anumantha ; Biomedical Sciences; Parkinson's disease: cellular/molecular mechanisms in dopaminergic degeneration, environmental risk factors, and neuroprotective strategies. Cardiac arrest-induced neurological deficits: posthypoxic myoclonus, seizures, animals models, novel drug discovery.

Kim, Uhnoh ; Biomedical Sciences;

Martin, Richard ; Biomedical Sciences; Studying nematode genomes including, C. elegans has identified important genes in nervous systems. We use single-channel techniques to investigate ion-channels receptors in nematodes and how they are modulated by different conditions of drug therapy.

Ourednik, Jitka ; Biomedical Sciences; Development and regeneration of the central nervous system in mammals; searching for new therapeutic possibilities for neurodegenerative diseases in humans including neural transplantation, function of growth factors in neural differentiation; applied gene therapy; relationships and communication of the graft and recipient neural tissue.

Ourednik, Vaclav ; Biomedical Sciences; Genetic mechanisms underlying in vitro and in vivo differentiation of neural progenitors. Possibilities how to harness the multipotent character of neural stem cells in the development of new therapeutic approaches to neurodegenerative diseases. Graft/host interactions after neural transplantation leading to induction of regenerative processes in the host.

Randic, Mirjana ; Biomedical Sciences; Neurobiology of pain: sensory processing, plasticity and generation of pain. We use intracellular and whole-cell patch-clamp recordings. Calcium imaging, immunocytochemistry and pharmacological techniques to investigate the role of glutamate receptors in neurons within spinal cord slices from naïve and injured mutant rats and mice.

Uemura, Etsuro ; Biomedical Sciences;

Bracha, Vlastislav ; Biomedical Sciences Department; Learning and memory, motor control, goal-oriented behavior, multiple channel recording of brain cell activity, neural networks, behavioral neuropharmacology.

Bloedel, James ; Biomedical Sciences, Health & Human Performance; Cerebellar physiology, motor learning, motor control.

Mallapragada, Surya  ; Chem Engineering; Our research involves development of micropatterned biodegradable polymers with chemical, physical, electrical and biological cues for directing and accelerating nerve growth for peripheral nerve regeneration. We are also using similar techniques to try to develop a bioartificial optic nerve that can interface between electronic devices and the brain.

Lin, Victor Shang-Yi ; Chemistry; Our current research interest is to develop non-invasive biocompatible nanoprobes for chemical sensing of intercellular neurochemical communications with nanoscale spatial resolution, and for control of cellular behavior at the macroscopic level.

Honavar, Vasant  ; Computer Sci; Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Modeling, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology (especially characterization of macromolecular sequence-structure-function relationships, protein-protein interactions, genetic network inference), Neural Computation, Computational Neuroscience, Computational Learning Theory, Complex Adaptive Systems, Neuroinformatics.

Smiley-Oyen, Ann ; Health & Human Performance; How the basal ganglia and cerebellum contribute to motor control and motor learning. Parkinson's disease and cerebellar dysfunction studied, and developmental dyslexia and developmental coordination disorder. Long-range goal: to impact therapeutic practice.

Cunnick, Joan ; Microbiology;

Cleary, Anne ; Psychology; Human memory processes, especially those involved in episodic recognition (the recognition that a particular episode or event was experienced previously).

Cooper, Eric ; Psychology; Dr. Cooper's research focusses on how humans represent objects, faces, and scenes in memory for the purpose of recognizing them. His research is directed towards understanding the hemispheric specialization that underlies visual recognition processes.

Johansen, Jorgen ; Zool & Genetics;

Johansen, Kristen ; Zool & Genetics;

Sakaguchi, Donald ; Zool & Genetics; Developmental neurobiology, stem cell biology, stem cell transplants as a strategy for CNS rescue and repair, development and plasticity of vertebrate visual systems.

Shen, Sheldon ; Zool & Genetics;

Drewes, Charles ; Zoology & Genetics; Regeneration, neural pattern formation, giant nerve fibers, locomotion, and neurotoxicology in the freshwater oligochaete, Lumbriculus variegatus.

Emery, Dennis ; Zoology & Genetics;