UNC Curriculum in Neurobiology

Name	Keywords	Research Interests
Hollins, Mark	somatosensory, psychophysics	Psychophysical mechanisms of adaptation in normal and disturbed somesthesis
Manis, Paul	synaptic transmission, receptors, ion channels, potassium channels, spike-timing dependent plasticity, patch clamp, brain slice, single cell neural modeling, calcium imaging, quantitative real-time PCR, single cell PCR	Cellular mechanisms of auditory information processing and plasticity. Studies examine ion channels and synaptic function and plasticity in the brainstem and cortex.
Tiesinga, Paul	computational neuroscience, neural coding, data analysis, information theory, synchronous oscillations, neuromodulation, selective attention	Biophysics of sensory information processing.
Wightman, R	neurotransmitters; dopamine, norepinephrine, 5-hydroxytryptamine; in vivo measurements	Real-time electrochemical measurements of neurotransmitter