| Name | Keywords | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Crews, Fulton | ethanol, alchohol, stem cells, excitatory amino acids, behavior, physiology, addiction, neurodegeneration | Role of excitatory amino acid receptors in the behavioral and physiological consequences of ethanol abuse. Neurodegenerative disease mechanisms. |
| Deshmukh, Mohanish | apoptosis, cell death, neurodegeneration, development, survival, nerve growth factor, transgenic mice | Molecular mechanism of apoptosis in neurons. |
| Farel, Paul | regeneration, development, spinal cord, motoneuron, cell death | Developmental neurobiology of spinal motor function. |
| Howard, James | Physiology of the neuromuscular junction in clinical myasthenic conditions | |
| Lund, P Kay | peptides, growth factors | Regulation of the biosynthesis and expression of neuropeptides; function of growth factors in the CNS |
| Matsushima, Glenn | myelin, glia, cytokines, demyelination | Cytokines and MHC genes in the processes of neuronal myelination and demyelination |
| Perl, Edward | pain, nocioception, brain slices, spinal cord, sensory processing | Specificity of sensory systems; cellular and molecular correlates of nociceptive function in mammals |
| Pevny, Larysa | stem cells, development, cell fate, genetics, Neural induction, neurogenesis, SOX proteins | Studies of neural stem cells and cell differentiation during early embrygenesis. Focus on the SOX family of transcription factors and their role in specifying neurons. |
| Snider, William | neurotrophins, growth factors, sensory neurons, axon growth, nociceptors, transgenic mice, spinal cord development | Growth factor regulation of axonal morphology, Growth factor regulation of nociceptor development |
| Ting, Jenny | neuroimmunology, genetics, neurodegeneration | Regulation of transplantation genes in the CNS during neurodegenerative disease states |
