Juan Song, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our primary research interest is to identify the mechanisms that regulate neural circuit organization and function at distinct stages of adult neurogenesis, and to understand how circuit-level informa … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Developmental Biology, Neurobiology |
Jason Stein, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We are a lab exploring how variations in the genome change the structure and development of the brain, and in doing so, create risk for neuropsychiatric illness. We study genetic effects on multiple a … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Developmental Biology, Genomics, Neurobiology |
Tamara Strohm, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am interested in medical student education, neuropalliative care, and clinical pathophysiology of stroke. |
| Mentors: | Medical Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neurology, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neurobiology |
Yuyang Tang, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The eradication of HIV infection must understand where the virus hides. The central nervous system (CNS) may represent a unique reservoir of persistent HIV infection and cells in the brain are likely … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Trials, Drug Delivery, HIV/AIDS, Hematology, Immunology, Microbiology, Microscopy, Neurobiology, Virology |
Lisa M Tarantino, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Tarantino lab studies addiction and anxiety-related behaviors in mouse models using forward genetic approaches. We are currently studying a chemically-induced mutation in a splice donor site that … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Systems Biology |
Claudia Testa |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Clinical and translational research in movement disorders with a special interest in genetically based therapeutics, and neurogenetic neurodegenerative disorders |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neurology, Program for Precision Medicine in Healthcare (PPMH) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioethics, Clinical Informatics, Clinical Trials, Computational Biology, Drug Delivery, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Genomics, Health Equity, Neurobiology, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine |
Todd Thiele, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My primary research interests are directed at the neurobiology of alcoholism. To study the central mechanisms involved with neurobiological responses to ethanol, I use both genetic and pharmacological … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
Jenny Ting, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Topics include gene discovery, genomics/proteomics, gene transcription, signal transduction, molecular immunology. Disease relevant issues include infectious diseases, autoimmune and demyelinating di … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology |
Jessica J. Walsh, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research aims to gain an improved understanding of the biological basis of behavior using a multi-disciplinary approach to elucidate the molecular and circuit mechanisms underlying motivated socia … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), Neuroscience Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Autism, Mental illness, Microscopy, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
Ellen R. Weiss, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research involves understanding the regulation of visual signaling pathways in the vertebrate retina using mice and zebrafish as model organisms. In the past 20 years we have discovered what was a … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, Genetics, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Metabolism, Neurobiology, Physiology, Systems Biology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Anesthesiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neurobiology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mental illness, Neurobiology |





