People

Name	Job title	Department	Role	Research interests
Hillel Adesnik	Associate Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Plasticity, connectivity, and dynamics of neural networks
Scott Baraban	Adjunct Professor	HWNI	Faculty	Translational epilepsy research with a focus on interneurons, genetic forms of epilepsy, zebrafish and drug discovery.
Helen Bateup	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular basis of synapse and circuit changes associated with epilepsy and autism.
Diana Bautista	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular mechanisms underlying the sensations of itch, touch and pain.
Annaliese Beery	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Integrative Biology	Faculty	Mechanisms supporting affiliative social behavior between peers; neuroendocrinology of complex behavior.
Eric Betzig	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics	Faculty	Development of new tools for imaging and image analysis to enable biological discovery
Sonia Bishop	Adjunct Associate Professor	HWNI	Faculty	Neural basis of attention, emotion and anxiety. Individual differences in cognitive control and emotional responsivity.
Kristofer Bouchard	Adjunct Assistant Professor	HWNI	Faculty	Functional organization and dynamic coordination of sensorimotor networks underlying learned, skilled behaviors.
Stephen Brohawn	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular basis of sensory transduction and electrical signaling, especially mechanosensation.
Silvia Bunge	Professor	HWNI, Psychology	Faculty	Neural mechanisms, development and plasticity of higher cognitive functions in humans.
Anne Collins	Associate Professor	Psychology	Faculty	Computational modeling of human learning, decision-making and executive functions.
Emily Cooper	Associate Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty	Computational modeling of visual perception.
Mark D’Esposito	Professor	HWNI, Psychology	Faculty	Neural basis of high-level cognitive processes such as working memory and executive control.
Michael DeWeese	Professor	Neuroscience, Physics	Faculty	Neural mechanisms underlying auditory processing and selective attention in the cerebral cortex and artificial neural networks.
Andrew Dillin	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating aging and aging-related disease.
Gül Dölen	Professor	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty	Psychedelics; Critical Periods; Octopus; Social Behaviors; Evolution; Synaptic Plasticity; Extracellular Matrix; Oxytocin, Stroke; Fragile X; Autism; PTSD; Addiction
David Feinberg	Acting Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	MRI technology development, mapping columnar and visual circuitry, modeling neurovascular coupling.
Daniel Feldman	Professor, Coates Family Endowed Chair in Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Sensory processing and plasticity in the somatosensory cortex.
Marla Feller	Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Functional development and organization of neural circuits in the retina.
Yvette Fisher	Assistant Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Flexibility of neural circuits for spatial navigation.
John Flannery	Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty	Gene therapies for inherited retinal degenerations.
David Foster	Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Encoding of spatial memory and navigation toward rewards by neural ensembles in the hippocampus.
Meng-meng Fu	Assistant Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Our lab goal is to understand glial function at the animal, cell, and molecular level in order to elucidate mechanisms of normal development and disease progression.
Jack Gallant	Professor, Co-director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC)	Neuroscience	Faculty	Identifying cortical maps to discover how the brain represents information about the world and its own mental states.