Insect physiology and behavior; mechanisms of learning

Neuroimmunology; avian immune system; immunobiotechnological tools

Regulation of steroid hormone-transduced signals; in vitro models

Motor learning and performance in humans; balance, posture, and coordination

Brain and cognitive development; drug and alcohol abuse; rodent, ovine, and zebrafish animal models

Neural networks and modeling; computational neuroscience

Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying phenotypic variation and disease

Estrogen effects on aging brain; drug-receptor interactions; alcohol; teratogens; rodent models

Neural regeneration; spinal cord injury in humans; neurosurgery

Cellular and molecular regulation of motivated behaviors; genetics of behavior and development in C. elegans

Spinal cord injury, molecular mechanisms of axon regeneration and aging, cardiometabolic and bowel dysfuntion

Structure and Measurement of Intelligence, Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Molecular genetics of biological clocks; Drosophila

Psychiatric genetics; genetic epidemiology of anxiety and depressive disorders.

Embedded signal processing methodologies; design and development of wearable computers for health monitoring

Clinical orthopedics; neurosurgery and spinal cord injury

Clinical neurology; neurosurgery; spinal cord injury

Neural systems for emotion, learning, and memory; fear and anxiety; rodent models

Molecular underpinnings of mammalian circadian clock; gene expression regulated by clock genes; mouse models

Circadian clocks in the migration of the monarch butterfly; genes, physiology, and behavior

Environmental psychophysiology in humans; non-invasive physiological recording techniques

Molecular biology of high-grade glioma in humans; neurosurgery

Human learning and decision making across the lifespan; motivation and cognition

Developmental neurobiology; synapse development and plasticity; biological clocks; snail and worm models