Insect physiology and behavior; mechanisms of learning

Neuroimmunology; avian immune system; immunobiotechnological tools

Regulation of steroid hormone-transduced signals; in vitro models

Neurotoxicology of trace and toxic metals; reproductive/neuroendocrine function; animal 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

Neuroendocrinology; factors controlling or altering the onset of female puberty; alcohol

Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying phenotypic variation and disease

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

Astrocyte function, astrocyte-neuron interactions, molecular mechanisms of synapse development, mood disorders, rodent models.

Neural regeneration; spinal cord injury in humans; neurosurgery

Alcohol neuropharmacology and neurotoxicology; electrophysiology; animal and in vitro models

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

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

Clinical orthopedics; neurosurgery and spinal cord injury

Learning & memory in humans; educational neuroscience; cognition

Neuroimmunology; coronaviral infection; multiple sclerosis; mouse models

Clinical neurology; neurosurgery; spinal cord injury

Biophysically based modeling/simulation of nervous systems; computer-aided diagnosis/therapy

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

Neurotoxicology; reproductive/neuroendocrine function

Comparative neuropathology; canine gliomas; canine spinal trauma models

Evolutionary genetics of mating behavior in swordtail fish; social and environmental effects on chemical signaling

Medical and surgical ophthalmology; glaucoma and ocular pathology in companion animals

Perceptual, attentional, and neural influences on discrete and continuous bimanual coordination in humans

Retroviral-induced neurodegeneration; pathogenesis of brain and bone metastases; canine and rodent models

Molecular biology of high-grade glioma in humans; neurosurgery

Behavioral pharmacology; feeding; drug addiction; rodent models