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Hubert Amrein, PhD

Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Department Website | Lab Website | amrein@tamu.edu

Sensory perception; molecular and neural basis of olfaction and taste in Drosophila

Brian Anderson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | brian.anderson@tamu.edu

Human visual attention; associative learning; eye movements; addiction; neuroimaging

Jessica Bernard, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | jessica.bernard@tamu.edu

Cerebellar structure and networks in humans; motor and cognitive behavior; aging; neuroimaging

Carlos Bolaños-Guzmán, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | bolanos-guzman@tamu.edu

Neuropsychiatric disorders; physical/emotional stress; development; adolescence; animal models; second messenger systems

Candice L. Brinkmeyer-Langford, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Department Website | brinkmeyer@tamu.edu

Genetics and genomics, impact of viral infection and environmental exposure on neurological diseases, immunology

Rebecca J. Brooker, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | rebeccabrooker@tamu.edu

Developmental affective neuroscience; emotional development; biomarkers of risk for mental illness; transgenerational transmission of risk

Heather M Burte, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | heather.burte@tamu.edu

Spatial cognition, individual differences, STEM learning, neural basis of spatial thinking.

Rodolfo Cardoso, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science
Department Website | r.cardoso@tamu.edu

Physiology of reproduction

Adam J. Case, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | acase@tamu.edu

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); neuroimmunology; redox biology; physiology

Yoonsuck Choe, PhD

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department Website | Lab Website | choe@tamu.edu

Neural networks and modeling; computational neuroscience

Sharon DeMorrow, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Department Website | demorrow@tamu.edu

Hyperplastic and neoplastic cholangiocyte proliferation; autocrine signaling; in vitro models

Jennifer Dulin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Department Website | Lab Website | jdulin@bio.tamu.edu

Spinal cord injury; neural stem cell transplantation; connectivity mapping

David J. Earnest, PhD

Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | dearnest@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying biological clocks; rodent models and cell culture

Shoshana Eitan, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | seitan@tamu.edu

Emotional development; cellular and molecular mechanisms of opiates; adolescent and adult rodent models

Isabella Farhy, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biology
Department Website | ifarhy@tamu.edu

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

Cédric G. Geoffroy, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | Lab Website | geoffroy@tamu.edu

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

Jim Grau, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | j-grau@tamu.edu

Learning, pain modulation, and recovery of function after spinal cord injuries in rodent models

Arum Han, PhD

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department Website | Lab Website | arum.han@tamu.edu

Micro/nano systems for cellular and molecular analysis; microfluidics; lab-on-a-chip; organ-on-a-chip

Paul E. Hardin, PhD

Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology
Department Website | Lab Website | phardin1@tamu.edu

Molecular genetics of biological clocks; Drosophila

John M. Hettema, MD/PhD

Professor, Psychiatry
Department Website | hettema@tamu.edu

Psychiatric genetics; genetic epidemiology of anxiety and depressive disorders.

Michelle Hook, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | michellehook@tamu.edu

Recovery of function; spinal cord plasticity; drug addiction; rodent models

Nicholas Jeffery,

Professor, Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Department Website | NJeffery@cvm.tamu.edu

Spinal cord injury; plasticity

Jeffrey Jones, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biology
Department Website | Lab Website | jonesjeffr@tamu.edu

Neural circuits underlying circadian rhythms in behavior and physiology; in vivo and in vitro imaging; rodent models

Gladys Ko, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Department Website | gko@tamu.edu

Diabetic retinopathy; novel bioactive peptides; circadian regulation of retinal physiology; signal transduction and ion channel regulation

Jianrong Li, PhD

Professor, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Department Website | jianrong.li@tamu.edu

Glial biology; neuron-glia interactions; neuroinflammation; demyelinating diseases; myelin regeneration; mouse models

Wanhe Li, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biology
Department Website | wli01@tamu.edu

Sleep and wakefulness regulation, circadian clock, chronic stress, social isolation, learning and memory, genetics and genomics, in vivo imaging, genetic model organisms.

Israel Liberzon, MD

Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, Texas A&M college of Medicine
Department Website | liberzon@tamu.edu

Annmarie Macnamara, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | amacnamara@tamu.edu

Emotions in psychiatric health and disease; cognitive factors; neuroimaging and psychophysiology in humans

Stephen Maren, PhD

Professor and Claude H Everett, Jr '47 Chair of Liberal Arts, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | maren@tamu.edu

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

Vani Mathur, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | vmathur@tamu.edu

Disparities in pain in humans; social and cultural factors affecting pain experience and pain physiology

Dylan McCreedy, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Department Website | Lab Website | dmccreedy@bio.tamu.edu

Spinal cord injury; mechanisms of acute inflammation; 3D imaging and circuit mapping

Mary Meagher, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | m-meagher@tamu.edu

Psychoneuroimmunology; pain; stress and disease in humans and animal models

Ranjana Mehta, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Department Website | Lab Website | rmehta@tamu.edu

Neuroergonomics; work-related musculoskeletal disorders; obesity and aging in humans

Rajesh C. Miranda, PhD

Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | rmiranda@tamu.edu

Fetal brain development; microRNAs; stem cells; alcohol; teratology; ovine, murine, zebrafish, neural stem models

Karienn Montgomery, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | Lab Website | Karienn@tamu.edu

Uncovering early aspects of dementia (Alzheimer’s disease) and mechanisms of age-related cognitive impairment.

Justin Moscarello, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | jmm31@tamu.edu

Memory systems; psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of emotional memory; rodent models

Naomi Nagaya, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | nagaya@tamu.edu

Hormonal regulation of behavior; sex differences; fear and anxiety; neurosteroids; rodent models

Peter Nghiem, PhD, DVM

Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Department Website | pnghiem@tamu.edu

Duchenne muscular dystrophy; molecular, cellular, and phenotypic characterization; canine models

 Andrew D Nordin, PhD

 Assistant Professor,  Healthy & Kinesiology
Department Website | nordina@tamu.edu

Human motor neuroscience; neural control of locomotion; mobile brain and body imaging; high-density electroencephalography.

Joseph Orr, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | joseph.orr@tamu.edu

Voluntary task selection behavior; prefrontal cortex; neuroimaging; addiction and psychosis in humans

Mark Packard, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | markpackard@tamu.edu

Neurobiology of memory; multiple memory systems; rodent models

Vladislav Panin, PhD

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department Website | Lab Website | panin@tamu.edu

Developmental biology; glycosylation and cell interactions

Hangue Park, PhD

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Department Website | Lab Website | hangue.park@tamu.edu

Integrated neuroprosthesis; ​Neuromodulation; Artificial sensory feedback; Rehabilitation

Patricia Pietrantonio, PhD

Professor, Department of Entomology
Department Website | Lab Website | p-pietrantonio@tamu.edu

Molecular and functional characterization of receptors in insects

Samba D. Reddy, PhD, RPh

Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | reddy@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Translational pharmacology and neurotherapeutics for epilepsy and brain disorders; rodent models

Bruce Riley, PhD

Professor, Department of Biology
Department Website | Lab Website | bruce-b-riley@tamu.edu

Inner ear development in zebrafish; cell-cell signaling and gene interactions

Mendell Rimer, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | rimer@tamu.edu

Synapse formation, maintenance, and pathology; neuromuscular junction; mouse molecular genetics

Lee A. Shapiro, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | lshapiro@tamu.edu

Neuroanatomical, neuropathological, neuroimmune and peripheral contributions to neurodegenerative disorders, traumatic brain injury and epilepsy.

Ashok K. Shetty, PhD

Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Medicine
Department Website | ash.shetty@tamu.edu

Raquel Sitcheran, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Department Website | Lab Website | raquel.sitcheran@tamu.edu

NF-kB regulatory proteins in cancer cells; gliomas; in vitro and animal models

Rachel J. Smith, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | rachelsmith@tamu.edu

Neural mechanisms underlying drug addiction and relapse; maladaptive behavior; rodent models

Laura N. Smith, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | laura.smith@tamu.edu

Synapse plasticity in drug addiction; reward function in fragile X syndrome and autism; in vitro and animal models

Michael Smotherman, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Department Website | Lab Website | msmotherman@bio.tamu.edu

Neurobiology and evolution of animal communication; echolocation in bats; neurocircuitry and behavior

Farida Sohrabji, PhD

Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | f-sohrabji@tamu.edu

Women's health and aging; hormones; stroke and blood brain barrier function; animal models

Rahul Srinivasan, MBBS, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | rahul@tamu.edu

Neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s disease, astrocytes and nicotine neuroprotection.

Yuxiang Sun, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Nutrition
Department Website | Lab Website | Yuxiang.sun@tamu.edu

Obesity, diabetes, aging and Alzheimer's disease

Louis Tassinary, PhD, JD

Professor, Department of Visualization
Department Website | l-tassinary@tamu.edu

Environmental psychophysiology in humans; non-invasive physiological recording techniques

Jyotsna Vaid, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | jvaid@tamu.edu

Language in humans; neuropsychological and cognitive aspects of bilingualism

Jun Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | jwang188@tamu.edu

Neural circuit mechanisms of drug and alcohol addiction; synaptic transmission and plasticity; slice electrophysiology; basal ganglia; rodent models.

Gregg B. Wells, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Medicine
Department Website | gbwells@tamu.edu

Protein structure and neurological disease; ion channels in animals and bacteria; molecular structure

Jane Welsh, PhD

Professor, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Department Website | c-welsh@tamu.edu

Neuroimmunology; viral pathogenesis; animal models and therapies for autoimmune diseases

Ursula Winzer-Serhan, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Department Website | winzer-serhan@tamu.edu

Nicotine; nicotinic receptors; brain development; gene-environment interactions; in vitro and rat models

Steven Woltering, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Department Website | Lab Website | swolte@tamu.edu

Human development and learning; biometrics in social and health sciences; self-regulation

Darrell Worthy, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department Website | Lab Website | worthyda@tamu.edu

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

Keith Young, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, TAMHSC Temple
Department Website | kayoung@tamu.edu

Biological basis of mental illness; PTSD; depression; schizophrenia; autism; clinical populations

Aref Zarin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Department Website | Lab Website | azarin@tamu.edu

Development and function of sensory-motor circuits controlling locomotor behaviors and action selection, Behavioral neurogenetics, Transcriptional regulation of neuronal properties

Mark Zoran, PhD

Professor, Department of Biology
Department Website | mjzoran@tamu.edu

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

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