| Ellen Barrett |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Electrophysiological and dye-imaging studies of myelinated axons and nerve terminals |
| John Barrett |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Neurotrophic factors; neuronal response to injury |
| Antoni Barrientos |
Neurology |
Yeast models of mitochondrial and neurodegenerative disorders |
| John Bethea |
Neurological Surgery |
CNS inflammation; cytokine signal transduction; neuronal response to injury |
| Sanjoy Bhattacharya |
Ophthalmology |
Ocular neurodegenerative diseases |
| Laura Bianchi |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Sensory perception and neurodegeneration. |
| John Bixby |
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology |
Neuronal signaling by tyrosine phosphatases and cell adhesion receptors; role of agrin in neuromuscular synaptogenesis |
| Richard Bookman |
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology |
Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release; intracellular Ca2+ imaging |
| Walter Bradley |
Neurology |
Animal models of motor neuron diseases; clinical and new drug development research in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| Helen Bramlett |
Neurological Surgery |
The pathophysiology and treatment of CNS injury |
| Mary Bunge |
Cell Biology and Anatomy |
Growth, differentiation, injury, and repair of nervous tissue |
| Alejandro Caicedo* |
Ophthalmology |
Age-Related Macular Degeneration |
| Nirupa Chaudhari |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Sensory transduction: molecular biology of receptors, ion channels, signaling |
| Akira Chiba |
Biology |
The emergence of intelligence; Basic rules of neural network formation in the brain with genetic manipulations and high-resolution imaging of Drosophila.
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| Gerhard Dahl |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Biophysics and molecular biology of ion channels; cell-cell channels and membrane receptors |
| Julia Dallman |
Biology |
The genetic basis of swimming and neural homeostasis |
| Gavriel David |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Calcium handling in the peripheral motor system and its disruption in neurodegenerative diseases |
| Dalton Dietrich |
Neurology |
Pathophysiology and treatment of brain and spinal cord injury |
| Ana Díez-Sampedro |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Biophysics and physiology of electrogenic sugar sensors and transporters. Cell/molecular neurobiology, Transmitters and receptors.
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| Mary Eaton |
Neurological Surgery |
Cell and molecular therapies for the consequences of spinal cord injury |
| Carl Eisdorfer |
Psychiatry |
Biogenic amines; dementia and depression |
| Lynne Fieber |
Marine Biology |
Comparative physiology of single cells in the nervous system; ion channels in cellular communication |
| Elizabeth Fini |
Ophthalmology |
Tissue response to stress; reair and regeneration; vision science |
| Myron Ginsberg |
Neurology |
Ischemic and dysmetabolic brain injury; cerebral blood flow and metabolism |
| Luis Glaser |
Biology |
University of Miami Executive Vice President and Provost |
| Jeffrey Goldberg |
Ophthalmology |
Development and regeneration in the visual system |
| Edward Green |
Psychology |
Electrophysiological correlates of learning in mammals and recovery of function following CNS insults |
| Barbara Grimpe* |
Neurological Surgery |
Novel strategies for axon regeneration and stem cell differentiation |
| James Guest |
Neurological Surgery |
Spinal cord injury and strategies for CNS repair |
| Abigail Hackam |
Ophthalmology |
Cellular mechanisms of retinal development and degeneration |
| John Hackman |
Neurology |
Spinal cord neurophysiology and neuropharmacology; actions of transmitters and modulators |
| Ian Hentall* |
Neurological Surgery |
Spinal cord and brainstem neurophysiology; pain and spinal cord injury; physiological instrumentation. |
| Bingren Hu |
Neurology |
Molecular mechanisms of cell death and survival after brain ishemia; novel therapeutic targets for anti-ishemic compounds |
| George Inana |
Ophthalmology |
Molecular neurobiology of retinal function and diseases |
| Yossef Itzhak |
Psychiatry |
Animal models of drug addiction: neuropsychopharmacology, neurochemistry, and molecular biology of drugs and abuse |
| Sari Izenwasser |
Psychiatry |
Behavioral and neurochemical effects of abused drugs; Effects of drug abuse on neurotransmitter receptors in brain
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| Robert Keane |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Neuroimmunology; developmental neurobiology |
| Glenn Kerrick |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Control and regulation of muscle contraction by Ca2+ and protein phosphorylation |
| Michael Kim |
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology |
The molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate dendrite morphogenesis and neural connectivity.
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| David Landowne |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Nerve excitation; sodium channels; optical techniques |
| Richard Lee |
Ophthalmology |
Neuroprotection and pathophysiology of glaucoma |
| Vance Lemmon |
Neurological Surgery |
Cell adhesion molecules; axon growth and guidance |
| Wei Li |
Ophthalmology |
Autoimmunity in central and peripheral nerve systems, including optic neuritis |
| Julio Licinio |
Psychiatry |
Pharmacogenomics of depression |
| Daniel Liebl |
Neurological Surgery |
Molecular, cellular, and developmental approach to identify the regulatory functions of axonal growth and regeneration following CNS injury |
| Baumbach Lisa |
|
hi |
| Zhongmin (John) Lu |
Biology |
Comparative studies of the auditory systems of vertebrates |
| Charles Luetje |
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology |
Molecular biology of central nervous system nicotinic cholinergic receptors |
| Karl Magleby |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Ion-channel gating mechanisms |
| Deborah Mash |
Neurology |
Neurotransmitter (including cholinergic) receptors in brain; alterations in aging and Alzheimers disease |
| Philip McCabe |
Psychology |
Neural substrates of learning; differential classically conditioned responses |
| Carlos Moraes |
Neurology |
Mitochondrial biology and genetics; neuromuscular diseases |
| Vincent Moy |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Cell-cell interaction; molecular recognition; immunology; model membrane systems; atomic force microscopy and reflection interference microscopy |
| Kenneth Muller |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Synaptic integration; axon growth and synapse formation; nerve repair |
| Amanda Myers |
Psychiatry |
DNA variation and RNA expression in the human brain: Can we understand how risk genes for neurological disorders cause disease? |
| Joseph Neary |
Pathology |
Signal transduction and protein phosphorylation in astrocytes |
| Brian Noga |
Neurological Surgery |
Brain and Spinal Mechanisms Controlling Walking |
| Wolfgang Nonner |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Molecular basis of ionic selectivity and conduction in ionic channels |
| Michael Norenberg |
Pathology |
Role of astrocytes in neurologic disease |
| Ozcan Ozdamar |
Otolaryngology |
Analysis and clinical applications of auditory evoked potentials |
| Spyridon Papapetropoulos |
Neurology |
Neuropathology, Clinical Descriptive studies, Neuropsychiatry, Genetics including Gene Expression Profiling of Neurodegenerative diseases and Normal Aging. Environmental neurotoxins |
| Damien Pearse |
Neurological Surgery |
Modulation of intracellular signaling events for the promotion of axonal growth
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| Miguel Perez-Pinzon |
Neurology |
CNS injury: pathophysiological mechanisms of cell death and neuroprotective strategies; special emphasis on cerebral ischemia, mitochondrial physiology, and neurodegenerative diseases |
| Vittorio Porciatti |
Ophthalmology |
Electrophysiology of the visual system, applied to neuroprotection of the optic nerve in glaucoma models |
| James Potter |
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology |
Molecular biology of the regulation of muscle contraction and Ca2+ binding proteins |
| Eugene Roberts |
Neurology |
Ion regulation in brain tissue; age-related changes in the brains response to anoxia, hypoxia, or ischemia |
| Stephen Roper |
Physiology and Biophysics |
Molecular and cellular biology of taste transduction; signal transduction |
| Richard Rotundo |
Cell Biology and Anatomy |
Regulation of gene expression in cells; biogenesis and localization of synaptic components |
| Jacqueline Sagen |
Neurological Surgery |
Cellular implants for the alleviation of chronic pain |
| Michael Schmale |
Marine Biology |
Marine neurobiology; neurogenic tumors |
| Neil Schneiderman |
Psychology |
Cardiovascular neurobiology |
| Thomas Sick |
Neurology |
Brain metabolism/electrophysiology |
| Vladlen Slepak |
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology |
Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in CNS |
| Christine Thomas |
Neurological Surgery |
Motor control and spinal cord injury |
| Kathryn Tosney |
Biology |
Axonal guidance; muscle morphogenesis; neural crest migration; regulation of growth cone motility, adhesion and cytoskeleton. |
| Pantelis Tsoulfas |
Neurological Surgery |
CNS stem cells; mechanisms of stem-cell maintenance and differentiation; neurotrophic factor signaling |
| Gaofeng Wang |
Institute of Human Genomics |
Parkinson disease and age-related macular degeneration |
| Brant Watson |
Neurology |
Pathomechanisms of thrombotic stroke |
| Rong Wen |
Ophthalmology |
Photoreceptor degeneration, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy |
| Eva Widerstrom-Noga |
Neurological Surgery |
Neuropathic pain and SCI: evaluation and treatment |
| David Wilson |
Biology |
Neuroscience of mind and consciousness |
| Ma-Li Wong |
Psychiatry |
Gene expression in the brain and peripheral tissues and the study of major depression and stress-related conditions; pharmacogenomics of depression
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| Patrick Wood |
Neurological Surgery |
Neurobiology of human Schwann cells |
| R. Grace Zhai |
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology |
Neural degeneration and development using Drosophila as a model system
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| Stephan Zuchner |
Institute of Human Genomics |
Molecular neurogenetics and psychiatric genetics |
Criteria for full faculty membership in the Neuroscience Program have been established by the Steering Committee as follows.
(1) To have established an ongoing independent research program in some area of neuroscience.
(2) To have trained graduate or postgraduate students in neuroscience and published in peer-reviewed journals in some area of neuroscience.
(3) To have maintained independent peer-reviewed funding at the national level for his/her independent research projects, beyond the level of postdoctoral fellowships. The member must be able to fund graduate students who have decided to perform their dissertation research in the member's laboratory. Such support begins after students have finished their rotations and have passed their qualifying examinations.
(4) To have a genuine interest in training and teaching at the graduate level as evidenced by participation in neuroscience-related courses, seminars, and journal clubs.
(5) Some of these requirements may, at the discretion of the Steering Committee, be waived for new, independent junior faculty deemed to have high promise for graduate training, but who have not yet had time to secure funding.
(6) To be a member of the Graduate Faculty. At present this requires an appointment (including joint appointment) in a basic science department.
University of Miami faculty members who are interested in neuroscience but who do not qualify as full members are considered as Affiliate Members. All memberships are reviewed every five years.