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Neuroscience at the University of Miami:
The People

The Faculty

Faculty Listing - Click on the column headings to sort list below.
Faculty Criteria - Click here to view list of criteria for full faculty membership.
Faculty by Research - Click here to view faculty by area of research.

* indicates afilliate faculty member

Name Department Research Interest
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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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
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
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
Stephan Zuchner Institute of Human Genomics Molecular neurogenetics and psychiatric genetics

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Criteria for Full Faculty Membership

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.

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