Neuroscience

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Research in the Neuroscience and Systems Biology concentration ranges from molecular and developmental to cellular and systems neuroscience. Neuroscience labs use a wide variety of approaches such as genetics, molecular biology, electrophysiology, imaging, and computational and behavioral analyses to answer fundamental questions about how the brain processes information and uses it to guide behavior. Areas of particular research strength include sleep and circadian rhythms, neuroendocrinology, sensory and motor systems, learning and memory, and neurodegenerative disease. The training in this concentration is broad and consists of interdisciplinary education through research, specialized courses in advanced topics, and integration of several disciplines, and often involves collaborative efforts between preceptors from various fields. Depending on the specific research area, outstanding students may be nominated for support by the Training Grant in Sleep Research.

Neuroscience training grants

Faculty List

	Ravi Allada, PhD Email: r-allada@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-2809 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Pancoe 2121 Research Interests: Molecular genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep
	Luis Nunes Amaral, PhD Email: amaral@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7850 Fax: (847) 491-7070 Room: Tech E150 Research Interests: Systems approach to the characterization and modeling of cellular networks
	Thomas Bozza, PhD Email: bozza@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-2870 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Pancoe 2119 Research Interests: Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Olfaction
	Jianhua Cang, PhD Email: cang@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-0478 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Pancoe 2115 Research Interests: Functional Development of Visual Cortex
	Richard Carthew, PhD Email: r-carthew@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-4891 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Pancoe 3111 Research Interests: Cell differentiation and morphogenesis of Drosophila development
	Peter Dallos, PhD Email: p-dallos@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3175 Fax: (847) 467-4327 Room: Frances Searle 2-248 Research Interests: Biophysics and neurobiology of the cochlea
	David Ferster, PhD Email: ferster@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-4137 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Cook 2159 Research Interests:Mammalian visual cortex
	William L. Klein, PhD Email: wklein@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5510 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Hogan 5-105 Research Interests: Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease
	Carole LaBonne, PhD Email: clabonne@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-4165 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Pancoe 3411 Research Interests: Development of the vertebrate neural crest
	Jon E. Levine, PhD Email: jlevine@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7180 Fax: (847) 467-2478 Room: Hogan 2-120 Research Interests: Molecular, cellular, and physiological aspects of peptidergic neuronal function
	Robert A. Linsenmeier, PhD Email: r-linsenmeier@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3043 Fax: (847) 491-4928 Room: Tech E368 Research Interests:Retinal microenvironment
	David McLean, PhD Email: david-mclean@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-1696 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Cook 2-135 Research Interests:Development and plasticity of motor networks
	Thomas J. Meade, PhD Email: tmeade@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-2481 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech L110 Research Interests:Bioinorganic chemistry, biological molecular imaging and electronic biosensors
	Richard I. Morimoto, PhD Email: r-morimoto@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3340 Fax: (847) 491-3340 Room: Cook 3129 Research Interests: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
	Indira Raman, PhD Email: i-raman@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-7912 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Cook 2131 Research Interests:Neuronal ion channels and synaptic transmission
	Mark A. Segraves, PhD Email: m-segraves@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5072 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Cook 2137 Research Interests:Systems and cognitive neuroscience
	Lonnie Shea, PhD Email: l-shea@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7043 Fax: (847) 491-3728 Room: Tech E156 Research Interests:Regenerative medicine, gene and drug delivery, biomaterials
	Richard B. Silverman, PhD Email: agman@chem.northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5653 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech M292 Research Interests:Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
	Nelson Spruston, PhD Email: spruston@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-2734 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Pancoe 2409 Research Interests:Dendritic integration in hippocampal pyramidal neurons
	Fred W. Turek, PhD Email: fturek@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-2865 Fax: (847) 467-4065 Room: Cook 2129 Research Interests:Sleep and circadian rhythms, seasonal reproductive cycles
	Xiaozhong (Alec) Wang, PhD Email: awang@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-4897 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Pancoe 1405 Research Interests: Genetic analysis of protocadherin diversity in the central nervous system
	Catherine S. Woolley, PhD Email: cwoolley@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3025 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Pancoe 2407 Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology