Neuroscience

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Research in Neuroscience 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.

Faculty List

	Ravi Allada, PhD Email: r-allada@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep
	Luis Nunes Amaral, PhD Email: amaral@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Systems approach to the characterization and modeling of cellular networks
	Thomas Bozza, PhD Email: bozza@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular genetics and physiology of olfaction
	Jianhua Cang, PhD Email: cang@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Functional development of visual cortex
	Richard Carthew, PhD Email: r-carthew@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Cell differentiation and morphogenesis of Drosophila development
	Daniel A. Dombeck, PhD Email: d-dombeck@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Optical dissection of the neuronal circuits underlying mammalian navigation
	David Ferster, PhD Email: ferster@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Mammalian visual cortex
	Marco Gallio, PhD Email: marco@northwestern.edu Research Interests: The processing of temperature stimuli in the brain
	William L. Klein, PhD Email: wklein@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease
	Carole LaBonne, PhD Email: clabonne@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Development of the vertebrate neural crest
	Robert A. Linsenmeier, PhD Email: r-linsenmeier@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Retinal microenvironment
	David McLean, PhD Email: david-mclean@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Development and plasticity of motor networks
	Thomas J. Meade, PhD Email: tmeade@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Bioinorganic chemistry, biological molecular imaging and electronic biosensors
	Richard I. Morimoto, PhD Email: r-morimoto@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
	Indira Raman, PhD Email: i-raman@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Neuronal ion channels and synaptic transmission
	Mark A. Segraves, PhD Email: m-segraves@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Systems and cognitive neuroscience
	Lonnie Shea, PhD Email: l-shea@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Regenerative medicine, gene and drug delivery, biomaterials
	Richard B. Silverman, PhD Email: agman@chem.northwestern.edu Research Interests:Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
	Fred W. Turek, PhD Email: fturek@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Sleep and circadian rhythms, seasonal reproductive cycles
	Vinzenz Unger, PhD Email: v-unger@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Transport of transition metals; structure and function of membrane associated synaptic scaffolds; methods development for membrane protein crystallization and single particle approaches
	Xiaozhong (Alec) Wang, PhD Email: awang@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Genetic analysis of protocadherin diversity in the central nervous system
	Catherine S. Woolley, PhD Email: cwoolley@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology