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Dr. Aaron GrossResearch interests: Molecular physiology and toxicology of arthropod pests, focusing on insecticide and acaricide resistance, the development of novel pest control strategies, and the molecular mechanisms underlying tick-host interactions and immune evasion.
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Dr. Alec SmithResearch interests: Experimental economics, behavioral economics, decision-making, incentives, and auction design.
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Dr. Alexandra DiFeliceantonioResearch interests: Food choice and food reward; neuroscience and metabolism
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Dr. Alexei MorozovResearch interests: Neural circuits of social behavior, fear, empathy, emotional learning, and the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders.
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Dr. Andrea S. BertkeResearch interests include HSV pathogenesis and reactivation, antiviral development, and the neurological and environmental impacts of SARS-CoV-2.
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Dr. Angela ScarpaResearch interests: Autism spectrum disorder, socioemotional development, anxiety and stress regulation, intervention science, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Dr. Anthony LaMantiaResearch interests: Brain development and neural circuit formation, focusing on neural stem cell differentiation, the developmental origins of neurodevelopmental disorders, and how disrupted brain development contributes to behavioral and cognitive disabilities.
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Dr. Ben KatzResearch interests: Cognitive aging and lifespan development of executive function, focusing on how interventions, attention, caregiving stress, and health-related factors influence cognitive performance and neural mechanisms across adulthood.
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Dr. Blake JohnsonResearch interests: Biomanufacturing and pharmaceutical process engineering, focusing on process analytical technologies, chemical and biosensors, autonomous experimentation, bioprocess modeling and control, and theory-guided machine learning.
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Dr. Brittany HowellResearch interests: Infant brain development and maternal-child health, focusing on the gut-brain-behavior axis, early-life environmental influences, maternal factors, and the biological and behavioral pathways shaping infant neurodevelopment.
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Dr. Brooks CasasLearning how humans make decisions about, among, for one another
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Dr. Bruce FriedmanResearch interests: Psychophysiology of emotion, anxiety, and personality, with a focus on autonomic nervous system activity, heart rate variability, and mind-body interactions in health and cardiovascular functioning.
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Dr. Carla FinkielsteinResearch interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms, with a focus on how biological clocks regulate cell division, DNA repair, and responses to cancer therapies such as radiation treatment.
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Dr. Christopher WyattResearch interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, signal processing, autonomous systems, and intelligent decision-making.
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Dr. David XieResearch interests: Bioinformatics, computational genomics, systems biology, and data-driven approaches to understanding disease mechanisms.
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Dr. Deborah J. GoodFocus area(s): Molecular regulation of body weight, exercise, fertility, and puberty; prader-willi syndrome; phylogenetic analysis; nutraceutical functional foods; Pedagogy research
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Dr. Eli VlaisavljevichResearch interests: Therapeutic ultrasound, neuromodulation, medical device development, noninvasive therapies, and tissue regeneration.
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Dr. Ignacio MooreResearch interests:Behavioral Endocrinology, Physiological Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Tissue engineering, disease modeling, lymphatic biology, therapeutic delivery, and computational approaches to biomedical systems.
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Dr. Jeff SteinResearch interests: Behavioral economics, health decision-making, addiction, health behavior change, and cognitive processes underlying chronic disease risk.
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Dr. Jennifer MunsonResearch interests: Tissue engineering, disease modeling, lymphatic biology, therapeutic delivery, and computational approaches to biomedical systems.
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Dr. John C. ChappellStudying the molecular characteristics of blood vessels
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Dr. John RossmeislResearch interests: Comparative neuro-oncology, brain tumors, CNS drug delivery, neurological disease, and translational neuroscience.
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Dr. Joshua C. DrakeThe Drake Lab investigates molecular mechanisms monitoring cellular energy shifts due to exercise, fasting, and aging, with a focus on skeletal muscle's role in functional independence and systemic metabolism
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Dr. Julia BassoFocus area(s): The effects of mind-body-movement practices on brain function and physiology; at the intersection of art and science
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Dr. Jungmeen Kim-SpoonResearch interests: Developmental psychopathology and developmental neuroscience, focusing on risk and resilience in youth, the long-term effects of adversity and child maltreatment, adolescent decision-making and mental health, and the developmental processes underlying psychopathology and adaptive functioning.
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Dr. Kendra SewallResearch interests: Animal behavior and neurobiology, focusing on how neural, behavioral, environmental, and developmental factors influence survival and reproductive success.
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Dr. Liwu LiResearch interests: Molecular and cellular regulation of inflammation, innate immune memory, macrophage biology, and immune signaling in inflammatory disease.
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Dr. Martha Ann Bell , articleResearch interests: Developmental cognitive neuroscience of infancy and childhood, focusing on brain-behavior relationships, executive function, emotion regulation, psychophysiology, and individual differences in early development.
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Dr. Michael FriedlanderResearch interests: Cellular and systems neuroscience, focusing on neuronal communication, synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, visual processing, brain injury recovery, and the signaling mechanisms that regulate neural function.
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Dr. Michelle TheusResearch interests: Traumatic brain injury, stroke, neuroinflammation, neural repair, and neuroregeneration.
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Dr. Pam VandeVordResearch interests: Traumatic brain injury, neuroengineering, injury biomechanics, tissue engineering, and neural repair.
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Dr. Paul MortonResearch interests: Developmental neurobiology, neural circuit formation, and mechanisms contributing to neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Dr. Pearl ChiuResearch interests: Computational psychiatry and the neuroscience of motivation, emotion, social decision-making, and mental health disorders, using behavioral, computational, clinical, and neuroimaging approaches to understand and improve decision-making processes.
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Dr. Rachel DianaResearch interests: Cognitive neuroscience of human memory, with a focus on recognition memory, retrieval processes, and medial temporal lobe function in episodic memory using behavioral, computational, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and patient-based approaches.
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Dr. Read MontagueResearch interests: Computational neuroscience and psychiatry, decision-making, reward learning, social behavior, and the neural mechanisms underlying mental health disorders.
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Dr. Rell ParkerResearch interests: Veterinary neurology, comparative neuroscience, neurological disease mechanisms, and translational models of nervous system disorders.
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Dr. Seongmin ParkResearch interests: Cognitive and affective development, emotional processing, attentional control, social neuroscience, and brain connectivity across the lifespan.
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Dr. Shannon FarrisResearch interests: The molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory, with a focus on neuronal function and how these processes are altered in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders.
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Dr. Sharon SwangerResearch interests: Synaptic physiology, neurotransmitter receptors, neural circuit function, and mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in neurological disorders.
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Dr. Sheryl Ball , articleResearch interests: Experimental and behavioral economics, with a focus on decision-making, incentives, and auction design.
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Dr. Shihoko KojimaResearch interests: Circadian biology and gene regulation, focusing on the molecular mechanisms controlling rhythmic gene expression and the role of circadian clocks in physiology and health using molecular, computational, and mathematical approaches.
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Dr. Sora ShinResearch interests: Stress neuroscience, neural circuit dysfunction, eating disorders, depression, social behavior, and the long-term effects of early-life adversity.
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Dr. Stefan DumaResearch interests: Injury and impact biomechanics, with a focus on automobile safety, sports biomechanics, military restraint systems, and the prevention of traumatic injuries through biomechanical research and design.
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Dr. Stephanie DeLucaResearch interests: Pediatric neurorehabilitation and occupational therapy, focusing on improving motor function in children with neuromotor impairments through intensive rehabilitation interventions, clinical research, and family-centered care.
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Dr. Stephen LaConteResearch interests: Advanced neuroimaging and neuroinformatics, focusing on functional MRI methods, brain-state decoding, and the application of neuroimaging technologies to understand and treat neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Dr. Steven RowsonResearch interests: Injury biomechanics, concussion prevention, head impact biomechanics, helmet safety design, and traumatic brain injury.
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Dr. Tae-Ho LeeResearch interests: Affective and cognitive neuroscience across the lifespan, focusing on attentional control, emotional development, family and social influences on brain function, and neural connectivity dynamics using behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging approaches.
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Dr. Webster SantosResearch interests: Medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, chemical biology, RNA-targeted therapeutics, and lipid signaling pathways.
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Dr. Xiaoting JiaResearch interests: Neural engineering and bioelectronics, with a focus on multimaterial fibers, nanomaterials, and nanoelectronic technologies for interfacing with biological systems.
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Dr. Yong W. LeeResearch interests: Neuroengineering, brain injury mechanisms, biomaterials, blood-brain barrier transport, and targeted therapeutic delivery for neurological disorders.
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Dr. Yuchin Albert PanResearch interests: Neural circuit development, synaptic connectivity, neurodevelopment, and advanced imaging approaches to brain function.
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Dr. Zhen YanResearch interests: Exercise physiology, molecular signaling, metabolic health, neurodegenerative disease, and exercise-induced disease prevention.
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Dr. Zhi ShengResearch interests: Glioblastoma biology, cancer stem cells, precision oncology, drug resistance mechanisms, and therapeutic target discovery.