Karen Braas, Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms modulating neuroendocrine peptide production and function; regulation of neuronal peptide receptor expression and intracellular signalling mechanisms.

Todd Clason Applications of advanced optical imaging techniques to problems in neuroscience.

Carson Cornbrooks, Ph.D. Neuron-glia interaction in the mammalian peripheral nervous system during development and regeneration; synthesis and organgization of extracellular matrix; facilitation of CNS regeneration by transplants of cultured peripheral neural tissue.

Ellen B. Cornbrooks, Ph.D. Full-time professor of Gross Anatomy and Physiology.

Felix P. Eckenstein, Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms of nerve regeneration after injury, with emphasis on growth factor and cytokine function. Neuroprotective effects of growth factors in neurodegenerative disease and spinal cord injury.

Elizabeth Ezerman, Ph.D. Pattern formation and development of specific neuron-target interactions in the nervous system.

Jerome Fiekers, Ph.D. Analysis of intracellular ions using fluorescent dyes; electrophysiological techniques used to examine the activation and regulation of receptor-activated and voltage-gated ion channels in neurons, muscle cells, and cultured neuroendocrine cells.

Cynthia Forehand, Ph.D. Formation and maintenance of specific synaptic connections in the nervous system; functional anatomy of mammalian autonomic preganglionic neurons; pattern formation in the spinal cord.

Leslie Hoffman Full-time instructor of Gross Anatomy.

Diane Jaworski, Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms of extracellular matrix regulation of central nervous system developmental and injury-induced plasticity, and disease, including glioma and stroke.

Gary Mawe, Ph.D. Neural regulation of gastrointestinal function; studies of the modulation of ganglionic and smooth muscle activity by neural, hormonal and immune-mediated inputs; pharmaco-electrophysiological (intracellular and patch clamp recording) and immunohistochemical approaches.

Victor May, Ph.D. Regulation of neuronal peptide and transmitter biosynthesis and secretion; neuronal phenotype plasticity.

Brian Nibbelink, Ph.D. Full-time lecturer and laboratory instructor for Human Gross Anatomy, course-coordinator and laboratory instructor for Anatomy and Physiology, and diener.

Rae Nishi, Ph.D. Multidisciplinary approaches towards the understanding of molecular mechanisms of neural development and cancer; novel functions of nicotinic signaling during development.

Rodney Parsons, Ph.D. Synaptic physiology and pharmacology; analysis of neurotransmitter activated currents and neurotransmitter modulation of voltage-dependent ionic currents in autonomic neurons; histochemical determination of chemical coding of parasympathetic neurons in mammalian cardiac ganglia.

Matthew D. Rand, Ph.D. Developmental neurotoxicity: identification of the molecular pathways affected by environmental methylmercury (MeHg) exposure and characterization of the Notch signaling pathway.

Jean Szilva, M.D. Full-time professor of Gross Anatomy and Neuroscience.

Margaret Vizzard, Ph.D. Neural control of the upper and lower urinary tract; plasticity (e.g., neurochemical, organizational, electrophysiological) in peripheral bladder afferent pathways and central micturition pathways following spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury and bladder inflammation.

Sheryl White, Ph.D. Neuron-specific gene structure, expression, gene regulation and neuronal plasticity.