Director of Graduate Program: Professor John E. Pintar, UMDNJ-SPH, Room 363, Busch Campus (732-235-5388)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Maureen M. Barr, Associate Professor of Genetics, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Columbia A human disease model: C. elegans cilia development, morphogenesis, and function
Qian Cai, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., NIH/Shanghai Second Medical Autophagy-lysosomal regulation in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
Timothy M. Casey, Professor of Entomology, SEBS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles) Respiration; bioenergetics; thermoregulation
Davide Comoletti, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CHINJ; Ph.D., Mario Negri Institute (Milan) Autism; structural biology; molecular and cellular neuroscience
Gabriella D'Arcangelo, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal proliferation, differentiation, and migration
Robin L. Davis, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS;
Ph.D., Stanford Regeneration and electrophysiology of peripheral
auditory neurons
Emanuel M. DiCicco-Bloom, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Pediatrics (Neurology), UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Cornell
Medical College Cellular and molecular regulation of
neurogenesis; animal models of autism; effects of environmental factor
on brain development
Cheryl F. Dreyfus, Acting Chair and Professor of Neuroscience and Cell
Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Cornell Role of environmental factors
on brain neuron ontogeny
Monica
Driscoll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS;
Ph.D., Harvard Molecular genetics of neurodegeneration and aging;
mechanotransduction
Isaac Edery, Professor of
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/CABM; Ph.D., McGill (Canada) Molecular mechanism underlying biological clocks
Julie M. Fagan, Associate Professor of Animal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D.,
Arizona Muscle growth; mechanisms of protein breakdown in mammalian
cells in health and in disease
Bonnie Firestein, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience,
SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego) Regulation of dendritic
morphology; targeting of neuronal proteins and the neuronal cytoskeleton
Martin Grumet, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS;
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Stem cells and transplantation into the nervous system
Ronald Hart, Professor of Cell Biology and
Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan MicroRNA modulation of neural stem cell gene expression networks
Karl
Herrup, Professor and Chair of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS;
Ph.D., Stanford Cell cycle regulation in the neuron and its
relationship to neurodegeneration
Sarah Hitchcock-DeGregori, Professor of Neuroscience and
Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Actin
cytoskeleton and regulation of actin dynamics using cellular,
biochemical, and biophysical methods
Shu-Chan Hsu, Associate
Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., British
Columbia Molecular mechanisms of synoptic development and function
Arnold G. Hyndman, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS;
Ph.D., California (Los Angeles) Development of CNS neurons
Kenneth D. Irvine, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, WIM/SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Cell signaling and growth control during Drosophila development
William
G. Johnson, Professor of Neurology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Columbia Identifying genes and pathways for human nervous system disorders,
(e.g., neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases)
Eunsung Junn, Assistant Professor of Neurology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Molecular
pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases
Alexander Kusnecov, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D.,
Newcastle (Australia) Neurobiological and behavioral effects of cytokines from the
brain and immune system
John K. Li, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania Ischemia and oxygenation; neural control of circulation;
stress and biofeedback; biomedical modeling and devices
Peter Lobel, Professor
of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Columbia
Molecular mechanisms
responsible for targeting lysosome in mammalian cells
Michael Matise, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh Molecular mechanisms of vertebrate
nervous system development
John P. McGann, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Yale Neuroscience of smell; optical imaging; cellular/systems/behavioral
Randall D. McKinnon, Associate Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., McMaster (Canada) Growth factors and glia
Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
SE; Ph.D., Syracuse Computational intelligence; neurosciences and electronic
neuronal implants
James H. Millonig, Associate Professor of
Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., Princeton Use of human and mouse genetics to understand the biological basis of
human disorders such as autism, neural tube defects (NTDs), cataracts,
and congenital heart defects (CHDs)
Mary Maral Mouradian, William Dow Lovett Professor of Neurology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., American (Beirut) Molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic interventions in Parkinson's disease
Judith A. Neubauer, Associate Professor of
Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers Neurobiology of respiratory
control: neuronal responses to hypoxia and CO2
Timothy Otto, Associate
Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., New Hampshire Neurobiology of
memory; synaptic plasticity; rodent olfactory learning
Richard
W. Padgett, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS;
Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill) TGFbeta signaling in Drosophila and C. elegans; microRNAs; developmental biology
Zhiping Pang, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CHINJ; Ph.D., Texas (Southwestern) Mechanisms of synaptic regulation: from stem cell to the brain
Thomas V. Papathomas, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia Mechanisms and models for stereo, motion, and texture perception
Kenneth Paradiso, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Stony Brook Physiology and pathology of nerve terminals and synaptic transmission
Andre Pietrzykowski, Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences, SEBS;
Ph.D., Medical Center of Postgraduate Education (Warsaw, Poland)) Molecular neuroendocrinology of environmental adaptation and
addiction
John E. Pintar, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Oregon Role of insulin growth factor family during
embryogenesis; development biology of the pituitary gland
Mark R. Plummer, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS;
Ph.D., Stanford Synaptic plasticity in the developing nervous system
Jamshid Rabii, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Francisco) Neuroendocrine regulation of prolactin, LH, and other pituitary hormones
Mladen-Roko Rasin, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Zagreb (Croatia)
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neocortical circuit formation
Christopher Rongo, Associate Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Formation and plasticity of
synapses in the central nervous system
Dipak Sarkar, Professor of Animal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Oxford Molecular
mechanisms of neuroendocrine cell growth and differentiation
Melitta Schachner, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS;
Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (Munich, Germany) Formation of
appropriate connections among nerve cells
Martin Schwander, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., Basel (Switzerland) Molecular and cellular mechanisms of auditory perception and hearing loss
Federico Sesti, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Genova Role of K+ channels in basic neuronal function and disease
Tetsuo Shimamura, Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Ph.D., Yokohama (Japan) Renal structure and function
Tracey Shors, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Southern
California Neurogenesis and sex differences in learning and memory
Gleb Shumyatsky, Assistant Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., Moscow Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying memory of fear
Steven M. Silverstein, Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-RWJMS/GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo) Cognitive neuroscience of visual processing and memory in schizophrenia
Arabinda K. Sinha, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., California (San Francisco) Metabolic alterations between sleep and wakefulness
Patricia Sonsalla, Professor of Neurology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/EOHSI;
Ph.D., Utah Neurodegeneration; Parkinson's disease; neuropharmacology
of dopamine neurons
Mona
Thiruchelvam, Assistant Professor, EOHSI, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rochester Neurodegeneration; Parkinson's disease; developmental
basis for adult disease
Chih-Cheng Tsai, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Neurodegenerative diseases; nuclear receptor signaling
David
Vicario, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Rockefeller Auditory and motor physiology; vocal learning; songbirds; neuroethology
William G. Wadsworth, Professor of Pathology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Missouri Extracellular matrix and axonal guidance
in C. elegans
George Wagner, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Neurochemical mechanisms underlying behavior
Mark O. West, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Wake Forest School of Medicine Electrophysiological analysis of basal ganglia and limbic circuits in
the rat during cocaine self-administration and habit formation
Mengqing Xiang, Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Texas Molecular mechanisms of sensorineural and CNS development
Wise Young, Professor of Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and
Neurobiology, SAS; Ph.D., Iowa; M.D., Stanford Spinal cord nerve
regeneration
Huaye Zhang, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Virginia Molecular mechanisms of dendritic spine morphogenesis and synaptic plasticity
Renping Zhou, Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley) Development of the brain: function of growth
factors and their receptors
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Juan
P. Advis, Associate Professor of Animal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Texas; D.V.M., Austral (Chile) Neuroendocrinology of reproduction
Janet Alder, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology;
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Columbia Role of trophic factors in neuronal
development and psychiatric disorders
David Crockett, Assistant
Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology; UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., CUNY Somatosensory systems development; spinal cord injury; neurotrophins
Joseph V. Martin, Professor and Chair of Biology; FAS-C; Ph.D.,
Southern California Mechanisms of action of hypnotic drugs
William M. Saidel, Associate Professor of Zoology; FAS-C; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vision in fishes and the
evolution of vision
Michael V.K. Sukhdeo, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural
Resources, SEBS; Ph.D., McGill (Canada) Behavioral ecology of parasitic helminths
in the host environment
Smita Thakker-Varia,
Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Kansas Growth factors and
neuropeptides in brain injury and mental disorders
