Faculty and Research
![Group photo of Neuroscience faculty](images/neuro-faculty-group-960.jpg)
Research Faculty
![Anne Berry, Psychology](images/anne-berry-340.jpg)
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging.
![Susan Birren](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/birren-susan.jpg)
Expertise: Developmental neurobiology.
![Paul DiZio](images/dizio-340.jpg)
Expertise: Human spatial orientation and motor control.
![Irving Epstein](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/epstein_340.jpg)
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
![Paul Garrity](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/garrity-paul.jpg)
Expertise: Neural development and behavior.
![Christine Grienberger](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/grienberger-christine-340.jpg)
Expertise: Understanding how the brain is able to produce learned behaviors.
![Leslie Griffith](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/griffith_lc_req_340.jpg)
Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.
![Angela Gutchess](images/gutchess-340.jpg)
Expertise: Cognitive and social neuroscience; influence of age and culture on memory.
![Jennifer Gutsell](images/gutsell-340.jpg)
Expertise: Self-control; empathy and environmentalism.
![James Howard](images/howard-james-340.jpg)
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, reward, learning, decision-making, chemosensation.
![Shantanu Jadhav](images/jadhav-340.jpg)
Expertise: Neural mechanisms of learning and memory-guided behavior in the mammalian brain.
![Donald Katz](images/katz-340.jpg)
Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.
![James Lackner](images/lackner-340.jpg)
Expertise: Spatial orientation. Human movement control. Adaptation to spaceflight and autonomous vehicles.
![Eve Marder](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/marder-eve.jpg)
Expertise: Modulation of neural networks.
![Joshua Meisel](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/meisel-joshua-340.jpg)
Mitochondrial genetics and metabolism in health and neurodegenerative disease
![Paul Miller](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/miller-paul.jpg)
Expertise: Computational and theoretical neuroscience.
![Sacha Nelson](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/nelson-sacha.jpg)
Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex.
![Dan Oprian](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/oprian-daniel.jpg)
Expertise: Structure-function studies of visual pigments and other cell surface receptors
![Suzanne Paradis](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/paradis-suzanne.jpg)
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.
![Avital Rodal](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/rodal-avi.jpg)
Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.
![Michael Rosbash](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/rosbash-michael.jpg)
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression.
![Robert Sekuler](images/sekuler-340.jpg)
Expertise: Visual perception. Cognitive processes.
![Piali Sengupta](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/sengupta-piali.jpg)
Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans.
![Jonathan Touboul, Mathematics](images/touboul-340.jpg)
Expertise: Modeling and mathematical analysis of systems inspired by the brain's activity
![Gina Turrigiano](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/turrigiano-gina-23-340.jpg)
Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties.
![Stephen Van Hooser](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/van-hooser-stephen.jpg)
Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits.
![Yangyang Wang](images/wang-yangyang.jpg)
Teaching Faculty
![Maria de Boef Miara](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/miara-maria.jpg)
Expertise: Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics, comparative anatomy, evolution physiology, biomechanics.