| Name (click for contact info) | Department | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Carrie Adler | Molecular Medicine | stem cells and regeneration in planarians; neural control of feeding behavior and chemotaxis; regeneration of neurons. |
| Andrew H. Bass | NBB | animal communication, especially production and encoding of vocal signals; evolution and sexual differentiation of brain and behavior |
| Chemistry & Chemical Biology | understanding the signaling cues that direct cell proliferation, differentiation and development | |
| Psychology | olfactory perception as a complex system; coordinating behavioral; physiological, pharmacological, and computational studies of sensory sampling; learning and memory; biological neural networks | |
| Itai Cohen | Physics | neuromuscular underpinnings of short and long term flight control in Drosophila; utilizes state of art visualization of flapping flight, mechanical and optogenetic perturbations, and machine learning analysis to elucidate how these insects achieve such marvelous areal maneuvers |
| Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology | examination of how the chemical reactions of biology are organized in time and space, and how this organization is harnessed by cells to generate distinct outcomes | |
| NBB | mechanisms of neurotransmitter and neuropeptide release; synaptic development | |
| NBB | neuromodulation in the cortex, with a focus on the role of dopamine release in cognitive flexibility and the explore/exploit balance; optical and genetic methods for recording and stimulating neural populations in freely behaving mice and in virtual environments | |
| NBB | learning and memory, neural circuit dynamics, large-scale cellular recordings, ontogenetic manipulations, naturalistic rodent behaviors, brain computation and theory, spatial navigation | |
| Entomology | invertebrate neuroethology; sensory guidance; neural evolution in arthropods | |
| NBB | neural circuits for trial and error learning in songbirds and mice | |
| Molecular Biology & Genetics | dendrite development and degeneration regulated by intrinsic mechanisms and by the neuronal environment | |
| NBB | neuromodulation of neural networks in lobster and mouse spinal cord; molecular manipulation of ion channels in neurons | |
| Andrew Hein | Computational Biology | how organisms generate behavior during ecological interactions -- for example, when pursuing and capturing prey, escaping from predators, or interacting socially with group-mates; computational and neural mechanisms by which these behaviors are generated; implications these behaviors have for ecosystem function and longer-term behavioral evolution |
| NBB | animal communication; behavior genetics of invertebrates; regeneration and development in invertebrate nervous systems | |
| Walter Koenig | Cornell Lab of Ornithology | social behavior, particularly cooperative breeding, reproductive strategies of trees, and spatial synchrony |
| Alex Kwan | Biomedical Engineering | neurobiology of drugs for treating depression, such as ketamine and psychedelics; in vivo optical imaging of dendrites and large-scale electrophysiology of cortical circuit dynamics |
| Christiane Linster | NBB | neural coding and memory in the olfactory system; emphasis on neuromodulatory influences; combined approach using behavior, electrophysiology, and computational modeling |
| Irby Lovette | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | genomics of adaptation in behavioral, ecological, and physiological traits, particularly in birds |
| Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou | Molecular Biology & Genetics | cortical development, etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, epilepsy, hypothalamus development, mouse and fox models. |
| Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering | neural activity and inflammation in neurodegenerative disease, novel optical tools for in vivo measurements | |
| Vet School | molecular and electrophysiological analysis of glutamate receptors, ion channels, and response mechanisms in synaptic transmission | |
| Azahara Oliva | NBB | neural network dynamics; brain representations of animal behavior; brain wide modulation of local neural activity during different brain states (behavioral states, physiological states, network states |
| Ruben Portugues | NBB | mechanistic understanding of cognition and sensorimotor integration in zebrafish and mice, in particular spatial navigation, decision making, learning and memory |
| NBB | chemically-mediated plant/animal interactions; biosynthesis, physiology and evolution of fragrance; insect olfaction, behavior and pollination ecology | |
| NBB | theoretical sociobiology; evolution of cooperation and conflict in animals and plants; behavioral ecology; plasticity in insect social behavior | |
| NBB | mate choice; genome evolution; vision; behavioral genetics; sexual selection; visual ecology; fish
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| Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani | NBB | neural circuits for visual processing, with a focus on the role of species-specific movements. methods include neural activity measurement in immobilized and freely moving animals and computational modeling. |
| Biomedical Engineering | advanced optical techniques used to observe and manipulate in vivo biological systems with the goal of developing a microscopic-scale understanding of normal and disease-state physiological processes; neurodegeneration caused by occlusion of microvessels in the brain | |
| NBB | species and speciation; behavioral genetics; sexual selection and evolution; genetic architecture of behavior (QTLs); linkage analysis and genome evolution; genetics of diverging lineages; the conceptual nature of species; molecular systematics; comparative methods; orthopteroid insects | |
| Michael Sheehan | NBB | recognition systems; animal communication; evolution of social behavior; cooperation; comparative methods; genetic basis of signals and behaviors; population and comparative genomics; sensory systems; rodents; paper wasps |
| Psychology | neural systems involved in learning and memory functions; multi-site neuronal recordings and neurochemical inactivation in behaving rodents used to identify brain circuitry involved in these functions | |
| Weinan Sun | NBB | biological and artificial intelligence, learning and memory, large-scale 2-photon calcium imaging in rodents |
| Psychology | neural circuits for vocal communication; communicative functions of vocalizations in mice; viral genetic methods to map neurons and to monitor and manipulate neural activity during behavior | |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | behavioral ecology, evolutionary endocrinology, mechanisms of behavior, stress responses, phenotypic flexibility, sexual selection and sexual signaling | |
| Yuhan Wang | Human Ecology | neural circuits and cell types involved in metabolic regulation, and their implications for obesity and diabetes |
| NBB/Cornell Lab of Ornithology | reproductive strategies and the evolutionary causes and consequences of variation in sexual signals, primarily using birds as a model system | |
| NBB | neural circuits that regulate state dependent decision making, motivation and food intake using approaches ranging from high resolution quantitative measurements of behavior, functional imaging, neural tracing and genetics |
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