PREP Faculty Directory
Get to know the Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience (NUIN) PREP faculty by searching our directory below. Browse, filter the faculty list or search by keyword to learn more. For a complete list, see our alphabetical list of faculty.
Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
I am interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying movement impairments after neural injury or disease and how the nervous system adapts...
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Professor of Neurobiology
Why we sleep remains one of the most enduring mysteries in science. While asleep, we cannot eat, mate, defend ourselves from predators or care for our young. Nearly every organism, even the jellyfish, exhibits a restorative sleep-like state...
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Erastus Otis Haven Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Neurodegenerative diseases are becoming one of the major causes of death in developed nations. Many of these diseases are strongly associated with aging, prompting the question of which are the changes occurring during aging that have such a large...
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Professor of Neurology
Dysfunctional dopamine (DA) signaling has been associated with a broad spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders, prompting investigations into how midbrain DA neuron heterogeneity may underpin this variety of behavioral symptoms...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Our research is focused on the basal ganglia, a group of subcortical brain nuclei critical for the motivation, selection, and execution of action sequences and the primary site of dysfunction in psychomotor disorders including Parkinson’s...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Research in our laboratory is directed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms of synaptic communication and how these processes go wrong in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Cellular and systems mechanisms of learning and memory in young and aging brain using behavior; in vivo single neuron recording; and biophysical recording and cellular imaging in brain slices...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
The neuronal activity underlying mammalian spatial navigation represents one of the most striking examples of behavioral correlation in the brain. Dr...
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Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
The long-term goal of my research is to understand, from a cell and molecular biological perspective, how mammalian central neurons establish and maintain specific synaptic connections...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Our long term goal is to understand how sensory stimuli are used to build an internal representation of the physical world, and how this representation is in turn processed into our actions and behaviors...
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Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Anesthesiology
Transcription factors and chromatin modifications in neural development of inner ear and brain. With genetics, epigenomics and transcriptomics combined with neuroanatomy and neurophysiology we are leading in elucidating how the developing cochlea...
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Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
We are interested in mechanisms of neuronal growth and polarity, We are using Drosophila melanogaster neurons in vivo and in culture and work using live-cell imaging, optogenetics, Drosophilas genetics to address these...
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Research Professor of Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease
Our laboratory pursues several overlapping areas of research in the human brain, with additional investigations centered on non-human primate models, rodent models and cell culture systems...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
The main goal of our lab is to understand how neural circuits assemble during development and disease. We are particularly interested on the genetic causes and cellular mechanisms related to circuit defects in autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy...
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
We are interested in the neuroscience of active sensing behaviors and particularly the sense of touch. We use the rodent whisker (vibrissal) system as a model to gain insight into closed loop sensorimotor control...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Electrophysiology and computational modeling of spinal sensorimotor neurons and...
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research in my laboratory is focused on identifying genetic factors that contribute to severe childhood epilepsies and neurodevelopmental disorders...
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Davee Professor of Neurology
Our research has focused extensively on the regulation of gene expression by stem/progenitor cells and their differentiated progeny...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
My laboratory harnesses the power of human pluripotent stem cells to study neuronal development as well as to understand how neuronal function is impaired as a result of injury or disease...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
The Lerner Lab studies the neural circuit basis of motivation, reward learning, and habit formation. We are particularly interested in how individual variations in dopamine circuit function relate to differences in behavior and neuropsychiatric...
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
My lab utilizes cutting-edge circuit and systems approaches to study how neuropeptidergic circuits mediate valence processing and regulate motivated behaviors...
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Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Prion diseases are fatal, infectious neurodegenerative disorders also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Remarkably, the infectious agent of TSEs is a normal host protein (PrPC) with pathogenic conformations (PrPSc)...
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Professor of Neuroscience
My interest is focused on the hippocampus, which is an area of the brain involved in higher cognitive functions, and is often the target of neurological illnesses like epilepsy, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease...
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor MacIver believes that the body’s mechanical intelligence can be just as important, if not more important, than what’s going on in your head...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Locomotion is a deceptively simple, yet essential behavior. We are interested in how neural circuits in the brainstem and spinal cord develop and ultimately control the speed and direction of locomotor movements...
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
The patterns of muscle activation that drive movement reflect an interplay between neuronal circuits in the spinal cord and an array of motor system regions...
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Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology
Human lifespan has increased dramatically, and with this is the increased risk for dementia and neurodegenerative diseases...
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Todd Murphey’s current research focuses on computational methods in dynamics and control and using those methods to investigate biological locomotion and tactile exploration...
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Associate Professor of Psychology
My research program uses neuroscientific methods to examine order and disorder in the emotional brain...
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Professor of Neurology
The long-term goal of my laboratory is to understand the cellular basis of neurodegeneration. We are testing the idea that neurodegeneration results from derangements in relatively few but strategic sub-cellular pathways...
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Our laboratory studies the molecular basis of Parkinson's disease (PD) with a focus on the cellular and molecular pathways dysregulated by PD-linked genes such as α-synuclein and LRRK2...
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research in our group focuses on understanding the neural and biomechanical factors involved in the normal control of multi-joint movement and posture and how these factors are modified following neuromotor pathologies such as stroke and spinal cord...
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Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences
ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters work as molecular pumps to transport substrates across cellular membranes...
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Professor of Pharmacology
Ca2+ is a ubiquitous intracellular signaling messenger regulating a wide range of functions including enzyme activation, gene expression, and neurotransmitter release...
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Professor of Neurobiology
In the Raman lab, we study specializations of ion channels and synaptic physiology that permit cerebellar neurons—Purkinje neurons, granule cells, inhibitory interneurons, and output neurons of the cerebellar nuclei—to facilitate...
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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
My basic interest is how genetic and/or environmentally induced differences in stress-reactivity affect behavior, learning and memory, aging and drug abuse...
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
We develop high-throughput methods for protein biophysics and protein design, with a focus on protein therapeutics...
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Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Dr. Sanchez’s laboratory investigates the development of time-coding mechanisms in the auditory brainstem using electrophysiological and anatomical approaches. His primary interests are in synaptic transmission and ion channel function...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Our lab studies the role of light in behavior by linking the cellular function of cells within the retina to their downstream circuits in the brain and output behavior. To do this, we examine the role of RGC subtypes in specific visual functions...
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmologyy
Research in our lab focuses on the circuit mechanisms underlying sensory computation. We use the mouse retina as a model system because it allows us to stimulate the circuit precisely with its natural input, patterns of light, and record its natural...
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Kay Davis Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Our research is in the areas of rational design and synthesis of nanomaterials, controlled drug delivery, and theranostics, all specifically aimed at imaging and modulating the immune system...
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Professor of Pharmacology
We study the molecular and physiological properties of receptor proteins that underlie excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain...
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
We examine the neural control of movement, focusing on the role of spinal circuitry. We use an interdisciplinary approach in this research, using a combination of behavioral, biomechanical, and neurophysiological techniques...
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Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Our lab is primarily focused on cell cycle, cell proliferation, and cancer. Within Neuroscience, we are interested in two broad areas. One of them is brain development...
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Davee Professor of Alzheimer Research, Professor of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology)
We study the molecular and cellular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease with the goal of contributing to the discovery of effective disease-modifying therapies...
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