Research
Research
Cell Signaling & Communications
Processes and mechanisms underlying intracellular messaging, excitable membranes, and synaptic and non-synaptic transmission of neural information.
Active Research Laboratories
- Bidlack Lab - Pharmacology of Brain and Lymphocytic Opioid Receptors
- Brown Lab - Multi-photon Laser-Scanning Microscopy
- Cory-Slechta Lab - Environmental Neurotoxicants as Risk Factors for Behavioral Diseases and Disorders
- Dewhurst Lab - Influenza Viruses; Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development; NeuroAIDS Research
- Dickerson Lab - CGRP Signal Transduction
- Dirksen Lab - Calcium Channel Structure and Function
- Fogaça Lab - Understanding the molecular basis of behaviors relevant to stress and the actions of fast antidepressant and anxiolytic drugs
- Fu Lab - Cellular Stress Response Pathways that Determine Cell Fate after Exposure to Cytotoxic and Mutagenic Damaging Agents
- Ghaemmaghami Lab - Molecular Mechanisms of Prion Propagation and Pathogenesis
- Goldman Lab - Cell & Gene Therapy
- Gorbunova & Seluanov Laboratory - Study of Age-Related Changes in Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks
- Holt Lab - Synaptic Pharmacology of the Vestibular Apparatus
- Hunter Lab - Mechanisms of light-induced retinal damage and development of non-invasive fluorescence imaging techniques to study retinal function in healthy and diseased eyes
- Kammermeier Lab - G Protein-coupled Receptor Function
- Kiernan Lab - Sensory Development and Disease
- Libby Lab - Molecular Processes that Lead to RGC Death in Glaucoma
- MacLean Lab - The Structure of Neurotransmitter-gated Ion Channels
- Majewska Lab - The Functional Synapse Group
- McGregor (Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance) Lab - Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance
- Meeks Lab - Chemosensation and Social Learning
- Merigan Lab - The role of retinal ganglion cells in visual perception in the primate
- Nam Lab - Mechano-Biology of the Inner Ear Sensory System
- Nedergaard Lab - Glial Disease and Therapeutics
- Nehrke Lab - Integrative Physiology
- O'Banion-Olschowka Labs - CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- Padmanabhan (Neural Circuits and Computation) Lab - Principles of computation performed by individual neurons and the neural circuits, and to identify how neurological and psychiatric diseases disrupt these operations
- Pröschel Lab - Glial Progenitor Cells
- Schallek (Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance) Lab - Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance
- Singh Lab - Stem Cell & Disease Modeling Lab
- Smith Lab - The Science of Neuro-Glia Interaction
- Sobolewski Lab - Sex-differentiated mechanisms of neurotoxicity of endocrine active compounds (EACs)
- Thornton Lab - Neurogenetic Disorders
- Wang Lab - Experience-dependent cortical information
- Williams Lab - Adaptive Optics Research Lab
- Xia Lab - Phosphatase Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity, Myelin Biogenesis and Alzheimer's Disease
Computational Neuroscience
Modeling of multisensory and integrative neural processing.
Active Research Laboratories
- Gomez-Ramirez (Haptic) Lab - Develop mechanistic models of how objects are perceived and manipulated with our hands
- Ralf Haefner - How the brain forms percepts and how it uses them to make decisions
- Ken Henry - Behavioral operant conditioning
- Lalor Lab - Explore quantitative modeling approaches to the analysis of sensory electrophysiology in humans
- Norman-Haignere Lab - Neural and computational mechanisms of speech, music, and auditory perception in humans
- Padmanabhan (Neural Circuits and Computation) Lab - Principles of computation performed by individual neurons and the neural circuits, and to identify how neurological and psychiatric diseases disrupt these operations
Learning, Memory, & Adaptive Plasticity
Processes and mechanisms underlying how early and adult experience modifies behavior and its underlying neural processes.
Active Research Laboratories
- Fogaça Lab - Understanding the Molecular Basis of Behaviors Relevant to Stress and the Actions of Fast Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Drugs
- Haber Lab - Basal Ganglia and Degenerative Diseases
- Huxlin Lab - Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Majewska Lab - The Functional Synapse Group
- O'Banion-Olschowka Labs - CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- Patterson Lab - Linking Retinal Computations to Visual Perception and Behavior, Physiological Changes and Circuit Remodeling During Degeneration After Brain Damage
- Romanski Lab - Neural Circuitry of Social Communication
- Smith Lab - The Science of Neuro-Glia Interaction
- Xia Lab - Phosphatase Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity, Myelin Biogenesis and Alzheimer's Disease
Neurobiology of Disease
Fundamental pathologic, translational, and clinical processes and genetic predispositions that afflict the nervous system.
Active Research Laboratories
- Bennetto Lab - Neurocognitive Bases of Autism
- Bidlack Lab - Pharmacology of Brain and Lymphocytic Opioid Receptors
- Cory-Slechta Lab - Environmental Neurotoxicants as Risk Factors for Behavioral Diseases and Disorders
- Crane Lab - Motion Perception & Spatial Orientation
- Dodell-Feder Lab - Processing of Social information, Social Connections, and their Variances across illness, Focus on Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders
- Du Lab - Diseases of Brain Fluid Homeostasis
- Fogaça Lab - Understanding the molecular basis of behaviors relevant to stress and the actions of fast antidepressant and anxiolytic drugs
- Foxe Lab (Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab) - Cognitive Neurophysiology
- Fu Lab - Cellular Stress Response Pathways that Determine Cell Fate after Exposure to Cytotoxic and Mutagenic Damaging Agents
- Fudge Lab - Anatomy and Neuro-chemistry of Major Psychiatric Illnesses
- Gail Johnson Lab - Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration
- Gelbard Lab - Glial and Immune Effector Cell Interactions with Synapses During Neuro-inflammation
- Ghaemmaghami Lab - Molecular Mechanisms of Prion Propagation and Pathogenesis
- Goldman Lab - Cell & Gene Therapy
- Gorbunova & Seluanov Laboratory - Study of Age-Related Changes in Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks
- Gugger Lab (Epilepsy Imaging Phenotypes Lab) - Quantitative brain imaging and its clinical applications in neuroscience, particularly in epilepsy and traumatic brain injury
- Haber Lab - Basal Ganglia and Degenerative Diseases
- Hunter Lab - Mechanisms of light-induced retinal damage and development of non-invasive fluorescence imaging techniques to study retinal function in healthy and diseased eyes
- Huxlin Lab - Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Janelsins Lab (Cancer Control and Psychoneuroimmunology Lab) - Translational and Clinical Investigation of Cancer-related Neurocognitive Decline
- Jusko (Rochester Environment and Child Health (REACH)) Lab - Environmental causes of human disease
- Keane Lab - Behavioral psychophysics and functional neuroimaging to investigate the visual basis of psychosis
- Kiernan Lab - Sensory Development and Disease
- Libby Lab - Molecular Processes that Lead to RGC Death in Glaucoma
- Majewska Lab - The Functional Synapse Group
- Mayer-Pröschel Lab - Impairment of Neural Cell Functions During Developmental Insults
- McGregor (Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance) Lab - Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance
- Meeks Lab - Chemosensation and Social Learning
- Merigan Lab - The role of retinal ganglion cells in visual perception in the primate
- Nedergaard Lab - Glial Disease and Therapeutics
- O'Banion-Olschowka Labs - CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- Padmanabhan (Neural Circuits and Computation) Lab - Principles of computation performed by individual neurons and the neural circuits, and to identify how neurological and psychiatric diseases disrupt these operations
- Pain and Perceptions Lab (Geha Lab) - Pain and hedonic perceptions
- Patterson Lab - Linking Retinal Computations to Visual Perception and Behavior, Physiological Changes and Circuit Remodeling During Degeneration After Brain Damage
- Patricia White Lab - Regeneration After Noise Induced Hearing Loss
- Portman Lab - Sex Differences in the Development and Function of the C. elegans Nervous System
- Pröschel Lab - Glial Progenitor Cells
- Romanski Lab - Neural Circuitry of Social Communication
- Schallek (Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance) Lab - Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance
- Schifitto - Cerebrovascular and Neurocognitive Research Group (CNRG) - Advanced brain imaging technologies to investigate a number of diseases, including stroke, cerebral small vessel disease, and vascular dementia
- Singh Lab - Stem Cell & Disease Modeling Lab
- Smith Lab - The Science of Neuro-Glia Interaction
- Sobolewski Lab - Sex-differentiated mechanisms of neurotoxicity of endocrine active compounds (EACs)
- Thornton Lab - Neurogenetic Disorders
- Wang Lab - Experience-dependent cortical information
- Williams Lab - Adaptive Optics Research Lab
- Xia Lab - Phosphatase Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity, Myelin Biogenesis and Alzheimer's Disease
Neurodevelopment & Aging
Neural development and aging, including neurogenesis, differentiation, cell death, synaptic specification, and changes in neural organization and function that accompany senescence.
Active Research Laboratories
- Anson Lab - Perception of self-motion and the effects of vestibular disorders on gaze and postural control problems during balance and walking
- Bennetto Lab - Neurocognitive Bases of Autism
- Cory-Slechta Lab - Environmental Neurotoxicants as Risk Factors for Behavioral Diseases and Disorders
- Dodell-Feder Lab - Processing of Social information, Social Connections, and their Variances across illness, Focus on Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders
- Foxe Lab (Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab)- Cognitive Neurophysiology
- Fu Lab - Cellular Stress Response Pathways that Determine Cell Fate after Exposure to Cytotoxic and Mutagenic Damaging Agents
- Fudge Lab - Anatomy and Neurochemistry of Major Psychiatric Illnesses
- Gelbard Lab - Glial and Immune Effector Cell Interactions with Synapses During Neuroinflammation
- Goldman Lab - Cell & Gene Therapy
- Gorbunova & Seluanov Laboratory - Study of Age-Related Changes in Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks
- Huxlin Lab - Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Jusko (Rochester Environment and Child Health (REACH)) Lab - Environmental causes of human disease
- Kiernan Lab - Sensory Development and Disease
- Libby Lab - Molecular Processes that Lead to RGC Death in Glaucoma
- Majewska Lab - The Functional Synapse Group
- Merigan Lab - The role of retinal ganglion cells in visual perception in the primate
- O'Banion-Olschowka Labs - CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- O'Connor Lab - Wynne Center for Family Research - Clinical research to understand how family and relationship processes influence behavioral and biological bases of mental and physical health
- Padmanabhan (Neural Circuits and Computation) Lab - Principles of computation performed by individual neurons and the neural circuits, and to identify how neurological and psychiatric diseases disrupt these operations
- Portman Lab - Sex Differences in the Development and Function of the C. elegans Nervous System
- Pröschel Lab - Glial Progenitor Cells
- Singh Lab - Stem Cell & Disease Modeling Lab
- Smith Lab - The Science of Neuro-Glia Interaction
- Sobolewski Lab - Sex-differentiated mechanisms of neurotoxicity of endocrine active compounds (EACs)
- Xia Lab - Phosphatase Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity, Myelin Biogenesis and Alzheimer's Disease
Sensory, Motor, & Integrative Systems
Sensory transduction, central processing and integration of sensory input across modalities, and the neural control of motor output and behavior.
Active Research Laboratories
- Anson Lab - Perception of self-motion and the effects of vestibular disorders on gaze and postural control problems during balance and walking
- Briggs Lab - Focus on understanding how specific neuronal circuits in the early visual system encode visual information and how attention impacts the encoding of visual information
- Carney Lab - Auditory Neuroscience
- Crane Lab - Motion Perception & Spatial Orientation
- DeAngelis Lab - Visual Neuroscience
- Dodell-Feder Lab - Processing of Social information, Social Connections, and their Variances across illness, Focus on Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders
- Foxe Lab (Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab) - Cognitive Neurophysiology
- Gomez-Ramirez (Haptic) Lab - Develop mechanistic models of how objects are perceived and manipulated with our hands
- Haber Lab - Basal Ganglia and Degenerative Diseases
- Ken Henry - Behavioral operant conditioning
- Holt Lab - Synaptic Pharmacology of the Vestibular Apparatus
- Hunter Lab - Mechanisms of light-induced retinal damage and development of non-invasive fluorescence imaging techniques to study retinal function in healthy and diseased eyes
- Huxlin Lab - Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Keane Lab - Behavioral psychophysics and functional neuroimaging to investigate the visual basis of psychosis
- Lalor Lab - Explore quantitative modeling approaches to the analysis of sensory electrophysiology in humans
- Luebke Lab - Auditory & Vestibular Efferent Systems
- Majewska Lab - The Functional Synapse Group
- McGregor (Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance) Lab - Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance
- Meeks Lab - Chemosensation and Social Learning
- Merigan Lab - The role of retinal ganglion cells in visual perception in the primate
- Jude Mitchell - Role that internal brain states play in modulating sensory processing
- Nam Lab - Mechano-Biology of the Inner Ear Sensory System
- Nedergaard Lab - Glial Disease and Therapeutics
- Nehrke Lab - Integrative Physiology
- Newlands Lab - Physiology of the Vestibular System
- Norman-Haignere Lab - Neural and computational mechanisms of speech, music, and auditory perception in humans
- O'Connor Lab - Wynne Center for Family Research - Clinical research to understand how family and relationship processes influence behavioral and biological bases of mental and physical health
- Padmanabhan (Neural Circuits and Computation) Lab - Principles of computation performed by individual neurons and the neural circuits, and to identify how neurological and psychiatric diseases disrupt these operations
- Pain and Perceptions Lab (Geha Lab) - Pain and hedonic perceptions
- Patterson Lab - Linking Retinal Computations to Visual Perception and Behavior, Physiological Changes and Circuit Remodeling During Degeneration After Brain Damage
- Patricia White Lab - Regeneration After Noise Induced Hearing Loss
- Piazza Lab (SoNIC Lab) - Behavioral and neural mechanisms of naturalistic human communication, including the perception and production of speech and music
- Poletti Lab - Visual perception in humans
- Portman Lab - Sex Differences in the Development and Function of the C. elegans Nervous System
- Romanski Lab - Neural Circuitry of Social Communication
- Rucci (Active Perception BCS) Lab - Mechanisms underlying visual perception
- Schallek (Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance) Lab - Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance
- Schifitto - Cerebrovascular and Neurocognitive Research Group (CNRG) - Advanced brain imaging technologies to investigate a number of diseases, including stroke, cerebral small vessel disease, and vascular dementia
- Snyder Lab - Neural mechanisms of Attention Dynamics And Memory Systems
- Tadin Lab - Adaptive Spatial Interactions in Motion Perception
- Tivarus (Cognitive Neurophysiology) Lab - Cognitive Neurophysiology
- Wang Lab - Experience-dependent cortical information
- Williams Lab - Adaptive Optics Research Lab