Faculty
Primary Faculty
![Tanzil Arefin](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/e49fd9e7-d61b-4af7-ab38-bbf70110b510.jpg)
Neuroimaging techniques and computational tools to study the changes in brain functions and microstructures in animal models of human disorders
![Edward Brown](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/EdwardBrown.jpg)
Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy, novel in vivo imaging and measurement techniques, tumor biology, angiogenesis
![Laurel Carney](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/LaurelCarney.jpg)
Auditory Neuroscience; neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids.
![Deborah Cory-Slechta](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/DeborahCory-slechta.jpg)
![Ian Dickerson](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/IanDickerson.jpg)
![Ian Fiebelkorn](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/IanFiebelkorn.jpg)
Flexible allocation of the brain’s limited processing resources in attention, perception, and working memory
![John Foxe](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/749a5f17-3bbb-465a-8f16-70bdb80ceb98.jpg)
Basic neurophysiology of schizophrenia and autism
![Edward Freedman](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/EdwardFreedman.jpg)
![Julie Fudge](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/JulieFudge.jpg)
![Archan Ganguly](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/c7278ba5-260c-412c-884a-65ac4a299b48.jpg)
Identifing molecular regulators of long-range trafficking of protein cargoes to distinct sub-domains of polarized cells, such as neurons
![Martha Gdowski](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/b9702c3c-3189-438f-b7a9-8704d7037ae3.jpg)
Medical, Graduate, and Undergraduate Education
![David Kornack](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/6ca080aa-a66b-48fa-aa67-060debd79e12.jpg)
The biology of neural progenitor cells in developing and adult mammalian brain
![Edmund Lalor](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/EdmundLalor.jpg)
The electrophysiology of human sensation, perception and cognition, especially in naturalistic environments.
![Brittney Link](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/66c0ce90-7076-4cd5-8659-48c9ce9ab03d.jpg)
Development of teaching and learning tools in anatomy education
![Anne Luebke](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/AnneLuebke.jpg)
Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss
![Ross Maddox](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/RossMaddox.jpg)
Auditory and multisensory processing in human listeners, using behavioral and electrophysiological methods.
![Ania Majewska](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/AniaMajewska.jpg)
![Sarah McConnell](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/SarahMcConnell.jpg)
![Julian Meeks](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/a62aeecb-e779-4414-a639-5bb46a218fd0.jpg)
Investigation of the molecules, receptors, and neural circuits that influence social interactions, including the actions of mammalian pheromones
![Samuel Norman-Haignere](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/9058c747-3cbc-4e49-b1e6-afb50e90b801.jpg)
The neural computations that enable the perception of natural sounds, such as speech and music
![M. Kerry O'Banion](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MKerryObanion.jpg)
![John Olschowka](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/2280649b-c14f-420c-ad23-152cf4adde31.jpg)
Mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration within the CNS, primarily Glial Cells and Vascular components of the brain.
![Krishnan Padmanabhan](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/ff4ea041-68d6-46ca-ae62-666c459f9c4d.jpg)
Experimental and Computational Approaches to Sensory Perception
![Diane Piekut](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/DianePiekut.jpg)
![Gil Rivlis](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/GilRivlis.jpg)
Neural control of movement; Computing and experiment control systems; Mathematics and statistics in neuroscience data analysis.
![Lizabeth Romanski](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/c381bdde-3ab5-4d7e-94b0-121cb2e36eb2.jpg)
Organization and functions of the primate prefrontal cortex
![Lars Ross](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/083915f7-3bd2-403c-b585-1a4272ed4be4.jpg)
Multisensory integration, social neuroscience and autism spectrum disorder
![Marc Schieber](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MarcSchieber.jpg)
![Nathan Smith](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/ef5591c2-0ae7-466d-a8cc-a2a437d974e6.jpg)
Exploring the understudied and novel mechanisms by which neuromodulators mediate the interactions between neurons, astrocytes, and microglia in both normal and disease states
![Adam Snyder](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/AdamSnyder.jpg)
![Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/690b4d7c-f74b-42c9-a3fa-aeffe8201713.jpg)
Use virtual reality (VR), multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and machine learning to elucidate the psychological and neural signatures of psychopathologies
![Michael Telias](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/f0604c35-df87-4cb2-94d1-cb277d404338.jpg)
Retinal degeneration and maladaptive plasticity in inner retinal circuits.
![Madalina Tivarus](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/bf5442fc-5c0b-4630-b24b-8e4d078b2286.jpg)
Clinical applications of advanced neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI), MR Spectroscopy (MRS), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), morphometry, Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) and Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC)
![Kuan Hong Wang](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/KuanHongWang.jpg)
![Patricia White](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/PatriciaWhite.jpg)
Research Faculty
Secondary Faculty
![Eric Anson](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/EricAnson.jpg)
Self-motion perception and adaptability of vestibular perception
![Loisa Bennetto](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/LoisaBennetto.jpg)
Neurocognitive and communication deficits in autism and other developmental disabilities
![Rajnish Bharadwaj](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/RajnishBharadwaj.jpg)
![Benjamin Crane](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/BenjaminCrane.jpg)
The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception.
![Greg DeAngelis](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/5ed9a405-3b3b-49b3-aab9-eb82b16789b5.jpg)
Visual neuroscience; multi-sensory integration; neural coding; linking neurons to perception
![David Dodell-Feder](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/DavidDodell-Feder.jpg)
How we process social information, make meaningful social connections, and how these processes vary across the full spectrum of health and psychiatric illness with a particular focus on schizophrenia-spectrum disorders using behavioral and neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI) methods.
![Manoela Fogaça](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/f8295ad2-da1f-40c8-a358-7a1a9cdfe5e9.jpg)
Understanding the molecular basis of behaviors relevant to stress and the actions of fast antidepressant and anxiolytic drugs, aiming to identify specific circuits, neuronal subpopulations and synaptic mechanisms involved in these responses.
![Frank Garcea](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/b0bcded1-8bed-4345-b27e-6d4ffd93dcf3.jpg)
Mechanisms supporting conceptual processing, language, and action function in patients with brain tumor or epilepsy.
![Paul Geha](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/PaulGeha.jpg)
![Harris Gelbard](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/HarrisGelbard.jpg)
![Steven Goldman](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/StevenGoldman.jpg)
![Manuel Gomez-Ramirez](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/4c25a59b-4de5-4953-90ee-25f3c5f0ecc8.jpg)
Understanding the neural mechanisms that mediate sensation and action with our hands.
![Suzanne Haber](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/aa1f4534-fc96-4735-9c05-8dca5253a333.jpg)
Basal ganglia and degenerative diseases
![Jennetta Hammond](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/JennettaHammond.jpg)
![Kenneth Henry](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/5129258d-6623-492c-8c14-e359fe622a64.jpg)
Cochlear neurodegeneration, neural mechanisms for hearing in noise
![Angela Hewitt](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/a569420a-10ea-4c08-b7ab-8b1b1086203f.jpg)
Investigating if/how the production of rapid, coordinated movements requires control circuitry that can bypass sensory feedback delays by providing an estimate of the consequences resulting from a motor command.
![J. Christopher Holt](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/ab2136c5-30ca-46a6-bc84-414010c82747.jpg)
Synaptic pharmaco-physiology of vestibular efferent-afferent interactions
![Krystel Huxlin](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/KrystelHuxlin.jpg)
Neural mechanisms of visual recovery after stroke; optical correlates and molecular substrates of corneal wound healing and nerve regeneration; LIRIC
![Michelle Janelsins-Benton](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MichelleJanelsins.jpg)
![Brian Keane](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/18e57d16-d276-4722-b976-65b65d15b69e.jpg)
Visual perceptual alterations in psychosis, behavioral psychophysics, eye-tracking, functional neuroimaging, and conceptual foundations of cognitive science
![Emily Knight](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/fellows/EmilyKnight.jpg)
advance understanding of the neurophysiologic mechanisms underlying sensory perception in autism spectrum disorder
![Jonathan Leckenby](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/JonathanLeckenby.jpg)
Peripheral nerve regeneration/degeneration and vascularized composite allotransplantation.
![Hochang Lee](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/HochangLee.jpg)
![Karlo Lizarraga Mendoza](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/640673e2-fd13-4b9f-9a0b-c71dea9dba9c.jpg)
Optimizing the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of movement disorders with the use of neurophysiological techniques, and developing sustainable international collaborations that promote global equity in neurological education, research and patient care.
![Samuel MacKenzie](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/4944d0e0-aa48-495d-bbf0-49584aed36a0.jpg)
Pediatric neuromuscular disorders
![Margot Mayer-Pröschel](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MargotMayer-Proschel.jpg)
![Shawn Newlands](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/ShawnNewlands.jpg)
![Thomas O'Connor](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/ThomasO'Connor.jpg)
![Alexander Paciorkowski](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/AlexPaciorkowski.jpg)
![Elise Piazza](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/ca8a316a-7fe3-4105-bceb-f32948f75f53.jpg)
Understand the natural statistics of the building blocks of communication
![Martina Poletti](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MartinaPoletti.jpg)
Visual psychophysics, high-resolution eye tracking and gaze-contingent technology to study spatial updating, foveal vision and control of attention and eye movements at the fine scale
![Anton Porsteinsson](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/d5efdfef-093f-49fc-a33c-041957f80aa0.jpg)
Care and study of individuals with memory disorders
![Douglas Portman](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/DouglasPortman.jpg)
![Michele Rucci](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MicheleRucci.jpg)
Visual Perception
![Souvarish Sarkar](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/fb4edbb2-e5b3-45b8-9c63-f586dd7bfa5e.jpg)
Develop a research program concentrating on identifying genetic modifiers of environmental factors in disease etiology using a combination of Drosophila genetics, cell culture, and rodent models
![Jesse Schallek](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/JesseSchallek.jpg)
Imaging single neurons and neuron networks in the living eye in health and disease.
![Steven Silverstein](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/StevenSilverstein.jpg)
Impairments of perceptual function and organization in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders, their relationship to symptom emergence (e.g., in terms of altered predictive coding, or altered contextual modulation) and the possibility of performing visual remediation of low- and mid-level visual disturbances in these conditions.
![Marissa Sobolewski-Terry](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MarissaSobolewski.jpg)
Neurotoxicology, Etiology of neurobehavioral disease, Endocrine dysfunction, Synergistic Toxicity.
![Gabriella Sterne](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/6bceb13b-b0ce-4b65-95bd-386019bb23d5.jpg)
Understanding the neural circuit mechanisms that generate and shape complex feeding behaviors
![Duje Tadin](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/DujeTadin.jpg)
![Judy Thompson](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/7f52bcb5-05d5-435b-a0fd-9c5f1252e1cc.jpg)
Schizophrenia, with a particular interest in the pathophysiology of positive symptoms
![Charles Thornton](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/CharlesThornton.jpg)
![Ronald Wood](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/RonaldWood.jpg)
![Houhui Xia](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/HughXia.jpg)
Emeritus Faculty
![Paul Coleman](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/PaulColeman.jpg)
![Barbara Davis](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/BarbaraDavis.jpg)
![John Hansen](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/JohnHansen.jpg)
Neuro-immune interactions, medical education, and faculty development
![William O'Neill](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/WilliamOneill.jpg)
![Gary Paige](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/GaryPaige.jpg)
![Tatiana Pasternak](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/TatianaPasternak.jpg)
Cortical Circuitry Underlying Memory-Guided Sensory Decisions
![Robert Schor](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/RobertSchor.jpg)
Adjunct Faculty
![Farran Briggs](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/FarranBriggs.jpg)
![Peter Kaskan](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/65762111-6878-47e7-b170-87045caeda37.jpg)
Visual Neuroscience; Learning, Motivation and Reward Guided Decision-Making; Emotion; Amygdala; Deep Brain Stimulation
![Stephanos Kyrkanides](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/StephanosKyrkanides.jpg)
Craniofacial development
![Sarah Latchney](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/8e07168c-1a14-4f98-9179-b3fad775640f.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at St. Mary's College of Maryland
![Sophie Molholm](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/sophiemolholm.jpg)
Attention multisensory integration sensory and perceptual processing executive function
![Jason Ozubko](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/uploads/1/1d8d2fc2-b495-48f1-af41-63ad98f3c0c1.jpg)
Cognitive and neuropsychological properties of human memory
![Michele Saul](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neuroscience/_shared/img/faculty/MicheleSaul.jpg)
Juvenile stress and the development of the amygdala.
Many of our Primary and Secondary Research Faculty, in conjunction with their ongoing research projects, maintain essential teaching roles across multiple fields at the University. These roles include medical education, graduate education and undergraduate education, thus providing a link between current research advancements and students at all levels of University education.