Ongoing neuroscience and cell biology research includes synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, head trauma, spinal cord injury, intraventricular hemorrhage, epilepsy, schizophrenia, autism, breast cancer, neurofibromatosis, retinal development, glaucoma, pulmonary hypertension, limb development, evolution, apoptosis, cytokines, membrane trafficking, signaling and protein turnover.
These studies employ state-of-the art techniques including stem cells, confocal, 2-photon and electron microscopy, electrophysiology and various molecular and genetic techniques.
View our faculty listing page for individual faculty research interests.