Beas, Sofia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Elucidating the neuronal processes that guide motivation
Crowder, Camerron, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Neurodevelopment, Precision Medicine, Molecular Mechanisms of Rare disease, Axonal transport, Gene editing, Drug screening, Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE)
Cruikshank, Scott, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Synaptic and cellular organization and processing in the neocortex and thalamus, with an emphasis on sensory systems
Cummings, Kirstie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Learning and memory, fear, reward, GABAergic engrams, experience-dependent plasticity, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, NMDA receptors
Day, Jeremy J., Ph.D.
Professor
Vice Chair for Strategic Planning and Recruitment
Director, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
Michael J. Friedlander, Ph.D. Heersink Endowed Professorship
Research Interests: Neurogenetics, substance use disorders, learning and memory, epigenetics, gene regulation and gene editing
Doncheck, Elizabeth "Beth", Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Garner, Mary Anne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Gavin, Cristin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Vice Chair for Education
Co-Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Co-Director, Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)
Associate Scientist, Civitan International Research Center
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of structural and functional plasticity; memory; mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disabilities
Gross, Alecia K., Ph.D.
Professor
Vice Chair for Research and Research Infrastructure
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development, Heersink School of Medicine
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of retinal degenerations; protein trafficking in photoreceptors and neurons; disk cytoskeletal regulation in the retina
Heinsbroek, Jasper, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Circuit mechanisms that regulate motivated behavior and addiction with a specific focus on subcircuits in the interconnected nuclei of the ventral basal ganglia.
Ianov, Lara, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Managing Director, UAB Biological Data Science Core (U-BDS)
Research Interests: Transcriptomics, epigenomics, computational biology, pipeline and workflow development
Li, Wei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Synaptic transmission and plasticity, neurotrophins, neuron-glia interaction, motor and social behavior, neurodevelopmental disorders
Lubin, Farah, Ph.D., FAES
Distinguished Professor
Vice Chair of Trainee Engagement and Development
Triton Endowed Professorship in Neurobiology
Director, NINDS Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program
Director, T32 Training Program in Cognition & Cognitive Disorders
Research Interests: Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; epigenetics, non-coding RNAs; gene transcription; epilepsy disorders; Alzheimer's disease; neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities
Luikart, Bryan, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Neurodevelopment, neurophysiology, intracellular signaling, autism
Meng, Ming, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Neurological sensory processing disorders
Newsom, Cassandra, Psy.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Civitan Translational ASD/NDD Research Core
Research Interests: Autism
Overstreet-Wadiche, Linda, Ph.D.
Professor
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Development
Research Interests: Neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities; learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; ion channels and synaptic function; neurotransmitter and neurotrophin receptors and cell signaling
Peters, Jamie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Preclinical behavioral pharmacology using rodent self-administration models of addiction, optogenetic and chemogenetic dissection of neural circuit function, neural circuitry and mechanisms underlying extinction memory, and the intersection of aversion and reward in systems neuroscience.
Powell, Craig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Civitan International Research Center
Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Virginia B. Spencer Endowed Chair
Research Interests: Autism, intellectual disability, cognitive dysfunction
Roth, Jonathan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biology of neurodegeneration and dementias; circadian dysfunction; therapeutic drug development and behavioral interventions.
Shacka, John J., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Autophagy-lysosome pathway, neurodegenerative disease
Theibert, Anne B, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Role of phosphoinositides in developmental neurobiology
Visscher, Kristina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Civitan International Neuroimaging Laboratory
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience
Wadiche, Jacques, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Neurotransmitter and neurotrophin receptors and cell signaling; learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; ion channels and synaptic function
Wilson, Scott, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Nervous system development; ubiquitin; protein degradation