Faculty

Name	Department	Research interests	Email
Annaliese Beery	Integrative Biology, Neuroscience	Mechanisms supporting affiliative social behavior between peers; neuroendocrinology of complex behavior	abeery@berkeley.edu
Bob Zucker	Neuroscience	Mechanisms underlying regulation of synaptic transmission	zucker@berkeley.edu
Bruno Olshausen	Optometry, Neuroscience	Computational models of sensory coding and visual perception	bolshausen@berkeley.edu
Dan Feldman	Neuroscience	Sensory processing and plasticity in the somatosensory cortex	dfeldman@berkeley.edu
Daniela Kaufer	Integrative Biology	Molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity in response to stress and neurological insults	danielak@berkeley.edu
David Feinberg	Neuroscience	MRI technology development, mapping columnar and visual circuitry, modeling neurovascular coupling	david.feinberg@berkeley.edu
David Foster	Neuroscience	Encoding of spatial memory and navigation toward rewards by neural ensembles in the hippocampus	davidfoster@berkeley.edu
David Presti	Neuroscience	How psychoactive substances contribute to understanding of the connection between physical processes in the brain and the psychology of mental states (the mind-body problem)	presti@berkeley.edu
Doris Tsao	Neuroscience	How the brain builds a model of the visual world	dortsao@berkeley.edu
Ehud Isacoff	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Mechanisms of ion channel function, synapse development, plasticity, and neural circuit function	ehud@berkeley.edu
Frédéric Theunissen	Neuroscience	Perception of complex sounds	Theunissen@berkeley.edu
Gerald Westheimer	Neuroscience	Perceptual learning in spatial visual tasks	gwestheimer@berkeley.edu
Gül Dölen	Neuroscience and Psychology	Circuit and synaptic mechanisms of social cognition.
Helen Bateup	Neuroscience, Molecular and Cell Biology	Molecular basis of synapse and circuit changes associated with epilepsy and autism	bateup@berkeley.edu
Hillel Adesnik	Neuroscience	Neural basis of sensation, perception, and action	hadesnik@berkeley.edu
Jack Gallant	Neuroscience	Identifying cortical maps to discover how the brain represents information about the world and its own mental states	gallant@berkeley.edu
Joni Wallis	Neuroscience	Neuronal mechanisms underlying high-level cognitive and behavioral processes	wallis@berkeley.edu
Kevin Weiner	Neuroscience, Psychology	Models to explain how brain structure and function contribute to measurable behaviors (e.g. face perception)	kweiner@berkeley.edu
Lance Kriegsfeld	Psychology, Neuroscience	Brain and endocrine regulation of circadian rhythms	kreigsfeld@berkeley.edu
Linda Wilbrecht	Psychology, Neuroscience	Experience dependent plasticity and the development of circuits involved in value based decision making	wilbrecht@berkeley.edu
Markita Landry	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Exploiting nanomaterials to probe and characterize complex biological systems at the nano-scale; nanosensors for brain chemistry	landry@berkeley.edu
Marla Feller	Neuroscience	Functional development and organization of neural circuits in the retina	mfeller@berkeley.edu
Michael DeWeese	Optometry, Neuroscience	Neural mechanisms underlying auditory processing and selective attention in the cerebral cortex and artificial neural networks	deweese@berkeley.edu
Michael Silver	Optometry, Neuroscience	Neurophysiological and neurochemical substrates of human visual perception, attention, and learning	masilver@berkeley.edu
Michael Yartsev	Neuroscience, BioEngineering	Neural basis of complex spatial and acoustic behaviors	myartsev@berkeley.edu
Na Ji	Physics, Neuroscience	Novel imaging methods to understand the brain	jina@berkeley.edu
Preeya Khanna	Neuroscience, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Neural basis of dexterous motor skills and neurotechnology for restoring and rehabilitating movement	pkhanna@berkeley.edu
Richard Ivry	Psychology, Neuroscience	Cognition and action, with an emphasis on how people select actions, learn skills, and produce coordinated movements	ivry@berkeley.edu
Richard Kramer	Neuroscience	Novel chemical reagents for non-invasive optical sensing and manipulation of ion channels and synapses	rhkramer@berkeley.edu
Robin Ball	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience		rwball@berkeley.edu
Stephan Lammel	Neuroscience	Midbrain dopamine circuits in reward-based behaviors and pathological changes in addiction, depression and schizophrenia	lammel@berkeley.edu
Steve Brohawn	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Molecular basis of sensory transduction and electrical signaling, especially mechanosensation	brohawn@berkeley.edu
William Jagust	Neuroscience	Anatomic, biochemical, and neurochemical bases of brain aging and dementia	jagust@berkeley.edu
Yang Dan	Neuroscience	Neural circuits controlling sleep; mechanisms of executive control	ydan@berkeley.edu
Yvette Fisher	Neuroscience	Flexibility of neural circuits for spatial navigation	yfisher@berkeley.edu

Neuroscience Faculty