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Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience faculty

Lu Chen Associate Professor (Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology) Mechanisms of synapse formation during development and synapse modification in plasticity.

Yang Dan Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Processing and computation of visual information in the thalamus and cortex.

Dan Feldman Associate Professor (Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology) Plasticity and sensory processing of whisker input in rodent somatosensory cortex.

Marla Feller Associate Professor (Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology) Development of functional retinal circuits

John Flannery Professor (Vision Science, Molecular & Cell Biology) Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy of Inherited Retinal Degenerations.

Gian Garriga Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Neuronal migration and axonal pathfinding in C. elegans.

Xiaohua Gong Associate Professor (Vision Science) Eye development and diseases; cell-to-cell communication and intracellular signaling pathways in the lens.

Ehud Isacoff Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Channels, synapses, circuits; advanced optical methods.

Daniela Kaufer Assistant Professor (Integrative Biology) Molecular mechanisms underlying stress responses in the brain.

Richard Kramer Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Measuring and manipulating neuronal excitability and and synaptic transmission with light

Harold Lecar Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Biophysical properties of ion channels; theoretical biophysics.

Dennis Levi Professor (Optometry) Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Amblyopia.

John Ngai Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Cellular and molecular mechanisms of olfaction; functional genomics.

Mu-Ming Poo Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Mechanisms of axon guidance; synaptic plasticity.

David Schaffer Professor (Chemical Engineering) Mechanisms of stem cell differentiation.

Kristin Scott Associate Professor (Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology) Taste recognition in Drosophila.

Mark A. Tanouye Professor (Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Molecular & Cell Biology) Molecular genetics and physiology of behavior in Drosophila.

Andrew Wurmser Assistant Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells.

Robert Zucker Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology) Role of calcium in transmitter release, synaptic transmission and plasticity.