Faculty

Name	Department	Research interests	Email
Hillel Adesnik	Neuroscience	Neural basis of sensation, perception, and action	hadesnik@berkeley.edu
Robin Ball	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Active and inclusive teaching practices in biology education	rwball@berkeley.edu
Helen Bateup	Neuroscience, Molecular and Cell Biology	Molecular basis of synapse and circuit changes associated with epilepsy and autism	bateup@berkeley.edu
Annaliese Beery	Integrative Biology, Neuroscience	Mechanisms supporting affiliative social behavior between peers; neuroendocrinology of complex behavior	abeery@berkeley.edu
Steve Brohawn	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Molecular basis of sensory transduction and electrical signaling, especially mechanosensation	brohawn@berkeley.edu
Yang Dan	Neuroscience	Neural circuits controlling sleep; mechanisms of executive control	ydan@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
Gül Dölen	Neuroscience and Psychology	Circuit and synaptic mechanisms of social cognition.
David Feinberg	Neuroscience	MRI technology development, mapping columnar and visual circuitry, modeling neurovascular coupling	david.feinberg@berkeley.edu
Dan Feldman	Neuroscience	Sensory processing and plasticity in the somatosensory cortex	dfeldman@berkeley.edu
Marla Feller	Neuroscience	Functional development and organization of neural circuits in the retina	mfeller@berkeley.edu
Yvette Fisher	Neuroscience	Flexibility of neural circuits for spatial navigation	yfisher@berkeley.edu
David Foster	Neuroscience	Encoding of spatial memory and navigation toward rewards by neural ensembles in the hippocampus	davidfoster@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
Ehud Isacoff	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Mechanisms of ion channel function, synapse development, plasticity, and neural circuit function	ehud@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
William Jagust	Neuroscience	Anatomic, biochemical, and neurochemical bases of brain aging and dementia	jagust@berkeley.edu
Na Ji	Physics, Neuroscience	Novel imaging methods to understand the brain	jina@berkeley.edu
Daniela Kaufer	Integrative Biology	Molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity in response to stress and neurological insults	danielak@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
Bob Knight	Neuroscience, Psychology	Neural coding underlying goal-directed behavior and development of brain-machine interfaces for motor and language prostheses.	rtknight@berkeley.edu
Richard Kramer	Neuroscience	Novel chemical reagents for non-invasive optical sensing and manipulation of ion channels and synapses	rhkramer@berkeley.edu
Lance Kriegsfeld	Psychology, Neuroscience	Brain and endocrine regulation of circadian rhythms	kriegsfeld@berkeley.edu
Stephan Lammel	Neuroscience	Midbrain dopamine circuits in reward-based behaviors and pathological changes in addiction, depression and schizophrenia	lammel@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
Bruno Olshausen	Optometry, Neuroscience	Computational models of sensory coding and visual perception	baolshausen@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
Michael Silver	Optometry, Neuroscience	Neurophysiological and neurochemical substrates of human visual perception, attention, and learning	masilver@berkeley.edu
Frédéric Theunissen	Neuroscience	Perception of complex sounds	Theunissen@berkeley.edu
Doris Tsao	Neuroscience	How the brain builds a model of the visual world	dortsao@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
Gerald Westheimer	Neuroscience	Perceptual learning in spatial visual tasks	gwestheimer@berkeley.edu
Linda Wilbrecht	Psychology, Neuroscience	Experience dependent plasticity and the development of circuits involved in value based decision making	wilbrecht@berkeley.edu
Michael Yartsev	Neuroscience, BioEngineering	Neural basis of complex spatial and acoustic behaviors	myartsev@berkeley.edu
Bob Zucker	Neuroscience	Mechanisms underlying regulation of synaptic transmission	zucker@berkeley.edu

Neuroscience Faculty