Topic Area
Neuroscience
View of auditory nerve fibers (green) entering the cochlear nucleus (blue and red) (from Chanda et al., 2011)
Focus on neuronal physiology in health and disease
The Neuroscience faculty explore signal transduction events during sensory perception, synaptic transmission, and disease. Specific areas of interest include hearing, taste, smell, and neurodegenerative disease. This group of researchers uses a wide array of techniques spanning the fields of electrophysiology, cell and developmental biology, microscopy and imaging, and molecular genetics.
Faculty working in Neuroscience include Drs. Derek Daniels, Denise Ferkey, Shermali Gunawardena, Jae Lee, Soo-Kyung Lee, Alfredo Oliveros, and, Matthew Xu-Friedman.