Psychiatry Neuroscience Labs

Shari Birnbaum, Ph.D.

Rodent Behavior Core Facility

Working with investigators to perform a broad battery of behavioral tests in both rats and mice

Ryan Butler, Ph.D.

Butler Lab

Setting up gene methodologies (viral vectors) in animals as a neuroscience tool and potential gene therapy for rare childhood neurological disorders; interested in animal models of chronic pain

Seungwon Choi, Ph.D.

Choi (Seungwon) Lab

Investigating spinal cord pathways that mediate pain and touch and how they interact with emotionally relevant brain regions to influence positive and negative moods

Anila D’Mello, Ph.D.

D’Mello Lab

Combining tools from cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry & developmental psychology to elucidate the brain circuits and mechanisms supporting language & cognition in humans

Dwight German, Ph.D.

German Lab

Experimenting with blood-based biomarkers for diagnostic tests in clinical care; investigating immunohistochemical disturbances in a thalamic brain region involved in essential tremor

Janko Gospocic, Ph.D.

Gospocic Lab: Epigenetic Regulation of Social Brain

Studying how epigenetic pathways and gene expression regulate brain plasticity in the context of social behavior and aging by working with a unique ant species

Robert Greene, M.D., Ph.D.

Greene Lab

Examining functional excitatory synaptic changes across behavioral arousal states including sleep deprivation and anesthesia

Takashi Kitamura, Ph.D.

Kitamura Lab

Focusing on function of the hippocampus in learning and memory, studying the role of the entorhinal cortex and its circuits in modifying hippocampal function and temporal memory

Yingxi Lin, Ph.D.

Lin (Yingxi) Lab

Exploring cellular and synaptic memories encoded by experience-induced gene programs, under-standing their roles in behaviors and perturbations in neurodevelop-mental and psychiatric disorders

Ram Madabhushi, Ph.D.

Madabhushi Lab

Studying the role of double stranded DNA breaks in chromatin dynamics and how this regulates gene expression involved in learning, memory, and neuropsychiatric disease (e.g., addiction)

Sachie Ogawa, Ph.D.

Psychiatry Imaging Facility

Focusing on neuronal circuit connectivity and working to support investigators to perform imaging and tissue dissection

Steven Shabel, Ph.D.

Shabel Lab

Investigating the neural mechanisms of reward and punishment and their links to mental illnesses, such as depression and addiction

Carol Tamminga, M.D.

Schizophrenia/Tamminga Research Lab

Focusing on biomarkers of psychotic illness from individuals with psychosis and animal models and psychosis across the life-span and analyzing biomarker databases

Jun Yamamoto, Ph.D.

Yamamoto Lab

Focusing on the neural dynamics for successful memory access and retrieval during episodic working memory tasks to elucidate the neural circuit mechanism in the hippocampal-cortical network