Faculty

Section Chief

Janine Prange-Kiel, Ph.D.

Janine Prange-Kiel, Ph.D.

Eberhard Karls University, Germany
Steroids in the brain; regulation of hippocampal estradiol synthesis; effects of estradiol and synaptic plasticity

Faculty

Barry Botterman, Ph.D.

Barry R. Botterman, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles
Neurophysiology of motor control; synaptic organization of spinal motoneurons; physiology of spinal cord injury

 

Somesree GhoshMitra, M.D., Ph.D.

Somesree Ghosh-Mitra, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Calcutta, India and Texas Woman's University
Designing smart nanostructures for manipulation of cell signaling pathways that leads to neural circuit reconstruction and single cell imaging to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment approach following central nervous system injury.

 
Gary Iwamoto, Ph.D.

Gary A. Iwamoto, Ph.D.

University of California, Davis
Remodeling of cardiorespiratory and locomotor control neurons of the central nervous system, Response and adaptation to exercise and hypodynamic environments

 
Beth Rinaldi, Ph.D.

Caroline "Beth" Rinaldi, Ph.D.

University of Kansas
Functional morphology; Growth and development of mineralized tissues, especially dentin, with the primary goal of developing applications for the study of paleobiology

 
Alisa Winkler, Ph.D.

Alisa Winkler, Ph.D.

Southern Methodist University
Systematics and functional morphology of fossil mammals