Members
Erik Bloss
Assistant Professor
The Bloss Lab uses various genetic, structural and functional approaches to understand how synaptic connectivity among cortical cell types underlies behaviorally-relevant neural computations.
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Gregory Carter
Professor, The Bernard and Lusia Milch Endowed Chair
Develops computational strategies using genetic data to understand complex genetic systems involving multiple genes and environmental factors.
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Gareth Howell
Professor, Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Chair for Glaucoma Research
Applies genetics and genomics approaches to study age-related neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and glaucoma.
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Mary Teena Joy
Assistant Professor
We are interested in targeting circuits in the brain for repair in neurological diseases such as stroke. With intersectional tools that employ large-scale recordings of neural activity, quantitative measurements of motor control and transcriptomics, we hope to determine how circuits that control motor actions reorganize in disease and use molecular information to identify therapeutic targets.
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Vivek Kumar
Associate Professor
Understand the genetic and neurobiological basis of complex behaviors that are important in psychiatric conditions such as addiction, ADHD, and depression using genomic, neural circuit, and computational tools.
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Cathleen (Cat) Lutz
Vice President, Rare Disease Translational Center
The primary research goals of the Lutz lab involve developing preclinical mouse models of neurodegeneration to test therapeutics and inform clinical trials.
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Kristen M.S. O'Connell
Associate Professor
Kristen O’Connell’s research program is focused on understanding the impact of diet, body weight and peripheral hormone signaling on neuronal excitability and plasticity in the hypothalamus and other brain regions associated with the regulation of food intake and body weight.
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Martin Pera
Professor
The extrinsic regulation of self-renewal and lineage specification of human pluripotent stem cells. The genetic basis for individual variation in the response of the central nervous system to injury.
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Michael Sasner
Senior Research Scientist
Focuses on creating and characterizing mouse models that accurately model human disease and therefore can be used to understand neurodegenerative disease and be used in the development of new therapies.
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Lenny Shultz
Professor
Investigates human immunological diseases and malignancy through the development and leveraging of novel humanized mouse models
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Bill Skarnes
Professor, Cellular Engineering
Bill's laboratory is currently exploiting new genome-editing technology to study gene function and to model disease in human stem cells.
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Jennifer Trowbridge
Professor, The Dattels Family Chair
Researches regulation of stem cells in the blood in normal development, aging and leukemia transformation.
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