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Neurobiology - Primary Faculty

  • Asare-Owusu, Bridget , BS, Research Fellow
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  • Baskakov, Ilia V., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-4562
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    Keywords: neurodegenerative diseases, prion diseases, neuroinflammation, reactive astrocytes, reactive microglia, Alzheimer's disease
  • Calarco, Cali A., PhD, Research Associate
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  • Calu, Donna J.., PhD, Associate Professor
    ‪(443) 302-9139‬
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    Keywords: Reward, learning, motivation, attention, decision-making, addiction, obesity, individual differences, amygdala, insular cortex, striatum, dopamine, in vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, chemogenetics, fiber photometry, dopamine sensing
  • Campbell, Rianne R., PhD, Post Doc Fellow
  • Cardozo, Carlos , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Casile, Antonino , MS, Visiting Research Fellow
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  • Chandra, Ramesh , PhD, Assistant Professor
    (410) 706-2770
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    Keywords: addiction, depression, optogenetics, striatum, nucleus accumbens, neuron subtypes, epigenetics
  • Cheer, Joseph F., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-0112
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    Keywords: Cannabinoids, endocannabinoids, dopamine, motivation, addiction, depression, schizophrenia, Huntington's Disease, voltammetry, electrophysiology, optogenetics, chemogenetics, calcium imaging
  • Cramer, Nathan P., PhD, Associate Professor
    410-706-7307
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    Keywords: nociception, pain perception, stress
  • Erzurumlu, Reha S., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-7401
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    Keywords: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying axon-target interactions in mammalian sensory pathways. Molecular mechanisms of sensory axon elongation and arborization. Activity-dependent refinement of synaptic connections. NMDA receptor-mediated development and patterning of sensory maps. Recent research focuses on the development and plasticity of the cerebral cortex and somatosensory pathways. We use molecular biology, in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology, imaging, neuroanatomy and behavioral techniques to understand mechanisms underlying development of topographic maps, neural patterning, plasticity and neonatal injury-induced alterations in the trigeminal system.
  • Ha, Michael , MB,BCh, Visiting Instructor
  • Hough, Zachary J., PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Jhou, Thomas C., PhD, Associate Professor
    x6-4459
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  • Juarez, Barbara , PhD, Assistant Professor
    (410) 706-4108
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    Keywords: Cellular excitability, ion channels, dopamine, substance-use disorder, opioids, stress, neural circuits, CRISPR/Cas9
  • Kanold, Patrick O., PhD, Adjunct Professor
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  • Keller, Asaf , PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-7307
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    Keywords: sensory perception, chronic pain, descending pain modulation, drug abuse, substance use in pregnancy
  • Kelly, Michy P., PhD, Associate Professor
    667-900-8704
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  • Khachaturian, Henry , PhD, Instructor (Adjunct Faculty I)
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  • Lee, Seung Chan , PhD, Research Associate
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  • Li, Min , MS, Instructor (Adjunct Faculty I)
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  • Lindberg, Iris , PhD, Professor
    410-706-4778
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    Keywords: neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, protein chaperones, proteostais, ALS
  • Liu, Shuai , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Lobo, Mary Kay , PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-8824
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    Keywords: Addiction, depression, stereotypy, striatum, nucleus accumbens, neuron subtypes, circuits, gene expression, transcription, epigenetics
  • Lujan, Miguel A., PhD, MSc, Research Associate
    (775) 200-5843
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    Keywords: Endocannabinoids, Dopamine, Fiber photometry, Systems neuroscience, Sex differences, Drug self-administration.
  • Makarava, Natallia , BS, Research Associate
    410-706-4563
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    Keywords: Prions, neurodegenerative diseases, neuroinflammation
  • Margolis, Frank L., PhD, Professor Emeritus
    (410) 706-8913
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    Keywords: Chemosensory, olfaction, gene regulation,
  • Martin, David Alexander , PhD, Research Associate
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  • Mateo, Yolanda , PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
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  • Meyers, Allison , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Monteiro, Mervyn J., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-8132
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    Keywords: Protein misfolding, Neurodegenerative diseases, ALS, Alzheimer's, ubiquilin, proteasome, autophagy
  • Munger, Steven D., PhD, Adjunct Professor
    (410) 706-5851
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  • Olusakin, Jimmy , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Pickard, Hanna , DPhil, Adjunct Professor
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  • Pielago, Jose Martin S., MD, Instructor (Adjunct Faculty I)
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  • Pina, Melanie M., PhD, Assistant Professor
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    Keywords: substance use disorder, aggression, mood, serotonin, neural circuits, electrophysiology, synaptic plasticity, biosensors
  • Puche, Adam C., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-3530
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    Keywords: Olfactory, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, imaging
  • Pumplin, David W., PhD, Professor (Adjunct Faculty I I)
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  • Roach, Robert Merritt , MD, Instructor (Adjunct Faculty I)
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  • Schoenbaum, Geoffrey , MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor
    (410) 706-3814
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  • Scott, Samantha , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Shaham, Yavin , PhD, Adjunct Professor
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  • Shakya, Manita , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
  • Suarez, Alexander D., MD, Instructor (Adjunct Faculty I)
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  • Venniro, Marco , PhD, Assistant Professor
    (410) 706-1395
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    Keywords: Translation, Animal models, Substance Use Disorders, Social Reward, Amygdala, Decision Making
  • Violand, Richard L., PT, BS, Instructor (Adjunct Faculty I I)
  • Weber, Sophia , BS, PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Zhou, Fuwen , BM, MM, Dr. rer. nat., Assistant Professor
    (410)706-7119
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    Keywords: HCN and TRP channels, neural excitation in healthy animals and animal models of human diseases (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy); olfactory bulb; cortex; local and centrifugal circuits; short-term plasticity; in vivo and in vitro neural electrophysiology; neuroanatomy with fiber photometry and multiphoton imaging