Neurology Laboratories

Below are links to each of our laboratories in the Department of Neurology listed alphabetically by the principal investigator’s last name.

Katerina Akassoglou, PhD
Neuroimmunology

Sergio Baranzini, PhD
MS genetics, gut-brain axis, SPOKE knowledge graph, artificial intelligence

Joshua Berke, PhD
Neurobiology of addiction, decision-making, dopamine, movement disorders

Daniele Canzio, PhD
Neural wiring, brain development, genome architecture, gene expression

Jonah Chan, PhD
Myelination, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, multiple sclerosis

Claire Celland, MD, PhD
Neurodegeneration, CRISPR, iPSC stem cells, multiple sclerosis

Dena Dubal, MD, PhD
Resilience, Alzheimer's disease, sex differences, aging

Robert Edwards, MD
Addiction, Parkinson's disease, synaptic transmission, neurotransmitter disease

Steve Fancy, PhD, DVM
Oligodendrocytes, myelin, multiple sclerosis, neuron vulnerability

Ying-Hui Fu, PhD
Sleep quality, genetics, neurocircuits, molecular signaling

Karunesh Ganguly, MD, PhD
Neural engineering, stroke, rehabilitation, sleep

Ari Green, MD
Remyelination, glial biology, biomarker validation, biology of circuits/synapses

Lea Grinberg, MD, PhD
Alzheimer's disease, dementia, neuropathology, sleep

Corey Harwell, PhD
Neural development

Jill Hollenbach, PhD, MPH
Immunogenetics, immunology, infectious disease, neurodegenerative disease

Aimee Kao, MD, PhD
Neurodegeneration, lysosome, protein homeostasis, aging

Saul Kato, PhD
Cognition, computation, dynamical systems, neural networks

Andrew Kayser, MD, PhD
Cognitive neuroscience, functional MRI, behavioral neurology, decision-making

Jon Kleen, MD, PhD
Epilepsy, memory, intracranial, AI

Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, PhD
Dopamine, learning and memory, two-photon imaging, biological algorithms

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD
Cortical development, neuroscience, autism spectrum disorder, developmental neuroscience

Jingjing Li, PhD
Single cell omics profiling technologies, computational biology, neurodevelopment

Elyssa Margolis, PhD
Opioid reward and addiction, G protein coupled receptor function and pharmacology, dopamine circuits, neurophysiology

Lennart Mucke, MD
Disease-focused neuroscience, translational neurobiology, neurodegenerative disorders and related conditions, investigational therapeutic strategies

Ken Nakamura, MD, PhD
Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, metabolism, mitochondria

Alexandra Nelson, MD, PhD
Systems neuroscience, movement disorders, basal ganglia, electrophysiology

Jorge Oksenberg, PhD
Multiple sclerosis, genomics, epigenetics, immunogenetics

Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD
Human neurodevelopment, neurodevelopmental disorders, neonatal brain development, neurogenesis

Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD
Neuroinflammatory diseases, brain development, autoantibodies, NMDA receptor

Alex Pollen, PhD
Development, dopaminergic neurons, human genetics

Stanley Prusiner, MD
Prion biology, neurodegeneration, prion therapeutics, Nobel Prize

Louis Ptáček, MD
Circadian rhythm regulation, human genetics, cell and molecular neuroscience, animal modeling

Dorit Ron, PhD
Addiction, alcohol, molecular signaling, mice

Joe Sabatino, Jr., MD, PhD
Multiple sclerosis, T cells, antigen discovery

Bill Seeley, MD
Frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, TDP-43, C9orf72

Yin Shen, PhD
Functional genomics, genetics, gene regulation, brain development

Elliott Sherr, MD, PhD
Autism, intellectual disability, brain malformation, neurodevelopment

Raymond Swanson, MD
Parkinson's disease, stroke, bioenergetics, inflammation

Zena Vexler, PhD
Neonatal and childhood stroke, inflammation, blood-brain barrier, microglia

Bill Weiss, MD, PhD
Mouse models for neural cancers, kinase biology, human induced pluripotent stem cells, Myc proteins

Michael Wilson, MD, MAS
Neuroimmunology, encephalitis, meningitis, infectious diseases

Jennifer Yokoyama, PhD
Genetics, transcriptomics, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Scott Zamvil, MD, PhD
Neuroimmunology, neuromyelitis optica (NMO), myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated Disease (MOGAD), T cell immunology