Lab Advisors
Choosing your lab advisor is one of the most important decisions you'll make as a Neurobiology Master's student. We work with multiple other departments, including the Feinberg School of Medicine, to offer a wide range of opportunities for our students to pursue their specific interests. Please note that the list of available advisors will change each year depending on which labs have spaces open. Because of this, we ask incoming students not to make any plans or arrangements for their lab until after the start of the school year.
Below is a list of advisors from recent years:
| Advisor | Department | Research Interests |
| Ahmed, Atique | Feinberg Neurological Surgery | Glioblastoma; mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in brain tumor; identification of drug targets |
| Beutler, Lisa | Feinberg Endocrinology | Gut and brain communication for body weight maintenance; optogenetics and calcium imaging in mice |
| Bozza, Thomas | WCAS Neurobiology | Molecular genetics and physiology of olfaction |
| Caraveo-Piso, Gabriela | Feinberg Neurology (Movement Disorders) and Pharmacology | Molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory; dementia; Lewy Body pathologies |
| Dombeck, Daniel | WCAS Neurobiology | Neuronal circuits underlying mammalian navigation |
| Fink, Andrew | WCAS Neurobiology | Cortical representation and processing of olfactory stimuli; large-scale recordings from the mouse brain; mouse behavior. |
| Fitzgerald, James | WCAS Neurobiology | Theoretical neuroscience; Neural basis of behavior; Learning and memory; Neural networks |
| Gallio, Marco | WCAS Neurobiology | Temperature sensing processes in the brain |
| Guemez Gamboa, Alicia Dione | Feinberg Neuroscience | Circuit development; Adhesion molecules |
| Kath, William | McCormick, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics | Computational neuroscience;action potential propagation and dentritic integration in neurons |
| Klein, William | WCAS Neurobiology | Alzheimer’s disease; memory-linked synapse structure and signal transduction |
| Kozorovitskiy, Yevgenia | WCAS Neurobiology | Synaptic and circuit development in the basal ganglia |
| Lee, Hojoon | WCAS Neurobiology | The Neurobiology of Taste |
| MacIver, Malcom | McCormick, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering | Neuroscience and robotics |
| Miri, Andrew | WCAS Neurobiology | Motor system function; Behavior quantification |
| Paller, Ken | WCAS Psychology | Human memory, awareness, & memory disorders |
| Para, Alessia | WCAS Neurobiology | Molecular evolution of hot and cold receptors of species adapted to different thermal environments |
| Raman, Indira M. | WCAS Neurobiology | Ion channel biophysics; Neuronal excitability; Synaptic Transmission; Cerebellar physiology |
| Sanchez, Jason | School of Communication, Communication Sciences & Disorders | Glutamate clearance, synaptic transmission and potassium channel function |
| Schmidt, Tiffany | WCAS Neurobiology | Visual neuroscience; neurophysiology; neuroanatomy; mouse genetics, behavior |
| Schwartz, Gregory | Feinberg Ophthalmology | Circuit mechanisms underlying sensory computation |
| Smith, Richard | Feinberg Pharmacology | Developmental neurobiology; early life ion channel diseases; clinical pharmacology |
| Turek, Fred | WCAS Neurobiology | Sleep and circadian rhythms, and seasonal reproductive cycles |
| Vitaterna, Martha Hotz | WCAS Neurobiology | Mouse Behavioral Genetics, particularly Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, Arousal, Affect |
| Woolley, Catherine | WCAS Neurobiology | Steroid hormones in neural plasticity |
| Yamada, Tomoko | WCAS Neurobiology | Chromatin mechanisms including epigenetics and genome architecture during development of the cerebellum |
| Yang, Yue | WCAS Neurobiology | Developmental and Activity-Dependent Remodeling of Chromatin Architecture; Epigenetic Regulation of Neural Circuits; Cerebellar Circuits in Motor Learning |