Neuroscience Research Labs
Below is a list of Neuroscience faculty who are interested in accepting undergraduates to do mentored independent research in their laboratory. You may also contact the Neuroscience DUS for advice and assistance in identifying a research opportunity, including with faculty who are not listed below.
(C) - Chicago Campus
(E) - Evanston Campus
(I) - In-person research
(R) - Students may do research remotely
(V) - Virtual shadowing only (meetings, papers)
Laboratories accepting requests for research from undergraduate students beginning February 1, 2021:
- Anis Contractor, PhD - Synapses, Plasticity, Learning and Memory, Autism (C) (I)
- Arun Jayaraman, PT, PhD - Clinical Research, Bioengineering, Signal Processing and Machine Learning (C) (I)
- Eva Redei, PhD - Behavior, Transcriptomics, Genetic Analyses, Biomarkers (C) (I)
- Greg Schwartz, PhD - Retina, Visual Computation, MATLAB programming skills required (C) (I) (R)
- Loukia Parisiadou, PhD - Parkinson's disease, LRRK2, Synapses, Signaling and Pharmacology (C) (R)
Laboratories accepting requests for research from undergraduate students beginning spring quarter 2021 (March 30, 2021):
- Congcong He, PhD - Neurodegeneration, Reward Behavior, Addiction, Cell Metabolism, Autophagy (C) (I)
- Evangelos Kiskinis, PhD - iPSC-based modeling of Neurological Diseases (C) (I) (R)
- Emily Rogalski, PhD -Multiple Research Areas Contacts Listed Below
- Libby Rogers - Primary Progressive Aphasia, Speech Therapy, Telehealth (C) (I) (R)
- Jaiashre Sridhar - Neuroimaging, MRI Scans Editing (C) (R)
- Fred Turek, PhD - Circadian Rhythms, Sleep (E) (I)
- Geoff Swanson, PhD - Synaptic Physiology and Plasticity; iGluR Signaling and Pharmacology (C) (I)
Laboratories listed below may begin accepting undergraduates in late spring or summer 2021:
- Catherine Woolley, PhD -Hippocampus, Mouse, Estrogen, Neurosteroid, Molecular Genetics, Microscopy (E)
- Daniela Maria Menichella, PhD - Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (C)
- Daniel Dombeck, PhD - Hippocampus, Memory Formation, Synaptic Plasticity, In Vivo Imaging, Virtual Reality (E)
- Hojoon Lee, Phd - Taste and Feeding (E) (I) (V)
- Robin Nusslock, PhD - Human Neuroscience of Emotion and Emotional Disorders (E)
Laboratories listed below will begin accepting undergraduates in summer 2021 (late June):
- Jones G Parker, PhD - Neural Mechanisms of Dopamine-medicated Behavior (C) (I)
- Yvette Wong, PhD - Neurodegenerative Diseases, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Super-Resolution Microscopy, (C) (I)
Laboratories listed below are currently not accepting undergraduates but may change after summer 2021:
- Ravi Allada, MD - Biological Rhythms, Molecular Neuroscience (E)
- Vania Apkarian, PhD - Physiology (C)
- Raj Awatramani, PhD - Molecular Neuroscience (C)
- Thomas Bozza, PhD - Circuits and Behavior, Electrophysiology, Imaging & Microscopy, Molecular Neuroscience, Sensory Systems (E)
- John Disterhoft, PhD - Learning & Memory (C)
- Marco Gallio, PhD - Cell Biology, Circuits and Behavior, Electrophysiology, Imaging & Microscopy, Molecular Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Signal Transduction (E)
- Changiz Geula, PhD - Aging of the Brain, Pathobiology of Neurodegenerative Disorders (E)
- Matt Goldrick, PhD - Cognition & Language, Learning & Memory, Motor Control (E)
- Caterina Gratton, PhD - Cognitive Neuroscience (E)
- Tina Grieco-Calub, PhD - Cognition & Language, Development, Molecular Neuroscience (E)
- Alicia Dione Guemez Gamboa, PhD -Cell Biology, Circuit Behavior, Development, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
- C.J. Heckman, PhD - Motor Control, Movement & Rehabilitation (C)
- Martha Hotz Vitaterna, PhD - Neurogenetics; Brain and Behavior (E)
- Jennifer Kearney, PhD - Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
- William Klein, PhD - Cell Biology, Learning & Memory, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease (E)
- Jhumku Kohtz, PhD - Molecular Neuroscience (C)
- Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD - Cell Biology, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
- Mitra Lavasani, PhD - Cell Biology, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
- Hojoon Lee, Phd - The neurobiology of taste (E)
- Talia Lerner, PhD - Molecular Biophysics and Chemistry , Neuroscience (C)
- Liming Li, PhD - Cell Biology, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
- Marco Martina, MD, PhD - Learning & Memory, Signal Transduction (C)
- Lee Miller, PhD - Motor Control, Movement & Rehabilitation (C)
- Andrew Miri, PhD - Motor system function; Behavior quantification (E)
- Hande Ozdinler, PhD - Cell Biology, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease, Systems Neuroscience (C)
- Ken Paller, PhD - Human Memory, Awareness, Memory Disorders (E)
- Daniel Procissi, PhD - Brain Imaging (FMRI etc.), Computational, Imaging & Microscopy, Mechanisms of Drug Action, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
- Jelena Radulovic, MD, PhD - Learning & Memory, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease, Signal Transduction (C)
- Jason Tait Sanchez, PhD - Communication Sciences and Disorders (E)
- Jeffrey N. Savas, PhD - Behavioral Neurobiology (C)
- Tiffany Schmidt, PhD - Biological Rhythms, Cell Biology, Circuits and Behavior, Development, Electrophysiology, Molecular Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Signal Transduction (E)
- Matthew Tresch, PhD - Motor Control, Movement & Rehabilitation, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
- Vicki Tysseling, PT, PhD - Cell Biology, Cell Imaging & Electrophysiology, Disease, Electrophysiology, Molecular Neuroscience, Motor Control, Movement & Rehabilitation, Neurobiology of Disease, Systems Neuroscience (C)
- *Lei Wang, PhD - Computational, Neurobiology of Disease (C)
Laboratories listed below are currently not accepting undergraduates:
- Sumitrajit Dhar, PhD - Applied Cochlear Physiology (E)
- Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD - Neuromodulation, Dopamine, Dendritic Spine, Oxytocin, Physiology, Imaging (E)
- Yue Yang, PhD - Cerebellum Epigenetics (E)