T32 Program Mentors
| Name/Degrees | Rank | Primary Appt/College | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauer, Russell, PhD, ABPP | Professor | Clinical & Health Psychology/ Cognitive Neuroscience PHHP | Mentor | Hippocampal contributions to spatial memory, and structure-function relationships in memory |
| Borchelt, David, PhD | Professor | Neuroscience COM | Mentor | Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease; Mutant proteins; transgenic mouse models, novel therapeutic approaches |
| Bowers, Dawn, PhD, ABPP | Professor | Clinical & Health Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience PHHP | Mentor | Apathy, depression and cognitive subtypes in Parkinson disease; face digitizing, ERP, psychophysiology, NIR; clinical-cognitive interventions |
| Christou, Evangelos, PhD | Professor | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology HHP | Mentor | Neuromuscular mechanisms of motor output variability and movement accuracy |
| Cohen, Ron, PhD, ABPP | Professor | Neuroscience, Neurology & Psychiatry COM | Mentor | Health comorbidities, risky behavior, neuroimaging |
| Ding, Mingzhou, PhD | J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor | Biomedical Engineering ENG | Mentor | Advanced signal processing, methods for analysis of oscillatory neural networks & multivariate neurobiological data |
| Fuller, David, PhD | Professor | PT/Rehab Science PHHP | Mentor | Neuroplasticity, respiratory control |
| Giasson, Ben, PhD | Professor | Neuroscience | Mentor | Neuroscience, Genetics, Alpha-Synuclein, Antibodies |
| Golde, Todd, MD, PhD | Professor | Neuroscience COM | Mentor, Co-Director | Biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson, Alzheimers) . Translational research, intervention targets |
| Gunduz, Ayesegul, PhD | Assistant Professor | Bioengineering ENG | Mentor | Neuromodulation; Real time modulation of EEG/single cell; Closed system DBS |
| Hass, Chris, PhD | Professor | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology HHP | Mentor | Locomotion and balance in in Parkinson disease; Efficacy of physical interventions (tai chi, exercise, split treadmill) for disease progression |
| Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Neuroscience COM | Mentor | Molecular mechanisms of dopamine transporter; biophysical regulation of DAT |
| Lang, Peter, PhD | Graduate Research Professor | Clinical & Health Psychology /Emotion Neuroscience PHHP | Mentor | Neural mechanism of emotion and attention; Anxiety and phobic disorders; ERP, fMRI, and psychophysiology |
| Lewis, Jada, PhD | Associate Professor | Neuroscience COM | Mentor | Testing novel siRNA therapeutics against alpha-synuclein; generating constitutive and inducible model systems for the study of proteins, cellular pathways |
| Lewis, Mark, PhD | Professor | Psychiatry | Mentor | Repetitive behavior and basal ganglia circuitry; animal models for autism spectrum disorder |
| Li, Yuqing, PhD | Professor | Neurology COM | Mentor | Basal ganglia function/dysfunction; neural plasticity; transgenic mouse and worm models. Dystonia, Parkinson's disease, Restless Leg |
| Mareci, Thomas, PhD | Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology COM | Mentor | Neuroimaging, with focus on DTI; methods development |
| Mitchell, Gordon, MD | Professor | PT/Rehabilitation Science PHHP | Mentor | Neuroplasticity in respiratory motor control |
| Notterpek, Lucia, PhD | Neely Professor & Chair | Neuroscience COM | Mentor | Subcellular changes associated with age-related and disease associated myelin degeneration; optimization of lipid nanoparticles |
| Okun, Michael, MD | Adelaide Lackner Professor & Chair | Neurology COM | Mentor, Co-Director | Movement Disorders treatment, brain stimulation effects behavior, mood, cognition; Parkinson disease, Tourettes, computational modeling |
| Price, Catherine, PhD | Paul Satz Associate Professor | Clinical & Health Psychology/ Cognitive Neuroscience PHHP | Mentor | Cognitive subtypes in Parkinson disease; DTI and biomarkers. Post-operative cognitive change. |
| Ranum, Laura, PhD | Professor | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology COM Director, Center for Neurogenetics | Mentor | Human genetics and molecular mechanisms of ataxia, mouse models of expansion protein repeats; ALS and ataxia |
| Vaillancourt, David, PhD | Professor | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology HHP | Mentor Director (MPI) | Functional and structural brain deficits in movement disorders using neuroimaging (DTI, fMRI). Longitudinal changes |
| Vandenborne, Krista, PhD | Professor and Chair | PT/Rehab Science PHHP | Mentor | MRS/MRI studies of muscle function in human and animal models; Use of gene transfer and exercise as therapeutic interventions |