Mentors: Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration T32 Program
Mentor | Name and Degree | Department | College | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Aysegul Gunduz, PhD | Biomedical Engineering | Engineering | Clinical diagnostics & therapy for neurological disorders using neural networks; electro-physiology, bioimaging |
 | Benoit Giasson, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | Neuroscience, genetics, alpha-synuclein & antibodies |
 | Catherine Price, PhD | Clinical & Health Psychology | Public Health & Health Professions | Cognitive subtypes in Parkinson's disease; DTI & biomarkers; Post-operative cognitive change |
 | Christopher Hass, PhD | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Health & Human Performance | Locomotion & balance in Parkinson's disease; Efficacy of physical interventions (tai chi, exercise, split treadmill) for disease progression |
 | Daniel Ferris, PhD | Biomedical Engineering | Engineering | Biomechanics & neural control of human locomotion in health & disability |
 | David Borchelt, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | Use of transgenic mouse models, knockout mice, and cell culture systems to identify novel therapeutic approaches to neurodegenerative disease |
 | David Fuller, PhD | Physical Therapy | Health & Human Performance | Neuroplasticity & respiratory control |
 | David Vaillancourt, PhD | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Health & Human Performance | Identifying functional & structural brain deficits in movement disorders using DTI & fMRI |
 | Dawn Bowers, PhD | Clinical & Health Psychology | Public Health & Health Professions | Apathy, depression & cognitive subtypes in Parkinson's disease; Face digitizing, ERP, psychophysiology, rTMS; clinical-cognitive interventions |
 | Emily Plowman, PhD | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Public Health & Health Professions | Upper aerodigestive tract function in individuals with neurological disease & the associated processes of speech, breathing & swallowing |
 | Evangelos Christou, PhD | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Health & Human Performance | Neuromuscular mechanisms of motor output variability & movement accuracy |
 | Gordon Mitchell, PhD | Physical Therapy | Health & Human Performance | Neuroplasticity in respiratory motor control |
 | Habibeh Khoshbouei, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | Dopamine neuro-transmission regulation; Pathogenesis of addiction, neurological & neuropsychiatric disorders |
 | Ianessa Humbert, PhD | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Public Health & Health Professions | Physiological & neural mechanisms of swallowing disorders & the development of rehabilitation strategies |
 | Jada Lewis, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | Testing novel siRNA therapeutics against alpha-synuclein; Generating constitutive and inducible model systems for the study of proteins & cellular pathways |
 | Karen Hegland, PhD | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Public Health & Health Professions | Mechanisms of normal & disordered airway protection |
 | Kevin Otto, PhD | Biomedical Engineering | Engineering | Neural engineering, device-tissue interfaces & neurostimulation |
 | Krista Vandenborne, PhD | Physical Therapy | Health & Human Performance | MRS/MRI studies of muscle function in human & animal models; Use of gene transfer & exercise as therapeutic interventions |
 | Laura Ranum, PhD | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Medicine | Human genetics & molecular mechanisms of ataxia, mouse models of expansion protein repeats; ALS & ataxia |
 | Lucia Notterpek, PhD | Neurology | Medicine | Subcellular changes associated with age-related & disease associated myelin degeneration; optimization of lipid nanoparticles |
 | Michael Okun, MD | Neurology | Medicine | Treatment of movement disorders , brain stimulation effects on behavior, mood & cognition |
 | Mingzhou Ding, PhD | Biomedical Engineering | Engineering | Advanced signal processing, methods for analysis of oscillatory neural networks & multivariate neurobiological data |
 | Paramita Chakrabarty, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | Role of immune activation in dementias of the elderly, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease & tauopathies |
 | Rachael Seidler, PhD | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Health & Human Performance | Motor control, aging, neuroplasticity amp; rehabilitation associated with spaceflight |
 | Ronald Cohen, PhD | Clinical & Health Psychology | Public Health & Health Professions | Health comorbidities, risky behavior, neuroimaging |
 | Russell Bauer, PhD | Clinical & Health Psychology | Public Health & Health Professions | Hippocampal contributions to spatial memory, & structure-function relationships in memory |
 | Todd Golde, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | Biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases |
 | Yuqing Li, PhD | Neurology | Medicine | Basal ganglia function/dysfunction; Neural plasticity; Transgenic mouse & worm models; Dystonia, Parkinson's disease, Restless Leg Syndrome |