Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program Faculty

Altshuler, Douglas L., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; phone: 951-827-3937, Fax: 951-827-4286, E-mail: douga@ucr.edu). Neural control and aerodynamics of animal flight; neuroanatomy of the flight motor, neuromuscular physiology, and neuroethology.

Andersen, G. John Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Psychology; phone: 951-827-4383, Fax: 951-827-3985, E-mail: andersen@ucr.edu). Interactions of the visual and vestibular systems in determining spatial orientation. Computational models of high level visual processing; motion perception, object and scene perception.

Bazhenov, Maksim Ph.D.  (Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience; phone: 951-827-4370, Fax: 951-827-3087, E-mail: maksim.bazhenov@ucr.edu).  Computational neuroscience, olfactory coding, sleep oscillations, epileptogenesis.

Beckage, Nancy Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Entomology; phone: 951-827-3521, Fax: 951-827-3086, E-mail: nancy.beckage@ucr.edu. Physiological and molecular host-parasite relationships. Insect immunity, pathology, virology, and endocrinology.

Burgess, Curt Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Psychology; phone: 951-827-2392, Fax: 951-827-3985, E-mail: curt@ucr.edu, URL: http://locutus.ucr.edu). Neuropsychology of language and memory; computational models of high-dimensional memory; connectionist models of language and memory; psycholinguisitcs.

Carson, Monica J. Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Sciences; phone: 951-827-6089, FAX: 951-827-5504, E-mail: monica.carson@ucr.edu).  The role of microglia in the developing and adult CNS during health or neurodegenerative and autoimmune disease.

Chiarello, Christine Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Psychology; phone: 951-827-5096, Fax: 951-827-3985, E-mail: chrisc@galaxy.ucr.edu). Left and right hemisphere contributions to language comprehension in the normal brain; neural bases of word meaning interpretation; mechanisms of cerebral hemispheric interaction.

Currįs-Collazo, Margarita C. Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience; phone: 951-827-3960, Fax: 951-827-2966, E-mail: margarita.curras@ucr.edu). Neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, neuroendocrinology, excitotoxicity. Identification and function of glutamate receptor subunits in neuroendocrine cells, physiological regulation of glutamate receptor expression, mechanisms underlying neuroprotection.

Currie, Scott N. Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience; phone: 951-827-2411, Fax: 951-827-2966, E-mail: currie@mail.ucr.edu). Network, synaptic and cellular mechanisms that control locomotion in the vertebrate spinal cord and brainstem.

Ethell, Douglas W. Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Sciences, phone: 951-827-2224, Fax: 951-827-5517, E-mail: doug.ethell@ucr.edu). A schematic created by Dr. Ethell that shows mechanisms involved in Alzheimer's Disease.

Ethell, Iryna M. Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Sciences, phone: 951-827-2186, Fax: 951-827-5517, E-mail: iryna.ethell@ucr.edu). Studies of the molecular mechanisms that trigger dendritic spine formation.

Fiacco, Todd A. Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience; phone: 951-827-7865, Fax: 951-827-3087, E-mail: todd.fiacco@ucr.edu).

Hatton, Glenn I. Ph.D., Deceased (Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience; phone: 951-827-4419, Fax: 951-827-2966, E-mail: glenn.hatton@ucr.edu). Mechanisms of neuroendocrine control; plasticity in the adult mammalian nervous system; neuron-glial cell interactions.

Hickmott, Peter W. Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, phone: 951-827-7308, Fax: 951-827-3985, E-mail:  peter.hickmott@ucr.edu). Organization and plasticity of cortical circuits.

Huffman, Kelly Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, phone: 951-827-4805, Fax: 951-827-3985, E-mail: kelly.huffman@ucr.edu).  Molecular development and evolution of the neocortex. Using a molecular, genetic and neuroanatomical approach to study neocortical development and regionalization.

Korzus, Edward Ph.D.  (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, phone: 951-827-4992, Fax: 951-827-3985, E-mail: edward.korzus@ucr.edu).  Research is aimed at understanding how neural circuits hold knowledge about the world and guide behavior. Ed Korzus studies spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical information processing using genetic model system in conjunction with functional imaging, biochemical, electrophysiological and behavioral techniques.

Martins-Green, Manuela Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience; phone: 951-827-2585, Fax: 951-827-4286, E-mail: manuela.martins@ucr.edu). The role of chemokines in wound healing and tumor development.

Morton, Thomas H. Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Chemistry; phone: 951-827-4735, Fax: 951-827-4713, E-mail: thomas.morton@ucr.edu). Molecular mechanisms of receptor-ligand interactions; olfactory transduction in vertebrate species and its relationship to enzymatic catalysis.

Ray, Anandasankar, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; phone: 951-827-5998, Fax: 951-827-3086, E-mail: anand.ray@ucr.edu). We use Drosophila as a model to study the molecular and neuronal basis of odor coding; mechanisms of patterning and development in sensory neurons; and mapping of neural circuitry in the central nervous system.

Razak, Khaleel, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology; phone and Fax: 951-827-5060, E-mail: khaleel@ucr.edu). Sensory system development and plasticity, echolocation and sound localization behaviors, recovery from brain injury.

Saltzman, Wendy Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Biology; phone: 951-827-6356, Fax: 951-827-4286, E-mail: wendy.saltzman@ucr.edu). Behavioral neuroendocrinology; social control of reproductive and endocrine function; parental behavior.

Seitz, Aaron Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology; phone: and Fax: 951-827-5060, E-mail: aaron.seitz@ucr.edu). Neural mechanisms that allow for, stabilize, and consolidate, sensory learning. Methods of psychophysics, neuroimaging (EEG and fMRI) and computational neuroscience.

Stanley, B. Glenn Ph.D. (Chair, Department of Psychology; Professor, Departments of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and Psychology; phone: 951-827-5625, Fax: 951-827-3985, E-mail: glenn.stanley@ucr.edu). Neuronal control of eating behavior, disturbances of eating behavior, and neurotransmitters.

Wilson, Emma Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Sciences; phone: 951-827-4328, Fax: 951-827-5504, E-mail: emma.wilson@ucr.edu). Immune responses in the CNS during infection with Toxoplasma gondii.

Zidovetzki, Raphael Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience; phone: 951-827-5628, Fax: 951-827-4286, E-mail: raphael.zidovetzki@ucr.edu). Transmembrane signal transduction; interaction of second messengers with lipid membranes; dynamics of cell surface receptors.