People / Neuroscience Faculty A-Z

The following investigators are faculty members of the Tufts Department of Neuroscience and/or the Tufts Graduate Neuroscience Program (* indicates faculty that are not members of the Sackler Graduate Program and therefore cannot accept students. ⁺ indicates faculty that are currently not accepting students). Follow the links below for detailed information about the research interests of our faculty.

• Kathleen Dunlap, Ph.D., Director, Graduate Neuroscience Program; Mechanisms of neurosecretion; modulation of calcium channels.

• Michele H. Jacob, Ph.D., Neuroscience Student Advisor; Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating neuronal synaptogenesis.

• Jamshed Bharucha, Ph.D., Neurobiology of music perception.

• Robert Blaustein, M.D., Ph.D., Structure and function of voltage-gated potassium channels.

• Dan H. Cox, Ph.D., Molecular and biophysical studies of ion channels.

• Larry A. Feig, Ph.D., Ras and related GTP binding proteins in neuronal signaling.

• Eric Frank, Ph.D., Sensory neuron development and the establishment of synaptic connectivity in the spinal cord.

• Grace Gill, Ph.D., Molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression during development.

• Phil Haydon, Ph.D., Annetta and Gustav Grisard Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience; The regulation of synaptic transmission by glia and mechanistic studies of synaptogenesis by neuronal progenitors.

• F. Rob Jackson, Ph.D., Director, Center for Neuroscience Research; Genetic analysis of the nervous system and behavior (circadian rhythms) in Drosophila.

• Daniel G. Jay, Ph.D., Biochemistry of Neural Development.

• Peter Juo, Ph.D., Cell biology of the synapse; localization and regulation of synaptic proteins.

• John S. Kauer, Ph.D.⁺, Structure and function of the olfactory system; development of an artificial nose.

• Alan S. Kopin, M.D., Peptide and biogenic amine receptor structure and function.

• Rajendra Kumar-Singh, Ph.D., Genetic therapies for macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

• Ronald M. Lechan, M.D., Ph.D., Anatomy and neuroendocrine regulation of the hypothalamus and pituitary.

• Janis Lem, Ph.D., Visual phototransduction and retinal degeneration.

• Laura Liscum, Ph.D., Routes and mechanisms of intracellular cholesterol transport.

• Karina F. Meiri, Ph.D., Cytoskeletal regulation of neuronal differentiation and axonal growth.

• Klaus A. Miczek, Ph.D., Psychopharmacological studies of aggression, anxiety, and social stress.

• Stephen J. Moss, Ph.D., The control of inhibitory neurotransmission, with emphasis on the construction and regulation of inhibitory synapses.

• Emmanuel N. Pothos, Ph.D., Synaptic plasticity in the midbrain monoamine systems underlying motivation, emotion, pleasure, memory and movement.

• Henry Querfurth, M.D., Ph.D., Cellular and molecular studies of muscle pathogenesis as related to Alzheimer's disease protein aggregation.

• Maribel Rios, Ph.D., Genetic analysis of neurotrophic functions; regulation of affective behavior, food intake and metabolic function by brain derived neurotrophic factor.

• Suzanne Roffler-Tarlov, Ph.D., Catecholamines as developmental signals.

• Beverly S. Rubin, Ph.D., Reproductive neuroendocrinology, with emphasis on the neuroendocrine regulation of gonadotropin release and reproductive behaviors.

• James E. Schwob, M.D., Ph.D., Regulation of neurogenesis in the mammalian olfactory epithelium.

• Louis Shuster, Ph.D., Biochemical mechanisms of narcotic addiction, genetic determinants of drug abuse.

• Barbara R. Talamo, Ph.D.⁺, Neural regulation of target cell sensitivity; signal transduction in olfactory sensory neurons.

• Barry A. Trimmer, Ph.D., Biochemistry of simple behaviors; neurotransmitter receptors of Manduca.

• Douglas E. Vetter, Ph.D., Neurotransmitter receptor function; auditory physiology.