Neural Engineering

Neural engineering research involves fundamental and applied studies related to neurons, neural systems, behavior and neurological disease.

This program involves fundamental and applied studies related to neurons, neural systems, behavior and neurological disease encompassing a spectrum of activities, including mathematical modeling; exploring novel approaches to sensory (vision, hearing, smell and touch) and motor processing; exploring fundamentals of neural plasticity; and designing neuroprosthetics. The approaches involve information processing at the molecular, cellular, systems and behavioral levels.

Primary Faculty

• Dennis Barbour, MD, associate professor
• Jianmin Cui, professor
• Song Hu, associate professor
• Dan Moran, professor
• Barani Raman, associate professor
• Alexandra Rutz, assistant professor
• Ismael Seáñez, assistant professor
• Jonathan Silva, assistant professor
• Kurt Thoroughman, associate professor

Affiliate Faculty

Martha Bagnall - Neuroscience

Vestibular and spinal neural circuits in zebrafish

Randall Bateman - Neurology

Diagnostic clinical test biochemistry mass spectrometry process robotics Alzheimer's disease neurodegeneration

Bruce Carlson - Neuroscience

Neurophysiology, sensory systems, behavior, evolution, mathematical modeling, neuroanatomy

Shantanu Chakrabartty - Computer Science & Engineering

Self-powered sensors, wireless telemetry, energy harvesting, neuromorphic systems

ShiNung Ching - Electrical & Systems Engineering

Neural Dynamics and Control Theory, Brain Network Analysis, Theoretical Neuroscience

Meaghan Creed, PhD - Anesthesiology

Deep brain stimulation, Neuromodulation, Synaptic Plasticity, Addiction, Pain, Affect, Electrophysiology, Behavioral Analysis

Nico Dosenbach - Neurology

Precisions mapping of individual human brains; Real-time image processing

Robert Gereau - Anesthesiology

Pain, optogenetics, optoelectronics, neural circuitry, in vivo imaging, electrophysiology

Edward Han - Neuroscience

Two-photon calcium imaging, electrophysiology, virtual reality behavior, neuronal networks, learning and memory, hippocampus

Keith Hengen - Biology

systems neuroscience, big data, neural networks, neuronal recording, emergence, homeostasis, plasticity

Tim Holy - Neuroscience

Novel optical microscopy to record large neuronal populations

James Huettner - Cell Biology & Physiology

glutamate receptors, chimeric subunits, in vitro differentiation, neural differentiation from stem cells

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD - Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Neural circuits, vision, 2-photon imaging, electrophysiology, retina, visual processing

Alexxai Kravitz, MD, PhD

Striatum, dopamine, electrophysiology, open-source, devices, recording, electrodes, fiber optics, calcium imaging

Jin-Moo Lee, MD - Neurology

Stroke, Brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, Brain repair

Eric Leuthardt, MD - Neurosurgery

Brain Computer Interfaces, Neuroprosthetics, Advanced Imaging, Resting State fMRI

Christopher Lingle - Anesthesiology Basic Science Research

ion channel biophysics, modeling of channel gating and cell excitability, methods of analysis

Matthew MacEwan - Neurology

Neuroprosthetics, Nerve Regeneration, Peripheral Nerve Interfacing, Transient Electronics, Nanomaterials

Jacob McPherson, MD, PhD - Physical Therapy, Anesthesiology

Neural engineering; neurological injury; neurorehabilitation; stroke; spinal cord injury; neural control of movement; neuropathic pain; neural-computer interfaces; neural plasticity; sensorimotor integration; neuromodulation; electrophysiology; spinal physiology; neuropharmacology; physical rehabilitation

Robi Mitra - Genetics

Genomics. Genome Engineering. Computational Biology. Transcription Factors.

Ilya Monosov - Neuroscience

Neuronal mechanisms of voluntary behavior

Josh Morgan - Ophthalmology

vision, retina, connectomics, synapse, imaging, electron microscopy, circuitry, thalamus, development, neuron, image analysis

Arye Nehorai - Electrical & Systems Engineering

Forward models, inverse models, statistical analysis, quantitative methods, modeling

Colin Nichols - Cell Biology & Physiology

Molecular aspects of potassium channels

Camillo Padoa-Schioppa - Neuroscience

Decision Making, Neurophysiology, Modeling, Primates

Carlos Ponce -Neural Engineering

Vision, electrophysiology, non-human primates, cortex, neurons, deep learning, neural networks

W. Zachary Ray, MD - Neurosurgery

neuroprosthetics, resorbable electronics, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury

Janice Robertson - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

membrane protein folding thermodynamics assembly single-molecule TIRF microscopy computational modeling structure function oligomerization lipids

Erica Scheller - Internal Medicine - Bone & Mineral Diseases

diabetes, fracture risk, advanced imaging, neurobiology, metabolic disease, bone regeneration, biosensors

Larry Snyder, MD, PhD - Neuroscience

Primate sensory-motor and cognitive neurophysiology; electrophysiological bases and correlates of resting state functional connectivity (rs-fcMRI).

Aristeidis Sotiras, PhD - Radiology

Machine learning; deep learning; image processing; image analysis; data science; neuroimaging; neurodegenerative diseases; neuropsychiatric disorders

David Van Essen - Neuroscience

Functional brain-mapping

Yong Wang- Obstetrics & Gynecology

Diffusion MRI and PET imaging; Noninvasive Electrophysiology Imaging; Cancer and Immunotherapy Imaging; Preterm Birth; Alzheimer's disease