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Hillel Adesnik
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Neural basis of sensation, perception, and action.
Scott Baraban
Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience UC Berkeley, Professor of Neurological Surgery, UCSF Weill Institute for Neuroscience
Research Focus: Translational epilepsy research with a focus on interneurons, genetic forms of epilepsy, zebrafish and drug discovery.
Helen Bateup
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Molecular basis of synapse and circuit changes associated with epilepsy and autism.
Diana Bautista
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Focus: Molecular mechanisms underlying the sensations of itch, touch, and pain.
Eric Betzig
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics. Nobel laureate
Research Focus: Development of new tools for imaging and image analysis to enable biological discovery
Sonia Bishop
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Neural basis of attention, emotion, and anxiety. Individual differences in cognitive control and emotional responsivity.
Kristofer Bouchard
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Research Focus: Functional organization and dynamic coordination of sensorimotor networks underlying learned, skilled behaviors.
Stephen Brohawn
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Molecular basis of sensory transduction and electrical signaling, especially mechanosensation.
Silvia Bunge
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Neural mechanisms, development, and plasticity of higher cognitive functions in humans.
Jose Carmena
Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Research Focus: Neural basis of motor skill learning. Application to neural prostheses and development of neural dust technology.
Christopher Chang
Professor of Chemistry, Class of 1942 Chair, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Research Focus: Chemical tools for imaging and optogenetics in neurobiology.
Anne Collins
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Computational modeling of human learning, decision-making, and executive functions.
Emily Cooper
Assistant Professor Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Computational modeling of visual perception.
Mark D’Esposito
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Neural basis of high-level cognitive processes such as working memory and executive control.
Yang Dan
Professor of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Nan Fung Life Sciences Chancellor's Chair in Neuroscience
Research Focus: Neural circuits controlling sleep; mechanisms of executive control.
Michael DeWeese
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Research Focus: Neural mechanisms underlying auditory processing and selective attention in the cerebral cortex and artificial neural networks.
Andrew Dillin
Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Research Focus: Genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating aging and aging-related disease.
David Feinberg
Acting Professor of Neuroscience
Research Focus: MRI technology development, mapping columnar and visual circuitry, modeling neurovascular coupling.
Daniel Feldman
Professor of Neurobiology, Coates Family Endowed Chair in Neuroscience
Research Focus: Sensory processing and plasticity in the somatosensory cortex.
Marla Feller
Professor of Neurobiology, Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biological Sciences
Research Focus: Functional development and organization of neural circuits in the retina.
Yvette Fisher
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Flexibility of neural circuits for spatial navigation
John Flannery
Professor of Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Gene therapies for inherited retinal degenerations.
David Foster
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Encoding of spatial memory and navigation toward rewards by neural ensembles in the hippocampus.
Jack Gallant
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Identifying cortical maps to discover how the brain represents information about the world and its own mental states.
Andrea Gomez
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Instructive cues for neural form and function
Corey Goodman
Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience
Research Focus: Translation of biomedical discoveries into therapeutics for human health.
Lin He
Professor of Cell Biology, Development, & Physiology, and Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research
Research Focus: Cilia biology, Choroid plexus function in cerebrospinal fluid production
Ming Hsu
Associate Professor of Business Administration, William Halford Jr. Family Chair in Marketing
Research Focus: Neural basis of economic and consumer decision-making.
James Hurley
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Focus: Structural and biophysical basis of endomembrane mechanisms that contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.
Ehud Isacoff
Professor of Neurobiology and Evan Rauch Chair in Neuroscience
Research Focus: Mechanisms of ion channel function, synapse development, plasticity, and neural circuit function.
Richard Ivry
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Cognition and action, with an emphasis on how people select actions, learn skills, and produce coordinated movements.
Lucia Jacobs
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Cognitive strategies and olfactory cues for spatial navigation in changing environments.
William Jagust
Professor of Public Health and Neuroscience, Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine
Research Focus: Anatomic, biochemical, and neurochemical bases of brain aging and dementia.
Na Ji
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Physics
Research Focus: Novel imaging methods to understand the brain.
Daniela Kaufer
Associate Dean and Professor of Integrative Biology, Class of 1943 Memorial Chair
Research Focus: Molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity in response to stress and neurological insults.
Preeya Khanna
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (starts July 2023)
Research Focus: Neural basis of dexterous motor skills, Neurotechnology for restoring and rehabilitating movement
Stanley Klein
Professor of Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Psychophysical investigation of of visual processing, and the role of perceptual learning, attention and binocular interactions.
Richard Kramer
Professor of Neurobiology, CH and Annie Li Chair in Molecular Biology of Diseases
Research Focus: Novel chemical reagents for non-invasive optical sensing and manipulation of ion channels and synapses.
Lance Kriegsfeld
Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology
Research Focus: Brain and endocrine regulation of circadian rhythms.
Stephan Lammel
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Midbrain dopamine circuits in reward-based behaviors and pathological changes in addiction, depression and schizophrenia.
Markita Landry
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Focus: Exploiting nanomaterials to probe and characterize complex biological systems at the nano-scale; nanosensors for brain chemistry.
Lexin Li
Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Research Focus: Statistical neuroimaging analysis, brain connectivity analysis, imaging causal inference, multimodal and longitudinal imaging analysis, and imaging tensor regression.
Chunlei Liu
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Research Focus: MRI technology development for the study of neural circuits and modulation.
Ellen Lumpkin
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Focus: To elucidate force transduction mechanisms that initiate the senses of touch and pain.
Michel Maharbiz
Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Research Focus: Building micro- and nano- scale machine interfaces to cells and organisms, including development of neural dust technology.
Evan Miller
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology
Research Focus: Development and application of molecular tools for studying neuroscience.
Bruno Olshausen
Professor of Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Computational models of sensory coding and visual perception.
James Olzmann
Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Development, & Physiology and Metabolic Biology
Research Focus: Cellular lipid homeostasis, oxidative lipid damage and cell death, neurodegeneration
Steven Piantadosi
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Understanding what computational processes support language acquisition, math learning, and general cognition.
Teresa Puthussery
Assistant Professor of Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Processing of visual signals in the healthy and diseased retina.
Michael Rape
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Focus: Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Fate Decisions in Development and Disease
Austin Roorda
Professor of Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Development of adaptive optics to track, measure, and correct the eye's imperfections.
Kaoru Saijo
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Research Focus: Microglial cell maintenance of homeostasis in the brain and sex dimorphism in diseases.
David Schaffer
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and The Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering
Research Focus: Engineering stem cell and gene therapeutics.
Randy Schekman
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. Nobel laureate
Research Focus: Membrane assembly, vesicular transport, and membrane fusion among organelles of the secretory pathway
Karthik Shekhar
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Focus: Single-cell genomics and statistical inference
Michael Silver
Professor of Optometry and Vision Science and Neuroscience
Research Focus: Neurophysiological and neurochemical substrates of human visual perception, attention, and learning.
Friedrich Sommer
Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience
Research Focus: Theoretical principles of learning and perception.
Mark Tanouye
Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Research Focus: Novel genetic approaches to study the causes of epilepsy and other nervous system disorders.
Rowland Taylor
Professor of Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Structure and function of neural circuits in the retina.
Frédéric Theunissen
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Perception of complex sounds.
Doris Tsao
Professor of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Nan Fung Life Sciences Faculty Scholar
Research Focus: The Tsao lab seeks to understand how the brain builds a model of the visual world.
Matthew Walker
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: The impact of sleep on human health and disease.
Joni Wallis
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Neuronal mechanisms underlying high-level cognitive and behavioral processes.
Kevin Weiner
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Models to explain how brain structure and function contribute to measurable behaviors (e.g. face perception)
Noah Whiteman
Professor of Integrative Biology and Molecular & Cell Biology
Research Focus: The role of dietary toxins in shaping the evolution of the nervous system and implications for treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
David Whitney
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Visual perception and attention.
Linda Wilbrecht
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Experience dependent plasticity and the development of circuits involved in value based decision making.
Ke Xu
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Research Focus: Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy to interrogate cellular processes at the nanoscale.
Michael Yartsev
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Neuroscience, and the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
Research Focus: Neural basis of complex spatial and acoustic behaviors.
Jacob Yates
Assistant Professor of Optometry & Vision Science
Research Focus: How populations of neurons in cortex encode the visual world. Using statistical and machine learning models to understand neural activity and human perception. How information generated by eye movements is utilized by cortical circuits.
John Ngai
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the function, development and regeneration of the vertebrate olfactory system.
Ralph D. Freeman
Professor Emeritus Optometry and Vision Science
Research Focus: Central Visual Pathways: Systems and Computational Neuroscience
Bob Zucker
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Mechanisms underlying regulation of synaptic transmission.
Gerald Westheimer
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Perceptual learning in spatial visual tasks.
Kristin Scott
Professor Emerita of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development
Research Focus: Taste detection, processing, and behaviors.
Mu-ming Poo
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Formation and plasticity of synapses, and activity-dependent modification of neural circuits.
Geoff Owen
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Research Focus: Comprehensive theory of retinal image processing.
Robert Knight
Professor of the Graduate School of Psychology
Research Focus: Neural coding underlying goal-directed behavior and development of brain-machine interfaces for motor and language prostheses.
Howard Fields
Adjunct Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience UC Berkeley, Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Physiology UCSF
Research Focus: Mesolimbic circuits involved in goal directed behaviors, opioid regulation of synaptic function.
John Clarke
Professor of the Graduate School of Physics
Research Focus: Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices such as ultralow-frequency MRI.
Martin Banks
Professor of Vision Science and Optometry
Research Focus: Visual space perception and sensory combination.
