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Dennis Barbour, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Sensation, perception and cognitive processing of sounds and speech

Key words
perception and cognition, behavioral assessment, medical informatics, computational audiology, machine learning, clinical decision support

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Deanna Barch, PhD

Professor and Chair

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Neurobiological and Psychological Mechanisms of Cognitive and Emotional Control: Normative Function and Abnormalities in Psychiatric Disorders

Key words
cognition, neuroimaging, prefrontal cortex, psychiatry, schizophrenia, depression

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Kia Barclay

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Qingyun "Tristan" Li, PhD

Undergraduate university: Wellesley College, 2019

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John Bardill

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Heather L. True-Krob

Thesis Title: Regulation of the Properties of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Prion [RNQ+] by Primary Structure and Cellular Factors.

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David Bark, PhD

Visiting Researcher

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Applying biomechanics and mechanobiology (the interaction and response of cells and tissue to mechanical forces) to diagnose, study, and treat various forms of cardiovascular disease.

Key words

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Wayne Barnes, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Possible cure for MS: intravenous access by myelin-binding aptamer; PCR at one temp; RT-enabled Taq pol.

Key words
DNA, aptamers, technology development, brain therapy

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Michelle Barnhart

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: Characterization of donor strand exchange during pilus biogenesis

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Rebecca Barrick

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Christina L. Stallings, PhD

Undergraduate university: Brandeis University, 2023

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Brady Barron

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Kodi S. Ravichandran

Thesis Title: Phosphatidylserine as a key signaling moiety during adipocyte differentiation

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Dianne Barry

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Jeanne M. Nerbonne

Thesis Title: "The Molecular Correlate of the Transient Outward Current, Ito, in the Mammalian Heart"