Neurosciences

Program affiliation
Immunology
Neurosciences

Research summary
Inflammation and autoimmunity of the central nervous system

Key words
antigen presentation, dendritic cells, B cells, immunology, intravital microscopy, multiple sclerosis, neurobiology

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson's disease, central nervous disorders, postmortem biomarker validation and characterization, in vivo positron emission tomography, in vitro quantitative autoradiography

Key words
Imaging, biomarkers, cancer, neuroscience, PET, quantitative autoradiography, pharmaceuticals, biological assays, human brain function and disease

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Development and applications of quantitative MRI-based methods and Machine Learning tools for in vivo studying of humans and animals in health and disease

Key words
brain structure and function, Alzheimer`s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, MRI, fMRI, GEPCI, hyperpolarized gas, biophysics, mathematical modeling, Machine Learning

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Understanding the role of the cerebellar nodulus and uvula (NU) in motion perception and spatial navigation

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases

Key words
Huntington's disease, neurodegeneration, molecular mechanisms, epigenetic regulation, gene expression, primary neuron culture, animal models of disease

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Understanding the mechanisms of nervous system construction and dysfunction.

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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences

Research summary
Generation of human neurons by direct cell fate reprogramming and modeling late-onset neurodegenerative disorders

Key words
neurodegeneration, neurogenesis, microRNA, cellular reprogramming, disease modeling, chromatin, regenerative medicine

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Development and function of the visual system in vertebrates

Key words
Vision, Retina, Development, Zebrafish, Lizard

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Human behavioral and fMRI studies of perception, attention and memory

Key words
aging, attention, cognition, fMRI, modeling, perception

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Neurosciences

Research summary
Understand the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration through integrated genomic and network inference approaches.

Key words
computational biology, neurogenomics, transcription regulation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease