Neurosciences

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Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology

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Exploration of functions for neuron-specific regulators of gene expression, leveraging genes and mechanisms implicated in human neurologic disease to point us toward critical pathways in the brain.

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Epigenetics, Neurodevelopment, Rett syndrome, non-CpG DNA methylation, Transcription, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Neurodevelopmental disease

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

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Understand the molecular mechanisms that regulate reactive astrocytes and their neurotoxicity in
neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, by utilizing a combination of biochemistry, molecular biology, cellular models of inflammation and mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases.

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Neurosciences

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Elucidating and understanding molecular mechanisms of axonal degeneration and regeneration in neuropathies

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

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Cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain, preclinical and translational research

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pain, optogenetics, ion channel, synaptic transmission, signal transduction, electrophysiology, in vivo imaging, genetics

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Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Our laboratory develops and uses novel neuroanatomical and neuroimaging computerized brain mapping methods to study the structure, function, connectivity, parcellation, development, and evolution of cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates in health and disease.

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Neuroanatomy Connectomics Neuroimaging Neuroradiology Medical Image Analysis

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Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences

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Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

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Understanding the computational principles that underly brain development, using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches

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Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Neuroimaging to better understand the brain in vivo

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aging, neuroimaging, Alzheimer, brain, fMRI, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, cognition, PET

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Neurosciences

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I use MRI in humans to understand the network organization of the brain in health and disease

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Neurosciences

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Integrated advanced imaging approach to studying human brain aging

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