Neurosciences

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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

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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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NeuroAI, Zebrafish, Computational Neuroscience, Autism, Sleep, Machine Learning

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Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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I use neuroimaging (MRI and PET) to better understand the developing and aging human brain

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aging, development, neuroimaging, Alzheimer, brain, fMRI, MRI, 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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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

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We work on what induces the inner ear in the first place, how the sensory organs of the ear acquire their exquisite pattern, and whether it will ever be possible to regenerate the sensory hair cells of the inner ear in the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

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inner ear, development, regeneration, sensory neuroscience, balance, deafness, embryo, transcription factors, epigenetics, tunicates, squid

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

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We develop innovative magnetic resonance (MR) and position emission tomography (PET) imaging approaches to monitor neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration and repair mechanisms in neurological disorders

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Metabolic imaging, hyperpolarized 13C MRI, positron tomography emission (PET) imaging, neurological disorders, cell tracking, multiple sclerosis, microglia, myelin, immune cells

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Neurosciences
Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

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The Gutmann laboratory is dedicated to understanding why brain tumors develop in children and young adults. Specifically, we focus on neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic condition in which affected children and adults develop brain tumors, attention deficit, and autism.

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neurogenetics, , hiPSC engineering (organoids), genetically engineered mice, pediatric brain cancer, cancer immunology, cancer neuroscience