Faculty

Research Interests

• Muscular dystrophy
• disease pathogenesis and therapeutics
• Dystroglycan
• glycosylation
• the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
• Skeletal muscle
• heart
• and brain function
• Mouse genetic models

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• Parkinson's Disease
• Neuroplasticity
• Drug Development

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• Oncology
• Anti-cancer therapeutics
• Drug target development

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• Effects of early life stressors
• Neuroendocrinology
• Mammalian physiology
• Evolution and behavior

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• Evolution
• Ecology of behavior

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• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• Functional and structural brain development
• Face processing
• Attention
• Typical and atypical developmental trajectories

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• Stress responsive systems
• Neuroendocrinology
• Neural-immune interactions
• Alcohol
• Developmental neurobiology and brain aging

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• Neurodevelopment
• Prenatal drug exposure
• Substance use disorder
• Neural circuits
• Sex as a biological variable

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• Neural code for taste in the brainstem of lean and obese rats
• temporal coding of sensation

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• Longitudinal studies on diet, exercise and pediatric antecedents of adult disease
• Reproductive health, including maternal/child health
• Mental health
• Health disparities

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• Cognitive neuroscience of memory and aging
• PFC and hippocampal interactions
• Impact of aging and/or brain injury on relational memory
• Role of eye-movements in memory and its usage

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• Visual perception and memory and the development of abilities in these areas

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• The development and expression of information-processing biases that increase risk for depression in children, adolescents, and adults

• Understanding risk for depression and related outcomes (e.g., suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury) across multiple units of analysis

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• Preferential choice
• Reinforcement learning
• Naturalistic decision making
• Hierarchical Bayesian models
• Machine learning methods

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• Comparative and environmental biochemistry
• Molecular cell biology
• Development and physiology of insects

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• Behavior genetics
• Drug addiction and alcoholism
• Impulsivity
• Incentive motivation
• Reinforcement and reward

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• Adolescent stress and drug exposure
• Drug abuse vulnerability
• Kappa opioid receptors
• Dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin
• Alcohol use disorder
• Cocaine addiction
• Opiate abuse

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• Biological basis of pathology and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Evaluation of animal models of anxiety and depressive disorders
• Physiological mechanisms mediating the therapeutic effects of psychoactive agents

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• Schizophrenia and schizotypy
• Severe personality disorders
• Personality neuroscience
• Quantitative/statistical methods
• Longitudinal research methodology
• Operational psychology and selection
• Insider risk detection

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• Auditory cognitive neuroscience
• Human speech perception and communication
• Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
• Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG

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• Gait balance control in older adults at risk of falling
• Development of remote activity monitoring tools
• Return-to-play decision making in adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury
• Dual-task motor and cognitive evaluations
• Personalized single- and dual-task intervention in adolescents with concussion and older adults with balance impairment
• Longitudinal change in health outcomes following joint arthroplasty

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• Behavioral neurogenetics - taste and feeding, learning and memory

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• behavioral interventions
• brief motivational interventions
• substance abuse
• college student drinking

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• Episodic Memory
• Aging
• Structural and Functional Neuroimaging
• Biomarkers of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
• Health Disparities

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• Therapeutic delivery (drug/gene/antigen/macromolecule)
• Molecular pharmaceutics and Pharmacoengineering
• Tumor immune microenvironment
• Lipid nanoparticles, liposomes and lipid drug conjugates

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• Neurobiology
• Development and behavior of insects

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• Elementary information processing (animals/humans)
• Memory and forgetting
• Role of temporal relationships between events in elementary learning
• Pavlovian conditioning

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• Myositis
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Mechanisms underlying neuromuscular diseases
• Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience

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• Systems physiology of obesity
• Lipid and sugar metabolism
• Interactions between the diet and genotype

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• Immunology
• Neuromuscular diseases
• Autoimmune diseases
• Drug development

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• Biological rhythms
• epilepsy/development
• neural transplantation

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• Disorders of Memory
• Neurodegeneration
• Neuroplasticity and Neurotrophins
• Neurobiology of Reward

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• Genomics
• Evolution
• Transposons
• Polyploids

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• Developmental behavioral neuroscience; characteristics and neurobiological mechanisms of the ontogeny of alcohol ingestion and alcohol reinforcement during early ontogeny; very early learning and the ontogeny of memory

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• Equine performance genomics

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• Language processing focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification
• Memory with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex

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• Alcohol
• Social Interactions
• Stress
• Anxiety

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• Alcohol use disorder
• Stress
• Cognitive function
• Synaptic transmission
• Neuroimmune signaling
• Sex differences

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• Alcohol and anesthetic action
• addiction
• neuroplasticity
• neuropharmacology
• molecular genetics

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• Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
• Evolution of ecological communities
• Human evolutionary biology

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• Health psychology and behavioral medicine
• Biopsychosocial model of health and illness
• Substance use (e.g., nicotine/tobacco; alcohol) and addictions
• Pain (e.g., clinical assessment; laboratory human experimental models)
• Mechanisms and effects of co-occurring substance use and medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain)
• Psychopathology and transdiagnostic constructs
• Translational research and intervention development