Faculty Directory

Braden Brinkman

Assistant Professor

Expertise: Theoretical neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neural computation, sensory coding, network dynamics, collective activity, neural evolution

William F. Collins III

Associate Professor

Expertise: Motor function, motoneuron plasticity, neurotransmitters, micturition, bladder-sphincter dyssynergia, spinal cord injury

Josh Dubnau

Professor (Primary appointment: Department of Anesthesiology)

Expertise: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), retrotransposons, Drosophila, rodent models, in vivo genetic experiments, cell culture assays

Alfredo Fontanini

Professor and Chair

Expertise: Sensory perception, olfaction, taste, behavioral neuroscience, systems and circuits, learning and memory, plasticity, computational neuroscience, metastable dynamics, electrophysiology, imaging

Shaoyu Ge

Professor

Expertise: Adult neurogenesis, neural development, cell-replacement therapy, in vivo imaging, in vitro imaging

Maurice Kernan

Associate Professor

Expertise: Drosophila, genetics, molecular biology, electrophysiology, somatosensation, audition, proprioception, mechanosensory signaling, ion channels, primary cilia

Mary Kritzer

SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

Expertise: Cerebral cortex, neuropsychiatric disorders, neurological diseases, mental illness, sex differences, neural development, gonadal hormone stimulation, cortical information processing, affective brain function, mnemonic brain function

Giancarlo La Camera

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics

Expertise: Theoretical neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neural basis of cognitive processes, learning and behavior, memory, decision making, spiking networks, metastable dynamics, synaptic plasticity

Arianna Maffei

Professor

Expertise: Synaptic plasticity, circuit motifs, cortical circuits, sensory processing, learning, experience-dependent plasticity

David McKinnon

Professor

Expertise: Homeostatic regulation, ion channels, evolution of complex systems, molecular and cellular physiology, long-term stress, cognitive function

Joshua L. Plotkin

Associate Professor

Expertise: Habit learning, neurological disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, basal ganglia, striatum, synaptic plasticity, 2-photon laser scanning microscopy, electrophysiology, optogenetics

Marta Pratelli

Assistant Professor

Expertise: Drugs of abuse, stress, transmitter plasticity, circuits, behavior

Markus Riessland

Assistant Professor, Empire Innovation Program (Aging Brain)

Expertise: Genetics, neurodegenerative diseases, cellular senescence, zombie cells, aging, Parkinson’s disease

Shahriar SheikhBahaei

Assistant Professor, Empire Innovation Program

Expertise: Glia physiology, breathing, motor control, developmental speech disorders

Maya Shelly

Associate Professor

Expertise: Neural development, neuronal morphology, neuronal polarization, axonal formation, dendritic formation, motor disabilities, neuropathology, molecular mechanisms

Roger Sher

Assistant Professor

Expertise: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), neurodegenerative diseases, molecular genetics, cellular and organismal biology, developmental/degenerative biology, neurodegeneration, nuclear transport defects, retrotransposons

Prerana Shrestha

Assistant Professor

Expertise: Dynamics of protein synthesis regulation in memory systems

Howard Sirotkin

Associate Professor

Expertise: Stem Cells, Neurodevelopment, zebrafish genetics, ASD and Parkinson’s

Jun Takatoh

Assistant Professor

Expertise: Orofacial behaviors, Sensory-Motor control, Neuroanatomy, Virus-based neural circuit tracing and manipulations

Siwei Wang

Assistant Professor

Expertise: NeuroAI, Machine Learning, sensory coding

Lonnie Wollmuth

Professor

Expertise: Synaptic transmission, molecular and cellular physiology, retina, glutamate, GABA, ligand-gated ion channels, NMDA receptors, AMPA receptors, autoimmune disorders, ribbon synapses

Qiaojie Xiong

Associate Professor

Expertise: Decision making, reinforcement learning, rodent behaviors, sensorimotor integration, dorsal striatum

University Lecturer

Professional Interests: Helping students build strong foundations in neuroscience and physiology while fostering scientific and critical thinking. Creating engaging and accessible courses that supports students from diverse backgrounds and learning needs across a range of learning environments.

University Lecturer

Professional Interests: Engaging and inspiring students by not only teaching factual information but how to think, creatively and holistically, about science. Making learning possible for all students by structuring course content and approaches to meet the needs of all learners.

University Instructional Specialist

Professional Interests: Student learning of core concepts in physiology and neurobiology in online, hybrid, flipped and traditional classroom environments; improving success and retention for historically-underserved students in active learning environments

Nurit Ballas

Research Professor

Erwin Cabrera

Research Professor & Simons STEM Scholars Executive Director

Jordanna D.H. Sprayberry

Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolution and Director of Undergraduate Biology

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus in Memoriam

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Former Department Chair

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Former Department Chair

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