A Wealth of Knowledge
The LaMP community at UC Davis includes a large group of productive, well funded and collaborative faculty members with a strong history of mentoring pre-doctoral students. They are listed by research area of interest: Cognitive, Systems/Behavior, Cell/Molecular.
New faculty with an interest in training are welcome to apply.
Cognitive
Eliza Bliss-Moreau | Comparative and translational affective neuroscience
Erie Boorman I Decision making and reinforcement
Cameron Carter | Attention and memory; pathophysiology of cognitive disorders
Charles DeCarli | Aging and dementia
David Corina | Neurolinguistics
Audrey Fan | Neuroimaging of neurodegenerative disorders
Joy Geng | Visual attention
Simona Ghetti | Development of memory
Amanda Guyer | Biological, cognitive and social-emotional aspects of human development during adolescence
Wilsaan Joiner | Human sensory integration, motor learning and control
Steven Luck | Basic and translational cognitive neuroscience of attention and working memory
John Ragland | Effect of psychosis on learning and memory
Charan Ranganath | Imaging, electrocephalography, electrical brain stimulation
Susan Rivera | Developmental cognitive neuroscience, developmental disorders
Julie Schweitzer | Neurodevelopment, impulsivity, child psychopathology, neuroimaging
Marjorie Solomon | Clinical psychiatry
Johanna Swartz | Brain development; stress and stress-related psychopathology
Andrew Yonelinas I Memory disorders and recognition
Systems / Behavior
David Amaral | Neuroscience and autism
Melissa Bauman | Animal models of neurodevelopmental and neuropyschiatric disorders
William DeBello | Learned behaviors and encoding within the brain
Brittany Dugger | Neuropathology
Diasynou Fioravante | Mechanisms of synaptic function and plasticity in mammalian microcircuits
Andrew Fox | Translational affective neuroscience
Gene Gurkoff | Neuromodulation to restore cognition following brain injury
Timothy Hanks | Neural mechanisms of decision making and working memory
Christina Kim | Neural mechanisms of behavior
John Morrison | Neurobiology of aging, synaptic plasticity and Alzheimer's disease
Brian Trainor | Behavioral neuroscience
Jennifer Whistler I Neuropsychiatric disease and addiction
Brian Wiltgen I Neurobiology of learning and memory
Yang K. Xiang | Neuropharmacology
Cell / Molecular
Amy Brooks-Kayal | Epilepsy mechanisms
Elva Diaz | Molecular mechanisms of excitatory synapse development, function and plasticity in the CNS
Kyle Fink | Genetically-linked neurodevelopmental disorders and diseases of aging
John Gray I Synaptic plasticity and development
Johannes Hell | Postsynaptic signaling and regulation of calcium channels and glutamate receptors
Pamela Lein | Neuropharmacology and neurotoxicology
Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno | Role of stem cells in the development, evolution and pathogenesis of the cortex, pathology of ASD
Kimberley McAllister | Developmental neurobiology, cell and molecular neurobiology, neuroimmunology
Alex Nord I Gene regulatory control in the brain
David Olson | Small molecule regulation of learning and memory
Michael Rogawski | Neuropharmacology, translational neuroscience
David Segal | Targeted genome engineering to understand neurologic diseases
Lin Tian | Neurotechnology, development for circuitry analysis
Kostas Zarbalis | Forebrain neurodevelopment
Karen Zito I Synaptic plasticity and development
Computational
Mark Goldman | Computational neuroscience
Rishidev Chaudhuri | Computational, systems and cognitive neuroscience
Randall O'Reilly | Computational cognitive neuroscience