BNS program faculty
The BNS Ph.D. program is hosted by the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN), and our training faculty include CMBN faculty members, as well as members of the Rutgers-Newark departments of Psychology, Biological Sciences, and Mathematics and Computer Science.
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Name + Research Interests
Travis Baker:
Cognitive neuroimaging and stimulationWebsite Email 973-353-5485 April A. Benasich, Elizabeth H. Solomon Endowed Professor :
Developmental cognitive neuroscience: early brain developmentWebsite Email 973-353-3598 Michael W. Cole:
Cognitive, computational, and network neuroscience of learning
and cognitive controlWebsite Email 973-353-3249
Mark Gluck:
Alzheimer’s, minority brain health disparities, PTSD, sleep & memoryWebsite Email 973-353-3671 Drew Headley:
Electrophysiology, microcircuitry, oscillations, coding, behaviorWebsite Email 973-353-5834 Elizabeth Holly:
Systems neuroscience of stress and motivated behaviorWebsite Email Tibor Koos:
Basal ganglia and visionWebsite Email 973-353-3638 Bart Krekelberg CMBN Co-Director:
Transcranial stimulation, eye movements, visual perception,
computational and RNN models, electrophysiology, fMRI, EEGWebsite Email 973-353-3602 Juan Mena Segovia:
Neural circuits of action selection and motor execution: connectivity,
electrophysiology and behaviorWebsite Email 973-353-3518 Vincent McGinty:
Neuroeconomics, behavior, electrophysiology, computational modelsWebsite Email 973-353-3608 Denis Pare CMBN Director:
Systems neuroscience, amygdala, memory, emotionsWebsite Email 973-353-3251 Pierre-Olivier Polack
Circuit mechanisms of visual processing and visual perception;
pathophysiology of epilepsiesWebsite Email 973-353-3643 James Tepper:
Basal ganglia anatomy, physiology, and microcircuitry; role of
striatal interneurons in behaviorWebsite Email 973-353-3618 Laszlo Zaborszky:
High-density recordings in transgenic rats, functional organization
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Name + Research Interests
Email
Alon Amir
Flexible, context-dependent decision makingalonamir@newark.rutgers.edu Julien Corbo
Sensory processing, neuronal coding, neocortex, neural basis of
perceptionjc2501@newark.rutgers.edu Bernadette Fausto
Non-pharmacological interventions for dementia prevention;
mediators of intervention effects; early identification of Alzheimer’sbf313@newark.rutgers.edu Nadine Gut:
Neuronal circuits of motor control in health and neurological disease,
movement disordersnadine.gut@rutgers.edu Catherine Hanson:
Cognitive neuroscience, memory & Learning, brain connectivity, ASDcat@rubic.rutgers.edu Mohammed Herzallah:
Regulation of the amygdala by the midline thalamusmohammad.m.herzallah@gmail.com Ravi Mill:
Human neuroimaging, functional connectivity, network modeling,
task learning, cognitive controlravi.mill@rutgers.edu Michael Shiflett:
Animal models of neuropsychiatric disordersshiflett@psychology.rutgers.edu -
Name + Research Interests
Department
Mauricio Delgado
Psychology Website Email 973-353-5440 X241 Eric Fortune Biological Sciences Website Email 973-596-5689 Wilma Friedman
Biological Sciences Website Email 973-353-1160 Jorge Golowasch Biological Sciences Website Email 973-596-8444 William Graves Psychology Website Email 973-353-5440x3947 Stephen José Hanson, RUBIC Director:
Computational neuroscience, brain connectivity, learning & memoryPsychology Website and
rubic.rutgers.eduEmail 973-353-3317 Gal Haspel Earth & Environmental Sciences Website Email 973-353-2586 Haesun Kim Biological Sciences Website Email 973-353-1454 Barry Komisaruk, MBRS-PI
Behavioral neuroscience of sexual response in humans and ratsPsychology Website Email 973-353-5834
Farzan Nadim Biological Sciences Website Email 973-596-8453 Miriam Rosenberg-Lee:
Functional neuroimaging of mathematical cognitionBiological Sciences Website Email 973-353-3948
Horacio Rotstein:
Computational neuroscience & synamics of neuronal networksBiological Sciences
Website Email 973-596-5306
Patrick Shafto Mathematics and Computer Science Website Email Tracy Tran:
Cell and molecular processes regulating neuronal wiring and behavior; neuronal morphogenesis and developmentBiological Sciences
Website Email 973-353-5542
Elizabeth Tricomi:
Neuroimaging of learning and motivationPsychology Website Email 973-353-5440x3956