Faculty

Unparalleled research opportunities and facilities are available through the facilities and faculty on the University of Chicago campus, at the Argonne National Laboratory, the Illinois Institute of Technology campus and corporate partners. Ongoing research topics range from work at the molecular level to studies in cognitive neuroscience. These projects involve modern methods of recording and imaging the activities of individual neurons, populations of neurons and human brain regions. Quantitative approaches currently utilized by faculty and students include those derived from non-linear dynamics, large scale simulations of neural activity, time series analysis, and pattern recognition. Research projects address basic problems in neuroscience using approaches that range from molecular neurobiology to cognitive neuroscience, biomedical applications such as the construction of neural prostheses and the control of epilepsy, and technological applications to computational vision and language.

The following are lists of faculty, and their research interests, who are located at the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Goldstein, Steve
The role of ion channels in health and disease, structural bases for function

Hale, Melina
Combining neurobiology and functional morphology to examine how neural circuits in the hindbrain and the spinal cord control musculoskeletal mechanics and generate locomotor movements

Issa, Naoum
The organization and development of functional maps in cerebral cortex