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.
At the University
of Chicago
Amit, Yali
Visual pattern recognition
Bensmaia,
Sliman
Characterize the sensory information originating from the hand and
understand how this information is transformed in successive stages of
processing.
Biron, David
Understanding Small Neural Circuits - the Neuroethology
and Neuroscience of C. elegans
Cowan,
Jack D.
Mathematical analysis of cortical dynamics and maps
Ebersole, John
Source localization of epileptic foci
Freedman,
David
Neurophysiology of visual learning, memory and recognition
Goldberg,
Jay
Vestibular end organs and their central pathways in mammals
Goldsmith,
John A.
Unsupervised learning of natural language
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
Hanck, Dorothy
Ion channel biophysics and molecular pharmacology
Hatsopoulos, Nicholas
Population coding in primate motor cortex
Issa, Naoum
The organization and development of functional maps in cerebral
cortex
Kay,
Leslie M.
Perceptual physiology of olfactory and limbic systems
MacLean,
Jason
Optical probing and imaging of neuronal microcircuits
Margoliash, Daniel
Sensory and sensorimotor learning; animal
behavior
McClintock,
Martha K.
Pheromones, sexual behavior and the social regulation of disease
McCrea,
Robert
Vestibular and oculomotor systems
Niyogi, Partha
Computational approaches to image and speech segmentation
Nusbaum, Howard
Spoken language use and comprehension, attention and learning
Penn,
Richard
Hydrocephalus and drug delivery of medications to the brain
Perozo, Eduardo
Structure and dynamics of ion channels
Pokorny, Joel
Psychophysics of color vision
Sherman,
S. Murray
Thalamic functional organization
Shevell, Steven K.
Human color vision
Small,
Steven L.
Functional
organization of normal cerebral cortex and neural system mechanisms of
functional recovery from injury
Spire,
Jean-Paul
Clinical electrophysiology
Towle, V. Leo
Analysis of human cortex with multielectrode
arrays
Ulinski, Philip S.
Function of cortical circuitry
Van Drongelen, Wim
Modeling, signal processing, electrophysiology
At the Illinois
Institute of Technology
Derwent, Jennifer Kang
Analysis of retinal function
Troyk, Philip
Cortical prostheses
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