
Laboratories
Laboratories in the Institute of Brain and Neuroscience Research
Laboratories in the Institute of Brain and Neuroscience Research
Director
Namas Chandra
The center researches traumatic brain injury, material science, molecular dynamics, nanoscale composites, nanoscale composites, biomedical engineering, superplasticity, computational material science.
Principal Investigator
Bryan Pfister
Studies tissue engineering; developmental neural biology; axon growth; mechanisms of neural injuries; nervous system injury repair.
Principal Investigator
Sergei Adamovich
This center is currently comprised of 8 projects applying robotics and virtual reality to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities.
Principal Investigator
James Haorah
Examining the underlying molecular, biochemical, and cellular mechanisms of damage to the blood-brain barrier and neurovascular units during substance abuse, blast-wave brain injury or HIV infection.
Principal Investigators
Farzan Nadim, Jorge Golowasch, and Dirk Bucher
Uses both experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neurophysiology of a small central pattern generating circuit in lobsters and crabs, the stomatogastric ganglion (STG).
Principal Investigator
Brooke Flammang
Uses a multidisciplinary approach, integrating comparative anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, hydrodynamics, and biologically inspired robotic devices to investigate the ways in which organisms interact with their environment and drive the evolutionary selection of morphology and function.
Principal Investigator
Eric S. Fortune
Uses methodologies that cross levels of biological organization from the computational consequences of transmembrane molecules to the behavior of multispecies flocks.
Principal Investigator
Simon Garnier
An interdisciplinary research lab that studies the mechanisms underlying the coordination of large animal groups, such as ant colonies or human crowds, and their applications to complex problems such the organization of pedestrian traffic or the control of robotic swarms.
Principal Investigator
Jorge P. Golowasch
The goal of this lab is to understand the mechanisms that allow the nervous system to be simultaneously plastic (and responsive to environmental and internal changes), and also to be stable.
Principal Investigator
Gal Haspel
Studies the neurobiology of locomotion in the nematode C. elegans. Our focus is at the levels from neuronal network to behavior and we have projects that address the connectivity, activity, and recovery from injury, of the locomotion network.
Director
Antje Ihlefeld
Examines how the brain processes sound through psychophysical, physiological and computational modeling experiments.
Director
Camelia Prodan
Principal Investigator
Horacio G. Rotstein
Researching the understanding of the mechanisms of generation of neuronal rhythmic oscillations in various areas of the brain (e.g., hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, prefrontal cortex, striatum, olfactory bulb) and how this results from the cooperative activity of the dynamic and biophysical properties of the participating neurons, the synaptic connectivity, and the network topology.
Principal Investigator
Mesut Sahin
Primary research thrust in the NPL is to develop novel and translational neural prosthetic approaches to help restore function in disabilities resulting from an injury to the CNS, such as a spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, or stroke.
Principal Investigator
Daphne Soares
Research efforts are concentrated into a three-pronged approach that examines the evolution of circuitries, molecular mechanisms of behavior, and sensory novelty.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Kristen Severi
Larval zebrafish swim to move around their environment, find food, and escape from predators. We are interested in the circuits in the brain and spinal cord which control that locomotion.