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Chair

Christine M. Gall, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor and Chair

Cellular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

Primary Appointees

Munjal Acharya, Ph.D

Associate Professor

Anne Calof, Ph.D

Professor

Systems Biology of Neural Stem Cells

Lulu Y. Chen, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Synapse Development and
Maintenance in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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Javier Diaz-Alonso, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Molecular organization of the synapse

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Laura A. Ewell, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Cellular mechanisms of memory and epilepsy

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Robert F. Hunt, Ph.D

Associate Professor
Director, Epilepsy Research Center

Disorders of brain development and injury

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Kei M. Igarashi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Circuit mechanism of memory and
Alzheimer’s disease

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Kwang Mook Jung, Ph.D.

Associate Adjunct Professor

CNS disorders associated with
abnormal lipid regulations

Julie C. Lauterborn, Ph.D.

Researcher

Learning and memory, Intellectual disorders

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David C. Lyon, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice-Chair

Organization and function of the visual system

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Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor,
Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences
Director,
 UCI Center for the Study of Cannabis

Pain, drug addiction, inflammation and obesity

David J. Reinkensmeyer, Ph.D.

Professor

Movement recovery after stroke, spinal cord injury

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Oswald Steward, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor
Reeve-Irvine Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research
Director, Reeve-Irvine Research Center

Spinal cord injury, Neurodegenerative disorders

Momoko Watanabe, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Stem cells, organoid

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Jamie Wikenheiser, Ph.D.

Professor Adjunct

Medical education, Pediatric cardiology

Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D

Professor
Chancellor’s Fellow
Director, Center for Neural Circuit Mapping

Learning and memory disorders, Epilepsy, and Schizophrenia

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Joint Appointees

Yama Akbari, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Coma, Consciousness, and Cardiac Arrest

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Aileen Anderson, Ph.D.

Professor
Director, Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Center

Spinal cord injury

Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor
Danette “Dee Dee” Shepard Chair in Neurological Studies
Director, Conte Center

Stress, epilepsy, development

Brian J. Cummings, Ph.D.

Professor

Neurotrauma, spinal cord injury,
traumatic brain injury, neural stem cells,
clinical translation

Mark J. Fisher, M.D.

Professor

Stroke and cerebrovascular disorders

Lisa A. Flanagan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Stroke and cerebrovascular disorders

Alan L. Goldin, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Epilepsy, Myotonia, Periodic Paralysis

Ranjan Gupta, M.D.

Professor

Nerve entrapment, Carpal tunnel syndrome

Autumn Ivy, MD. Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Early-life exercise, epigenetics, neurology

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Gary Lynch, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor

Disorders of learning and memory

Andre Obenaus, Ph.D.

Associate Clinical Professor
Director, 
Preclinical and Translational Imaging Center

Neuroimaging, traumatic brain injury, stroke, stem cells

Diane K. O’Dowd, Ph.D

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor,
Vice Provost, Academic Personnel

Neuronal plasticity underlying learning and memory

Magdalene J. Seiler, PhD

Associate Professor in Residence

Retinal degeneration, stem cells,
transplantation, trophic factors

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John H. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

Alzheimer’s Disease, ALS, Stroke, Epilepsy

Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D.

Professor

Human communication disorders

Professor Emeritus

James H. Fallon, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Adult stem cells, Chemical neuroanatomy and circuitry,
Higher brain functions, Brain Imaging

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Charles Ribak, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Electron microscopy, immunocytochemistry, hippocampus, neocortex,
GABAergic neurons, epilepsy, newborn neurons in adults, microglia

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Richard Robertson, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Cell surface molecules that identify certain classes of cells

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