Neuroscience Program

Research

Students entering the Neuroscience Program at Brandeis have opportunities to work in a range of fields, including:

• neurophysiology in behaving animals,
• the physiology and theory of synapses and networks,
• the structure and function of ion channels,
• the neurogenetics of behavior, and
• cognitive neuroscience in humans.

Brandeis is unique in its expertise in using model systems for research, decades long focus on circadian biology and sleep, and understanding the mechanisms of homeostatic plasticity.

Faculty Supervising Students in Their Labs

• Susan Birren, Professor of Neurobiology - Birren Lab

• Paul DiZio, Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems - Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory

• Irving Epstein, Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry - The Nonlinear Dynamics Group

• Paul Garrity, Professor of Biology - Garrity Lab

• Leslie Griffith, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience, and Director of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems - Griffith Lab

• Angela Gutchess, Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems - Aging, Culture & Cognition Laboratory

• Jennifer Gutsell, Assistant Professor of Psychology - Social Interaction and Motivation Lab

• Shantanu Jadhav, Assistant Professor of Psychology - Jadhav Lab

• Sebastian Kadener, Associate Professor of Biology - Kadener Lab

• Don Katz, Professor of Psychology - Behavior, Learning, & Electrophysiology of Chemosensation Lab

• James Lackner, Meshulam and Judith Riklis Professor of Physiology - Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory

• Eve Marder, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience - The Marder Lab

• Paul Miller, Associate Professor of Biology - Paul Miller Lab

• Sacha Nelson, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Life Science - Nelson Lab

• Daniel Oprian, Louis and Bessie Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry

• Suzanne Paradis, Associate Professor of Biology - Paradis Lab

• Avital Rodal, Associate Professor of Biology - Rodal Lab

• Michael Rosbash, Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Professor of Biology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator - Rosbash Lab

• Robert Sekuler, Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology & Professor of Neuroscience - Sekuler Lab

• Piali Sengupta, Professor of Biology - Sengupta Lab

• Hannah Snyder, Assistant Professor of Psychology - The CoPE Lab

• Jonathan Touboul, Associate Professor of Mathematics

• Gina Turrigiano, Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision - Turrigiano Lab

• Stephen Van Hooser, Associate Professor of Biology - Van Hooser Lab of Neural Circuits

• Arthur Wingfield, Professor Emeritus of Psychology - Memory and Cognition Lab