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Our researchers make discoveries related to maintaining a healthy brain, including investigations into Alzheimer’s disease and addiction, the computational brain, which involves studies of learning and memory, and the social/artistic brain with researchers using advanced imaging techniques to unlock the mysteries of our minds.
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    • 6 AAAS Fellows

      6 Faculty members have been named AAAS Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

    • A Diverse Faculty

      The NBB interests include investigation into Alzheimer’s disease and addiction, the computational brain, which involves studies of learning and memory, just to name a few.

    • Collaboration

      NBB faculty travel around the world to collaborate with top scientists and researchers from many distinguished institutions.

Faculty Directory

Faculty

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Mathew Blurton-Jones, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mblurton@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5243

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Jorge A. Busciglio, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: jbuscigl@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9075

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Larry Cahill, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: lfcahill@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1937

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Liz Chrastil

Liz Chrastil, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: chrastil@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6267

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Susana Cohen-Cory, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: scohenco@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8188

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Karina Cramer, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cramerk@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4211

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Norbert J. Fortin, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: norbert.fortin@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9740

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Christie D. Fowler, PhD

Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cdfowler@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8363

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Ron Frostig, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: rfrostig@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2883

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Sunil Gandhi, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: sunil.gandhi@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8761

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Kim Green

Kim Green, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: kngreen@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-3859

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John F. Guzowski, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: john.g@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0259

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Frank LaFerla, PhD

Dean and Chancellor’s Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: laferla@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5315

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Thomas Edward Lane

Thomas Edward Lane, PhD

Chancellor’s Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: tlane@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1360

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Audrey Lew, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: lewac@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5607

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Gyorgy Lur, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: glur@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5436

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Stephen Mahler, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mahlers@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6128

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Bruce McNaughton, PhD

Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: brucemcn@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9642

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Raju Metherate, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: raju.metharate@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6141

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Andrea Nicholas, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: acnichol@uci.ed

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Eitan Schechtman-Drayman, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: eitans@uci.edu

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Craig E. L. Stark, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cestark@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4201

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Georg F. Striedter, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: georg.striedter@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5228

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Katumi Sumikawa, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: ksumikaw@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5310

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Vivek Swarup, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: vswarup@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-3182

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Marcelo A. Wood, PhD

Chair and Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mwood@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2259

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Michael Yassa, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: myassa@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1687

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Kevin T. Beier, PhD

Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
School of Biological Sciences

Email: kbeier@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1083

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Christine M. Gall, PhD

Chair, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology

School of Medicine

Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior

School of Biological Sciences

Email: cmgall@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8652

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Joshua Grill, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

School of Medicine

Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior

School of Biological Sciences

Email: jgrill@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5905

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Autumn S. Ivy, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Email: aivy@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0570

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Claudia H. Kawas, PhD

Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior

School of Biological Sciences

Email: ckawas@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2323

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Albert La Spada

Albert R. La Spada, PhD

Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology

School of Medicine

Email: alaspada@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-7407

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John Middlebrooks, PhD

Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998
Global carbon and nutrient cycles, fires, atmospheric trace gases, and biosphere-atmosphere interactions
(Joint appointment with Earth System Science).

Email: j.middl@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0119

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Sean Ostlund, PhD

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
School of Medicine

Email: sostlund@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1347

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Oswald Steward, PhD

UCI Distinguished Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology

School of Medicine

UCI Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior

School of Biological Sciences

Email: osteward@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8908

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Andrea Tenner, PhD

Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
School of Biological Sciences
Professor, Pathology
School of Medicine
Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
School of Biological Sciences

Email: atenner@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-3268

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Leslie Thompson, PhD

Chancellor’s Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

School of Medicine

Chair and Chancellor’s Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior

School of Biological Sciences

Email: lmthomps@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6756

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