Neuroscience Faculty

All of our faculty members have active research programs and are involved in graduate student training.

Feel free to contact any of our Neuroscience Program faculty listed below by clicking on the link to their email address.

Name	Email	Campus	Specialty
Kenneth Boyd Baker	bakerk6@ccf.org	CCF
Joseph Bedont	jbedont@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	sleep; circadian rhythms; metabolism; behavioral homeostasis and adaptation; neurodegeneration. More on Bedont
Lynn Bekris	bekrisl@ccf.org	CCF	Identifying and evaluating the functional impact of genetic and epigenetic factors in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.
Cornelia Bergmann	bergmac@ccf.org	CCF	Immune responses to viral infections in the central nervous system.
Heather Caldwell	hcaldwel@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Neuropeptide regulation of social behaviors and neuropyschiatric disorders. More on Caldwell
Wilson Chung	wchung@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Neuroendocrine brain, androgens, fibroblast growth factor signaling. More on Chung
Robert Clements	rclement@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ
Lique Coolen	jcoolen@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Mechanisms by which spinal cord injury affects urogenital and sexual function, neurobiology of addiction and understanding neural circuits that mediate female reproductive function and dysfunction. More on Coolen
Samuel Crish	scrish@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Glaucoma, axonal transport, structures and functions.
Hod Dana	danah@ccf.org	CCF
Altaf Darvesh	adarvesh@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Development of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory strategies for neoplastic an neurodegenerative diseases, as well as psychiatric disorders.
Dimitrios Davalos	davalod@ccf.org	CCF	The Dimitrios Davalos lab studies the interactions between blood vessels, neurons and microglia in health and disease.
Christine Dengler-Crish	ccrish@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Early disease mechanisms in dementia; sensory system disruptions and homestatic dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease.
Tara DeSilva	desilvt@ccf.org	CCF
Ranjan Dutta	duttar@ccf.org	CCF	We investigate the role of myelin forming cells and their dysfunction in neurological diseases.
David Escobar Sanabria	escobad2@ccf.org	CCF
Sheila Fleming	sfleming1@neomed.edu	NEOMED
Alexander Galazyuk	agalaz@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Neuroscience of hearing, critical role of timing in sound processing.
Rebecca German	rgerman@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Neurophysiology and biomechanics. Regulation of feeding and pathophysiology of dysphagia.
T. Lee Gilman	lgilman1@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Influences of diet, stress and genetic variation on emotions, behavior, and overall brain & body health. More on Gilman.
Adam Goodwill	agoodwill@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Mechanisms of coronary flow control, studies of cardiac function and identification of cardioprotective pathways.
Julia Jones Huyck	jhuyck@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	More on Huyck
John D. Johnson	jjohns72@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Neural-immune interactions, brain cytokines, mood, behavior, stress and immunity. More on Johnson
Woo-Yang Kim	wkim2@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Brain development, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, intellectual disability, brain circuit, neural stem cell. More on Kim
Michael Lehman	mlehma18@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Reproductive neuroendocrine system of the brain in mammals as governed by intricate neural and hormonal communication between the brain, pituitary gland and gonads. More on Lehman
Antoine Louveau	louveaa@ccf.org	CCF
Yong Lu	ylu@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Neurotransmitter systems, GABA, glutamate, audition.
William Lynch	wonk@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Mechanisms of neurodegeneration, CNS gene therapy, RNA tumor virus pathogenesis, microglia development.
Ryota Matsuoka	matsuor@ccf.org	CCF	Developmental neuroscience, brain barriers, brain-blood communications, brain vascular cell heterogeneity, neurovascular morphogenesis, and cerebrovascular diseases.
Jennifer McDonough	jmcdonou@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Regenerative medicine, mitochondrial dysfunction and epigenetic mechanisms in multiple sclerosis.
Jeffrey Mellott	jmellott@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Age-related changes to inhibitory circuitry in the auditory pathways.
Eric Mintz	emintz@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Behavioral neurobiology, circadian rhythms, feeding, and social behavior, sex differences in biological rhythms. More on Mintz
Aleisha Moore	amoor149@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	The Moore lab aims to define and understand neuronal networks regulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons, the final output cells in the brain controlling fertility. Currently, we are funded by the National Institutes of Health to investigate whether changes in the regulation of GnRH neurons by cells co-expressing the neuropeptides Kisspeptin, Neurokinin B and Dynorphin (aka KNDy neurons) leads to infertility in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common endocrinopathy in women worldwide. To achieve this, we use a preclinical model of PCOS combined with genetic, anatomical, and functional tools to identify and analyze how changes within KNDy neurons and associated networks lead to the development of PCOS symptoms.
Devin Mueller	dmuell10@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Neural mechanisms of learning and memory that underlie drug use and emotional regulation. More on Mueller
Bruna Mussoi	bmussoi@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Age-related changes in speech perception, auditory electrophysiology, effects of cognition. More on Mussoi
Colleen Novak	cnovak13@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Neural and endocrine mechanisms of thermogenesis in obesity. More on Novak
Moses Oyewumi	moyewumi@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Drug delivery, nanotechnology, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases.
Nikhil Panicker	panickn@ccf.org	CCF
Richard Piet	rpiet@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Neurophysiological mechanisms involved in regulating the activity of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and their contributions to biological timing and fertility. More on Piet
Gunnar Poplawski	poplawg@ccf.org	CCF	Translational therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, stem cell and gene therapies for spinal cord injury, in vitro and in vivo models of glioblastomas, hIPSC derived neurons to study regeneration.
Mary Ann Raghanti	mraghant@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Comparative neurobiology, evolution, cognition, behavior. More on Raghanti
Erin Reed-Geaghan	ereedgeaghan@neomed.edu	NEOMED	My lab is interested in the role of the immune system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Specifically, we seek to understand the ways in which the brain’s resident immune cells, microglia, contribute to the neuroinflammatory processes driving neurodegeneration. We believe microglia from men and women respond differently in AD, contributing to the sex differences in disease onset and progression, and we’re working on identifying the reasons for these differences. We are also interested in how these cells communicate with the circulating peripheral immune system, and the ways in which these interactions affect disease progression.
Angela Ridgel	aridgel@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Motor functions, Parkinsons disease, rehabilitation. More on Ridgel
Merri Rosen	mrosen@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Effects of developmental stress and hearing loss on auditory perception and neural circuity.
Brett Schofield	bschofie@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Functional anatomy of auditory pathways.
Sharad Shanbhag	sshanbhag@neomed.edu	NEOMED	The amygdala's role in vocal communication.
Ronald Seese	rseese@akronchildrens.org	NEOMED
Woo-Shik Shin (Austin)	wshin@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Novel combination antibacterial therapy against drug resistance ESKAPE pathogens. Drug repurposing and combinational approach to block abnormal protein aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease. Our lab focuses on computational structure-based drug design and drug delivery system for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other degenerative disorders. Current research is driven by two key topics: How to develop new therapeutic approach for neurodegenerative and other brain diseases? How to design the blood-brain barrier shuttle peptides with neuronal specificity?
Matthew Smith	msmith13@neomed.edu	NEOMED
Hoonkyo Suh	suhh2@ccf.org	CCF	In the adult hippocampus, new neurons are continuously generated and integrated into neural circuits. This brain plasticity or brain remodeling process is essential for cognitive, emotional, social, and addictive behaviors. The major goal of the Suh lab’s research is to understand how precise production and connection of newborn neurons contributes to cognition, emotion, and addiction and how disrupted plasticity (remodeling process) leads to major deficits in learning and memory and emotional stability. By using the state of art methods such as virus-mediated neural circuit mapping, Ca²⁺ imaging and multimodal MRI, and genetic manipulation to control neural circuits (DREADD and Optogenetics), we are dedicated to research to understand anatomy and function of neural circuits that are formed by newborn neurons in the adult brain, with a hope that hippocampal neurogenesis may serve as neural substrate and target to understand and treat brain conditions that have cognitive, emotional, social, and addictive impairments.
Bruce Trapp	trappb@ccf.org	CCF
Sean Veney	sveney@kent.edu	�鶹ӰԺ	Behavioral neuroendocrinology, sexual differentiation of the brain, syrinx anatomy, neuroethology of birdsong. More on Veney
Jeffrey Wenstrup	jjw@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Neural mechanisms of hearing and acoustic communication, including emotional responses to sound.
Jessica Williams	williaj39@ccf.org	CCF
Bradley Winters	bwinters@neomed.edu	NEOMED	Cellular neurophysiology of brainstem sound localization circuits that process timing and intensity differences between the two ears.

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