Department of Molecular & Cell Biology

Neurobiology Faculty

The following is an alphabetical list of MCB faculty members and brief descriptions of their research. A list of faculty by division affiliation is available here. Bowes fellows are at the bottom.

Click on a faculty member's name to see a complete description of their research (if available). Alternatively, use the search form below to search the faculty research interest pages for keywords.

Hillel Adesnik
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Dynamics of neural circuits underlying information processing in the cerebral cortex.

Helen Bateup
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Molecular mechanisms of synapse and circuit plasticity

Yang Dan
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Neurobiology
Information processed by neuronal circuits

Daniel Feldman
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Sensory processing and plasticity in cerebral cortex

Marla Feller
Professor of Neurobiology
The development and function of retinal circuits

John G. Flannery
Professor of Neurobiology
Molecular mechanisms underlying diseases of the retina

Walter Freeman
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Neurophysiology; nonlinear brain dynamics

Ehud Isacoff
Professor of Neurobiology
Ion channel function and synaptic plasticity

Richard H. Kramer
Professor of Neurobiology
Chemical signaling within and between neurons

Harold Lecar
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology
Neural biophysics; excitable membranes

John Ngai
Professor of Neurobiology
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of olfaction

W. Geoffrey Owen
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Membrane biophysics; retinal neurophysiology

Mu-ming Poo
Professor of Neurobiology
Neurobiology

David Presti
Senior Lecturer of Neurobiology
Neurobiology

Richard Steinhardt
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Cellular and developmental physiology

Mark Tanouye
Professor (Affiliated) of Neurobiology
Mechanisms of nervous system structure and function

Frank Werblin
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology
Neurophysiology of vision

Gerald Westheimer
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology
Neurobiology; psychophysics

Robert Zucker
Professor of Neurobiology
Cellular neurophysiology; synaptic biophysics

The following faculty have a secondary affiliation with the Neurobiology division.

Diana Bautista
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular mechanisms of transduction in touch and pain receptors

Beth Burnside
Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell biology of the photoreceptor cytoskeleton

Gian Garriga
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Developmental neurobiology; molecular genetics

Kristin Scott
Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Establishment of nerve cell connectivity in developing nervous systems

David Weisblat
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Developmental biology