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
- Lu Chen
- Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Mechanisms of synapse formation during development and synapse modification in 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
- Associate Professor of Neurobiology
The role of neural activity in the assembly of retinal circuits
- John G. Flannery
- Affiliated Professor of Neurobiology
Molecular mechanisms underlying diseases of the retina
- Walter Freeman
- Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Neurophysiology; nonlinear brain dynamics
- Donald Glaser
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology
Psychophysics of vision
- 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 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 Emeritus 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.
- Beth Burnside
- Professor Emerita of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell biology of the photoreceptor cytoskeleton
- Gian Garriga
- Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Developmental neurobiology; molecular genetics
- David Weisblat
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Developmental biology
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