Michael J. Bannon, Professor (also with Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, and Pharmacology); Ph.D., Yale, 1982. Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating neurotransmission, with a special emphasis on dysfunction of neurotransmission in drug abuse, Parkinson disease, and other CNS disorders.

Leon R. Carlock, Associate Professor (also with Anatomy and Cell Biology); Ph.D., Purdue, 1981. Molecular neurobiology; Huntington's disease; neuron-specific gene expression; demyelinating disease.

James Y. Garbern, Associate Professor (also with Neurology); Ph.D., 1979, M.D., 1981, Baylor. Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease and other inherited myelin diseases; metabolism of myelin lipids; magnetic resonance imaging techniques; neurofibromatosis; clinical neurogenetics.

Alexander Gow, Associate Professor (also with Pediatrics and Neurology); Ph.D., Queensland (Australia), 1990. Role of the unfolded protein response in neurodegenerative diseases; molecular characterization of the regulation of axoglial junction assembly in CNS myelin; molecular characterization of the claudin family of integral membrane tight junction proteins during development in brain, testes, and inner ear using transgenic and homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells.

Lawrence I. Grossman, Professor and Director (also with Internal Medicine); Ph.D., Yeshiva (Einstein), 1971. Molecular genetics and evolution of the electron transport chain; cytochrome c oxidase; mitochondria and mitochondrial diseases.

Maik Hüttemann, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Marburg (Germany), 1999. Function of cytochrome c oxidase isoforms, oxygen sensing, and role of mitochondria in cancer.

John Kamholz, Associate Professor (also with Neurology); M.D., 1980, Ph.D., 1984, Pennsylvania. Regulation of myelination; molecular pathophysiology of demyelinating disease.

Gregory Kapatos, Professor (also with Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences); Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1978. Cellular and molecular biology of monoamine neurotransmitter secreting neurons.

Jeffrey A. Loeb, Associate Professor (also with Neurology); Ph.D., 1987, M.D., 1989, Chicago. Developmental neuroscience; molecular mechanisms in synapse formation; neuroregulins and neurotrophins in synaptic development; functional genomic study of the pathogenesis of epilepsy.

Michael E. Shy, Professor (also with Neurology); M.D., SUNY at Albany, 1979. Molecular biology of Schwann cell axonal interactions; gene therapy in the peripheral nervous system.