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Sebastian Alvarado (Queens College): How epigenetic mechanisms shape neuronal substrates, and how they relate to evolution

Jeff Beeler (Queens College): Dopamine, basal ganglia, corticostriatal plasticity, neuroeconomics, feeding behavior, obesity, anorexia, addiction

Richard Bodnar (Queens College): Behavioral pharmacology, hedonic food intake, conditioned flavor preferences, genetic variance, inbred mouse paradigms

Joshua Brumberg (Queens College): Cortical circuits, neural development, barrel cortex, physiology

Nesha Burghardt (Hunter College): Chronic stress, anxiety, antidepressants, serotonin, adult hippocampal neurogenesis, fear learning, anorexia nervosa

Desiree Byrd (Queens College): Cross-cultural neuropsychology and NeuroHIV

Kristina Denisova (Queens College): Cognitive Psychology, Neuroimaging, Autism

Andrew Delamater (Brooklyn College): Behavioral Neuroscience of Associative Learning, corticostriatolimbic circuits in reward processing, extinction learning, interval timing

Jin Fan (Queens College): Cognitive neuroscience, attention, cognitive control

Nancy Foldi (Queens College): Cognitive neuroscience of aging and dementia

Paul M. Forlano (Brooklyn College): Neuroethology; neurochemistry of acoustic communication; seasonal and hormone-driven sensory plasticity

Cheng-Xin Gong (College of Staten Island/NYS IBR): Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, tauopathies, brain insulin signaling, O-GlcNAcylation

Veronica Hinton (Queens College): Developmental Neuropsychology, Fragile X Syndrome

Junghoon Kim (City College of New York): Neuroimaging investigation of neurodegeneration, cognitive recovery, neurorehabilitation after traumatic brain injury

Andreas H. Kottmann (CUNY School of Medicine at City College of New York): Reinforcement and habit learning, addiction, Basal Ganglia structure and function, neuronal co-transmission, Parkinson’s Disease, neurodevelopment, monosynaptic circuit tracing

Itzhak Mano (City College of New York): Neurotransmitter Clearance, Excitotoxicity, Neurodegeneration, Transcriptional Neuroprotection, C. elegans

Susana Mingote (Advanced Science Research Center): Brain circuits controlling motivated behavior, particularly circuits modulated by the dopamine system, circuit-based approaches integrating behavior, anatomy, synaptic physiology and optogenetics.

Yoko Nomura (Queens College): Fetal programming, epigenetics, neuroimaging, developmental psychopathology, human studies

Carolyn Pytte (Queens College): Neurogenesis, hippocampus, songbird, song system, learning, memory, behavior, lateralization

Robert Ranaldi (Queens College): Drug addiction, dopamine, motivation, heroin, opiates, cocaine, reward, learning, substance use

Justin Storbeck (Queens College): Emotion

Maral Tajerian (Queens College): Brain plasticity, extracellular matrix, glia, chronic pain

Kerstin B. Unger (Queens College): Developmental cognitive neuroscience, working memory, naturalistic memory and perception

Note: Faculty mentors can also be chosen from other institutions (CUNY and non CUNY).