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Faculty
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).
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