Neurogenetics & Transcriptomics

Martha Bagnall, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-9695
- Email: bagnall@wustl.edu
Neural circuits involved in postural control

Randall Bateman, MD
Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-747-7066
- Email: batemanr@wustl.edu
Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathophysiology, biomarkers, predictive diagnostics, treatments

Ryan Bogdan, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Psychological & Brain Sciences
- Phone: 314-935-7957
- Email: rbogdan@wustl.edu
Neural, molecular, and other biological mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders

Daniel Castro, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Radiology
- Email: castro.d@wustl.edu
Neural circuits and mechanisms of positive and negative affect

Hong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Biomedical Engineering
- Phone: 314-454-7742
- Email: hongchen@wustl.edu
Innovative focused ultrasound techniques to understand brain function and brain diseases

Shiming Chen, PhD
Dr. Bernard and Janet R. Becker Distinguished Professor in Ophthalmology, WashU Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
- Phone: 314-747-4350
- Email: chenshiming@wustl.edu
Understanding and treating CRX-associated retinopathies

Milan Chheda, MD
Associate Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2877
- Email: mchheda@wustl.edu
Chromatin regulation and its role in maintaining tumor initiation cells and normal neural stem cells

Govindaswamy Chinnadurai, PhD
Professor, SLU Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
- Phone: 314-977-8785
- Email: g.chinnadurai@health.slu.edu
The transcriptional corepressor CTBP1 in neurodevelopment

Sharlee Climer, PhD
Assistant Professor, UMSL Mathematics and Computer Science
- Phone: 314-516-4985
- Email: climers@umsl.edu
Development of combinatorial methods for the identification of patterns in genetic data

Marco Colonna, MD
Robert Rock Belliveau MD Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-0368
- Email: mcolonna@wustl.edu
Innate immune responses in neurodegeneration

Bryan Copits, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Anesthesiology
- Phone: 314-362-8795
- Email: bcopits@wustl.edu
Somatosensory circuit assembly

Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD
Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-6254
- Email: jcorbo@wustl.edu
Transcriptional regulatory networks in photoreceptor development, evolution, and disease

Meaghan Creed, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Anesthesiology
- Phone: 314-747-5754
- Email: meaghan.creed@wustl.edu
Neuromodulation of neural circuit function

Carlos Cruchaga, PhD
Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor, WashU Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-286-0546
- Email: cruchagac@wustl.edu
Genetic and multi-omic approaches to identify novel variants, genes and pathways

Jianmin Cui, PhD
Professor, WashU Biomedical Engineering
- Phone: 314-935-7623
- Email: jcui@wustl.edu
Molecular basis of bioelectricity and related diseases in nervous and cardiovascular systems; ion channel function and modulation; discovery of drugs that target ion channels

Mai Dang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-454-6120
- Email: mai@wustl.edu
Defining the functional heterogeneity of microglia and macrophages in pediatric brain tumors

Sergej Djuranovic, PhD
Professor, WashU Cell Biology & Physiology
- Phone: 314-362-8936
- Email: sergej.djuranovic@wustl.edu
Molecular mechanisms of translational control

Gerald Dorn, MD
Philip & Sima K Needleman Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-3167
- Email: gdorn@wustl.edu
Pink-parkin signaling and mitochondrial quality control

Joseph Dougherty, PhD
Professor, WashU Genetics
- Phone: 314-286-0752
- Email: jdougherty@wustl.edu
Identification of genes and cell types responsible for neurological disorders in humans

Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Genetics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Email: gabor@wustl.edu
Metabolic-epigenetic interactions in the healthy and diseased brain

Harrison Gabel, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-9814
- Email: gabelh@wustl.edu
Exploration of functions for neuron-specific regulators of gene expression, leveraging genes and mechanisms implicated in human neurologic disease to point us toward critical pathways in the brain

Jeffrey Gordon, MD
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-7243
- Email: jgordon@wustl.edu
Gut microbiota immaturity in undernutrition and its effects on brain development

Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD
A. Ernest & Jane G. Stein Professor of Developmental Neurology, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-286-2723
- Email: gurnettc@wustl.edu
Genetic basis of epilepsy

David Gutmann, MD, PhD
Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-7379
- Email: gutmannd@wustl.edu
Leveraging neurogenetic disorders to study normal brain development, cancer, and autism

Gabriel Haller, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-273-7997
- Email: ghaller@wustl.edu
Genetic underpinnings of multiple neurological/ neurosurgical disorders

Oscar Harari, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-273-1862
- Email: harario@wustl.edu
Identification of “omics” (proteomic, transcriptomic and genetic) factors associated with neurodegeneration

Tamara Hershey, PhD
James S. McDonnell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, WashU Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-362-5593
- Email: tammy@wustl.edu
Clinical and cognitive neuroscience

Erik Herzog, PhD
Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, WashU Biology
- Phone: 314-935-5214
- Email: herzog@wustl.edu
Molecular mechanism of circadian rhythms

Shin-Ichiro Imai, MD, PhD
Professor, WashU Developmental Biology
- Phone: 314-747-1031
- Email: imaishin@wustl.edu
Understanding the molecular mechanism of aging and longevity in mammals

Joseph Ippolito, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Radiology
- Phone: 314-362-2928
- Email: ippolitoj@wustl.edu
Sex differences in nutrient uptake and metabolism

Sanjay Jain, PhD
Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8728
- Email: sanjayjain@wustl.edu
GFL-Ret mediated mechanisms in the development, repair and regeneration of the nervous and urogenital systems

Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Genetics
- Phone: 314-273-2710
- Email: jin810@wustl.edu
Using human genetic, genomic, and bioinformatic approaches to identify mutations underlying human diseases and their molecular mechanisms

Celeste Karch, PhD
Professor, WashU Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-747-3161
- Email: karchc@wustl.edu
Molecular mechanisms underlying tauopathies

Adam Kepecs, PhD
BJC Investigator, Robert J. Terry Professor, WashU Neuroscience
- Email: akepecs@wustl.edu
Reverse engineering cognition: from neural circuits to psychiatry

Albert Kim, MD, PhD
August A. Busch Jr. Professor of Neurological Surgery, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-362-8443
- Email: alberthkim@wustl.edu
Signaling pathways in brain development and malignant brain tumors

Jonathan Kipnis, PhD
BJC Investigator, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-273-2288
- Email: kipnis@wustl.edu
Complex interactions between the immune system and the central nervous system (CNS) in health and disease

Renatta Knox, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Email: k.renatta@wustl.edu
Molecular Mechanisms of Early Onset Muscle Disease

Kristen Kroll, PhD
Professor, WashU Developmental Biology
- Phone: 314-747-5519
- Email: kkroll@wustl.edu
Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of neural development

Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD
Andrew B. & Gretchen P. Jones Professor and Chair, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-7382
- Email: leejm@wustl.edu
Understanding mechanisms of neurologic disease

Eric Lenze, MD
Wallace and Lucille K. Renard Professor and Chair, WashU Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-362-1671
- Email: lenzee@wustl.edu
Treatment of anxiety disorders and depression in older adults

Tristan Qingyun Li, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-273-1422
- Email: qingyunli@wustl.edu
Research Interests:
Microglial biology and neuro-immune interaction underlying brain structure and disease

Moe Mahjoub, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-5681
- Email: mmahjoub@wustl.edu
Mechanisms of cell-cell signaling in normal development and neurodegenerative disease

Soe Soe Mar, MD
Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-454-6226
- Email: mars@wustl.edu
Pediatric multiple sclerosis and other white matter diseases, and pediatric migraine

James (Pat) McAllister, PhD
Professor, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-747-8773
- Email: mcallisterjp@wustl.edu
Improving clinical treatments for hydrocephalus

Helen McNeill, PhD
BJC Investigator, Larry J. Shapiro and Carol-Ann Uetake-Shapiro Professor, WashU Developmental Biology
- Phone: 314-273-3050
- Email: mcneillh@wustl.edu
Understanding how Fat cadherins and the Hippo pathway regulate growth and patterning

Jeffrey Millman, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-3268
- Email: jmillman@wustl.edu
Large-scale culture of human stem cells in reactors, producing billions of cells in small clusters

Rob Mitra, PhD
Alvin Goldfarb Professor of Computational Biology, WashU Genetics
- Phone: 314-362-2751
- Email: rmitra@wustl.edu
Technology development for functional genomics and systems biology

Jeanne Nerbonne, PhD
Alumni Endowed Professor of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2624
- Email: jnerbonne@wustl.edu
Mechanisms contributing to the physiological regulation and the pathophysiological remodeling of membrane excitability in the cardiovascular and nervous systems

Colin Nichols, PhD
Carl Cori Professor, WashU Cell Biology & Physiology
- Phone: 314-362-6630
- Email: cnichols@wustl.edu
Biology of ion channels, with emphasis on the molecular basis of potassium channel activity, and the role of potassium channels in physiology and disease

Cynthia Ortinau, MD
Assistant Professor, WashU Pediatrics
- Phone: 314-273-6002
- Email: ortinau_c@wustl.edu
Neurological and neurodevelopmental consequences of congenital heart disease (CHD)