Faculty

Ruth E. Grahn, Professor of Psychology

Ruth E. Grahn

Professor of Psychology

Impact of stress on behavior and neural function • Animal models of psychopathology • Role of serotonin in fear/anxiety-related behaviors • Protein immunohistochemistry


Mays Imad, Assistant Professor of Biology

Mays Imad

Assistant Professor of Biology

Neurobiology of Learning • Trauma-Informed Education • Critical Thinking and Critical Feeling • STEM Equity Pedagogy • Mental Health Advocacy • Biofeedback and Emotional Regulation • Moral Imagination • Educational Development


Jillian C. Marshall, Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Jillian C. Marshall

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Impact of stress and anxiety on memory formation • Animal models of spatial learning • Factors that affect circadian rhythms and sleep architecture


Jeff Moher, Associate Professor of Psychology

Jeff Moher

Associate Professor of Psychology

Cognitive psychology • Cognitive neuroscience • Visual attention • Cognition in action


E. Carla Parker-Athill, Assistant Professor of Biology

E. Carla Parker-Athill

Assistant Professor of Biology

Molecular Neuroscience • Neurobiology • Immunology


Joseph A. Schroeder, Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of the Neuroscience Program

Joseph A. Schroeder

Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of the Neuroscience Program

Neurobiology of analgesia • The neurobiological mechanisms of psychostimulant related behavior • Animal models of neurodegenerative disease, schizophrenia and drug abuse • Heavy metal neurotoxicity • Spatial navigation learning and memory • psychology of sleep and ecological sleep pattern recording



Staff

Karen Baker

Lab Assistant

Associated Faculty

Bruce Branchini, Hans and Ella McCollum '21 Vahlteich Professor of Chemistry

Bruce Branchini

Hans and Ella McCollum '21 Vahlteich Professor of Chemistry

Firefly bioluminescence • Development of improved reagents for imaging genetic activity • Synthesis of bioluminescent compounds • Protein nuclear magnetic resonance


Deborah Eastman, Associate Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Biology

Deborah Eastman

Associate Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Biology

Developmental biology • Molecular biology • Genetics • Microbiology


Martha J. Grossel, Jean C. Tempel '65 Professor of Biology

Martha J. Grossel

Jean C. Tempel '65 Professor of Biology

Molecular biology • Cell biology • Cancer and the cell cycle • Cell cycle regulation