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One of the great strengths of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience at Duke University is that it provides rich opportunities for undergraduate students to explore neuroscience with faculty from diverse disciplines and perspectives. Accordingly, there are research opportunities with faculty from several individual departments of the various Schools and Colleges that support the brain sciences. The column to the far right in the table below indicates which faculty are currently engaged in research activities that could accommodate participation by an undergraduate student interested in neuroscience.

Name/Title	Department/School	Research Interests	Research Opps
Alberts, Susan - Ph.D. Jack H. Neely Professor of Biology	Biology, Arts & Sciences Evolutionary Anthropology	Behavioral ecology Evolution of behavior Genetics and behavior	YES
Augustine, George J. - Ph.D. Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Synaptic circuitry Neural signaling Imaging technologies
Barr, Roger - Ph.D. Anderson-Rupp Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Pediatrics, School of Medicine	Action potential initiation Cell to cell connections Models of active membrane
Bilbo, Staci - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Neuroimmune interactions and behavior Cytokines and Cognition Early-life origins of Risk and Resilience	YES
Browndyke, Jeffrey - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavorial Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine	Mild Cognitive Impairment & Dementia Functional & Structural Imaging in Elder Populations Omics of Memory Function & Decline	YES
Cabeza, Roberto - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Memory Emotion Aging	YES
Calakos, Nicole - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Synaptic plasticity Basal Ganglia function Dystonia Tourette's and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder	YES
Cant, Nell - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Auditory system Neuroanatomy
Cayirlioglu Volkan, Pelin - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Biology, Arts & Sciences	Sensory circuit assembly Olfactory system Epigenetics	YES
Colton, Carol - Ph.D. Research Professor	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine	Neuroimmunology Alzheimer's disease Brain redox balanve	YES
De Bellis, Michael - M.D., M.P.H. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine	PTSD & Childhood Sexual Abuse Functional and Anatomical MRI	YES
Drea, Christine - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences Biology	Behavioral ecology Sexual differentiation Social behavior	YES
Egner, Tobias - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Cognitive Control Selective Attention Visual Cognition	YES
Feng, Guoping - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Pathology	Synapse formation Obsessive-compulsive disorder Bipolar disorder	YES
Flanagan Jr., Owen - Ph.D. James B Duke Professor	Philosophy, Arts & Sciences Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology	Philosophy of Mind Ethics Philosophy of Psychology
Greenside, Henry - Ph.D. Professor	Physics, Arts & Sciences	Theoretical neurobiology How brains generate Recognize and store temporal sequences	YES
Groh, Jennifer M. - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Multisensory processing Audition Motor control and visual processing	YES
Hamoudi, Amar - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Public Policy Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy	Executive Functioning Cognitive Economics Reward Processing	YES
Hare, Brian - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences	Human Cognitive Evolution Social Cognition Domestication	YES
Harris, Lasana - Ph.D. Assistant Professor (beginning 2010)	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Social Cognition Emotion Decision Making	YES
Henriquez, Craig - Ph.D. Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center for Neuroengineering	Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Computer Science, Arts & Sciences	Neuroengineering Neural Prosthesis
Huettel, Scott - Ph.D. Associate Professor; Director, Center for Neuroeconomic Studies	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Neuroeconomics Functional Neuroimaging Cognition	YES
Jarvis, Erich - Ph.D. Associate Professor; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Origin and Mechanisms of Language Neuroethology Systems Neurobiology	YES
Johnsen, Sönke - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Biology, Arts & Sciences Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences	Vision Magnetoreception Diffuse sensory systems	YES
Keefe, Richard - Ph.D. Professor; Director, Schizophrenia Research Group	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Schizophrenia Cognitive function High-risk	YES
Kollins, Scott - Ph.D. Associate Professor; Director, Duke University ADHD Program	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	ADHD Smoking and Nicotine	YES
Kuhn, Cynthia - Ph.D. Professor	Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences	Animal models of drug addiction Ontogeny of neural circuit activation by rewarding and aversive stimuli Gonadal steroid hormone action in brain
LaBar, Kevin - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Affective and social neuroscience Memory systems Fear and anxiety disorders	YES
Levin, Edward - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Addiction Cognition Neurotoxicology	YES
Madden, David - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine	Aging Cognitive Function Attention and Memory	YES
Marsh, Elizabeth - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Learning and Memory Autobiographical Memory Eyewitness Testimony
Matsunami, Hiroaki - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology	Olfaction Pheromone Chemical Senses	YES
McClernon, Francis (Joe) - Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Smoking Nicotine Dependence Neuroimaging	YES
McNamara, James - M.D. Carl R Deane Professor and Chairman; Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Medicine, Division of Neurology; Pharmacology & Cancer Biology	Epileptogenesis Signaling Neurotrophins	YES
Meck, Warren - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Neural basis of timing and time perception Decision making Memory Regulation
Mikati, Mohamad - M.D. Professor; Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology	Pediatrics, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Epilepsy Imaging Genetics	YES
Mitroff, Stephen - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Visual cognition Enhancing and modifying cognitive abilities Development of visual cognition	YES
Moffitt, Terrie E. - Ph.D. Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Gene-environment interplay in mental disorders Psychiatric Epidemiology Cognitive ability assessment
Nadler, J. Victor - Ph.D. Professor	Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Epilepsy Synaptic Transmission Synaptic Plasticity	YES
Pitt, Geoffrey S. - M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor; Director, Ion Channel Research Unit	Medicine, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine Neurobiology; Pharmacology & Cancer Biology	Ion channel physiology Epilepsy Synaptic plasticity	YES
Platt, Michael - Ph.D. Professor; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences	Neural basis of decision-making Neural basis of social behavior Evolution of cognition	YES
Schmajuk, Nestor - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Neural Network Models Classical Conditioning Causak Learning	YES
Schwartz-Bloom, Rochelle - Ph.D. Professor and Director	Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Biological Psychiatry	Neuroscience & pharmacology education	YES
Sherwood, Nina - Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor	Biology, Arts & Sciences	Neuronal cytoskeleton Synapse formation/maintenance Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia	YES
Simon, John - Ph.D. George B. Geller Professor/Vice Provost for Academic Affairs	Chemistry, Arts & Sciences Biochemistry; Ophthalmology, School of Medicine	Neuromelanin Amyloid	YES
Simon, Sidney - Ph.D. Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	Gustation Membrane biophysics	YES
Song, Allen - Ph.D. Professor and Director, BIAC	Radiology, School of Medicine Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	MRI acquisition methodology Brain function MRI contrast mechanisms	YES
Steffens, David - M.D., M.H.S. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Medicine	Depression Dementia Neuroimaging	YES
Strauman, Timothy - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, School of Medicine	Depression Addiction Psychotherapy	YES
Strittmatter, Warren - M.D. Professor and Chief	Medicince, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Alzheimers Disease Huntington's Disease	YES
Swartzwelder, Scott - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Cellular Neurophysiology Neural Mechanisms of Drug Effects and Addiction Neural Mechanisms of Learning and Memory	YES
Tomasi, Carlo - Ph.D. Professor	Computer Science, Arts & Sciences	Computer vision	YES
Tracey, W. Daniel - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Anesthesiology, School of Medicine Cell Biology; Neurobiology	Nociception and pain Mechanotransduction Perception of temperature	YES
Voyvodic, James - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Radiology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Vision Brain imaging Brain Tumors	YES
Wang, Fan - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Cell Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Mammalian touch sensory system Regulation of neuronal endomembrane system	YES
Wang, Lihong - M.D, Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Depression Interaction of emotion with cognition Mild cognitive impairment	YES
Warner, David - M.D. Professor	Anesthesiology, School of Medicine Neurobiology; Surgery	Stroke Traumatic brain injury Cerebral vasospasm	YES
West, Anne - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Epigenetics Activity-regulated transcription Synapse development and plasticity	YES
White, Leonard - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Community & Family Medicine, Doctor of Physical Therapy Division, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Sensory experience and brain development Cortical maps Human brain anatomy	YES
Williams, Christina L. - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Development Hormones and Nutrients Neural Plasticity	YES
Woldorff, Marty - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology, Arts & Sciences	Attention Memory ERP and fMRI	YES
Yin, Henry - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Goal-directed actions Decision making Reward
Zucker, Nancy - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Anorexia Nervosa Interoception Social Cognition	YES