BSN Training Faculty

• • Atheir Abbas, M.D., Ph.D.
  • abbasat@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine
    • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Systems Neuroscience
    • Working memory
    • high density neural recordings
    • optogenetics
    • neural oscillations
    • schizophrenia
    • Neural circuits
• • Bahareh Ajami
  • ajami@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
• • Matthew Butler, Ph.D.
  • butlema@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences

  • Areas of interest

    • Biological rhythms and health
    • Neuroendocrinology of sex differences
    • Sleep epidemiology
• • Vincent Costa, Ph.D.
  • costav@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Reinforcement learning
    • Motivation and emotion
    • Systems neuroscience
• • Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson, Ph.D.
  • cuzoncar@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center

  • Areas of interest

    • Developmental Neuroscience
    • Addiction
• • Stephen V. David, Ph.D.
  • davids@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Representation of speech and other natural sounds in auditory cortex
    • Learning and attention-driven changes in auditory representation
    • Biological mechanisms underlying neural computations
• • Deborah A. Finn, Ph.D.
  • finnd@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • GABAergic neurosteroid modulation of ethanol drinking and ethanol withdrawal
    • The influence of steroid levels on brain function and behavior, with behavioral assessments using animal models of anxiety, depression, and seizure susceptibility
    • Neurochemical substrates underlying binge drinking and interaction with stress with a focus on sex differences
    • Use of genetic animal models to examine alcohol-related behaviors
• • Matthew M. Ford, Ph.D.
  • fordma@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Research Assistant Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center

  • Areas of interest

    • Behavioral Pharmacology
    • Neuroendocrinology
    • Addiction
    • Drug Reinforcement and Motivation
    • Drug Discrimination
    • Drug Self-Administration
    • Animal Models of Alcohol, Nicotine and Methamphetamine Abuse
• • Kathleen A. Grant, Ph.D.
  • grantka@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Animal models of alcohol and drug addiction
    • Stress response to chronic alcohol drinking
    • MRI imaging of brain circuitry
    • Advances in cognitive assessment of primate behavior
    • Behavioral pharmacology
• • Marina Guizzetti, Ph.D.
  • guizzett@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Glia
    • Astrocytes
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
    • Neuronal development
    • Extracellular matrix
    • Neurite outgrowth
    • Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans
• • Mary M. Heinricher, Ph.D.
  • heinricm@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
• • Susan Ingram, Ph.D.
  • ingrams@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
• • Skyler Jackman, Ph.D.
  • jackmans@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute
    • Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • neurotransmitter release
    • short-term synaptic plasticity
    • neural circuits
    • presynaptic calcium sensors
• • Christopher D. Kroenke, Ph.D.
  • kroenkec@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Associate Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
    • Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Fetal development
    • Magnetic resonance imaging
    • Neurodevelopment disorders
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
• • Matthew Lattal, Ph.D.
  • lattalm@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Neurobiology of learning and memory
    • Models of substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder
    • Learning theory
    • Pharmacological approaches to enhancing memory
    • Epigenetic mechanisms of memory
• • Miranda M. Lim, M.D., Ph.D.
  • lmir@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Sleep
    • EEG
    • Traumatic brain injury
    • Post-traumatic stress disorder
    • Neurodegeneration
    • Alzheimer's
    • Autism
• • Jodi L. McBride, Ph.D.
  • mcbridej@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
    • Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Developing therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's and Batten diseases
    • Creating non-human primate models of neurodegenerative diseases
    • Developing and testing novel gene therapy strategies to deliver genes to the brain
    • Assessing brain connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases using novel imaging techniques
    • Translational therapeutics
    • Viral vectors
    • Neurosurgery
• • Claudio V. Mello, M.D., Ph.D.
  • melloc@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Neuroethology
    • Molecular neuroscience
    • Speech and Language
    • Vocal learning
    • Central auditory processing
    • Learning and memory
    • Neurogenomics
• • Suzanne H. Mitchell, Ph.D.
  • mitchesu@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine
    • Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Determinants of risky and impulsive decision-making
    • Alcohol, nicotine and marijuana use
    • Neurobiology of choice
    • Behavioral genetics of impulsivity
    • Behavioral economics
• • Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D.
  • bita@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • systems neuroscience approaches to understanding cognitive-affective interface
    • novel behavioral and computational models of mood and cognitive disorders
    • prefrontal cortex and action selection
• • Bonnie Nagel, Ph.D.
  • nagelb@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Psychology, School of Medicine
• • Angela R. Ozburn, Ph.D.
  • ozburn@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Circadian gene regulation of mood- and alcohol-use disorders
    • Testing and characterizing therapies for reducing alcohol and drug intake in animal models
• • Tamara J. Phillips
  • phillipt@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Behavioral genetics
    • Quantitative genetics
    • Alcohol
    • Methamphetamine
    • Addiction
    • Neuroscience
    • Stress
• • Jacob Raber, Ph.D.
  • raberj@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine
• • Bill D. Rooney, Ph.D.
  • rooneyw@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
    • MRI
    • Pharmacokinetics
    • Brain
• • Andrey E. Ryabinin, Ph.D.
  • ryabinin@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Alcoholism and drug addiction
    • Stress-related neuropeptides
    • Social neurobiology of addiction
• • Elinor L. Sullivan, Ph.D.
  • sullivel@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Associate Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
    • Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Behavioral Regulation
    • Brain Development
    • Developmental Programming
    • Maternal Nutrition
    • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
    • Anxiety
    • Serotonin
• • Henryk F. Urbanski, Ph.D., D.Sc.
  • urbanski@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine
    • Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center

  • Areas of interest

    • Brain Aging
    • Circadian rhythms
    • Neuroendocrinology
    • Puberty
    • Menopause
• • Marina Wolf, Ph.D.
  • wolfmar@ohsu.edu

  • Appointments and titles

    • Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Synaptic plasticity underlying behavioral changes in animal models of drug addiction