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

    • Associate 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
• Charles K. Meshul, Ph.D.
• 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
• Deena Walker

  • Appointments and titles

    • Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine

  • Areas of interest

    • Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
    • Sex differences in motivation and reward
    • Neurobiology of Addiction
    • Adolescent Development
• 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