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Neuroscience Graduate Program

Neuroscience Graduate Program

Scientists in the Neuroscience Graduate Program investigate topics in a range of sensory systems including vision, hearing, olfaction, and pain. The Oregon Hearing Research Center has NGP investigators that work from the level of hair cells in the cochlea to processing of auditory signals in the brainstem and cortex, using methods from proteomics to forward genetics and developmental biology in zebrafish to whole-cell recording in the auditory brainstem. Other NGP investigators are examining the circuitry underlying processing in the olfactory system as well as brainstem circuits underlying pain transmission.

To learn more about specific investigators studying sensory systems, click on the NGP faculty listed below.

- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - host-pathogen interactions, neural-immune communications, neuroinflammation, infections, bacterial pathogenesis, organismal response to infections
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - Central autonomic reflex pathways
  - Pain pathways
  - Neuroanatomy
- Appointments and titles
  - Associate Professor of Integrative Biosciences, School of Dentistry
- Areas of interest
  - Development and Plasticity of Neuronal Circuits
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - Hair-cell transduction
  - Hair-bundle development
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
  - Professor of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - Fate of otic epithelial progenitors in the mouse otic vesicle
  - Lineage relationships of sensory and nonsensory cells in the mouse inner ear
  - Molecular regulation of sensory organ formation
- 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
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
- 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
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine
- Appointments and titles
  - Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute
- Areas of interest
  - mechanotransduction
  - ion channels
  - electrophysiology
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - zebrafish axonal transport neuron development lateral line sensory systems
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - Hearing function and hearing loss
  - Cochlear physiology
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
  - Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
  - Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - Pitch and speech perception
  - Hearing loss and cochlear implants
  - Binaural fusion, auditory object formation, and stream segregation
  - Auditory nerve health after cochlear implantation
  - Computational modeling of auditory perception
- Appointments and titles
  - Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - Visual Neuroscience neural circuits
  - Electrophysiology
  - Glaucoma
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - Brainstem circuits that process acoustic signals
  - Synaptic physiology: How do cells and synapses preserve information provided by the ear?
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor, Vollum Institute
  - Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine
- Areas of interest
  - exocytosis and endocytosis of synaptic vesicles
  - short and long-term plasticity in the retina and brainstem
  - electrophysiology of auditory pathway
  - ribbon synapses
- Appointments and titles
  - Professor, Vollum Institute
- Areas of interest
  - neurogenesis
  - hippocampal microcircuits
  - glutamate receptors
  - epilepsy
  - regeneration and repair
  - synaptic transmission
- Appointments and titles
  - Associate Professor, Vollum Institute
- Areas of interest
  - neurodevelopment
  - axon guidance
  - neuronal migration
  - synaptogenesis
  - neural circuitry