Members
Our members are investigators who study autism and related neurodevelopmental disorder. Browse the list below to learn more about them and their work.
Lerner, Talia N
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio
What do you want? Why do different individuals want different things? The Lerner Lab studies the neural circuit basis of motivation, reward learning and decision-making. We are interested in how indiv... [more]
Maccaferri, Gianmaria
Professor of Neuroscience
Bio
Brain functions are the result of the coordinated activity of large networks of neurons, which are composed by many different cell types. As a consequence, the specific properties of synaptic communic... [more]
Martina, Marco
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio
My lab has two main research lines: one is cellular neurophysiology, with particular emphasis on the mechanisms of action potential generation and propagation and on the role of dendrites in post syna... [more]
Meltzer, Herbert Y
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry), Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Bio
Herbert Y. Meltzer, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pharmacology and Physiology and Director of the Translational Neuropharmacology Program at Northwestern University in Chicag... [more]
Moskal, Joseph
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Description of Interests
Pharmacogenomics, Drug Discovery, Brain Tumor Therapeutics
Parker, Jones G
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Penzes, Peter
Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio
SYNAPTIC STRUCTURAL PLASTICITY: FROM MOLECULES TO COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AND DISEASE Research in my lab centers on signal transduction networks that regulate the structural and functional plasticity of e... [more]
Pinto, Lucas
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Prakriya, Murali
Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine (Allergy and Immunology)
Bio
Research in our laboratory is focused on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of intracellular calcium (Ca2+) signaling. Ca2+ is a ubiquitous intracellular signaling messenger, mediating many essenti... [more]
Savas, Jeffrey N
Assistant Professor of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology), Pharmacology and Medicine (Nephrology and Hypertension)
Bio
My research interests are centered on elucidating the pathogenic mechanisms which drive synaptopathies and proteinopathies in the mammalian nervous system. As a first step, we use reductionist biochem... [more]