Faculty

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Aaron Beedle

Associate Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Chair, Faculty Senate

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Faculty Senate

Research Interests

  • Muscular dystrophy
  • disease pathogenesis and therapeutics
  • Dystroglycan
  • glycosylation
  • the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
  • Skeletal muscle
  • heart
  • and brain function
  • Mouse genetic models
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Tracy Brooks

Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Menner Family Endowed Faculty Fellow

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Oncology
  • Anti-cancer therapeutics
  • Drug target development
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Stefania Conte

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Functional and structural brain development
  • Face processing
  • Attention
  • Typical and atypical developmental trajectories
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Terrence Deak

Professor and Behavioral Neuroscience Area Coordinator

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Stress responsive systems
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Neural-immune interactions
  • Alcohol
  • Developmental neurobiology and brain aging
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Jodi Dowthwaite

Community and Global Public Health, Research Assistant Professor; Research Assistant Professor, Master of Public Health (MPH) Program

First-year Research Immersion Program; Public Health

Research Interests

  • Longitudinal studies on diet, exercise and pediatric antecedents of adult disease
  • Reproductive health, including maternal/child health
  • Mental health
  • Health disparities
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Michael Dulas

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Cognitive neuroscience of memory and aging
  • PFC and hippocampal interactions
  • Impact of aging and/or brain injury on relational memory
  • Role of eye-movements in memory and its usage
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Brandon E. Gibb

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • The development and expression of information-processing biases that increase risk for depression in children, adolescents, and adults
  • Understanding risk for depression and related outcomes (e.g., suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury) across multiple units of analysis
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Anushree Karkhanis

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Adolescent stress and drug exposure
  • Drug abuse vulnerability
  • Kappa opioid receptors
  • Dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin
  • Alcohol use disorder
  • Cocaine addiction
  • Opiate abuse
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Deborah Kreiss

Neuroscience, Research Assistant Professor

First-year Research Immersion Program

Research Interests

  • Biological basis of pathology and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Evaluation of animal models of anxiety and depressive disorders
  • Physiological mechanisms mediating the therapeutic effects of psychoactive agents
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Mark F. Lenzenweger

Distinguished Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Schizophrenia and schizotypy
  • Severe personality disorders
  • Personality neuroscience
  • Quantitative/statistical methods
  • Longitudinal research methodology
  • Operational psychology and selection
  • Insider risk detection
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Sung-Joo Lim

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Auditory cognitive neuroscience
  • Human speech perception and communication
  • Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
  • Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG
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Vipul Lugade, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of the MARL

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Gait balance control in older adults at risk of falling
  • Development of remote activity monitoring tools
  • Return-to-play decision making in adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury
  • Dual-task motor and cognitive evaluations
  • Personalized single- and dual-task intervention in adolescents with concussion and older adults with balance impairment
  • Longitudinal change in health outcomes following joint arthroplasty
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Kuo-Ching (KC) Mei

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Therapeutic delivery (drug/gene/antigen/macromolecule)
  • Molecular pharmaceutics and Pharmacoengineering
  • Tumor immune microenvironment
  • Lipid nanoparticles, liposomes and lipid drug conjugates
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Ralph Miller

Distinguished Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Elementary information processing (animals/humans)
  • Memory and forgetting
  • Role of temporal relationships between events in elementary learning
  • Pavlovian conditioning
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Melissa Morales

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Myositis
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Mechanisms underlying neuromuscular diseases
  • Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience
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Norman E. Spear

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Developmental behavioral neuroscience; characteristics and neurobiological mechanisms of the ontogeny of alcohol ingestion and alcohol reinforcement during early ontogeny; very early learning and the ontogeny of memory
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Cyma K. Van Petten

Professor

Psychology; Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Language processing focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification
  • Memory with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex
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Emily L. Zale

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Health psychology and behavioral medicine
  • Biopsychosocial model of health and illness
  • Substance use (e.g., nicotine/tobacco; alcohol) and addictions
  • Pain (e.g., clinical assessment; laboratory human experimental models)
  • Mechanisms and effects of co-occurring substance use and medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain)
  • Psychopathology and transdiagnostic constructs
  • Translational research and intervention development
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