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De-Pei Li

01-16-24

De-Pei Li, MD, MSC, CPM, has been engaged in research in the field of neurobiology and synaptic plasticity during physiological and pathophysiological conditions for more than 25 years. The overarching and long-term goal of Dr. Li’s research is to identify novel mechanisms and targets for treatment and prevention of...

Bornali Kundu

01-11-24

Bornali Kundu, MD, PhD, is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon who specializes in epilepsy surgery and movement disorder surgery, such as implanting deep brain stimulation devices. Her practice also includes surgeries for malignant and benign tumors, facial pain brain trauma, hydrocephalus and psychiatric disorders. As part of a collaborative team, Dr....

Ai-Ling Lin

12-21-23

Dr. Lin is an expert on translational neuroimaging of brain vascular and metabolic function in aging, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and traumatic brain injury. She developed and applied magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy and positron emission tomography to test nutritional and pharmacologic approaches for protecting the brain from aging, traumatic...

Laura Morett

10-09-23

My academic background is interdisciplinary and focuses on hand gestures and their relationship to language in typical and atypical populations. My Ph.D. is in cognitive psychology, I completed postdoctoral fellowships in psychiatry, and my last position was in educational psychology. I came to Mizzou as part of the MizzouForward...

Mai-Lan Ho

09-29-23

Mai-Lan Ho, MD, is an accomplished neuroradiology physician-scientist and leader specializing in the full scope of advanced imaging. Dr. Ho has clinical expertise in advanced neuroimaging techniques and genotype-phenotype correlation in complex diseases. Her research focus involves radiologic technology development, quantitative image analysis and imaging genomics. Dr. Ho also...

Caroline Larson

09-06-23

Stephen Sheinkopf

04-24-23

Dr. Sheinkopf’s research employs novel approaches to studying risk for autism in infancy and on improved understanding of heterogeneous outcomes in autism spectrum disorders. Current projects utilize psychophysiology tools to interrogate individual differences in attention, arousal, and regulation in relation to developmental outcomes in children and adults with autism,...

Taixing Cui

04-24-23

Intercellular and interorgan communications in cardiovascular adaptation and maladaptation towards disease. To learn more about my laboratory, click here (https://dalton.missouri.edu/investigators/tcgdh.php).

Laxman Gangwani

03-21-23

Molecular Genetics, Neuron Biology, including Neurodegeneration and Neuron Regeneration, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Transcription-coupled R-loops, DNA Damage and Repair, RNA Biogenesis, Molecular and Translational Medicine, Genetically Modified Yeast Models, Mouse Models of Neurological Diseases  

Joseph Santin

11-28-22

Susanta Behura

06-28-22

Jacqueline Limberg

01-11-22

Paul Carney

07-19-21

Ashley Curtis

05-03-21

Dr. Curtis studies the bidirectional relationship between cognition and sleep in healthy and cognitively impaired aging populations. She is specifically interested in the impact of cognitive interventions on behavioral, physiological and neural outcomes. To learn more about Dr. Curtis’s lab, click here.

Sehwon Koh

11-02-20

Dr. Koh’s major research interests are in understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms of how the glia, the non-neuronal cell type in the central nervous system, regulates neuronal activity.

Toni Kazic

11-02-20

Dr. Kazic is working on methods to infer the structure of complex networks using the disease lesion mimic mutants of maize as a model system. Her work has also included the development of an architecture for community query, deposit, review and curation of information on biochemical reactions, and the...

Bradley Ferguson

11-02-20

Dr. Ferguson is currently studying the association between immune, endocrine, and psychophysiological markers of stress and gastrointestinal disorders in those with autism spectrum disorder. He is also leading the psychophysiological biomarker assessment for predictors of response to medications, and also the relationship to aberrant behaviors.

Bing Zhang

09-11-19

Genetic dissection of synaptic plasticity, neural circuitry, and behavior in fruit flies. To learn more about my lab, click here.

Matthew J. Will

09-11-19

Behavioral, pharmacological, and molecular analysis of the interaction between stress and the reinforcement process within the context of animal models of addiction. To learn more about my lab, click here.

Rebecca Whiting

09-11-19

Ex vivo gene therapy for treatment of CLN2 Batten disease using a canine model.  We are pursuing combined treatment of the brain and retina to achieve amelioration of all neurologic symptoms in this disease. To learn more about my lab, click here.