Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Elucidating the neuronal processes that guide motivation

Professor Emeritus
Research Areas: Transcriptional regulation of GFAP, development of GFAP promoters for transgene expression in astrocytes, and GFAP mutations as a cause of Alexander disease 

Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Neurodevelopment, Precision Medicine, Molecular Mechanisms of Rare disease, Axonal transport, Gene editing, Drug screening, Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE)

Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Synaptic and cellular organization and processing in the neocortex and thalamus, with an emphasis on sensory systems

Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Learning and memory, fear, reward, GABAergic engrams, experience-dependent plasticity, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, NMDA receptors

Associate Professor
Vice Chair for Strategic Planning and Recruitment
Director, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
Michael J. Fiedlander, PhD Heersink Endowed Professorship
Research Areas: Neurogenetics, substance use disorders, learning and memory, epigenetics, gene regulation and gene editing

Assistant Professor
Research Areas: 

Associate Professor
Vice Chair for Education
Co-Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Co-Director, Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)
Associate Scientist, Civitan International Research Center
Research Areas: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of structural and functional plasticity; memory; mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disabilities

Professor
Vice Chair for Research and Research Infrastructure
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development, HSOM
Research Areas: Molecular mechanisms of retinal degenerations; protein trafficking in photoreceptors and neurons; disk cytoskeletal regulation in the retina

Professor Emeritus
Research Areas: Neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities; ion channels and synaptic function

Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Circuit mechanisms that regulate motivated behavior and addiction with a specific focus on subcircuits in the interconnected nuclei of the ventral basal ganglia.

Assistant Professor
Managing Director, UAB Biological Data Science Core (U-BDS)
Research Areas: Transcriptomics, epigenomics, computational biology, pipeline and workflow development

Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Synaptic transmission and plasticity, neurotrophins, neuron-glia interaction, motor and social behavior, neurodevelopmental disorders

Distinguished Professor
Vice Chair of Trainee Engagement and Development
Triton Endowed Professorship in Neurobiology
Director, NINDS Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program
Director, T32 Training Program in Cognition & Cognitive Disorders
Co-Director for Research, IRACDA-MERIT Program
Co-Chair, SoM Black/African-American Faculty Association
SOM Office for Diversity & Inclusion Faculty Liaison
Research Areas: Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; epigenetics, non-coding RNAs; gene transcription; epilepsy disorders; neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities

Professor
Research Areas: Neurodevelopment, neurophysiology, intracellular signaling, autism

Associate Professor
Director, Civitan Translational ASD/NDD Research Core
Research Areas: Autism

Professor
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Development
Research Areas: Neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities; learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; ion channels and synaptic function; neurotransmitter and neurotrophin receptors and cell signaling

Associate Professor
Research Areas: Preclinical behavioral pharmacology using rodent self-administration models of addiction, optogenetic and chemogenetic dissection of neural circuit function, neural circuitry and mechanisms underlying extinction memory, and the intersection of aversion and reward in systems neuroscience.

Professor
Director, Civitan International Research Center
Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Virginia B. Spencer Endowed Chair
Research Areas: Autism, intellectual disability, cognitive dysfunction

Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Biology of neurodegeneration and dementias; circadian dysfunction; therapeutic drug development and behavioral interventions.