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        • Frey, William
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        • Hamid, Arif
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        • He, Sheng
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        • Zilverstand, Anna
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development
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muscle
pain
neurodegenerative
Motor Control, Muscle
Function and Disease
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Somatosensation
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and Neural Injury
endocrine
theoretical
neurogenetics
Neuroendocrine and
Homeostatic Systems

 
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behavioral
Neuroimaging and
Optogenetics
Neuropharmaceutics
and Neuro-oncology
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auditory
addictive
stem cells
Neuroscience of Auditory and
Vestibular Systems
Neuroscience of Drug Abuse
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Neural Systems
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        • Gu, Ming
        • Gustafson, Eric
        • Hagen, Matthew
        • Hamel, Katherine
        • Handler, Hillary
        • Handoko, Maureen
        • Hanson, Charles
        • Hanson, Leah
        • Hasz, Brendan
        • Hedges, Valerie
        • Helms Tillery, Stephen
        • Henderson, Dori
        • Herrmann (Wolfe), Uta
        • Hewitt, Angela
        • Himes, Katherine
        • Hokum Stone, Laura
        • Holt Becker, Abbey
        • Howe (Mitschele), Katie
      • I-L
        • Iden Boulware, Marissa
        • Ingebretson, Anna
        • Jackson, Jadin
        • Jansen, Elizabeth
        • Jerde, Trenton
        • Johanek, Lisa
        • Johnson, Adam
        • Jorgensen, Nathan
        • Jorgenson, Lyric
        • Jurney, William
        • Kallestad (Thorstenson), Kristen
        • Katter, James
        • Keene, C. Dirk
        • Kehl, Lois
        • Kennedy, Bruce
        • Kerrigan, Stephen
        • Kholmanskikh, Stanislav
        • Kordasiewicz (Brownrigg), Holly
        • Kornfield, Tess
        • Kuroki, Marcos
        • Kurth-Nelson, Zeb
        • Lambert, Aaron
        • Landers (Sherpetis), Laura
        • Langheim, Fred
        • Larson, Erin
        • Leong, Heather
        • Libby, Therissa
        • Linden, David
        • Lines, Justin
        • Linn-Evans, Maria
        • Lopez Cervera, Roberto
        • Lopresti, Natalie
        • Luoma, Jessie
        • Lynch, Jessica
        • Lyons, Carey
      • M-O
        • Ma (Huifang), Carol
        • Maher (Becker), Chani
        • Maisson, David
        • Maldonado (Barajas), Marcela
        • Malen, Peter
        • Marsick, Bonnie
        • McAdams, Brian
        • McCall, Nora
        • Meehan-Enright, Anna
        • Mehta, Priyanka
        • Metea, Monica
        • Michael (Staffend), Nancy
        • Miller, Eric
        • Mishra, Anusha
        • Moen, Janna
        • Monko, Megan
        • Monko, Timothy
        • Moodie, Craig
        • Moore, Elisabeth
        • Moore, Kelsey
        • Moser, Hannah
        • Mrotek, Leigh Ann
        • Nagode, Jennifer
        • Naleid (MacDonald), Amy
        • Naselaris, Thomas
        • Newhoff Collins, Morgan
        • Nippert, Amy
        • Noetzel, Meredith
        • Oakman, Scott
        • Ojakangas, Catherine
        • Olman, Cheryl
        • Olson, Timothy
        • Ortiz-Gonzalez, Xilma R.
        • Overland, Aaron
        • Overstreet, Ed
      • P-R
        • Papale, Andrew
        • Parent, Marc
        • Park, Min-Yoon
        • Parsons, Ann
        • Penrod-Martin, Rachel
        • Perez Ortiz, Judit
        • Perez-Leighton, Claudio
        • Peterson, Brittni
        • Petruk, Vadim
        • Pisansky, Marc
        • Pomonis, James
        • Port, Nicholas
        • Potenzieri, Carl
        • Powell, Nate
        • Puhl, Joshua
        • Qu, Wenhui
        • Radke (Harrison), Anna
        • Raike, Robert
        • Regier, Paul
        • Reinert, Kenneth
        • Rothwell, Patrick
        • Royer (Smith), Audrey
      • S
        • San Miguel-Ruiz, Jose
        • Satterfield, Catherine
        • Schallmo, Michael-Paul
        • Schmidt, Tiffany
        • Schmitzer-Torbert, Neil
        • Schneider, Ameila
        • Schneider, Blaine
        • Schramm, Cicely
        • Schreiber, Kristin
        • Schrode, Katrina
        • Schumacher, Jennifer
        • Schuster, Daniel
        • Scott, Alexandra
        • Semaya, Emily
        • Shanbhag, Sharad
        • Shannon, Robert
        • Sheeler, Carrie
        • Shuster, Samuel
        • Silva, Amila
        • Silvermintz, Lawrence
        • Singh, Balvindar
        • Sosa, Romina
        • Speltz, Rebecca
        • Srienc, Anja
        • Steiner, Adam
        • Stern, Christopher
        • Stevens, Eric
        • Stieve, Bethany
        • Stone, Laura
        • Stott, Jeff
        • Stucky, Cheryl
        • Sullivan, Steven
        • Sweis, Brian
      • T-V
        • Thompson, Serena
        • Thorpe, Andrew
        • Toddes, Carlee
        • Tonn Eisinger, Katherine
        • Torres Jimenez, Nathalia
        • Trevino, Nolan
        • Trieu, Brian
        • Tyshynsky, Roman
        • Ulrich-Lai, Yve
        • Veitenheimer Rupp, Britta
        • Velazquez, Ruben
        • Velte, Toby
        • Vue, Tou Yia
        • Vulchanova, Lucy
      • W-Z
        • Waataja, Jon
        • Waid, David
        • Wallin, Diana
        • Wang, Guang Jian
        • Wang, Maya (Zhe)
        • Warren, Scott
        • Weick, Jason
        • Weiner (Fallen), Katherine
        • Wenk, Heather
        • West, Sarah
        • Westerman, Marcus
        • Wiens, Katie
        • Wiggin, Timothy
        • Wikenheiser, Andrew
        • Williams, Cheri
        • Willoughby, Christy
        • Wotus, Cheryl
        • Wozniak (Leathley), Emily
        • Wright, Shannon
        • Wu, Wei
        • Yoo, Michael (Seng Bum)
        • Zarate, Nicole
        • Zayas, Roberto
        • Zick, Jennifer
        • Zlebnik, Natalie
    • Alumni Outcomes & Current Positions
  • Faculty
    • Alphabetical Faculty List
    • Current Faculty
      • A-B
        • Amirikian, Bagrat
        • Araque, Alfonso
        • Ashe, James
        • Ashe, Karen Hsiao
        • Bartolomucci, Alessandro
        • Bastian, Thomas
        • Bazzaro, Martina
        • Bee, Mark
        • Bond, David
        • Brown, David
        • al`Absi, Mustafa
      • C-D
        • Cao, Ruifeng
        • Carroll, Marilyn
        • Chafee, Matthew
        • Chen, Clark
        • Chen, Lihsia
        • Chen, Zhe
        • Cullen, Kathryn
        • Cvetanovic, Marija
        • Darrow, David
        • Dubinsky, Janet
        • Dukes, Angeline
      • E-F
        • Ebner, Timothy
        • Elison, Jed
        • Engel, Stephen
        • Fair, Damien
        • Fairbanks, Carolyn
        • Fatemi, S.H.
        • Fitzakerley, Janet
        • Frey, William
      • G-H
        • Gammill, Laura
        • Georgieff, Michael
        • Georgopoulos, Apostolos
        • Ghose, Geoff
        • Gomez-Pastor, Rocio
        • Gonzalez-Bellido, Paloma
        • Grande, Andrew
        • Graves, Steven
        • Grissom, Nicola
        • Groman, Stephanie
        • Hamid, Arif
        • Harris, Andrew
        • He, Sheng
      • I-K
        • Iacono, William
        • Iaizzo, Paul
        • Jacob, Suma
        • Johnson, Matthew
        • Junge, Harald
        • Kang, Peter
        • Kannan, Madhu
        • Kara, Prakash
        • Kay, Kendrick
        • Kerlin, Aaron
        • Kersten, Daniel
        • Kodandaramaiah, Suhasa
        • Kofuji, Paulo
        • Konczak, Jürgen
        • Koob, Michael
        • Kotz, Catherine
        • Krook-Magnuson, Esther
        • Kuo, Sid
      • L-M
        • Lanier, Lorene
        • Largaespada, David
        • Larson, Alice
        • Lee, Anna
        • Legge, Gordon
        • Lemos, Julia
        • Lesné, Sylvain
        • Li, Danni
        • Li, Ling
        • Liao, Dezhi
        • Lim, Hubert
        • Lim, Kelvin
        • Lin, Wensheng
        • Lissek, Shmuel
        • Lobo, Glenn
        • Low, Walter
        • MacDonald III, Angus
        • MacKinnon, Colum
        • Mangia, Silvia
        • Masino, Mark
        • McLoon, Linda
        • Meisel, Robert
        • Mermelstein, Paul
        • Mesce, Karen
      • N-O
        • Nakagawa, Yasushi
        • Naselaris, Thomas
        • Netoff, Tay
        • Newman, Eric
        • Nielson, Jessica
        • Nykamp, Duane
        • Olman, Cheryl
        • Orr, Harry
        • Osborn, Jr., John
        • Öz, Gülin
      • P-R
        • Pacak, Christina
        • Pardo, Jose
        • Parr, Ann
        • Pellizzer, Giuseppe
        • Perlingeiro, Rita
        • Portoghese, Philip
        • Rao, Raghavendra "Raghu"
        • Redish, A. David
        • Richard, Jocelyn
        • Rothwell, Patrick
      • S-T
        • Samadani, Uzma
        • Saunders, Benjamin
        • Schallmo, Michael-Paul
        • Schmidt, Daniel
        • Schrater, Paul
        • Sederberg, Audrey
        • Simone, Donald
        • Slosky, Lauren
        • Smith, Gordon
        • Spencer, Sade
        • Sponheim, Scott
        • Stone, Laura
        • Thayer, Stanley
        • Thomas, David
        • Thomas, Mark
        • Tran, Phu
      • U-V
        • Ugurbil, Kamil
        • Vasan, Ganesh
        • Venteicher, Andrew
        • Vinogradov, Sophia
        • Vitek, Jerrold
        • Vulchanova, Lucy
        • Vuong, Helen
      • W-Z
        • Wardill, Trevor
        • Wessendorf, Martin
        • Wickman, Kevin
        • Widge, Alik
        • Wilcox, George
        • Yang, Yi-Mei (Amy)
        • Zilverstand, Anna
        • Zimmermann, Jan
    • Policy on Faculty Membership
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    • Resources for Helping Students In Need
  • Areas of Research
    • Behavior and Cognitive Neurosciences
    • Computational Neuroscience
    • Developmental Neuroscience
    • Motor Control, Muscle Function, and Disease
    • Neurobiology of Pain and Somatosensation
    • Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neural Injury
    • Neuroendocrine and Homeostatic Systems
    • Neuroengineering
    • Neurogenetics
    • Neuroimaging and Optogenetics
    • Neuropharmaceutics and Neuro-oncology
    • Neuropsychiatric Disease
    • Neuroscience of Auditory and Vestibular Systems
    • Neuroscience of Drug Abuse and Addiction
    • Regenerative Medicine for Neural Systems
    • Synaptic Plasticity and Learning
    • Visual Neuroscience
  • Community
    • Graduate Program in Neuroscience Event Calendar
    • Colloquium & Seminars
      • Graduate Program in Neuroscience
      • Department of Neuroscience
      • Center for Cognitive Sciences
      • College of Education and Human Development
      • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
      • Center for Neuroengineering
      • Department of Biomedical Engineering
    • Outreach
      • Brain Awareness Week
      • BAW in Minnesota
      • Minnesota State Brain Bee
        • Minnesota Brain Bee
        • What is the Brain Bee?
        • Brain Bee 2004
        • Brain Bee 2005
        • Brain Bee 2006
        • Brain Bee 2007
        • Brain Bee 2008
        • Brain Bee 2009
        • Brain Bee 2010
        • Brain Bee 2011
        • Brain Bee 2012
        • Brain Bee 2013
      • Brains at the State Fair
      • Outreach
    • Affiliated Groups
      • Department of Neuroscience
      • U of MN Academic Health Center
      • U of MN Graduate School
      • Brain Science Center (BSC)
      • Center for Cognitive Sciences (CCS)
      • Center for Neurobehavioral Development (CNBD)
      • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR)
      • Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development (GCD)
      • Department of Pharmacology
      • Institute of Child Development (ICD)
      • PharmacoNeuroImmunology (PNI)
      • Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
  • Awards
    • GPN Awards
    • Best Dissertation Award
    • Faculty Mentorship Award
    • Morris Smithberg Memorial Prize
    • Sping and Ying Ngoh Lin Award
    • The Bacaner Research Award
    • The Stark Award for Advanced Scholarship
    • Honda Graduate Fellowship Award
  • DEI
    • Diversifying CNS
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