University of Pittsburgh

Department of Neuroscience

Faculty

Faculty with Primary Appointments

Barrionuevo, German

Professor, Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Synaptic physiology in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

Address: A467 Crawford Hall
Telephone: 412-624-7330
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: german@pitt.edu

Website:

Card, J. Patrick

Professor, Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Functional organization of hypothalamus and central autonomic networks

Address: A415 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-6995
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: card@pitt.edu

Website:

Colby, Carol L.

Professor, Neuroscience
Cortical mechanisms of memory, attention, and spatial representation in primates

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-268-7295
Fax: 412-268-5060
E-mail: colby@pitt.edu

Website:

Grace, Anthony A.

Professor, Neuroscience , Psychiatry and Psychology
Neurophysiology of basal ganglia system related to psychiatric disorders

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-4609
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: graceaa@pitt.edu

Website:

Johnson, Jon W.

Professor, Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Biophysics, pharmacology, and regulation of glutamate receptors

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-4295
Fax: 412-624-4393
E-mail: jjohnson@pitt.edu

Website:

Meriney, Stephen D.

Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Regulation and modulation of presynaptic ion channels and transmitter release

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-8283
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: meriney@pitt.edu

Website:

Moghaddam, Bita

Professor, Neuroscience
Cellular basis of goal-directed behavior and animal models of schizophrenia

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-2653
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: bita@pitt.edu

Website:

Rinaman, Linda

Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Neural circuits for anxiety, stress, and emotional learning: organization and postnatal development

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-6994
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: rinaman@pitt.edu

Website:

Sesack, Susan R.

Professor, Neuroscience
Functional neuroanatomy of cortical and monoamine systems

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-5158
Fax: 412-624-9878
E-mail: sesack@pitt.edu

Website:

Sommer, Marc A.

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neuronal circuits mediating perception, cognition, and action in primates

Address: 115 Mellon Institute
Telephone: 412-268-4486
Fax: 412-268-5060
E-mail: masommer@pitt.edu

Website:

Stricker, Edward M.

University Professor, Neuroscience
Central control of homeostatic regulatory systems

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-4569
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: edstrick@pitt.edu

Website:

Sved, Alan F.

Professor and Chairman, Neuroscience
Central neural control of the autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular function

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-6996
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: sved@pitt.edu

Website:

Wood, David C.

Emeritus Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Mechanical stimulus transduction and habituation

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-4514
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: dwood@pitt.edu

Website:

 

Faculty with Secondary or Adjunct Appointments

Barth, Alison

Adjunct Associate Professor Biological Sciences and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Plasticity in developing and adult neocortex

Address:159 Mellon Institute
Telephone:412-268-5060
E-mail: albarth@andrew.cmu.edu

 

Bradberry, Charles

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Neurochemical and cognitive traits in primates associated with chronic exposure to drugs of abuse or a predisposition to self-administer them.

Address: 4066 BST3
Telephone: 412-383-6200
E-mail: bradberrycw@upmc.edu

 

DeFranco, Donald B.

Professor of Pharmacology, Neuroscience
Signal transduction and neurodegeneration

Address: 7041 BST3
Telephone: 412-624-4259
E-mail: dod1@pitt.edu

 

Fiez, Julie

Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience
Neuroimaging and behavioral studies of language, working memory, motivation, and learning

Address: 605 Learning Research Development Center
Telephone: 412-624-7078
E-mail: fiez@pitt.edu

 

Gandhi, Neeraj

Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, Neuroscience, Bioengineering, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Neural control of coordinated oculomotor and skeletomotor movements

Address: 108 Eye & Ear Institute
Telephone: 412-647-3076
E-mail: neg8@pitt.edu

Hastings, Teresa

Associate Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience
Oxidative mechanisms associated with neurodegeneration

Address: 7038 BST3
Telephone: 412-624-9716
E-mail: thastings@pitt.edu

 

Kass, Robert E.

Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience

Statistical Analysis of Neural Data


Address: 229H Baker Hall

Telephone:412-268-8723

Fax:412-268-7828

E-mail: kass@stat.cmu.edu

 

Lee, Tai Sing

Adjunct Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Computational and electrophysiological study of visual perception, perceptual organization, neural plasticity and neural coding; computer vision

Address: 115 Mellon Institute
Telephone: 412-268-1060
E-mail: tai@cnbc.cmu.edu

Lewis, David

Professor, Psychiatry
Functional architecture of the prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia

Address: W1651 Biomedical Science Tower
Telephone: 412-624-3934
E-mail: lewisda@upmc.edu

 

Moore, Robert

Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience
Neural mechanisms and disorders of circadian rhythms and sleep

Address: 811 Kaufmann Building
Telephone: 412-692-4622
E-mail: rym@pitt.edu

 

Olson, Carl

Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Cortical mechanisms of cognition in primates

Address:115 Mellon Institute
Telephone: 412-268-3968
E-mail: colson@cnbc.cmu.edu

 

Stiles, Joel R.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Computational Biology

Spatially Realistic Simulations of Neurotransmitter Release, Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity

Address: 300 South Craig, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Telephone: 412-268-4786

E-mail: stiles@psc.edu

 

Urban, Nathaniel

Adjunct Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Physiology imaging and computation in the olfactory system

Address: 173 Mellon Institute
Telephone: 412-268-5122
E-mail: nurban@cmu.edu

Yates, Bill J.

Professor, Otolaryngology and Neuroscience
Vestibular Influences on Autonomic Control and Navigation

Address: 519 E&E Inst.
Telephone: 412-647-9614
Fax: 412-647-0180
E-mail: byates@pitt.edu

 

Research Faculty

Cano, Georgina (Card)

Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-8356
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: gcano@pitt.edu

Povysheva, Nadezda (Johnson)

Research Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Address: A210 Langley Hall
Telephone: 412-624-4299
Fax: 412-624-9198
E-mail: nvp1@pitt.edu

 

Teaching Faculty

A listing of our teaching faculty is found here