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.