Use our searchable database to find faculty mentors. Students pursuing neuroscience research can work with researchers from across the University of Florida campus. Students can search by name, department, center or the key words listed below.
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Brain Aging
- Behavior
- Cognition
- Computational Neuroscience
- Epilepsy
- Gene Therapy
- Memory
- Movement Disorders
- Neural Injury
- Neural Development
- Neurodegenerative Disease
- Neurogenetics
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroplasticity
- Neuropharmacology
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Neuromuscular Disorders
- Neuro-oncology
- Neurorehabilitation
- Neuroimaging
- Pain
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Perception
- Physiology
- Sensory Neuroscience
- Stress
- Stroke
- Substance Use Disorders & Addiction
- Lysosomal Disorders
- Microbiome
Name | Department | Center | Research Interests |
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Jose F. Abisambra![]() | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Neurodegenerative disease; Neural Injury; Neurophysiology |
Karina Alviña![]() | Neuroscience | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Dementia; Brain Aging; Memory; Cognition; Psychiatric Disorders; Neural development; Neurodegenerative Disease; Stress; Neural Injury; Neurophysiology |
Patrick J. Antonelli | Otolaryngology | Sensory Neuroscience | |
John D. Ash | Ophthalmology | Sensory Neuroscience; Gene Therapy | |
Jennifer L. Bizon![]() | Neuroscience | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) Center for Smell & Taste Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Brain Aging; Memory; Cognition; Behavior; Alzheimer's Disease; Neuropharmacology; Perception; Stress; Neuroplasticity |
Steven J. Blackband | Neuroscience | Neuroimaging | |
David C. Bloom![]() | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Gene Therapy | |
Donald C. Bolser | Physiological Sciences | Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) | Neuropharmacology, Neurophysiology, Physiology |
David R. Borchelt![]() | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) | Alzheimer's Disease; Memory; Neurodegenerative Disease; Neuromuscular Disorders; Parkinson's Disease; Neurogenetics |
Prodip K. Bose | Physiological Sciences | Neural Injury; Neurorehabilitation; Neuroimaging | |
Shannon E. Boye | Ophthalmology | Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics | Sensory Neuroscience; |
Adriaan W. Bruijnzeel | Psychiatry | Substance Use Disorders & Addiction; Neuropharmacology | |
Sara N. Burke | Neuroscience | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) Center for Smell and Taste | Alzheimer's Disease; Neuroplasticity; Behavior; Cognition; Neurophysiology; Perception; Memory; Brain Aging |
Eduardo Candelario-Jalil | Neuroscience | Cognition; Stroke; Brain Aging; Neural Injury; Behavior | |
Robert M. Caudle![]() | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | Substance Use Disorders & Addiction; Physiology; Pain; Sensory Neuroscience | |
Paramita Chakrabarty | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Dementia; Gene Therapy; Neurodegenerative disease |
Vijayendran Chandran![]() | Pediatrics | Neural Development; Neurodegenerative disease; Neurogenetics; Movement Disorders; Neuromuscular Disorders; Neural Injury |
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Brian Y. Cooper![]() | Dentistry, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | Pain | |
Yenisel Cruz-Almeida![]() | Community Dentistry & Behavioral Sciences | Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence (PRICE) Cognitive Aging & Memory (CAM) | Brain Aging; Behavior; Cognition; Neuroimaging; Pain; Perception |
Erica A. Dale![]() | Neuroscience | Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) | Neurodegenerative disease; Movement Disorders; Neuromuscular Disorders; Physiology; Neurorehabilitation |
Paul W. Davenport | Physiological Sciences | Neural Injury; Neuromuscular Disorders;Physiology; Neurorehabiilitation | |
Steven T. DeKosky![]() | Neurology/MBI | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Memory; Brain Aging |
Loic Deleyrolle![]() | Neurosurgery | Neuro-oncology | |
Darragh P. Devine![]() | Psychology | Psychiatric Disorders; Cognition; Behavior; Neuropharmacology; Neural Development |
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Astra Dinculescu | Ophthalmology | Sensory Neuroscience | |
Mingzhou Ding | Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Brain Aging; Cognition; Pain; Parkinson's Disease; Neuroimaging |
Sylvain Doré | Anesthesiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) | Alzheimer's Disease; Brain Aging; Cognition; Gene Therapy; Memory; Stroke; Neural Injury |
Daniel J. Driscoll | Peds Genetics | Neurogenetics | |
Matthew Farrer | Neurology | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) Norman Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Cognition; Epilepsy; Neurodegenerative disease; Neurogenetics; Movement disorders; Parkinson's Disease |
Marcelo Febo | Psychiatry | Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Neurodegenerative Disease; Neuroimaging; Neuropharmacology; Neural Injury |
Catherine Flores![]() | Neurosurgery | Neuro-oncology | |
Thomas C. Foster | Neuroscience and Genetics and Genomics Program | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Behavior; Cognition Brain Aging; Gene Therapy; Memory; Neurogenetics; Neuroplasticity |
Charles J. Frazier | Pharmacodynamics (College of Pharmacy) | Neurophysiology; Brain Aging; Substance Use Disorders and Addiction | |
Benoit Giasson![]() | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) Normal Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease | Alzheimer's Disease; Movement Disorders; Parkinson's disease; |
Todd E. Golde | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) | Alzheimer's Disease; Brain Aging; Cognition; Gene Therapy; Neurodegenerative disease; Pain; Stress |
Aysegul Gunduz | J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering | Norman Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease | Behavior; Cognition; computational neuroscience; neurophysiology |
Jeffrey K. Harrison | Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Neuro-oncology | |
Linda F. Hayward | Physiological Sciences | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction, Stress, Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology, Physiology, Microbiome | |
Marieta B. Heaton![]() | Neuroscience | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; | |
Christopher Hess | Neurology | Deep Brain Stimulation; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Movement Disorders; Parkinson's Disease |
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Russell Hepple![]() | Physical Therapy | Myology Institute | Neurodegenerative Disease Neuromuscular Disorders Physiology |
Jacqueline A. Hobbs | Psychiatry | Psychiatric Disorders | |
Brad E. Hoffman | Pediatrics | Gene Therapy | |
Brian L. Hoh | Neurosurgery | Stroke, Neuro-oncology | |
Daniel J. Hoh | Neurosurgery | Injury, Neuro-oncology, Neurorehablitation | |
Michael Jaffee | Neurology | Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) Norman Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease | Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Neurodegenerative Disease; Neuropharmacology; Neurorehabilitation; Neural Injury |
Christopher G. Janus | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) | Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Memory |
Sara Jo Nixon | Psychiatry | Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) | Substance Use Disorders & Addiction; Behavior Cognition; Brain Aging; Physiology; Neuropsychology; Neuroimaging |
Richard Johnson | Physiological Sciences | Neurophysiology, physiology, sensory neuroscience, injury | |
Jack W. Judy![]() | Electrical/Computer Engineering | Computational neuroscience | |
Peter B. Kang | Pediatric Neurology | Neuromuscular Disorders | |
Maureen Keller-Wood | Dean's Office | Physiology, stress | |
Habibeh Khoshbouei | Neuroscience | Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Behavior; Cognition; Brain Aging; Neurophysiology |
Eric Krause![]() | Pharmacodynamics | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Psychiatric Diseases; Physiology; Neuropharmacology; Stress; Psychiatric Disorders; Psychology |
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Ashok Kumar | Neuroscience | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Behavior; Cognition; Brain Aging; Cognition; Neuroplasticity; Memory; Neurophysiology |
Damon G. Lamb | Psychiatry | Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders (COARD) Cognitive Aging and Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Cognition; Brain Aging; Neurorehabilitation; Psychiatric Disorders; Computational Neuroscience |
Matthew J. Lavoie | Neurology | Center Of Translational Research In Neurodegenerative Disease | Brain Aging; Neurodegenerative Disease; Parkinson’s Disease |
Yona R. Levites | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) | Gene Therapy; Neurodegenerative disease; Neurogenetics; Movement Disorders |
Ben Lewis | Psychiatry | Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Behavior; Cognition;Brain Aging; Neurorehabilitation; Computational neuroscience; Neurophysiology; Neuropsychology; Perception |
Jada Lewis![]() | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND); Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM); Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) | Alzheimer's Disease; Lysosomal Disorders |
Mark H. Lewis | Psychiatry | Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders (COARD) | Behavior; Cognition; Psychiatric disorders |
Yuqing Li | Neurology | Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Brain Aging; Neurorehabilitation Psychiatric Disorders |
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Paul J. Linser![]() | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Whitney lab | Aging; sensory neuroscience |
Joanna R. Long![]() | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Brain aging; Neurophysiology; Neuroimaging | |
Gustavo Maegawa![]() | Pediatrics | Lysosomal Disorders, Neurogenetics, Neurodevelopment, Neurodegeneration | |
Ron J. Mandel | Neuroscience | Gene Therapy; Parkinson's disease; Psychiatric Disease | |
Thomas H. Mareci![]() | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Alzheimer's disease; cognition;Epilepsy; Neurodegenerative disease; Movement Disorders; Parkinson's Disease; Neural Injury; Neuroimaging |
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Christopher J. Martyniuk | Physiological Sciences | Neurodegeneration, microbiome, neurotoxicity | |
Anatoly E. Martynyuk | Anesthesiology | Psychiatric Disorders; Neural Development | |
Carol Mathews | Psychiatry | Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders (COARD) | Psychiatric Disorders Behavior; Cognition; Neurogenetics |
Andrew P. Maurer | Neuroscience | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) | Substance Use Disorders & Addiction; Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Psychiatric Diseases; Neurophysiology; Computational Neuroscience; Brain Aging |
Nikolaus McFarland | Neurology | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) Norman Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease | Neurodegenerative disease; Movement Disorders |
Jeremy C. McIntyre![]() | Neuroscience | Center for Smell & Taste Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Sensory Neuroscience; Perception; Gene Therapy; Neurogenetics; Neurophysiology; Neural Development |
Aaron Mickle![]() | Physiological Sciences | Neurophysiology; Sensory Neuroscience; Pain; Neural Injury |
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Duane A. Mitchell | Neurosurgery | Gene Therapy; Neuro-oncology; Neural Injury |
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Gordon S. Mitchell![]() | Physical Therapy | Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Brain Aging; Neurorehabilitation; Neuromuscular Disorders; Neuroplasticity; Neurophysiology; Neural Injury |
Leonid L. Moroz | Neuroscience | Neuroplasticity; Cognition; Memory Neurogenetics; Neurophysiology |
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Steven D. Munger![]() | Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Center for Smell & Taste | Sensory Neuroscience; Perception |
John K. Neubert | Orthodontics | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Pain | |
Harry S. Nick | Neuroscience | Alzheimer's Disease; Cognition; Neurogenetics; Stroke |
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Michael S. Okun | Neurology | Norman Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease | Behavior; Cognition; Neurophysiology; Movement Disorders; Parkinson's Disease |
Kevin Otto![]() | Biomedical Engineering | Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) Norman Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease | Behavior; Cognition; Computational neuroscience; Neurophysiology; Neural Injury |
Karim Oweiss![]() | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) | Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Neurophysiology; Memory; Neurogenetics; Movement Disorders; Neuromuscular Disorders; Parkinson's Disease; Perception; Sensory Neuroscience; Pain; Neural Injury |
Nancy Padilla-Coreano![]() | Neuroscience | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center Center for Taste and Smell | Behavior; Computational; Neuroscience; Memory; Neurophysiology |
Roger L. Papke | Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) | Substance Use Disorders & Addiction; Alzheimer's Disease; Neurophysiology; Neuropsychopharmacology; Pain |
Stefan Prokop![]() | Pathology | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Diisease (CTRND) | Alzheimer's Disease; Cognition; Neurodegenerative disease; Movement Disorders; Neuromuscular Disorders; Neuro-oncology; Parkinson's Disease |
Maryam Rahman | Neurosurgery | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) | Neuro-oncology; Brain cancer |
Laura P. Ranum![]() | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Neurogenetics; Movement Disorders | |
Brent A. Reynolds![]() | Neurosurgery | Neuro-oncology; | |
Leah R. Reznikov![]() | Physiological Sciences | Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation (CRRR) | Neural Injury; Neuromuscular Disorders; Neurophysiology Psychiatric Diseases |
Diego E. Rincon-Limas | Neurology | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) | Alzheimer's Disease; Neurodegenerative disease; Neurogenetics |
Steven N. Roper | Neurosurgery | Epilepsy, Neuro-oncology | |
Matt R. Sarkisian![]() | Neuroscience | Brain Aging; Neural Development; Neurogenetics; Neuro-oncology |
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Elias J. Sayour | Neurosurgery | Neuro-oncology; | |
Susan Semple-Rowland | Neuroscience | Gene Therapy; Neurodegenerative Disease; Perception; Sensory Neuroscience; Neural Development |
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Barry Setlow | Psychiatry | Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Behavior; Cognition; Memory; Neuropsychopharmacology; Psychiatric Disease |
Alex A. Sheremet![]() | Civil & Coastal Engineering | Computational neuroscience | |
W. Clay Smith | Ophthalmology | Sensory Neuroscience; Gene Therapy | |
Wolfgang J. Streit | Neuroscience | Alzheimer's Disease; Neurodegenerative disease | |
Maurice S. Swanson![]() | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Center for NeuroGenetics (CNG) | Cognition; Gene Therapy; Neurodegenerative disease; Neurogenetics; Movement Disorders; Neuromuscular Disorders |
Malú Gámez Tansey![]() | Neuroscience | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Diisease (CTRND) Norman Fixel Institute of Neurological Disease Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Psychiatric Diseases; Memory; Cognition; Neurodegenerative disease; Parkinson's Disease Microbiome; lysosome disorders |
David D. Tran![]() | Neurosurgery | Gene Therapy; Neuro-oncology | |
Thomas W. Vickroy | Physiological Sciences | Neuropharmacology; Physiology | |
Eric Vitriol![]() | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Center for Translational Research and Neurodegenerative Diisease (CTRND) | Neurodegenerative disease; Neuromuscular Disorders |
Aparna A. Wagle Shukla | Neurology | Parkinson's disease; neural injury; Psychiatric Disorders | |
Kevin K. Wang | Emergency Medicine / Psychiatry / Neuroscience / Chemistry | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Alzheimer's Disease; Neurorehabilitation; Neurodegenerative disease; Stress; Neural Injury; |
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Brandon Warren | Pharmacodynamics | Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE) | Substance Use Disorders and Addiction; Psychiatric Disease; Behavior; Cognition Neuropsychopharmacology; Stress |
John B. Williamson | Psychiatry | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM); Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders (COARD) | Alzheimer's Disease; Psychiatric Disease; Behavior; Cognition; Brain Aging; Neurorehabilitation |
Charles E. Wood | Physiology Functional Genomics | Microbiome; Stress | |
Adam J. Woods | Clinical & Health Psychology | Cognitive Aging & Memory Center (CAM) | Alzheimer's Disease; Behavior; Brain Aging; Cognition; Memory; Neurodegenerative disease; Neurophysiology; Neuropsychology; Neurorehabilitation; Pain; Perception; Neural Injury |
James Wymer | Neurology | Neuromuscular disorders; Epilepsy; Neurodegeneration | |
Roberto T. Zori | Pediatric Genetics | Cognition, Behavior, Neurogenetics |