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DNRM Faculty

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Xin-Yun Lu, MD, PhD

  • Professor and Chair
  • Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar

xylu@augusta.edu

Stress, neural plasticity, epigenetics, Alzheimer's disease.

LAB WEBSITE| Faculty Profile 

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David Blake, PhD

  • Professor

dblake@augusta.edu

Sensory systems, plasticity, age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.

LAB WEBSITE| Faculty Profile

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Ferenc Deak, MD, PhD

  • Associate Professor

fdeak@augusta.edu

Alzheimer's disease, memory, Epileptic encephalopathies.

Lab Website|Faculty Profile

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Quansheng Du, PhD

  • Associate Professor

qdu@augusta.edu

Cell polarity, genome organization, stem cells

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Ali Eroglu, DVM, PhD

  • Professor

aeroglu@augusta.edu

Stem cell aging, tissue preservation, regenerative medicine.

Lab Website|Faculty Profile

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Sadanand Fulzele, PhD

  • Associate Professor

sfulzele@augusta.edu

Aging, stem cells, gut microbiome, bone metabolism

Lab Website   Faculty Profile

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Lin Gan, PhD

  • Professor
  • Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar

ligan@augusta.edu

Neuronal differentiation, circuitry formation, neurodevelopment, sensory loss.

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Evan Goldstein, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

egoldstein@augusta.edu

Developmental brain injury, Myelin, Epigenetics

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Jay Hegde, PhD

  • Professor

jhegde@augusta.edu

Computational neuroscience, multisensory perception and learning.

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Carlos Isales, MD

  • Regents' Professor
  • Harold Harrison Distinguished University Chair
  • Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

cisales@augusta.edu

Epigenetics of aging, stem cells, bone metabolism.

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Chung Sub Kim, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

ckim5@augusta.edu

Somatic and dendritic pathology, Nonsynaptic and synaptic plasticity, Psychiatric disorders

Lab Website|Faculty Profile

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Sergei Kirov, PhD

  • Professor

skirov@augusta.edu

Neural circuit dysfunction, mitochondrial dynamics, brain injury.

 LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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David Kozlowski, PhD

  • Professor

dkozlowski@augusta.edu

Zebrafish, neurodevelopment, regeneration, mechanosensory hair cell, GnRH neuron.

Faculty Profile

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Lawrence Layman, MD

  • Professor

lalayman@augusta.edu

Reproductive system, neuroendocrinology, GnRH neurons, genetics.

Faculty Profile

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Yun Lei, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

ylei@augusta.edu

Cellular metabolism and stress response

Lab Website | Faculty Profile

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Hedong Li, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program

hedli@augusta.edu

Spinal cord injury, Neuronal reprogramming, Glial development, Neural stem cells

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Lynnette McCluskey, PhD

  • Professor

lmccluskey@augusta.edu

Taste, neuroimmunology, neural degeneration, neural regeneration.

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Danielle Mor, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

dmor@augusta.edu

Parkinson’s disease, neurodegeneration, aging, microbiome in disease

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Tracy-Ann Read, PhD

  • Associate Professor

tread@augusta.edu

Brain cancer and amytrophic lateral sclerosis

Faculty Profile

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Shalini Saggu, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

ssaggu@augusta.edu

Synaptic Signaling in Neurodegenerative disorders.

Faculty Profile

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Dong-oh Seo, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

DSEO@augusta.edu

Alzheimer’s disease, neuropsychiatric disease, and gut microbiome.

Lab Website|Faculty Profile

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Xing-Ming Shi, PhD

  • Professor

xshi@augusta.edu

Adipocyte differentiation, aging,  inflammation, bone metabolism.

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Hongyan (Nathan) Xu, PhD

  • Professor

706-721-4697

hxu@augusta.edu

Statistical Genetics nd Genetic Epidemiology; High-throughput Data Analysis; Computational genomics; Bioinformatics and Biostatistics; Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics.

Faculty Profile

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Alexis M. Stranahan, PhD

  • Professor
  • Director, DNRM Light Sheet Facility

astranahan@augusta.edu

Cognitive dysfunction, neural circuits and plasticity, obesity.

Lab Website|Faculty Profile

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Stephen Tymanskyj, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

stymanskyj@augusta.edu

Cytoskeleton Regulation, live cell imaging. 

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Eric Vitriol, PhD

  • Associate Professor

evitriol@augusta.edu

Actin cytoskeleton, super-resolution microscopy, neurodegenerative disease.

Lab Website|Faculty Profile

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Qin Wang, MD, PhD

  • Professor
  • Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar

qiwang@augusta.edu

 

Lab Website  Faculty Profile

UGA Medical Partnership Faculty

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Deborah A. Barany, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • UGA Health Sciences Campus

dbarany@uga.edu

Goal-directed movement, functional neuroimaging

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

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Kimberlee P. Giffen, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • UGA Health Sciences Campus

kgiffen@uga.edu

inner ear regeneration, metacognition and learning, and pedagogy in medical education

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

 

MCG- GS Savannah Partnership Faculty 

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Andon Placzek, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • MCG GS Savannah Partnership

aplaczek@augusta.edu

LAB WEBSITE|Faculty Profile

 

 

 

 

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