How Psychedelics Could Help Treat Depression with Neuroscience Ph.D. Student Lindsay Cameron

Neuroscience Ph.D. student Lindsay Cameron and other researchers at UC Davis are actively exploring drugs capable of restoring health in the brains of those with mood disorders. Some dark horse candidates are psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin and DMT.

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Meet Stela Petkova, Neuroscience Graduate Student and Grad Slam Finalist

UC Grad Slam is an annual contest in which master’s and Ph.D. students across UC campuses compete to sum up their research for a general audience. Learn more about Grad Slam Stela Petkova, a neuroscience graduate student.

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Discovering Curiosity: Mining the Frontiers of Neuroscience with Wilsaan Joiner

An assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, Wilsaan Joiner explores sensorimotor integration: how sensory inputs, like vision, influence our motor actions and vice versa.

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Exploring Vision, Perception and Behavior: W. Martin Usrey Named Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Endowed Chair in Physiology

The UC Davis College of Biological Sciences named Professor W. Martin Usrey, a neurobiologist interested in the physiology of vision, to the Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Endowed Chair in Physiology.

Awards and Recognition

Brian Wiltgen

• Associate Professor
• Department of Psychology, College of Letters and Science
• Center for Neuroscience

Research Interests: Neurobiological mechanisms of learning and memory

• bjwiltgen@ucdavis.edu
• Lab website
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Wilsaan M. Joiner

• Assistant Professor
• Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
• Department of Neurology, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Sensorimotor integration in visual perception, motor learning, motor adaptation and rehabilitation

• wmjoiner@ucdavis.edu
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1009 Life Science Building

Jennifer Whistler

• Associate Director, Center for Neuroscience; Professor
• Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, School of Medicine
• Center for Neuroscience

Research Interests: Neurobiology of addictive disorders and their comorbidities

• jlwhistler@ucdavis.edu
• Center for Neuroscience faculty profile
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Kassandra Ori-McKenney

• Assistant Professor
• Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: MNB/DYRK1a Kinase | Neuronal Cytoarchitecture | Tubulin Phosphorylation

• kmorimckenney@ucdavis.edu
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Alex Nord

• Assistant Professor
• Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
• Center for Neuroscience
• Genome Center
• Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Genomic control of transcription in the brain

• asnord@ucdavis.edu
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School of Medicine Center for Neuroscience Building, 612B

Michael Rogawski

• Professor
• Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
• Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Neuropharmacology and Neurotherapeutics | Ion Channel Pharmacology

• rogawski@ucdavis.edu
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