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craving, regulation of craving, alcohol and substance use disorder, treatments for substance use and eating disorders, neural and psychological mechanisms of treatment, emotion regulation, mindfulness, meditation

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

Robert Thomas Knight

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection

Michael DeWeese

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

machine learning, computation, systems neuroscience, auditory cortex, neural coding, statistical mechanics

Hillel Adesnik

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

David Sedlak standing in pool with sculpture to his right.

David L. Sedlak

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fate and transport of and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, water reuse and water recycling, urban water infrastructure, engineered treatment wetlands

John W. Morris, Jr

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics

Michel Maharbiz

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

neural interfaces, bioMEMS, microsystems, MEMS, microsystems for the life sciences

Lining Yao

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

sustainable design, morphing material mechanisms, ecology, sustainability

Iris Mauss

Dept of Psychology

social psychology, personality psychology, affective science, psychophysiology, individual differences, emotion, emotion regulation, health psychology, happiness, well-being, psychological health

Ehud Isacoff

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

Ion channel function, synaptic plasticity, neural excitability, synaptic transmission, the synapse

Jose M. Carmena

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

brain-machine interfaces, neural ensemble computation, neuroprosthetics, sensorimotor learning and control

Kara L. Nelson

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

wastewater based epidemiology, water and wastewater treatment, water reuse, detection and inactivation of pathogens in water and sludge, appropriate technologies

Megan Martik

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

neural crest gene regulatory network, vertebrate embryonic development, regeneration of tissue

With the Global Health Fellows (I'm the one with the Cal cap)

Stefano M. Bertozzi

School of Public Health

HIV/AIDS, HIV prevention, HIV treatment programs, reproductive health, health economics, anti-poverty programs, impact evaluation

Mark Tanouye

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants

Anne-lise Francois

Dept of English

Dept of French

popular culture, English, comparative literature, the modern period, comparative romanticisms, lyric poetry, the psychological novel, novel of manners; gender, critical theory; literature, philosophy; fashion

Robert G. Bergman

Dept of Chemistry

organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis

Chunlei Liu

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

brain imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, remote neural modulation, biosystems and computational biology, signal processing

Mahasin Mujahid

School of Public Health

Multi-level determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities, neighborhood environments and cardiovascular health, breast cancer treatment and survivorship Methods in social epidemiology, population health

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants

Philip Marcus

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks

Kunxin Luo

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis

Robert S. Zucker

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator

Jay T. Groves

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

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