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Program in Neuroscience Harvard University Program in Neuroscience Faculty Directory 2016—2017 April 1, 2017 Disclaimer Please note that in the following descripons of faculty members, only students from the Program in Neuroscience are listed. You cannot assume that if no students are listed, it is a small or inacve lab. Many faculty members are very acve in other programs such as Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Biology, etc. If you find you are interested in the descripon of a lab’s research, you should contact the faculty member (or go to the lab’s website) to find out how big the lab is, how many graduate students are doing there thesis work there, etc. Program in Neuroscience Faculty Albers, Mark (MGH-East)) Dong, Min (BCH) Lampson, Lois (BWH) Sabatini, Bernardo (HMS/Neurobio) Andermann, Mark (BIDMC) Drugowitsch, Jan (HMS/Neurobio) LaVoie, Matthew (BWH) Sahay, Amar (MGH) Anderson, Matthew (BIDMC) Dulac, Catherine (Harvard/MCB) Lee, Wei-Chung (BCH/Neurobio) Sahin, Mustafa (BCH/Neurobio) Anthony, Todd (BCH/Neurobio) Dymecki, Susan(HMS/Genetics) Lehtinen, Maria (BCH/Pathology) Samuel, Aravi (Harvard/ Physics) Arlotta, Paola (Harvard/SCRB) Engert, Florian (Harvard/MCB) Liberles, Steve (HMS/Cell Biology) Sanes, Joshua (Harvard/MCB) Assad, John (HMS/Neurobio) Engle, Elizabeth(BCH/Neurobio) Lichtman, Jeff (Harvard/MCB) Saper, Clifford (BIDMC) Bacskai, Brian (MGH/East) Eskandar, Emad (MGH) Lipton, Jonathan (BCH/Neurobio) Scammell, Thomas (BIDMC) Bean, Bruce (HMS/Neurobio) Fagiolini, Michela (BCH/Neurobio) Livingstone, Marge (HMS/Neurobio) Scherzer, Clemens (BWH) Benowitz, Larry (BCH/Neurobio) Feany, Mel (HMS/Pathology) Lo, Eng (MGH—East) Schier, Alexander (Harvard/MCB) Berretta, Sabina (McLean) Flanagan, John (HMS/Cell Biology) Loeken, Mary (Joslin Diabetes Center) Schwarz, Tom (BCH/HMS—Neurobio) Bilbo, Staci (MGH—East) Gaab, Nadine (BCH/Pediatrics) Lowell, Brad (BIDMC) Segal, Rosalind (DFCI/HMS—Neurobio) Bolshakov, Vadim (McLean) Gaudet, Rachelle (Harvard/MCB) Lu, Kun Ping (BIDMC) Selkoe, Dennis (BWH) Born, Richard (HMS/Neurobio) Geleoc, Gwenaelle (BCH/Neurobio) Ma, Qiufu (DFCI/HMS/Neurobio) Shah, Khalid (MGH) Breakefield, Xandra (MGH—East) Gershman, Sam (Harvard/Psych) Macklis, Jeffrey (Harvard/SCRB) Shen, Jie (HMS/Neurology) Brown, Emery (MGH) Ginty, David (HMS/Neurobio) Macosko, Evan (Broad Institute) Stevens, Beth (BCH—Neurobio) Buckholtz, Joshua (Harvard/Psych) Goodrich, Lisa (HMS/Neurobio) Majzoub, Joseph (BCH/Pediatrics) Stickgold, Robert (BIDMC) Buckner, Randy (Harvard UPsych) Gray, Jesse (HMS/Genetics) Maratos-Flier, Eleftheria (BIDMC) Strichartz, Gary (BWH) Caine, S. Barak (McLean) Greenberg, Michael (HMS/Neurobio) Masland, Richard (MEEI) Tanzi, Rudolph (MGH—East) Carlezon, William (McLean) Greka, Anna (MGH) McCarroll, Steven (HMS/Genetics) Uchida, Naoshige (Harvard/MCB) Cash, Sydney (MGH) Gu, Chenghua (HMS/Neurobio) Megason, Sean (HMS/Systems Bio) Umemori, Hisashi (BCH—Neurobio) Cepko, Constance (HMS/Genetics) Harvey, Christopher (HMS/Neurobio) Murthy, Venkatesh (Harvard/MCB) Van Vactor, David (HMS/Cell Biology) Chartoff, Elena (McLean) Harwell, Corey (HMS/Neurobio) Nelson, Charles (BCH/Pediatrics)) Wainger, Brian (MGH-East) Chen, Chinfei (BCH/Neurobio) He, Zhigang (BCH—Neurobio) Ölveczky, Bence (Harvard/OEB) Walsh, Christopher (BCH/Neurobio) Chen, Dong Feng (Schepens) Heiman, Maxwell (BCH/Genetics) Paul, David (HMS/Neurobio) Weitz, Charles (HMS—Neurobio) Chen, Zheng-Yi (MEEI) Hensch, Takao (Harvard/MCB) Pecot, Matthew (HMS/Neurobio) Williams, Ziv (MGH) Chiocca, E. Antonio (HIM) Holt, Jeffrey (BCH/Neurobio) Piao, Xianhua (BCH/Pediatrics) Wilson, Rachel (HMS/Neurobio) Chiu, Isaac (HMS/Microbiology) Hyman, Bradley (MGH—East) Pizzagalli, Diego (McLean) Woolf, Clifford (BCH—Neurobio) Cohen, Adam (Harvard/Chemistry) Isaacson, Ole (McLean) Polley, Daniel (MEEI) Yankner, Bruce (HMS/Genetics) Cohen, Jonathan(HMS/Neurobio) Kaeser, Pascal (HMS/Neurobio) Pomeroy, Scott (BCH/Neurology) Yellen, Gary (HMS/Neurobio) Commons, Kathryn (BCH) Kaplan, Joshua (MGH/HMS/Neurobio) Rabkin, Samuel (MGH) Yuan, Junying (HMS/Cell Biology) Corey, David (HMS/Neurobio) Kelleher, Raymond (MGH) Regehr, Wade (HMS/Neurobio) Zhang, Yun (Harvard/OEB) Cox, David (Harvard/MCB) Kim, Kwang-Soo (McLean) Ressler, Kerry (McLean) Crickmore, Mike (BCH/Neurobio) Kohane, Isaac (HMS/Bioinformatics) Rogulja, Dragana (HMS/Neurobio) Czeisler, Charles (BWH) Kreiman, Gabriel (BCH/Neurobio) Rosenberg, Paul (BCH/Neurology) Datta, Bob (HMS/Neurobio) Kunes, Sam (Harvard/MCB) Rudolph, Uwe (McLean) De Bivort, Benjamin (Harvard/OEB) Kunkel, Louis (BCH/Genetics) Do, Michael (BCH—Neurobio) Mark Albers, M.D./Ph.D. Joined 2012 Assistant Professor of Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease 114 16th Street, No. 2003 Charlestown [email protected] The goal of the research in the Albers lab is to elucidate the pathogenic actions and physiological functions of genes implicated in neurodegenerative disease. Our principal hypothesis is that these genes confer vulnerability to neurons by disrupting the integrity of neurons and neural circuits. The questions addressed by these studies intersect with fundamental questions in neuroscience, including how are connections in the nervous system formed, how are these connections modified by experience, and how is the communication across these connections disrupted by disease mechanisms. We address these issues in the peripheral olfactory neural circuit of the mouse and human, a circuit that is evolutionarily conserved. The mouse circuit is genetically tractable, and the human circuit is vulnerable to neurodegenerative disease. We combine novel mouse models that express pathogenic and normal isoforms of the human amyloid precursor protein solely in a subset of olfactory neurons with multiphoton in vivo imaging, fluorescence activated cell sorting, deep sequencing, and other basic techniques of investigation. Examination of these lines has revealed miswiring of the olfactory neural circuit and profound changes in gene expression in neurons not expressing the disease gene, associated with accelerated neuronal turnover in vivo. A second focus of the laboratory is to elucidate the physiological function of these genes by generating and examining cell-specific knockouts of the gene family in specific classes of neurons in this circuit. We believe that some of the insights revealed in these investigations will provide clues to understanding the actions of these disease genes in other vulnerable, plastic circuits in the brain, such as the entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus. PiN thesis students: [none] PiN rotation students: [none] PiN PEC memberships: [none] PiN DAC memberships: [none] PiN defense [none] Mark Andermann, Ph.D. Joined 2012 Assistant Professor of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Center for Life Sciences, room 701 3 Blackfan Circle Boston [email protected] Our laboratory seeks to understand how the needs of the body determine which sensory cues are attended to, learned, and remembered. In particular, we are investigating how natural and experimentally induced states of hunger modulate neural representations of food cues, and the consequences for obesity, binge eating, and other eating disorders. Previous studies support a simple model for hunger-dependent processing of food cues: During states of satiety, food cue information enters sensory neocortex but may not flow to cortical areas involved in selective processing of motivationally salient food cues, such as postrhinal cortex (POR). It has been suggested that during states of hunger, POR may be attentionally ‘primed’ such that food cue information spreads from visual cortex through POR to amygdala and on to lateral hypothalamic neurons involved in food-seeking behavior. We are investigating the mechanisms by which genetically, anatomically and chemically defined classes of cortical neurons facilitate cue-induced feeding in a hunger-dependent manner. Such motivation-specific priming of cortical sensory representations may arise from amygdalar and hypothalamic synaptic inputs to cortex, as well as from local hormonal and neuromodulatory actions on specific cortical neurons. To monitor motivation-related changes in neural activity in the same large populations of neurons across hours, days and weeks, our lab uses two-photon calcium imaging and multi-electrode recordings in behaving mice. The identity of each visualized neuron can be deduced from genetic, anatomical, chemical and immunohistochemical markers. The importance of these cell classes in guiding behavior is then assessed by cell-type and area-specific activation or silencing of neurons using optogenetic and pharmacogenetic approaches. We are also developing tools for imaging activity of cell bodies and axon terminals from identified projection neurons and from deeper brain structures, and to make sense of these high-dimensional datasets within a broader theoretical and computational framework. PiN thesis students: Kelly McGuire; Rohan Ramesh; Nick Jikomes (‘11—’16) PiN rotation students: Michelle Frank; Chong Guo; Stephen Holtz; Minsuk Hyun; Nick Jikomes; Robert Johnson; Angela Kim; Kelly McGuire; Matthias Minderer; Alexandra Moore; Julia Nguyen; Rohan Ramesh; Hugo Vega-Ramirez PiN PEC memberships: Cesar Echavarria; Michelle Frank; Allison Hamilos; Vivian Hemmelder; Stephen Holtz; Lingfeng Hou; Kee Wui Huang; Jay Lee; ES Milner; Nicole Neubarth; Noah Pettit; Tara Raam; Christina Welsh; Stephen Zhang PiN DAC Cesar Echavarria; Allison Hamilos; Stephen
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