Faculty

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Charly Abi Ghanem

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Sex differences
  • White matter damage
  • Oligodendrocytes
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Dementia
  • Myelin
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Meaghan Altman

Instructor

Psychology
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Jared Bagley

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Behavioral pharmacology
  • Addiction neurogenetics
  • Genomics and transcriptomics
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Research Interests

  • Muscular dystrophy
  • disease pathogenesis and therapeutics
  • Dystroglycan
  • glycosylation
  • the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
  • Skeletal muscle
  • heart
  • and brain function
  • Mouse genetic models
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Christopher Bishop

Professor/Director of Undergraduate Integrative Neuroscience Program

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Drug Development
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Tracy Brooks

Chair and Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Oncology
  • Anti-cancer therapeutics
  • Drug target development
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Nicole Cameron

Associate Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Effects of early life stressors
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Mammalian physiology
  • Evolution and behavior
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Abbie Chapman

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia
  • Neurovascular function in the hippocampus
  • Chronic hypertension and cerebral ischemic stroke
  • Healthy aging and age-related dementias
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Anne Clark

Associate Professor Emeritus

Biological Sciences

Research Interests

  • Evolution
  • Ecology of behavior
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Stefania Conte

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Functional and structural brain development
  • Face processing
  • Attention
  • Typical and atypical developmental trajectories
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Tony Davis

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Natural products biosynthesis
  • Infectious diseases
  • Targeted protein degradation
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Chemical biology
  • Synthetic and medicinal chemistry
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Terrence Deak

Professor

Psychology

Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School

Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost

Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School

Graduate School

Research Interests

  • Stress responsive systems
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Neural-immune interactions
  • Alcohol
  • Developmental neurobiology and brain aging
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Marvin Diaz

Professor and Behavioral Neuroscience Area Head

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Neurodevelopment
  • Prenatal drug exposure
  • Substance use disorder
  • Neural circuits
  • Sex as a biological variable
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Patricia DiLorenzo

Professor Emeritus

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Neural code for taste in the brainstem of lean and obese rats
  • temporal coding of sensation
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Michael Dulas

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Cognitive neuroscience of memory and aging
  • PFC and hippocampal interactions
  • Impact of aging and/or brain injury on relational memory
  • Role of eye movements in memory and its usage
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Peter Gerhardstein

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Visual perception and memory and the development of abilities in these areas
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Brandon Gibb

Distinguished Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • The development and expression of information-processing biases that increase the risk for depression in infants, children, adolescents and adults
  • Understanding the risk for depression and related outcomes (e.g., suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury) across multiple units of analysis
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    William Hayes

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Judgment and decision-making
    • Context effects
    • Computational modeling
    • Eye tracking
    • Hierarchical Bayesian models
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    Kathleen Horwath

    Undergraduate Director

    Biological Sciences

    Research Interests

    • Comparative and environmental biochemistry
    • Molecular cell biology
    • Development and physiology of insects
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    J. David Jentsch

    Distinguished Professor and Chair

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Behavior genetics
    • Drug addiction and alcoholism
    • Impulsivity
    • Incentive motivation
    • Reinforcement and reward
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    Anushree Karkhanis

    Associate Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Adolescent stress and drug exposure
    • Drug abuse vulnerability
    • Kappa opioid receptors
    • Dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin
    • Alcohol use disorder
    • Cocaine addiction
    • Opiate abuse
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    Deborah Kreiss

    Neuroscience, Research Assistant Professor

    First-year Research Immersion Program

    Research Interests

    • Biological basis of pathology and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
    • Evaluation of animal models of anxiety and depressive disorders
    • Physiological mechanisms mediating the therapeutic effects of psychoactive agents
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    Mark Lenzenweger

    Distinguished Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Schizophrenia and schizotypy
    • Severe personality disorders
    • Personality neuroscience
    • Quantitative/statistical methods
    • Longitudinal research methodology
    • Operational psychology and selection
    • Insider risk detection
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    Sung-Joo Lim

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Auditory cognitive neuroscience
    • Human speech perception and communication
    • Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
    • Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG
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    Vipul Lugade, PhD

    Associate Professor and Director of the MARL

    Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

    Research Interests

    • Gait balance control in older adults at risk of falling
    • Development of remote activity monitoring tools
    • Return-to-play decision making in adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury
    • Dual-task motor and cognitive evaluations
    • Personalized single- and dual-task intervention in adolescents with concussion and older adults with balance impairment
    • Optimal methods for disseminating health information to patients and clinicians
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    Research Interests

    • Behavioral neurogenetics - taste and feeding, learning and memory
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    Gabriela Manzano Nieves

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology
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    Nadine Mastroleo

    Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • behavioral interventions
    • brief motivational interventions
    • substance abuse
    • college student drinking
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    Ian McDonough

    Associate Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Episodic Memory
    • Aging
    • Structural and Functional Neuroimaging
    • Biomarkers of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
    • Health Disparities
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    Research Interests

    • Therapeutic delivery (drug/gene/antigen/macromolecule)
    • Molecular pharmaceutics and Pharmacoengineering
    • Tumor immune microenvironment
    • Lipid nanoparticles, liposomes and lipid drug conjugates
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    Carol Miles

    Associate Professor

    Biological Sciences

    Research Interests

    • Neurobiology
    • Development and behavior of insects
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    Ralph Miller

    Bartle Distinguished Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Elementary information processing (animals/humans)
    • Memory and forgetting
    • Role of temporal relationships between events in elementary learning
    • Pavlovian conditioning
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    Melissa Morales

    Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

    School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Research Interests

    • • Neuromuscular diseases
      • Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
      • Preclinical drug testing
      • Non-immune contributors to disease

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    Laura Musselman

    Associate Professor

    Biological Sciences

    Research Interests

    • Systems physiology of obesity
    • Lipid and sugar metabolism
    • Interactions between the diet and genotype
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    Kanneboyina Nagaraju

    Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor

    School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Research Interests

    • Immunology
    • Neuromuscular diseases
    • Autoimmune diseases
    • Drug development
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    Siyuan Rao

    Assistant Professor

    Biomedical Engineering

    Research Interests

    • Soft material-based bioelectronics
    • Non-invasive neuromodulation
    • Gene delivery for the nervous system
    • Neurotechnologies
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    Lisa Savage

    Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Disorders of Memory
    • Neurodegeneration
    • Neuroplasticity and Neurotrophins
    • Neurobiology of Reward
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    Adam Session

    Assistant Professor

    Biological Sciences

    Research Interests

    • Genomics
    • Evolution
    • Transposons
    • Polyploids
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    Sarah Solomon

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Semantic plasticity
    • Category learning and concept use
    • Structure learning and representation
    • Semantic generalization
    • Neural mechanisms underlying flexible
      semantic cognition in humans
    • Neuroimaging (fMRI)
    • Computational modeling
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    Steven Tammariello

    Associate Chair; Associate Professor

    Biological Sciences

    Research Interests

    • Equine performance genomics
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    Cyma Van Petten

    Professor

    Psychology

    Professor

    The Linguistics Program

    Research Interests

    • Language processing focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification
    • Memory with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex
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    Lena Varlinskaya

    Research Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Alcohol
    • Social Interactions
    • Stress
    • Anxiety
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    Florence Varodayan

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Alcohol use disorder
    • Stress
    • Cognitive function
    • Synaptic transmission
    • Neuroimmune signaling
    • Sex differences
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    David Werner

    Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    Alcohol and anesthetic action,addiction,neuroplasticity,neuropharmacology,molecular genetics
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    Emily Zale

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Health psychology and behavioral medicine
    • Biopsychosocial model of health and illness
    • Substance use (e.g., nicotine/tobacco; alcohol) and addictions
    • Pain (e.g., clinical assessment; laboratory human experimental models)
    • Mechanisms and effects of co-occurring substance use and medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain)
    • Psychopathology and transdiagnostic constructs
    • Translational research and intervention development
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    Adjunct Faculty

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    Joshua Peck

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Psychology

    Emeritus Faculty

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    Norman Spear

    Distinguished Professor Emeritus

    Psychology
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    David Sloan Wilson

    Professor Emeritus

    Biological Sciences