Department of Neurobiology Secondary Faculty
NAME - TITLE -  INTERESTS - E-MAIL	DEPARTMENT
Franklin R. Amthor, Ph.D., Professor  Neurophysiology of the retina and neural modeling amthorfr@uab.edu	Psychology
Dale J. Benos, Ph.D., , Professor and Chairman  Ion transport benos@uab.edu	Physiology and Biophysics
Etty Benveniste, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman Neuroimmunology tika@uab.edu	Cell Biology
J. Edwin Blalock, Ph.D., Professor Protein folding and interactions; immunotherapy;  Ca+ channels and HIV blalock@uab.edu	Physiology and Biophysics
William J. Britt, M.D., Professor Molecular virology, pathogenesis of CNS virus infections, viral tropism for cells of CNS wbritt@uab.edu	Pediatrics
Steven L. Carroll, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor Growth and Differentiation Factors in  Nervous system regeneration and neoplasia scarroll@uab.edu	Pathology
Ramon F. Dacheux, Ph.D., Professor Physiological & morphological basis for  information processing in the mammalian retina dacheux@uab.edu	Ophthalmology
Peter J. Detloff, Ph.D., Associate Professor Mouse models of human neurological genetic disorders detloff@uab.edu	Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Leon S. Dure, M.D., Professor Inherited neurologic disease, movement disorders dure@uab.edu	Pediatrics/Neurology
Paul Gamlin, Ph.D., Professor & Chairman Neural control of eye movements pgamlin@uab.edu	Physiological Optics
Timothy J. Gawne, Ph.D., Associate Professor To determine how information is encoded and processed in the brain and how it relates to vision tgawne@uab.edu	Physiological Optics
Candece Gladson, M.D., Professor Molecular Mechanisms Promoting Tumor Cell Proliferation, Invasion and Angiogenesis in Gliomas  gladson@uab.edu	Pathology
Gail V. Johnson, Ph.D., Professor Metabolism and function of tau protein gvwj@uab.edu	Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
Kent T. Keyser, Ph.D., Professor Neurotransmitters and receptors ktkeyser@uab.edu	Physiological Optics
Kevin L. Kirk, Ph.D., Professor Ion channel structure and function; cystic fibrosis klkirk@uab.edu	Physiology and Biophysics
Timothy W. Kraft, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor The  physiology and biophysics of  photoreceptors, the retinal cells which convert light energy into electrochemical signals twkraft@uab.edu	Physiological Optics
Michael S. Loop, Ph.D., Associate Professor Visual psychophysics, color vision/vertebrate loop@uab.edu	Physiological Optics
Richard B. Marchase, Ph.D., Professor & Associate Dean, School of Medicine Relationship between glucose metabolism  and cytoplasmic calcium regulation marchase@uab.edu	Cell Biology
Guillermo Marques, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Growth factors in nervous system development and function gmarques@uab.edu	Cell Biology
Lori L. McMahon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Synaptic plasticity mcmahon@uab.edu	Physiology and Biophysics
Anthony Nicholas, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor Monoamines and their receptors, Parkinson's disease, neurodegeneration nicholas@uab.edu	Neurology
Alan K. Percy, M.D., Professor Associate Director UAB CIRC Rett Syndrome; myelination in developing brain;  cocaine and neural development apercy@uab.edu	Pediatrics and Neurology
Kevin A. Roth, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Define the molecular pathways of apoptotic and autophagic neuronal death during brain development karoth@uab.edu	Clinical Pathology
Douglas M. Ruden, Ph.D., Associate Professor Dominant mutations that affect EGF-Rs Signal transduction douglasr@uab.edu	Environmental Health Sciences
J. Michael Wyss, Ph.D., Professor Plasticity in cerebral cortex; neuromodulation  in the hypothalamus jmwyss@uab.edu	Cell Biology
Jianhua Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor  Glutamate receptor activation, signaling, transcription regulation, and mechanisms of neuronal cell death  zhanja@uab.edu	Pathology