Affiliated Faculty
This list of affiliated investigators can help you identify potential research mentors at the University of Pittsburgh. PSTP students can, and do, work with mentors not on this list, but the investigators featured below have expressed interest in hosting PSTP students in their laboratories.
The overarching goal of my research is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that underlie oligodendrocyte and myelin mediated support to neuronal cell and neural circuitry integrity in models of neurodegeneration.
Models of muscle disease causing muscular dystrophy and muscle atrophy; Translational research for treatment of muscle disease
My laboratory works on the biochemistry and cell biology of neurodegenerative disease. Our main interest is Alzheimer's disease where our focus is the involvement of DNA damage, inflammation, and myelin.
The Olsen laboratory uses fruit flies, human cells, and mice to develop new therapies for Parkinson’s disease and related disorders.
Neural mechanisms underlying complex sound perception in health and disease.
Understanding the role of ion transporter proteins (sodium-potassium-chloride cotransporter, sodium/proton exchanger, and sodium/calcium exchangers) in ionic dysregulation and neurodegeneration associated with stroke and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
Our research program is dedicated to understanding how the flow of sensory information through brain-wide neural networks gives rise to purposeful behavior in models of health and disease. Using a variety of cutting edge experimental and theoretical systems neuroscience tools to monitor, manipulate, and model the neural circuits of awake, behaving mice, we investigate brain-wide circuits in a number of different behavioral and state-dependent contexts.
We are broadly interested in how oscillatory proteostasis dynamics regulate aging, neurodegeneration, and metabolic diseases.