Systems/Circuit Neuroscience & Synaptic Transmission

Fan-Gang Zeng, PhD

Founded by Fan-Gang Zeng in 2000, the Hearing and Speech (HESP) laboratory at UC Irvine has been conducting basic and […]

Xiangmin Xu, PhD

Our research program focuses on neural circuit mechanisms that underlie sensory perception, learning and memory, and cognition. Using mouse models,

steve mahler

Stephen V. Mahler, PhD

In order to attain a natural reward like food, water, or sex, animals must know what and where rewards are,

David C. Lyon, PhD

Organization and function of the visual system in healthy animal models and models of disease 318 Med Surge IIIrvine, CA,

Gyorgy Glur

Gyorgy Lur, PhD

Neurons in the neocortex are bombarded with thousands of inputs representing different senses, memories of past events or internal goals.

Robert Hunt

Robert Hunt, PhD

My lab focuses on conditions of brain development and injury where a treatment does not yet exist. We are creating

Marcelo Wood

Marcelo Wood, PhD

Long-term memory storage is an essential process to human life. Without long-term memory, we would not be able to remember

Karina Cramer

Karina S. Cramer, PhD

Neural functions rely on highly ordered circuit assembly during development. In the central auditory system, these connections must be very

Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD

Our past experiences influence who we are.  In the Baram lab we focus on early-life events, and especially early-life adversity

Emiliana Borrelli

Emiliana Borrelli, PhD

Our research focuses on the dopaminergic system and in particular on the signaling mediated by one of the dopamine receptor,

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