Please note: Drs. Barrett, Cunningham, Markin, Murphy, Sessler, Shevtsova, Shumsky and Simansky are not accepting graduate students.
Drexel College of Arts and Sciences Faculty
Area of Study: Spinal cord injury
Area of Study: Understanding the mechanisms that govern epigenetic regulation of higher order brain function. Epigenetic-based mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders, and broad insights into HAT (histone acetyltransferase)-based drug design for early therapeutic intervention of cognitive deficits.
Area of Study: Spinal cord and brain injury, cellular neurosciences
Area of Study: Cellular neurosciences; biochemistry; genetics; biology
Drexel School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems Faculty
Research Interests: Sensorimotor integration, whole-cell patch clamp and imaging in behaving animals, optogenetics, neuromechanics, locomotion
Research Interests: Sensorimotor transformations, sensory processing, action selection, neural circuit engineering, neural circuit development