Faculty

For an up-to-date list of faculty, please visit the Neuroscience Graduate Program Faculty Page: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/education/graduate-school/programs/neuroscience/program-faculty.html

 

Chair, Graduate Program

Maria Chahrour, Ph.D.

 

Professors

Ilya B. Bezprozvanny, Ph.D., Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992

William Dauer, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

Marc Diamond, M.D., University of California, San Francisco, 1993

Joel Elmquist, D.V.M., Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1992, 1993 

Jane Foster, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1996

Dwight German, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1972

Jay Gibson, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1995 

Carla Green, Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical Center, 1991

Robert Greene, M.D., Ph.D., George Washington University, 1982; M.D., University of Maryland, 1983

Joachim Herz, M.D., Heidelberg University, 1983

Donald W. Hilgemann, Ph.D., University of Tübingen, Germany, 1980

Kimberly M. Huber, Ph.D., UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, 1995

Jane E. Johnson, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1988

Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2004

Helmut J. Krämer, Ph.D., University of Cologne, Germany, 1989

Helen Lai, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, 2005

Yingxi Lin, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000

Weichun Lin, Ph.D., State University of New York, 1996

Berge Minassian, M.D., McGill University, Canada, 1992

Marek Napierala, Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1999

Nader Pouratian, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2001 

José Rizo-Rey, Ph.D., University of Barcelona, Spain, 1988  

Dean P. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah, 1986; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1992

Joseph Takahashi, Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1981

Carol A. Tamminga, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical School, 1971

Jonathan Terman, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1997

Shin Yamazaki, Ph.D., Tamagawa University, 1992

Gang Yu, Ph.D., University of Calgary, 1996

Chun-Li Zhang, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2002

Jeffrey Zigman, M.D., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994

 

Associate Professors

Maria Chahrour, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, 2009 

Peter Douglas, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2009

Takashi Kitamura, Ph.D., Kyushu University, 2002

Bradley Lega, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine, 2006

Chen Liu, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2010

Janine Prange-Kiel, Ph.D., University of Tübingen

Denise Ramirez, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2009

Todd Roberts, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2003

Vikram Shakkottai, M.D., Ph.D., Christian Medical College, 2004; University of California, Irvine, 2004

Peter Tsai, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2005

Yingfei Wang, Ph.D., University of Magdeburg, Germany, 2007

Jeffrey Waugh, M.D., Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2007

Kevin Williams, Ph.D., Tulane University, 2006

Jiang Wu, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2001

 

Assistant Professors

Hume Akahori Stroud, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2013

Rachel Bailey, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2013 

David Busch, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2011 

Seungwon (Sebastian) Choi, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2013

Anila D'Mello, Ph.D, American University, 2017

Bret Evers, M.D., Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical School, 2017

Laurent Gautron, Ph.D., Université de Bordeaux, 2003

Daisuke Hattori, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2009

Nan Li, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2012

Ram Madabhushi, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2010

Jill Napierala, Ph.D., Indiana School of Medicine, 2007

Felix Nitschke, Ph.D., University of Potsdam, Germany, 2013

Evan Noch, M.D., Ph.D., Temple University School of Medicine, 2013

Yuki Obata, Ph.D., Chiba University, Japan, 2015

Brad Pfeiffer, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2008

Allan-Hermann Pool, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Amy Proskovec, Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2019 

Steven Shabel, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, 2008

Lu Sun, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2014

Ruhma Syeda, Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2010

Supraja Varadarajan, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

Lenora Volk, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2007

Katherine Wert, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2013

Wei Xu, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2008

Jun Yamamoto, Ph.D., Keio University, Tokoyo, Japan, 1999

Wenhao Zhang, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016