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