Neurosciences Faculty
All of our faculty members have active research programs and are involved in graduate student training. Feel free to contact any of our Neuroscience Program faculty listed below by clicking on the link to their email address.
| Name | Phone | Specialty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jianxin Bao | jbao@neomed.edu | 330-325-6445 | Ph.D., University of Florida. Aging, Auditory Neuroscience, Gene Therapy, Stem Cell Therapy, Presbycusis, Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, Tinnitus. More on Bao |
| James L. Blank | jblank@kent.edu | 330-672-2984 | Ph.D., Indiana University. Neuroendocrine regulation of gonadal function, environmental regulation of seasonal breeding cycles, behavioral endocrinology. More on Blank |
| Heather K. Caldwell | hcaldwel@kent.edu | 330-672-3636 | Ph.D., Georgia State University. Neuropeptide regulation of social behaviors and neuropyschiatric disorders. More on Caldwell |
| Wilson Chung | wchung@kent.edu | 330-672-3641 | Ph.D., University of Amsterdam. Neuroendocrine brain, androgens, fibroblast growth factor signaling. More on Chung |
| Robert Clements | rclement@kent.edu | 330-672-2984 | Ph.D., Kent State University. More on Clements |
| Lique Coolen | jcoolen@kent.edu | 330-672-8975 | Ph.D. University of Nijmegen,Mechanisms by which spinal cord injury affects urogenital and sexual function, neurobiology of addiction and understanding neural circuits that mediate female reproductive function and dysfunction. More on Coolen |
| Christine Crish | ccrish@neomed.edu | 330-325-6598 | Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Glaucoma, neurodegeneration, and bone loss in Alzheimer's disease. More on Crish |
| Samuel Crish | scrish@neomed.edu | 330-325-6680 | Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. Glaucoma, axonal transport, structures and functions. More on Crish |
| Derek Damron | ddamron@kent.edu | 330-672-3370 | Ph.D., Kent State University. Cardiac myocytes, signal transduction, protein kinases, contractility, anesthetic agents, calcium, cardiovascular disease. More on Damron |
| Altaf Darvesh | adarvesh@neomed.edu | 330-325-6658 | Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Development of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory strategies for neoplastic an neurodegenerative diseases, as well as psychiatric disorders. More on Darvesh |
| Sheila Fleming | sfleming1@neomed.edu | 330-325-6568 | Ph.D., Arizona State University. More on Fleming |
| Ernest J. Freeman | efreema2@kent.edu | 330-672-2383 | Ph.D., Kent State University. Mechanisms of neurodegeneration, multiple sclerosis, mitochondrial function, glutamate, GABA and neuronal energy. More on Freeman |
| Alexander V. Galazyuk | agalaz@neomed.edu | 330-325-6640 | Ph.D., A.A. Bogomoletz Inst. Physiol. Neuroscience of hearing, critical role of timing in sound processing. More on Galazyuk |
| Rebecca German | rgerman@neomed.edu | 330-325-6299 | Ph.D. Harvard University. Neurophysiology and biomechanics. Regulation of feeding and pathophysiology of dysphagia. More on German |
| T. Lee Gilman | tgilman@kent.edu | 330-672-2201 | Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University. Influences of diet, stress and genetic variation on emotions, addiction and overall brain & body health. More on Gilman. |
| John D. Johnson | jjohns72@kent.edu | 330-672-3849 | Ph.D., University of Colorado. Neural-immune interactions, brain cytokines, mood, behavior, stress and immunity. More on Johnson |
| Woo-Yang Kim | wkim2@kent.edu | 330-672-7888 | Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo. Brain development, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Autism, intellectual disability, anxiety, depression, Neural stem cell, neuron migration. More on Kim |
| Michael Lehman | mlehma18@kent.edu | 330-672-1855 | Ph.D. University of Michigan, Reproductive neuroendocrine system of the brain in mammals as governed by intricate neural and hormonal communication between the brain, pituitary gland and gonads. More on Lehman |
| Yong Lu | ylu@neomed.edu | 330-325-6656 | Ph.D., Univ. Missouri-Columbia. Neurotransmitter systems, GABA, glutamate, audition. More on Lu |
| William P. Lynch | wonk@neomed.edu | 330-325-6137 | Ph.D., Cornell University. Mechanisms of neurodegeneration, CNS gene therapy, RNA tumor virus pathogenesis, microglia development. More on Lynch |
| Jennifer A. McDonough | jmcdonou@kent.edu | 330-672-2383 | Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. Regenerative medicine, mitochondrial dysfunction and epigenetic mechanisms in multiple sclerosis. More on McDonough |
| Jeffrey Mellott | jmellott@neomed.edu | 330-325-6625 | PhD., University of Texas at Dallas. Age-related changes to inhibitory circuitry in the auditory pathways. More on Mellott |
| Eric M. Mintz | emintz@kent.edu | 330-672-3847 | Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. Behavioral neurobiology, circadian rhythms, feeding, and social behavior, sex differences in biological rhythms. More on Mintz |
| Devin Mueller | dmuell10@kent.edu | 330-672-2934 | Ph.D. Concordia University. Neural mechanisms of learning and memory that underlie drug use and emotional regulation. More on Mueller |
| Bruna Mussoi | bmussoi@kent.edu | 330-672-0251 | Ph.D. University of Iowa. Age-related changes in speech perception, auditory electrophysiology, effects of cognition. More on Mussoi |
| Colleen Novak | cnovak13@kent.edu | 330-672-3613 | Ph.D., Michigan State University. Neural and endocrine mechanisms of thermogenesis in obesity, photic and nonphotic influences on the circadian clock. More on Novak |
| Moses Oyewumi | moyewumi@neomed.edu | 330-325-6669 | Ph.D., University of Kentucky. Drug delivery, nanotechnology, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases. More on Oyewumi |
| Richard Piet | rpiet@kent.edu | 330-672-2765 | Ph.D., University Victor Segalen Bordeaux. Neurophysiological mechanisms involved in regulating the activity of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and their contributions to biological timing and fertility. More on Piet |
| Mary Ann Raghanti | mraghant@kent.edu | 330-672-9354 | Ph.D., Kent State University. Comparative neurobiology, evolution, cognition, behavior. More on Raghanti |
| Angela Ridgel | aridgel@kent.edu | 330-672-7495 | Ph.D., Marshall University. More on Ridgel |
| Merri J. Rosen | mrosen@neomed.edu | 330-325-6516 | Ph.D., Duke University. Neural correlates of auditory perception: effects of hearing loss and experience during development. More on Rosen |
| Brett R. Schofield | bschofie@neomed.edu | 330-325-6655 | Ph.D., Duke University. Functional anatomy of auditory pathways. More on Schofield |
| Matthew Smith | msmith13@neomed.edu | 330-325-6437 | Ph.D., Northeast Ohio Medical University. |
| Sean L. Veney | sveney@kent.edu | 330-672-3325 | Ph.D., University of Virginia. Behavioral neuroendocrinology, sexual differentiation of the brain, syrinx anatomy, neuroethology of birdsong. More on Veney |
| Jeffrey J. Wenstrup | jjw@neomed.edu | 330-325-6630 | Ph.D., Indiana University. Neural mechanisms of hearing and acoustic communication, including emotional responses to sound. More on Wenstrup |
| Bradley Winters | bwinters@neomed.edu | 330-325-6114 | Ph.D., Washington State University. Cellular neurophysiology of brainstem sound localization circuits that process timing and intensity differences between the two ears. More on Winters |