
Kari Allen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-747-6572
- Email: kari.allen@wustl.edu
Evolution of the primate brain

Martha Bagnall, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-9695
- Email: bagnall@wustl.edu
Spinal and brainstem circuits for movement

Amy Bauernfeind, PhD
Associate Professor of Anatomy in Neuroscience, Vice Chair of Education
- Phone: 314-747-6566
- Email: amybauernfeind@wustl.edu
Primate neuroanatomical and molecular variation

Peter Bayguinov, PhD
Assistant Director, Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology & Physiology
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: peterbayguinov@wustl.edu
Optical microscopy in basic and translational neuroscience (WUCCI)

Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-4068
- Email: burkhala@wustl.edu
Anatomical, physiological and optogenetic study of the visual cortex

Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Professor of Biomedical Research
- Phone: 314-362-3540
- Email: cavalli@wustl.edu
Neural repair mechanisms

Yao Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-273-7739
- Email: yaochen@wustl.edu
Neuromodulation, sleep and learning

Krikor Dikranian, MD, PhD
Professor of Anatomy in Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-3548
- Email: dikranik@wustl.edu
Neurodegeneration in the Central Nervous System

Tom Franken, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: ftom@wustl.edu
Neuronal mechanisms of perception


Matt Gaidica, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Director of the Neurotech Hub
- Email: gaidica@wustl.edu
Engineer-scientist interested in innovative tools and extreme environments

Geoffrey Goodhill, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience & Professor of Developmental Biology
- Email: g.goodhill@wustl.edu


Naoki Hiratani, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: hiratani@wustl.edu
Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI

Timothy Holy, PhD
Alan A. & Edith L. Wolff Professor of Neuroscience, Vice Chair of Research
- Phone: 314-362-0086
- Email: holy@wustl.edu
Olfactory circuits, technology, computation

Cheng Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: huang.cheng@wustl.edu
Neural mechanisms of learning and memory

Adam Kepecs, PhD
Robert J. Terry Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry, and BJC Investigator
- Phone: 314-273-8523
- Email: akepecs@wustl.edu
Exploring the brain’s computational and neural circuit mechanisms that drive cognition, decisions, and emotions to advance psychiatry and artificial intelligence

Tristan Qingyun Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience & Assistant Professor of Genetics
- Phone: 314-273-1422
- Email: qingyunli@wustl.edu
Neuroimmunology and microglial biology

Ilya Monosov, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-3740
- Email: monosovi@wustl.edu
Neuronal basis of voluntary behavior

Ashley Morhardt, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-273-1859
- Email: amorhardt@wustl.edu

Michael Nonet, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-747-1176
- Email: mnonetwu@gmail.com

Karen O’Malley, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-747-7087
- Email: omalleyk@wustl.edu
Intracellular GPCR signaling

Hysell Oviedo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: hysell@wustl.edu
Vocalization processing, auditory cortex, neural circuits, mouse models of communication disorders


Thomas Papouin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-273-7738
- Email: thomas.papouin@wustl.edu

Kristen Prufrock, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Neuroscience
- Email: kristenp@wustl.edu
Chewing system evolution, development, and plasticity

Linda J. Richards AO, FAA, FAHMS, PhD
Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Edison Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-3033
- Email: Linda.Richards@wustl.edu
Development, plasticity and function of the cerebral cortex

Lawrence Salkoff, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-3644
- Email: salkoffl@wustl.edu
Ion channel biology

Paul Shaw, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-2703
- Email: shawp@wustl.edu
Sleep and plasticity

Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-747-3530
- Email: lsnyder@wustl.edu
Small circuits underlying behavior

Paul H. Taghert, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-3641
- Email: taghertp@wustl.edu
Circadian neural circuits

Gaia Tavoni, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: gaia.tavoni@wustl.edu
Theoretical and computational neuroscience

David Van Essen, PhD
Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-7044
- Email: vanessen@wustl.edu
