Faculty directors
Tallie Z Baram, MD, PhD
Program Co-Director
Robert Hunt, PhD
Program Co-Director
Training faculty in the T32 TPER
Below is a list of participating faculty preceptors in the TPER program, with brief summaries of their research interests and links to their lab webpage or faculty profile.
Ion channels, bioelectricity, drug discovery, herbal medicines
Brain development and maturation, febrile seizures, early-life experiences, stress
Synaptic plasticity, autism, behavioral comorbidities
Temporal lobe epilepsy, memory, place cells, dentate gyrus, hippocampus
Adult synaptic plasticity, memory encoding, synaptic modulators, intellectual disability, autism, sexual dimorphism, endocannabinoids
Network dynamics in autism, epilepsy, calcium imaging, neurotechnologies
Genetic disorders, post-traumatic epilepsy, interneurons, cell and gene therapy
Early-life exercise, epigenetics, learning and memory, developmental disorders
Synaptic plasticity, LTP, learning, episodic memory, network activity, sex differences, endocannabinoids, glutamate receptors, integrins, cognitive impairment; brain aging
Cellular pharmacology, neuropharmacology
Synaptic circuit mechanisms of epilepsy and traumatic brain injury
Spinal cord injury, regeneration, epilepsy, excitotoxicity, neurodegenerative diseases, synapse growth and plasticity, mRNA localization, dendritic transport
Brain organoids, neurodevelopment, autism, epilepsy
Neurodegeneration, cell death, excitotoxicity, epilepsy, glutamate, calcium, zinc, Alzheimer’s, ALS, basal forebrain, motor neurons, free radicals, trophic factors, LTP, synaptic plasticity
Epigenetic mechanisms of memory, addiction and synaptic plasticity
Epigenetics, memory, vision, epilepsy, circuit mapping, tool and technology development
Neuroimaging of memory in epilepsy
External advisors
Karen Wilcox, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah
Jaideep Kapur, MD
Eugene Meyer III Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology & Director of UVA Brain Institute, University of Virginia
Program administration
Administrative support is provide through the UCI Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology.