EpiCenter faculty
Executive Committee
GEOFFREY W.
ABBOTT, PHD
Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Personnel
Vice Dean, Basic Science Research
ROBERT F.
HUNT, PHD
Associate Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Director, UCI Epilepsy Research Center
TALLIE Z.
BARAM, MD, PHD
Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, Physiology & Biophysics
Donald Bren Professor
Danette Shepard Professor of Neurological Sciences
Director, Conte Center @ UCI
CHRISTINE M.
GALL, PHD
Distinguished Professor & Chair, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurobiology & Behavior
LAURA A.
EWELL, PHD
Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
JOHN H.
WEISS, MD, PHD
Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology
UC Irvine Faculty
Geoffrey W. Abbott, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Personnel
Vice Dean, Basic Science Research
Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, Physiology & Biophysics
Donald Bren Professor
Danette Shepard Professor of Neurological Sciences
Director, UCI Conte Center
Kevin Beier, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology & Biophysics
Lulu Y. Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Javier Diaz-Alonson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Laura Ewell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Christine M. Gall, PhD
Distinguished Professor & Chair, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurobiology & Behavior
Jennifer Gelinas, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Child Neurology (CHOC), Anatomy & Neurobiology, Pediatrics
Steve A. N. Goldstein, MD, PhD
Vice Chancellor, Health Affairs
Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Physiology & Biophysics
Naoto Hoshi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
Frank Hsu, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair, Neurological Surgery
Robert F. Hunt, PhD
Associate Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Director, UCI Epilepsy Research Center
Beth A. Lopour, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Dion Khodagholy, PhD
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Gary S. Lynch, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
David C. Lyon, PhD
Professor & Vice Chair, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Steven Mahler, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
Edwin S. Monuki, MD, PhD
Warren L. Bostick Professor and Chair, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Andre Obenaus, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Daniele Piomelli, PhD
Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Biological Chemistry
Oswald Steward, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Director, Reeve-Irvine Research Center
Momoko Watanabe, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
John H. Weiss, MD, PhD
Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology
Marcelo Wood, PhD
Professor & Chair, Neurobiology & Behavior
Xiangmin Xu, PhD
Professor & Chancellor’s Fellow, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Director, Center for Neural Circuit Mapping
Michael Yassa, PhD
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior, Neurology, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Psychological Science
Director, UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Fan-Gang Zeng, PhD
Professor, Otolaryngology, Biomedical Engineering
Jing Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
UC Riverside Faculty
Devin K. Binder, MD, PhD
Professor, UC Riverside
Viji Santhakumar, PhD
Vice Chair & Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, UC Riverside
UCLA Faculty
Peyman Golshani, MD, PhD
John Mazziotta Endowed Chair in Neurology and Professor, Neurology, UCLA