Faculty

Faculty members

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


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

Autumn S. Ivy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatrics

Beth A. Lopour, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

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