University of Georgia
Regeneration of myelin in the mammalian brain, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating adult neural stem cells, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease
Adverse neurological outcomes; Host-Microbe-Chemical (3-way) interaction; C. elegans model organism.
Basic and translational research to engineer bacteria to understand and develop new treatments for neurological diseases via the gut-brain axis..
Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease.
Cellular to network mechanisms of olfaction and olfactory dysfunction in diseases including Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, traumatic or neurotoxic brain injuries.
Deciphering the mechanisms that regulate the diversity of peripheral glial cells to achieve a better understanding of their role in the context of disease and injury.
Effects of pathological stress on cells of the peripheral nervous system and the adrenal gland. In vitro disease modeling using human pluripotent stem cells.
Neuroendocrinology Reproductive Aging, Stress Axis and Metabolic Function, Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions, Prenatal Programming and its Neuroendocrine Consequences, Neuroendocrine Effects of Exposure to Environmentally Relevant Chemicals
Regeneration and development; understanding cellular/molecular mechanisms that underlie neural regeneration in planarians.
