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This includes microenvironmental influences on neural precursor cell fate choice in normal neurodevelopment and in disease states."},{"lastName":"McConnell","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5928&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Susan K. McConnell","firstName":"Susan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Susan_McConnell","researchInterest":"The McConnell Lab studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the development of the mammalian cerebral cortex.  Our work focuses on the earliest events that pattern the developing forebrain, enable neural progenitors to divide asymmetrically to generate young neurons, propel the migration of postmitotic neurons outward into their final positions, and sculpt the fates and phenotypes of the neurons as they differentiate."},{"lastName":"Leone-Haditsch","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23617&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ursula Haditsch","firstName":"Ursula","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ursula_Leone-Haditsch","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Barres","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4239&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ben Barres","firstName":"Ben","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ben_Barres","researchInterest":"Our lab is interested in the neuronal-glial interactions that underlie the development and function of the mammlian central nervous system."},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Longo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"Alzheimer's Disease"},{"focus":"Huntington Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7249&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frank M. 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Ongoing projects are focused on understanding how inflammatory responses are regulated after a stroke and how to make recovery faster and better after stroke."},{"lastName":"Webb","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9984&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ashley Webb","firstName":"Ashley","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ashley_Webb","researchInterest":"Stem cell function requires both the establishment and maintenance of particular epigenetic states. Perturbation of the epigenetic status of stem cells may compromise both self-renewal and multipotency. Work from our lab has identified the Forkhead family transcription factor, FoxO3, as a regulator of adult neural stem cell (NSCs) quiescence, which prevents the depletion of this population of cells. Along with recent evidence that Forkhead family members act as \u0091pioneer factors\u0092 in the opening "},{"lastName":"Moayeri","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology Clinical"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36934&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Morvarid Moayeri","firstName":"Morvarid","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Morvarid_Moayeri","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato J. Giaccia","firstName":"Amato","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Amato_Giaccia","researchInterest":"During the last five years, we have identified several small molecules that kill VHL deficient renal cancer cells through a synthetic lethal screening approach. Another major interest of my laboratory is in identifying hypoxia-induced genes involved in invasion and metastases. We are also investigating how hypoxia regulates gene expression epigenetically."},{"lastName":"Brett","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18662&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jamie Brett","firstName":"Jamie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jamie_Brett","researchInterest":"Aging, stem cells, DNA methylation"},{"lastName":"Okada","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8191&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ami Okada","firstName":"Ami","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ami_Okada","researchInterest":"Our interests are to understand the mechanism and control of signals that regulate proliferation and differentiation in adult tissue.  We are currently focused on studying modulation of the Hedgehog pathway in brain and muscle stem cell compartments during normal homeostasis and in degeneration or disease."},{"lastName":"Wyss-Coray","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3929&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tony Wyss-Coray","firstName":"Tony","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tony_Wyss-Coray","researchInterest":"Use of genetic and molecular tools to dissect immune and inflammatory pathways in Alzheimer's and neurodegeneration."},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20866&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lulu Chen","firstName":"Lulu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lulu_Chen","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Bennett","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17964&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mariko Bennett","firstName":"Mariko","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mariko_Bennett","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Garner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3890&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Craig C. 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I aim to study the process leading to functional and behavioral malfunction in these disorders, focusing on a set of target genes/proteins."},{"lastName":"Lee","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20850&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Won Hee Lee","firstName":"Won Hee","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Won Hee_Lee","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20934&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lu Chen","firstName":"Lu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lu_Chen","researchInterest":"What distinguishes us humans from other animals is our ability to undergo complex behavior. The synapses are the structural connection between neurons that mediates the communication between neurons, which underlies our various cognitive function. My research program aims to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation."},{"lastName":"Ding","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=32293&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jun Ding","firstName":"Jun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jun_Ding","researchInterest":"Neural circuits of movement control in health and movement disorders"}]}