Gordon Wang

Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Academic Appointments

Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

2023-24 Courses

Cellullar/Molecular Neuroscience Laboratory
NEPR 288 (Aut)

Prior Year Courses

2022-23 Courses

Cellullar/Molecular Neuroscience Laboratory
NEPR 288 (Aut)

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Michelle Thi Cao

Clinical Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
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Home Mechanical Ventilation, Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders, Pulmonary and sleep related breathing disorders in neuromuscular disease, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Critical Care Medicine
Research Interests
Positive Airway Pressure devices for central sleep apnea

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James K. Chen

Jauch Professor and Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, of Developmental Biology and of Chemistry
Research Interests
Our laboratory combines chemistry and developmental biology to investigate the molecular events that regulate embryonic patterning, tissue regeneration, and tumorigenesis. We are currently using genetic and small-molecule approaches to study the molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signaling, and we are developing chemical technologies to perturb and observe the genetic programs that underlie vertebrate development.

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Lu Chen

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests
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.

62 Total Publications
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Luis de Lecea

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical and Translational Neurosciences Incubator)
Research Interests
My lab uses molecular, optogenetic, anatomical and behavioral methods to identify and manipulate the neuronal circuits underlying brain arousal, with particular attention to sleep and wakefulness transitions. We are also interested in the changes that occur in neuronal circuits in conditions of hyperarousal such as stress and drug addiction.

219 Total Publications
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Karl Deisseroth

D. H. Chen Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Focus
Psychiatry
Research Interests
Karl Deisseroth's laboratory created and developed optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry (beginning with CLARITY), and a broad range of enabling methods. He also has employed his technologies to discover the neural cell types and connections that cause adaptive and maladaptive behaviors.

526 Total Publications
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Nicole Gumport

Clinical Scholar, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Clinical Focus
Fellow

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H. Craig Heller

Lorry I. Lokey/Business Wire Professor
Research Interests
Neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms, regulation of body temperature, mammalian hibernation, and human exercise physiology. Currently applying background in sleep and circadian neurobiology the understanding and correcting the learning disability of Down Syndrome.

220 Total Publications
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Ji-il Kim

Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry

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Richard Lewis

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Research Interests
We study molecular mechanisms of calcium signaling with a focus on store-operated CRAC channels and their essential roles in T cell development and function. Currently we aim to define the molecular mechanism for CRAC channel activation and the means by which calcium signal dynamics mediate specific activation of transcription factors and T-cell genes during development.

54 Total Publications
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Renske Lok

Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Research Interests
I'm interested in questions regarding perceived experiences and measured markers of those experiences, for example how do perceived sleep quality relate to sleep quality measured, or how does daytime sleepiness relate to sleep quality at night.
Other interests include effects of daytime light exposure on nighttime sleep, circadian clock phase changes by flashes of light, and how stability and variability in daily rhythms can predict health and disease

26 Total Publications
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Liqun Luo

Ann and Bill Swindells Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology
Research Interests
We study how neurons are organized into specialized circuits to perform specific functions and how these circuits are assembled during development. We have developed molecular-genetic and viral tools, and are combining them with transcriptomic, proteomic, physiological, and behavioral approaches to study these problems. Topics include: 1) assembly of the fly olfactory circuit; 2) assembly of neural circuits in the mouse brain; 3) organization and function of neural circuits; 4) Tool development.

242 Total Publications
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Daniel V. Madison

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Research Interests
Our underlying forms of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation and long-term depression, and in particular the function and plasticity of Parvalbumin-containing interneurons in neocortex. In the past few years, we have used a combinatorial approach to comparing physiological and anatomical plasticity-induced changes in synapses using electrode recording and Array Tomography in the same neurons.

82 Total Publications