Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience: Non-human Models
Affiliated Faculty

Assistant Professor
Dmitriy Aronov, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Richard Axel, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Mind Brain Behavior Initiative
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Professor
Peter Balsam, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), PSY Developmental Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Kevin G Bath, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), PSY Developmental Neuroscience
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Assistant Professor
Rudy Behnia, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
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Assistant Professor
Andres Bendesky, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology in the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
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Assistant Professor
Sarah E. Canetta, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry), PSY Developmental Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Gwyneth M. Card, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute), Department of Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Mark Churchland, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Aniruddha Das, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
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Assistant Professor
Laura B. Duvall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dept of Biological Sciences
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Assistant Professor
Yasmine El-Shamayleh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
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Professor
Vincent P. Ferrera, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience (in Psychiatry)
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Professor
Stuart J. Firestein, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences (Columbia University)
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Assistant Professor
Vikram Gadagkar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute), Department of Neuroscience
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Professor
Michael E. Goldberg, MD
David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior (in Neuroscience and Neurology [in Psychiatry and Ophthalmology])
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Professor
Jacqueline Gottlieb, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
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Assistant Professor
Alexander Harris, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, PSY Psych Integrative Neurosci
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Professor
Rene Hen, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology (in Psychiatry) / Professor of Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Elizabeth Hillman, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics)
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Professor
Donald C. Hood, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmic Sciences (in Ophthalmology)
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Assistant Professor
Elias Issa, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Simon John, PhD
Robert L. Burch III Professor of Ophthalmic Sciences (in Ophthalmology), Department of Ophthalmology
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Associate Professor
Itamar Kahn, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute), Department of Neuroscience
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Professor
Christoph Kellendonk, PhD
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in Psychiatry
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Professor
Darcy B. Kelley, PhD
Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences; Founding Co-Director, Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program
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Professor
Aurel Lazar, PhD
Professor of Electrical Engineering (Columbia University)
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Assistant Professor
E. David Leonardo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC
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Associate Professor
Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
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Assistant Professor
Bianca Jones Marlin
Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research, Department of Psychology, Department of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
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Assistant Professor
Nima Mesgarani, PhD
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering (Columbia University)
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Professor
Elizabeth S. Olson, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Auditory Biophysics (in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery)
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Assistant Professor
Yueqing Peng, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology in the Institute for Genomic Medicine
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Associate Professor
Dustin R. Rubenstein, PhD
Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
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Professor
Daniel Salzman, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry / Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Nathaniel Sawtell, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Michael Shadlen, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD
Professor of Genetics & Development
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Professor
Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology / Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D. Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Rae Silver, PhD
Kaplan Professor of Natural and Physical Sciences
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Professor
Scott A. Small, MD
Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and in Radiology)
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Professor
David Sulzer, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology) at CUMC
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Assistant Professor
Raju Tomer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (Columbia University)
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Associate Professor
Sarah Woolley, PhD
Professor of Psychology (Columbia University)
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Associate Professor
Guang Yang, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiological Sciences (in Anesthesiology)
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Professor
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences (Columbia University)
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Professor
Charles Zuker, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics / Neuroscience