Faculty Michael Berry Associate Professor Neural computation in the retina Lisa Boulanger Associate Professor Neuronal functions of immune molecules Carlos Brody Wilbur H. Gantz III '59 Professor of Neuroscience Neural mechanisms of decision making Timothy Buschman Associate Professor Dynamics of executive function Jonathan Cohen Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor in Neuroscience Neural mechanisms of cognitive control and natural intelligence Nathaniel Daw Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience Reward, learning, and decision making Bradley H. Dickerson Assistant Professor How motor output is structured by precise sensory input Tatiana Engel Assistant Professor Neural circuits and dynamics for cognition Annegret Falkner Assistant Professor Neural circuits for social decision-making Asif Ghazanfar Professor Developmental neuroscience of vocal communication Jesse Gomez Assistant Professor Human cognitive neuroscience and brain development Elizabeth Gould Dorman T. Warren Professor of Neuroscience Structural plasticity and hippocampal/prefrontal function Michael Graziano Professor Brain Basis of Consciousness Uri Hasson Professor Assess shared and idiosyncratic aspects of the cortical response time courses Sabine Kastner Professor Neural mechanisms of visual perception and attention Fenna M. Krienen Assistant Professor Single cell genomics to understand brain development and evolution Andrew Leifer Associate Professor Whole-brain neural dynamics underlying behavior Carolyn (Lindy) McBride Associate Professor Genes and neural circuits underlying behavioral evolution Mala Murthy Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience. Director of PNI Neural mechanisms underlying acoustic communication Yael Niv Professor Human and animal reinforcement learning and decision making Kenneth Norman Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory Catherine Jensen Peña Assistant Professor Neurodevelopment, stress, and transcriptomic regulation Jonathan Pillow Professor Statistical approaches to neural coding, computation, and dynamics H. Sebastian Seung Evnin Professor in Neuroscience Reconstruction of neural circuits David Tank Henry L. Hillman Professor of Neuroscience Measurement and analysis of neural circuit dynamics Samuel S. Wang Professor Learning rules and design principles in neural circuits Ilana Witten Professor Neural circuits for reward learning and decision making Associated Faculty Associated Faculty advise both undergraduate senior thesis students and PNI graduate students. William Bialek Computational Neuroscience Tian-Ming Fu Molecular and subcellular dynamics Casey Lew-Williams Psychology Elizabeth H. Margulis Music and the mind Erik Nook Logic of emotion Joshua Shaevitz Cellular and molecular biophysics; shape, mechanics and motility Jordan Taylor Motor control and learning Affiliated Faculty Rebecca Burdine Molecular Biology Elizabeth Gavis Molecular Biology Tom Griffiths Computer Science Psychology Naomi Leonard Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Coleen Murphy Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Molecular Biology Peter Ramadge Electrical Engineering Diana Tamir Psychology Emeritus Faculty John J. Hopfield