Deborah Barany

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and AU/UGA Medical Partnership

Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of goal-directed movement, functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, neurorehabilitation

Abigail Butcher

NSURE Program Coordinator

Jarrod Call

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology (Exercise Science Programs)

Research Interests: Skeletal muscle physiology, mitochondrial physiology, regenerative medicine, muscle electrophysiology

Adriana Copley

NSURE Program Assistant

Nick Filipov

Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology

Research Interests: Neurotoxicology, neuroimmunology, communication of the nervous systems in health and disease, basal ganglia disorders

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Associate Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Regenerative Bioscience Center, Animal and Dairy Science

Research Interests: Defects in carbohydrate biosynthesis and alterations in carbohydrate composition, development of new carbohydrate-based biomaterials for spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and neural interfacing applications

James Lauderdale

NSURE PI

Research Interests: Cells and disease, cells in development

Emily Noble

Assistant Professor, Foods and Nutrition

Research Interests: Feeding behavior, physical activity, energy expenditure, mechanisms by which diet and exercise affect the brain and cognitive function

Assaf Oshri

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science

Research Interests: Children and youth well-being and resilience, understanding youth development using multi-method (observation, surveys, neuroimaging, stress physiology) and multi-level research (e.g., individual cognition,  personality, family, peer, and neighborhood environments), mechanisms that underlie the link between early life stress in childhood (e.g., child maltreatment, poverty, cultural stress) and adolescent behavioral risk (e.g. substance use and sexual risk behaviors) and resilience

Ramana Pidaparti

Professor, Royal Aeronautical Society Fellow

Research Interests: design engineering and innovation, computational mechanics, drug delivery devices, STEM education

Jesse Schank

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience; Physiology & Pharmacology

Research Interests: The role of stress and neuropeptides in drug-seeking behavior using behavioral pharmacology, neuroanatomy, and molecular neuroscience.

Jing Xu

Associate Professor, Cognition and Dexterity (CoDex) Lab

Research Interests: Understanding how humans learn complex motor skills, how skills are maintained across age, how to restore them after neuromuscular injuries; identifying behavioral, cognitive, and neural components essential for hand dexterous function; deriving learning and control principles that support the acquisition and production of dexterous movement; exploring factors that influence rehabilitation; long-term goal is designing effective therapies to help patients regain their motor skills