Staff Members
Director: Dr. Ted Abel
Associate Director: Dr. Jennifer Heerding
Program Coordinator: Ms. Beatrice Reid
Faculty Members
Dr. Ted Abel, Department
of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Tracy Bale, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Dr. Rita Balice-Gordon, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Dr. Kendra Bence, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Dr. Wade Berrettini, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, School
of Medicine
Dr. Oliver Berton, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Seema Bhatnagar, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine
Dr. Julie Blendy, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Dr. David Brainard, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and
Sciences
Dr. Edward Brodkin, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Maja Bucan, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Dr. Dorothy Cheney, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Peter Crino, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Dr. David Dinges, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Richard Doty, Director of Clinical Smell and Taste Research
Center
Dr. Russell Epstein, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and
Sciences
Dr. Martha Farah, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Leif Finkel, Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences
Dr. Loretta Flanagan-Cato, Department of Psychology, School of Arts
and Sciences
Dr. Steven Fluharty, Department of Pharmacology, School of Veterinary
Medicine, Vice Provost for Research
Dr. Namni Goel, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Joshua Gold, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Dr. Joel Greenberg, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Dr. Harvey Grill, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Murray Grossman, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Dr. Raquel Gur, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Ruben Gur, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Amishi Jha, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Kelly Jordan-Scuitto, Department of Pathology, School of Dentistry
Dr. Gary D. Kao, Dept of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine
Dr. Irwin Lucki, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Javier Medina, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Richard Miselis, Department of Anatomy, School of Veterinary
Medicine
Dr. Adrian Morrison, Department of Anatomy, School of Veterinary
Medicine
Dr. Isabel Muzzio, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. M. Frank Norman, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and
Sciences
Dr. Michael Nusbaum, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Dr. Charles O'Brien, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Allan Pack, Sleep Center and Respiratory Neurobiology, School
of Medicine
Dr. Larry Palmer, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Dr. R. Arlen Price, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Dr. Edward Pugh, Department of Opthamology, School of Medicine
Dr. Jonathan Raper, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Dr. Robert Rescorla, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and
Sciences
Dr. James Saunders, Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine
Dr. Marc Schmidt, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Michael Selzer, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Dr. Robert Seyfarth, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and
Sciences
Dr. Steven Thomas, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill, Department of Psychology, School of
Arts and Sciences
Adjunct Faculty Members
Dr. Gary Beauchamp, Monell
Center, University City Sciences Center
Dr. Paul Breslin, Monell Center, University City Sciences Center
Dr. Charles Horn, Monell Center, University City Sciences Center
Dr. Jennifer Heerding, University of Pennsylvania, BBB Program
Dr. Nedra Lexow, Retired GlaxoSmithKline Researcher
Dr. Michael Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania, BBB Program
Dr. Judith McLean, Monell Center, University City Sciences Center
Dr. John Teeter, Monell Center, University City Sciences Center
Dr. Ronald Ulm, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania


BBB Student Research: Images show the pattern of reticulospinal neuron labeling in 4 day old wild type (top) and slytherin mutant (bottom) embryos after retrograde labeling of rhodamine dextran applied to the 12th somite post spinal cord transection. Each picture is a single plane projection of a confocal stack of multiple images. Work was performed by Magdalena Reyes with Dr. Rita Balice Gordon.