Faculty | Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research

R. Adron Harris
Molecular actions of drugs of abuse on brain signaling systems; genetics of alcohol susceptibility.
Richard Aldrich
Molecular mechanisms of ion channel function and their role in electrical signaling.
Nigel Atkinson
Molecular neurobiology and genetics of ion channels in Drosophila.
Yuri Blednov
Development of mutant mice to test genetic, environmental causes of excessive alcohol consumption.
Juan Dominguez
Neural and endocrine mechanisms that regulate motivated behaviors.
Christine Duvauchelle
Neural mechanisms of the rewarding effects of drugs.
Johann Eberhart
Genetic and environmental regulation of cellular behaviors that govern craniofacial development.

Andrew Ellington
Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of aptamers; protein and metabolic engineering.
Carlton Erickson
Addiction science education.
Kim Fromme
Addictive behaviors; risk-taking; alcohol abuse; cognitive processes in clinical psychopathology.
Rueben Gonzales
Neurochemistry of ethanol drinking behavior.
Vishwanath Iyer
Genomics; genome-wide transcriptional programs and mechanisms; microarray technology.
Daniel Johnston
Synaptic integration and plasticity; cellular actions of learning and memory; epileptogenesis.
Theresa Jones
Plasticity of nerual structure; synaptic connectivity and glial-neuronal interactions following brain damage and during learning.

Steven W. Leslie
Effects of ethanol and similar drugs on NMDA-stimulated ion channels and voltage-dependent calcium channels.
Stephen F. Martin
Bioorganic chemistry; mechanistic enzymology; enzyme specificity.
R. Dayne Mayfield
Molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the psychoactive and addictive properties of drugs of abuse.
Robert O. Messing
Molecular mechanisms that underlie addiction, anxiety, and pain; treatment development.
S. John Mihic
Molecular sites of action of drugs of abuse on ligand-gated ion channels.
Edward Mills
Role of mitochondria in intracellular communication, disease processes, and toxic actions of chemicals.

Hitoshi Morikawa
Neurophysiology of the brain reward circuit and drug addiction.
Richard Morrisett
Amino acid-derived neurotransmitter systems; synaptic transmission, expression of alcohol-related disorders.
Jon Pierce-Shimomura Molecular basis for the action of drugs and alcohol on target proteins in vivo.
Igor Ponomarev Mechanisms of alcohol actions using behavioral genetics, functional genomics and cellular neuroscience.
Kimberly Raab-Graham Molecular mechanisms involved in synaptic plasticity.
Timothy Schallert
Neural plasticity and behavioral mechanisms of brain and spinal cord injury due to trauma, stroke, tumors, and degenerative diseases.