Faculty


 
Dr. Kent Chapman
Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1991
Regulation of Lipid Metabolism in Higher Plants; Biological Membrane Structure and Function; Lipid Signaling; Metabolic Engineering of Cottonseed Oil; Phytochemicals, Nutraceuticals, and Human Health.

Contact information:
(940) 565-2969
chapman@unt.edu
Personal page: http://www.biol.unt.edu/~chapman/



 
Dr. Kamakshi Gopal
Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Ph.D., Michigan State.
Auditory-evoked potentials in children with central auditory processing disorders; characterization of physiological and pharmacological profiles of auditory cortical neurons in vitro.

Contact information:
(940) 565-2262
gopal@cas.unt.edu



 
Dr. Guenter W. Gross
Professor
CNNS Director
University of North Texas
Ph.D., Florida State, 1973.
Network neurophysiology; investigation of pattern generation, pattern storage, and fault-tolerance mechanisms in cultured mammalian monolayer networks; development of multielectrode recording and data processing systems; cellular neuropathology and effects of physical injury on network dynamics.

 

 
 
 

Contact information:
Office: (940) 565-3615
Lab: (940) 565-4228
gwgross@cnns.org



 
Dr. Jannon L. Fuchs
Professor

University of North Texas

Ph.D., California, San Diego, 1979
Neurotransmitter systems in developing brain; receptors, second messenger systems, gene expression; effects of sensory deprivation; neural mechanisms of circadian rhythms.

Contact information:
(940) 565-3946
fuchs@unt.edu



 
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Dr. Jacek Kowalski
Professor

University of North Texas

Ph.D., Poland, 1973. Theoretical physics.
Theoretical foundations of statistical physics, biophysics, and the neurosciences-using the methods of nonlinear dynamics systems theory and statistical mechanics in particular neural networks and the stability properties of lasers.

Contact information:
Office: (940) 565-4291
Lab: (940) 565-4291
kowalski@unt.edu
Personal page: http://www.phys.unt.edu/faculty/Kowalski.htm



 
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Dr. Jen Lucas
Professor

Ohio State University

Ph.D., Texas Woman's University, 1986.  Molecular Biology.
Laser microbeam cell surgery to investigate the responses of mammalian spinal neurons to a defined physical injury (amputation of a primary dendrite 100 um from the soma).

Contact information:
Office: (614) 292-1992
Lab: (614) 292-1896
lucas.72@osu.edu
Personal page: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~lucas/lucas.html



 
Dr. Scott J. Norton
Professor

University of North Texas

Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1962.
Regulatory mechanisms relating to carbohydrate metabolism in mammalian and plant systems; roles and functions of glutathione and glutathione-requiring enzymes in mammalian systems; synthesis and metabolic study of analogs of the natural insecticide pyrethrin.

Contact information:
(940) 565-3535
snorton@unt.edu



 
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Dr. Ian Parberry
Professor

University of North Texas

Ph.D., Warwick University, England, 1984.
Theoretical computer science and mathematical foundations of computing, including computational complexity theory, design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, sorting networks, parallel computing, neural networks, and experimental algorithmics.

Contact information: http://www.eng.unt.edu/~ian/
Personal page: http://www.eng.unt.edu/~ian/