Mentors

Participating Baylor College of Medicine faculty

Anne Anderson, MD

Baylor Department - Pediatrics, Neurology and Neuroscience
Professor

Benjamin Arenkiel, PhD

Baylor Department - Molecular and Human Genetics
Associate Professor
Research Interest - Integration of Newborn Neurons during Circuit Formation

Micheal Beauchamp

Baylor Department - Neurosurgery
Professor
Research Interest - Audiovisual and speech perception

Arthur L. Beaudet, MD

Baylor Department - Molecular and Human Genetics
Professor
Research Interest - Epigenetics and Genomic Imprinting in Prader-Willi and Angelman Syndromes and Autism

Hugo J. Bellen, DVM, PhD

Baylor Department - Molecular and Human Genetics
Professor
Research Interest - Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Motorneuron Disease

Juan Botas, PhD

Baylor Department - Molecular and Human Genetics
Professor
Research Interest - Pathogenesis of Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Edward Cooper, MD, PhD

Baylor Department - Neurology
Associate Professor
Research Interest - Voltage-gated Sodium and Potassium Channel Mutations and Neonatal Seizures

Mauro Costa-Mattioli

Baylor Department - Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Research Interest - Synaptic plasticity and memory

Benjamin Deneen

Associate Professor
Research Interest - Glial cell development and disease

David Dickman

Baylor Department - Neuroscience and Vivian L. Smith Endowed Chair in Neuroscience
Professor
Research Interest - Spatial orientation and magnetoreception