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The Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program is one facet of the NIH/NIGMS IDeA program, and supports thematic multidisciplinary centers, such as the Center for Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience at North Dakota State University (P20 GM103505), that augment and strengthen institutional biomedical research capacity by expanding and developing faculty with interests in biomedical and biobehavioral research, and by enhancing research infrastructure, including the establishment of core facilities needed to carry out the objectives of a multidisciplinary, collaborative program. Below are the personnel currently supported by the COBRE grant.

Principal Investigator

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Mark McCourt, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

Primary Project Directors

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Benjamin Balas, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

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Mark Nawrot, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

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Michael Robinson, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

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Barbara Blakeslee, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Research Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

Former Pilot Project Directors

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Robert Gordon, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

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Linda Langley, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

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Rebecca Woods, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Science
North Dakota State University

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Wendy Troop-Gordon, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

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Erin Conwell, Ph.D. (Bio)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

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Erxi Wu, Ph.D. (Personal Home Page)
Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical Sciences
North Dakota State University

Internal Advisor

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Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of North Dakota

External Advisors

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Randolph Blake, Ph.D.
Centennial Professor
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

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Aina Puce, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Imaging Research Facility
Department of Psychological / Brain Sciences
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

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Christopher Tyler, Ph.D.
Head
Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Center
San Francisco, CA

Project Mentors

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Greg DeAngelis, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Brain Cognitive Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

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John J. Foxe, Ph.D.
Professor / Director of Research
Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC)
Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

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Amy Needham, Ph.D.
Professor
Developmental Science
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

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Alice J. O'Toole, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
University of Texas
Dallas, TX

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Keith Stroyan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Bioinformatics Consultant

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Davis Cope, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
North Dakota State University