Handling Editors

Barger, Steven
University of Arkansas Medical School, Little Rock, AK, USA
Email: bargerstevenw@uams.edu
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, aging, multi-lineage kinases, cytokines, cyclic nucleotides, proteins, calcium-binding, calcium regulation, glutamate receptors, neuroinflammation, transcriptional regulation, microglia

Behl, Christian
Director of the Institute for Pathobiochemistry Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Duesbergweg 6 D-55099 Mainz
Email: cbehl@uni-mainz.de
Phone: +49 6131 3925890
Fax: +49 6131 3925792
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), pathobiochemistry, stroke, molecular biology, cell biology, neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, cell death, apoptosis, necrosis, aging, amyloid, glutamate, free radical species, oxidative stress, protein homeostasis, animal model systems (C. elegans, mouse, rat)

Bendotti, Caterina
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan, Italy
Email: caterina.bendotti@marionegri.it  
Web URL: www.marionegri.it
Keywords: neudogeneration, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, superoxide dismutase, mutant, animal and cellular models of ALS, excitotoxicity, mitochondrial pathology.

Bolanos, Juan P.
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Email: jbolanos@aida.usal.es
Web URL: http://www.usal.es/jbolanos/
Keywords: Oxidative stress, Mitochondrial bioenergetics, Glutathione, Parkinson's disease, Regulation of glycolysis, Cell cycle and neurodegeneration, Nitric oxide, Peroxynitrite, Neuronal-glial metabolic interactions, Neurotoxicity signalling, Neuroprotective signalling, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signalling

Bregestovski, Piotr
Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology (INMED), Marseille, France
Email: pbreges@inmed.univ-mrs.fr
Web URL: http://www.inmednet.com
Keywords: Function, modulation and structure of receptor-operated channels, cys-loop receptors; GABA- and glycinergic synapses; electrophysiological and image analysis of synaptic transmission; chloride monitoring; imaging of neuronal networks; endocannabinoids in modulation of synaptic function; patch-clamp and image analysis of retina.

Browne, Susan
Merck Research Laboratories 770 Sumneytown Pike West Point, Pennsylvania PA 19486 USA
Email: Susan_browne@merck.com
Keywords: animal models of neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, Huntington's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's disease

Cappai, Roberto
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Email: r.cappai@unimelb.edu.au  
Web URL: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, amyloid precursor protein, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prion, synuclein, Parkinson's disease, neurodegeneration, copper

Casaccia-Bonnefil, Patrizia
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Email: patrizia.casaccia@mssm.edu
Keywords: Myelin, Gene expression, Oligodendrocyte, Cell death, Cell cycle

Castellani, Rudolph
University of Maryland School of Medicine Dept. of Pathology 655 West Baltimore Street Baltimore, ML 21201-1559 USA
Email: rcastellani@som.umaryland.edu
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, PrPsc molecules, molecular genetics, oxidative stress

Chan, Bill Piu
Xunanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
Email: pbchan90@gmail.com
Keywords: neurodegeneration, neurotoxicity, molecular genetics, Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders

Chattopadhyay, Amitabha
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
Email: amit@ccmb.res.in
Keywords: G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR); Membrane lipid-receptor interaction; Fluorescence spectroscopy; FRAP; FCS; Membrane cholesterol; Neuronal membrane; Membrane domain

Clark, Janet
Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology Director, Pharmacology & Physiology Graduate Program Co-Director, Masters Program in Drug Discovery & Development Drexel University College of Medicine 245 N. 15th St., MS 488 Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA
Email: jclark@drexelmed.edu
Web URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/janeteaclark
Phone: 215-762-8578
Fax: 215-762-2299
Keywords: neurotransmitter transporters, neuroendocrinology, hormones, estrogen, glucocorticoid effects, psychiatric diseases, depression, stress, neuropharmacology, tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), GABAB receptors, cytokines, indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase, microglia, human platelet antigen (HPA), molecular biology, cloning, protein biochemistry

Connor, James R.
Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Email: jconnor@hmc.psu.edu  
Keywords: Metals in the brain, Neurodegenerative diseases, Blood-brain-barrier, CSF, Biomarkers, Glia, Myelin

Cookson, Mark R.
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Email: cookson@mail.nih.gov
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, Genetics, Cell Biology, Kinases, Oxidative stress, Gene Expression.

Dityatev, Alexander
Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
Email: alexander.dityatev@iit.it
Keywords: in vitro and in vivo neurophysiology, immunocyto- and histochemistry, and cognitive behavioral tests, with emphasis on fear conditioning, cell adhesion, extracellular matrix, synaptic plasticity, LTP, LTD, metaplasticity, GABAergic and glutamatergic synaptic transmission, synaptogenesis

Dobrota, Dusan
Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia
Email: dobrota@jfmed.uniba.sk
Keywords: Ischemia, reperfusion, carnosin, NMR, ER dysfunction

Feinstein, Douglas L.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Email: dlfeins@uic.edu
Keywords: glial cells, nitric oxide, cell signalling, cytokines, inflammation, astrocyte, astroglia, glioma, microglia, nitric oxide, endotoxin, LPS, GFAP, heat shock, HSP, MAPK (mitogen activated protein kinases), arginine, cytokines, EAE, MS, CAMP, astrocyte, nitric oxide, cytokines, TgAPP, EAE, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, PPAR, NFkB, microgila

Fuss, Babette
Virginia Commonwealth University; Medical College of Virginia, USA
Email: bfuss@hsc.vcu.edu
Keywords: Extracellular matrix, Transgenic mice, Oligodendrocyte, Multiple sclerosis, Focal adhesion, Myelination, Myelin

Giaume, Christian
INSERM U840, Collège de France, Paris, France
Email: christian.giaume@college-de-France.fr
Keywords: Neuroglial interaction, gap junctions, astrocytes, microglia, reactive gliosis, calcium signaling, glial electrophysiology

Gottschall, Paul E.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Email: pegottschall@uams.edu
Keywords: proteoglycans, extracellular matrix, matrix metalloproteinases, proteases, neural plasticity, synaptic plasticity, neuroinflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, vaccination, cerebral palsy, hypoxia-ischemia

Gulyaeva, Natalia V.
Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, Russia
Email: nata_gul@pisem.net
Keywords: neuronal cell death, apoptosis, neurodegeneration, excitotoxicity, neuroprotection, neurogenesis, neurodegenerative diseases –animal and cellular models, mechanisms, biomarkers, glia in neurodegeneration, cerebral ischemia, stroke, neuroinflammation, proteases, caspases, cathepsins, free radicals, oxidative stress, neuronal(synaptic) plasticity – molecular mechanisms and behavior, nitric oxide, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta toxicity, neuropeptides, stress-induced pathology

Gundelfinger, Eckart D.
Federal Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
Email: gundelfinger@ifn-magdeburg.de
Keywords: synapse, synaptic proteins, neurotransmitter receptors, molecular biology of neurotransmitter release, neuronal cytoskeleton, calcium-binding proteins, DNA cloning, molecular biology of protein-protein interaction.

Hardy, John
Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Reta Lilla Weston Laboratories, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Email: j.hardy@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Keywords: genetics, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer, Parkinson

Hastings, Teresa G.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Email: hastings@bns.pitt.edu
Keywords: proteomics, 2D-DIGE, mitochondria, PC12, dopamine, endoplasmic reticulum stress

Heneka, Michael
University of Bonn., Bonn, Germany
Email: michael.heneka@ukb.uni-bonn.de
Keywords: Neurology , Alzheimer's Diesease , PPARgamma

Hirsch, Etienne
INSERM UMR679, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Email: hirsch@ccr.jussieu.fr
Web URL: http://www.u289.ifrns.chups.jussieu.fr/fr/
Keywords: Cell death, neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, molecular and cellular biology, histology, animal studies.

Invernizzi, William (Roberto)
Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research (Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri") 20157 Milan Italy
Email: rinvernizzi@marionegri.it
Phone: +39 02 390141
Fax: +39 02 3546277
Keywords: serotonin, in vivo microdialysis, antidepressants, antipsychotics, neurotransmitter release, dopamine, noradrenaline

Kahle, Philipp
Professor, Functional Neurogenetics Department of Neurodegeneration Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Faculty of Medicine, University of Tübingen Otfried-Müller-Strasse 27 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Email: Philipp.Kahle@uni-tuebingen.de
Web URL: http://www.hih-tuebingen.de/funct-neurogenet/
Phone: (+49-7071) 29-81970 / -81968 (lab) / -82039 (secr)
Fax: (+49-7071) 29-4620
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, synuclein, parkin, DJ-1, leucine-rich repeat kinase, frontotemporal dementia, TDP-43, FUS protein, functional neurogenetics

Kenny, Paul J.
Associate Professor The Scripps Research Institute Laboratory of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience Departments of Molecular Therapeutics and Neuroscience¬ Jupiter, FL 33458 USA
Email: pjkenny@scripps.edu
Keywords: addiction, nicotine, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, noncoding RNAs, microRNA, kinases, obesity, orexin/hypocretin, schizophrenia, behaviour

Kielian, Tammy
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Email: tkielian@unmc.edu
Keywords: Chemokines, Neuroimmunology, Gap junctions, Experimental brain abscess, Astrocytes, Microglia, Cytokines

Kim, Kyong-Tai
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea
Email: ktk@postech.ac.kr
Keywords: receptor signaling, exocytosis, regulation of circadian genes, posttranscriptional regulation, regulation of melatonin biosynthesis

Kindy, Mark
Medical University of South Carolina Department of Neurosciences 173 Ashley Avenue, BSB 403 29425 Charlston South Carolina, USA
Email: kindyms@musc.edu
Phone: 843-792-0559
Fax: 843-876-5099
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, neurodegeneration, Abeta, APoE, tau, toxins, biochemistry, behaviour, receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE), Neprilysin

Kiyama, Hiroshi
Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Email: kiyama@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp  
Web URL: http://www.med.osaka-cu.ac.jp/../index.html
Keywords: neuronal regeneration, mechanisms underlying neuronal cell death and survival after nerve injury, neurite elongation after nerve injury, nerve regeneration events

Koch, Michael
University of Bremen, Center for Cognitive Sciences Brain Research Institute Dept. of Neuropharmacology POB 330440 28334 Bremen, Germany
Email: Michael.koch@uni-bremen.de
Phone: +49-421-218-62970
Fax: +49-421-218-62984
Keywords: behavioral pharmacology, animal models of neurological and psychiatric diseases, drugs of abuse, fear, anxiety, schizophrenia, neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology

Lee, Michael
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Email: mklee@umn.edu
Keywords: parkinson's disease, alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, synuclein, protein aggregation, transgenic mice

Leist, Marcel
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Email: marcel.leist@uni-konstanz.de  
Web URL: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/../Homepage/
Keywords: neural stem cells, microglia activation, astrocyte activation, glia in neurodegeneration, Mixed-lineage kinase, amyloid-beta processing, amyloid beta toxicity, Parkinson's disease models, neurite degeneration, dopamine storage

Llorens-Cortes, Catherine
Collège de France, Paris, France
Email: c.llorens-cortes@college-de-france.fr
Keywords: zinc metalloproteases, peptide metabolism, brain angiotensin, brain apelin

Maccioni, Ricardo B.
International Center for Biomedicine & Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile
Email: rmaccion@manquehue.net
Web URL: http://www.neuroinnovation.cl
Keywords: neuronal cytoskeleton,  biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders, neuroimaging tracers for early detection of cognitive disorders, neuroimmunomodulation, tau protein

Martins, Vilma R.
Institute Ludwig for Cancer Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Email: vmartins@ludwig.org.br
Keywords: Prion, Cellular prion protein, Neuronal survival, Development , Heat shock proteins

McKenna, Mary C.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Email: mmckenna@umaryland.edu
Keywords: energy metabolism, glutamate metabolism, lactate metabolism, perinatal brain injury, 1H and 13C-NMR spectroscopy, Fragile X syndrome, mitochondrial transporters, synaptosomal metabolism, astrocyte metabolism, malate-aspartate shuttle, glutamine, MCT1, MCT2, mitochondrial enzymes, traumatic brain injury to developing brain, perinatal hypoxia ischemia, intrauterine inflammation

McNaught, Kevin St. P.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Email: kevin.mcnaught@mssm.edu
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, ubiquitin, proteasome, alpha-synuclein, parkin, dystonia, torsinA and animal model

Meunier, Frederic A.
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Email: f.meunier@uq.edu.au
Web URL: http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/?page=71195
Keywords: Neuroexocytosis, neurotransmitter release, synaptic vesicles, neurosecretory vesicles, calcium channels, synaptotagmin, SNARE proteins, Munc18-1, fatty acids, phosphoinositides, pre-synaptic trafficking, neurotoxins, clostridial toxins, marine toxins

Molnár, Elek
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Email: Elek.Molnar@bristol.ac.uk  
Web URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/neuroscience/
Keywords: glutamate receptors, AMPA, kainate, NMDA, development, synaptic plasticity, LTP, LTD, receptor targeting, oligodendrocytes

Morrison, Richard S.
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Email: yael@u.washington.edu  
Web URL: http://depts.washington.edu/../morrison.html
Keywords: apoptosis, proteomics , p53 , caspases , neurodegeneration , mitochondria, Bcl2 family members

Murphy, Anne N.
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Email: anmurphy@cox.net
Keywords: biochemistry, bioenergetics, metabolism mitochondria, Ca2+, oxidative phosphorylation, neurodegeneration, electron transport, ion transport, excitotoxicity, membrane potential, mitochondrial ion transport, mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial movement and morphology, mitochondrial free radical generation

Murphy, Eric J.
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Email: emurphy@medicine.nodak.edu
Keywords: broad lipid metabolism in the CNS, fatty acids, phospholipids, including ether lipids, and acylhydrolases, such as phospholipase A2; alterations of lipid metabolism in pathophysiological states, e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome; CNS diseases.

Nalecz, Katarzyna A.
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warszawa, Poland
Email: knal@nencki.gov.pl  
Web URL: www.nencki.gov.pl
Keywords: transporters, membrane structure, posttranslational modifications, protein kinase C, cell culture

Nawa, Hiroyuki
Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
Email: hnawa@bri.niigata-u.ac.jp  
Web URL: http://www.bri.niigata-u.ac.jp/../molecular%28e%29.html
Keywords: cellular neurobiology or brain disease, cytokine, neurotrophic factor, development schizophrenia, dopamine, behaviour

Nunomura, Akihiko
Yamanashi University, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
Email: anunomura@yamanashi.ac.jp
Keywords: RNA, aging, Alzheimer’s disease, apoptosis, cell cycle, free radicals, hippocampus, immunocytochemistry, metabolism, metals, mitochondria, neurodegeneration, nutrition, oxidative stress, Parkinson’s disease

Octave, Jean-Noël
Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels. Belgium
Email: octave@nchm.ucl.ac.be
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease: cellular and animal models, neurodegenerative diseases, cloning and expression, adenoviruses as expression vectors both in vitro and in vivo, cell biology, cell culture. primary cultures of neurones, signal transduction.

Ortega, Arturo
Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
Email: rortega@cinvestav.mx
Keywords: Signal transduction, Transcriptional regulation, Bergmann glia, Glutamate receptors

Park, David S.
University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Email: dpark@uottawa.ca
Keywords: Chk1; Cdc25A; DNA damage; cell cycle; apoptosis; neurons

Penzes, Peter
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Email: p-penzes@northwestern.edu
Keywords: dendritic spine , plasticity , actin , GEF , schizophrenia , autism , postsynaptic , signal transduction , synaptogenesis

Prado, Marco A. M.
The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Email: maximo.prado@gmail.com
Keywords: cholinergic mechanisms, protein and membrane trafficking, pre-synaptic mechanisms, calcium signaling, toxins and neuronal function, prion diseases, Alzheimer´s disease, neurodegeneration, neurotransmitter transporters, synaptic vesicle

Prinetti, Alessandro
Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
Email: alessandro.prinetti@unimi.it  
Web URL: http://users.unimi.it/chbiomed/nuovo/
Keywords: complex membrane lipid biochemistry and biophysic, biological role of sphingolipid, neuronal membranes and disease, segregation phenomena in neuronal membranes, lipid rafts in cell signalling.

Raivich, Gennadij
University College London, London, UK
Email: g.raivich@ucl.ac.uk
Keywords: neurotrophins, colony stimulating factors, transcription factors, axonal injury and regeneration, microglia and phagocytes, neuroinflammation, hypoxic ischemic insult

Rybnikova, Elena A.
Leading researcher Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology Pavlov Institute of Physiology Russian Academy of Sciences 199034 St.Petersburg Russian Federation
Email: samoilov@pavlov.infran.ru, rybnikova1@rambler.ru
Phone:+7-813-7072850
Mobile +7-911-9541596
Fax: +7-812-3280501
Keywords: neuroendocrinology, stress, stress-related disorders, hormone-dependent mechanisms of adaptation, brain injury and tolerance, hypobaric hypoxia, molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuroprotection, preconditioning, postconditioning

Sabban, Ester L.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Graduate Program Director Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology New York Medical College Valhalla, NY 10595 USA
Email: esther_sabban@nymc.edu
Keywords: biochemistry, molecular biology, gene expression for catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes and neuropeptides by stress, estrogens, tyrosine hydroxylase, transcription, promoter, cAMP, adrenal medulla, noradrenergic system

Saito, Naoaki
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Email: naosaito@kobe-u.ac.jp  
Web URL: http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/index.htm
Keywords: protein kinase, phosphorylation, and signal transduction, imaging, Ca2+

Sebastião, Ana M.
University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Email: anaseb@fm.ul.pt  
Web URL: http://www.imm.ul.pt
Keywords: neuromodulation of synaptic transmission, in particular at the hippocampus, cross-talk between neuromodulatoras, focusing on neurotrophins, adenosine, neuropeptides and cannabinoids, neuroprotection. adenosine receptors and adenosine transporters, G-protein coupled receptors and kinase receptors

Sharp, Frank R.
University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
Email: frank.sharp@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Keywords: stroke and cerebral ischemia, heat shock and immediate early gene expression in brain, cerebral glucose and glycogen metabolism, neurogenesis and gliogenesis following ischemia, genomics and proteomics of neurological diseases

Song, Weihong
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Email: weihong@exchange.ubc.ca
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Secretases, Amyloid, Stroke, Hypoxia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Aging, Mental Disorders, Neuronal Apoptosis, Transcriptional regulation, Gene expression, Molecular Genetics, Signal Transduction

de Souza Silva, Maria
University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
Email: desouza@uni-duesseldorf.de
Keywords: neuropeptides, neurokinin, intranasal, microdialysis, learning and memory, acetylcholine, dopamine

Standaert, David G.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Email: dstandaert@uab.edu  
Web URL: www.uab.edu/CNET
Keywords: NMDA receptors, glutamate receptors, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, synuclein

Stehle, Jörg
Institute of Anatomy III, Frankfurt, Germany
Email: stehle@em.uni-frankfurt.de  
Keywords: circadian , pineal , melatonin , rhythm , clock gene , hippocampus , transcriptional regulation , cAMP-signalling pathway

Terasaki, Tetsuya
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Email: terasaki@mail.pharm.tohoku.ac.jp  
Web URL: http://www.pharm.tohoku.ac.jp/%7Esoutatsu/dds/index.htm
Keywords: Blood-brain barrier, transport, P-glycoprotein, abc transporter, drug delivery, pharmacokinetics, brain microdialysis, slc transporter, bcrp, mrp transporter

Vaughan, Roxanne A.
University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Email: rvaughan@medicine.nodak.edu
Keywords: molecular mechanisms of dopamine transporters including phosphorylation, photoaffinity labeling, and structure-function analysis. Neurotransmitter transporters, cocaine binding, dopamine regulation, receptor or transporter phosphorylation, and receptor or transporter photoaffinity labeling

Venero, Jose L.
University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Email: jlvenero@us.es
Keywords: Microglia, substantia nigra, peroxynitrites, Parkinson's disease, minocycline, dopaminergic system

Vissel, Bryce
Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia
Email: b.vissel@garvan.org.au
Keywords: Neurogenesis , stem cells , neurodegeneration , Parkinson's disease , Alzheimer's disease, Dopamine neurons, Excitotoxicity, neural stem cells, neural precursor cells, neural regeneration, synaptic transmssion, glutamate receptors, RNA editing

Waagepetersen, Helle S.
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Email: hsw@farma.ku.dk  
Web URL: http://www.neurometabolism.dk
Keywords: Brain energy metabolism, neurons, astrocytes, d-aspartate, ATP, transport, norepinephrine, lactate, cellular metabolism

Weller, Michael
University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Email: michael.weller@usz.ch  
Web URL: http://www.neurologie.usz.ch
Keywords: glioma, astrocytoma, apoptosis, cell death, astrocyte, stem cell, death receptors, death ligands, neuroimmunology

Williams, Stephen R.
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Email: steve.williams@manchester.ac.uk
Keywords: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, MRI, MRS, stroke, ischaemia, energy metabolism, neurotransmitter metabolism, cerebral blood flow

Wolf, Marina E.
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA
Email: marina.wolf@rosalindfranklin.edu  
Web URL: www.rosalindfranklin.edu
Keywords: glutamate, dopamine, NMDA receptors, AMPA receptors, microdialysis, in situ hybridization, immunocytochemistry, Addiction, plasticity, receptor trafficking, glutamate receptors, dopamine receptors, cocaine, amphetamine

Wong, Yung H.
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Email: boyung@ust.hk  
Web URL: http://www.ust.hk/../yhwong.html
Keywords: Opioid peptides and receptors, signal transduction, neuropeptides, G proteins, melatonin, neuropharmacology, opioid tolerance and dependence

Wonnacott, Susan
University of Bath, Bath, UK
Email: bsssw@bath.ac.uk
Keywords: Neuronal nicotinic receptors, nicotine and mechanisms of drug addiction; synaptosome studies, transmitter release, ligand binding, structure - function studies and development of novel ligands and radioligands, confocal and electron microscopy

Wood, Ian C.
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Email: i.c.wood@leeds.ac.uk  
Web URL: http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/..?tag=Wood_I
Keywords: Chromatin, transcription, Gene regulation, transcription factors, epigenetics, epilepsy, transgenic mice, DNA, mRNA, expression, differentiation, stem cells

Yamamoto, Bryan
University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus, Toledo, OH, USA
Email: Bryan.Yamamoto@utoledo.edu
Keywords: excitotoxicity, drug abuse, amphetamines, oxidative stress, neurodegeneration

Zhu, Xiongwei
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Email: xiongwei.zhu@case.edu  
Keywords: Neurodegenerative diseases, apoptosis, metal ion, mitochondria, cell cycle, Alzheimer disease , Signal Transduction, oxidative stress

Zhuo, Min
University of Toronto Department of Physiology 1 King's College Circle M5S 1A8 Toronto, Canada
Email: min.zhuo@utoronto.ca
Phone: 417-978-4018
Fax: 416-978-4940
Keywords: pain, nociception, molecular biology, kainate, GABA, glutamate, AMPA receptors, plasminogen activator receptor LRP, learning, memory, behaviour, NMDA receptor NR2B, Calcium, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, adenylyl cyclase

Zimmermann, Herbert
J. W. Goethe-Universitätm Frankfurt, Germany
Email: h.zimmermann@bio.uni-frankfurt.de  
Web URL: http://www.bio.uni-frankfurt.de/zoologie/nch
Keywords: ectonucleotidases, nucleotide signalling, nucleotide receptors, nucleotide release, P2 receptors