Scientific Programs

• Building & adapting circuits into functional networks
  • Development, Plasticity and Reprogramming of Sensory Circuits (PI: G. López Bendito)
  • Development, Wiring and Function of Cerebellar Circuits (PI: JA. Moreno)
  • Developmental and cognitive disorders (PI: I. Del Pino)
  • Generation and Regeneration of Bilateral Neural Circuits (PI: E. Herrera)
  • Neural circuits in vision for action (PI: A. Kardamakis)
  • Neurobiology of mental, neurodegenerative and neuro-oncological diseases (PI: S. Martínez;D. Echevarria; E. de Puelles; E. Geijo)
  • Sensory-motor processing by subcortical areas (PI: R. Reig)
  • Wiring and Function of Somatosensory Circuits (PI: F. Taberner)
• Cell plasticity in brain disease and repair
  • Cell Plasticity in Development and Disease (PI: A. Nieto; B. López-Sánchez)
  • Cellular plasticity and neuropathology (PI: JP. López-Atalaya)
  • Functional Epi-Genomics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (PI: JV. Sánchez Mut)
• Genetic & epigenetic basis of Individuality & aging
  • Cell-to-tissue architecture in the nervous system (PI: JC Pastor)
  • Functional Epi-Genomics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (PI: JV. Sánchez Mut)
  • Mechanisms of growth control and cancer (PI: M. Domínguez Castellano)
  • Neuroendocrine control of organ growth and sexual maturation (PI: J. Morante)
  • Neurogenetic basis of behavior (PI: JA. Sánchez-Alcañiz)
  • Neuropharmacology, Molecular Immunobiology and Behavior (PI: T. Femenía)
  • Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of neuronal plasticity (PI: A. Barco)
• Human cognition & behaviour
  • Behavior of Organisms (PI: A. Gómez Marín)
  • Ocular neurobiology (PI: J. Gallar; MC Acosta)
  • Plasticity of Brain Networks (PI: S. Canals; E. Marcos)
  • The Visual Analogy Laboratory (PI: LM. Martínez-Otero)
  • Translational Imaging Biomarkers (PI: S. De Santis)
• Neural stem cell regulation and differentiation
  • Asymmetric division of neural stem cells in development and tumorigenesis (PI: A. Carmena)
  • Cell-to-tissue architecture in the nervous system (PI: JC Pastor)
  • Generation and Regeneration of Bilateral Neural Circuits (PI: E. Herrera)
  • Molecular Neurogenetics (PI: F. Tejedor)
  • Neurogenesis and Cortical expansion (PI: V. Borrell)
  • Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of neuronal plasticity (PI: A. Barco)
• Neurobiology of pain & inflammation
  • Molecular control of neuronal axon myelination (PI: H. Cabedo)
  • Ocular neurobiology (PI: J. Gallar; MC Acosta)
  • Sensory transduction and nociception (PI: E. de la Peña, A. Gomis, F. Viana)
  • Wiring and Function of Somatosensory Circuits (PI: F. Taberner)
• Synaptic modulation of neural circuits and behavior
  • Cognition and social interactions (PI: F. Leroy)
  • Developmental and cognitive disorders (PI: I. Del Pino)
  • Molecular and cellular physiology of synaptic transmission (PI: J. Wesseling)
  • Molecular mechanisms in neurosecretion (PI: LM. Gutiérrez; M. Criado)
  • Neural circuits in vision for action (PI: A. Kardamakis)
  • Plasticity and remodeling of neural circuits (PI: I. Pérez-Otaño)
  • Sensory-motor processing by subcortical areas (PI: R. Reig)
  • Synaptic Neuromodulation (PI: S.Jurado)
  • Synaptic Physiology (PI: J. Lerma)
• Translational research of neurological and psychiatric disorders
  • Altered molecular mechanism in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia (PI: J. Sáez-Valero; MS. García-Ayllón)
  • Neurobiology of mental, neurodegenerative and neuro-oncological diseases (PI: S. Martínez;D. Echevarria; E. de Puelles; E. Geijo)
  • Neuropharmacology, Molecular Immunobiology and Behavior (PI: T. Femenía)
  • Plasticity of Brain Networks (PI: S. Canals; E. Marcos)
  • Translational Imaging Biomarkers (PI: S. De Santis)
  • Translational neuropsychopharmacology of neurological and psychiatric diseases (PI: J. Manzanares)