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
Mark McCourt, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Primary Project Directors
Benjamin Balas, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Mark Nawrot, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Michael Robinson, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Barbara Blakeslee, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Research Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Former Pilot Project Directors
Robert Gordon, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Linda Langley, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Rebecca Woods, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Science
North Dakota State University
Wendy Troop-Gordon, Ph.D. (Bio, Personal Home page)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Erin Conwell, Ph.D. (Bio)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Erxi Wu, Ph.D. (Personal Home Page)
Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical Sciences
North Dakota State University
Internal Advisor
Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of North Dakota
External Advisors
Randolph Blake, Ph.D.
Centennial Professor
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Aina Puce, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Imaging Research Facility
Department of Psychological / Brain Sciences
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Project Mentors
Greg DeAngelis, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Brain Cognitive Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
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
Alice J. O'Toole, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
University of Texas
Dallas, TX
