Leadership and Staff

Timothy Ebner, M.D., Ph.D.

Director

ebner001@umn.edu

Tim received his M.D./ Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is Professor and Head of the Neuroscience Department, a Max E. and Mary LaDue Pickworth Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, and the Director of the Brain Conditions arm of MnDRIVE. His research investigates cerebellar and cortical mechanisms mediating normal movement and motor dysfunction in disorders like ataxia.

Mark Thomas, Ph.D.

Co-Director

tmhomas@umn.edu

Mark received his B.S. from Northwestern University, his Ph.D. from UCLA, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently an Professor in the Neuroscience Department and Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Addiction Neuroscience (UMnCAN) and heads the new NIDA P50 Center for Neural Circuits in Addiction. His research investigates the role of synaptic plasticity in brain reward circuits in addictive behavior.

Erin (Larson) Lind, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Staff

Primary Contact

larso323@umn.edu

Erin received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She is currently the Director of the University of Minnesota Mouse Behavior Core. Her research background includes investigation of mechanisms underlying addictive behavior and mood in males and females across molecular, cellular, systems, and behavioral levels.