Lead Investigators

Melissa Bauman, Ph.D.

Director, Conte Center (Contact PI)
Principal Investigator, Project 3: Neurodevelopment in an NHP MIA Model
Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Associate Dean for Research Infrastructure
UC Davis School of Medicine

Cameron Carter, M.D.

Co-Director, Conte Center (MPI)
Principal Investigator, Project 5: Systems and Circuits in MIA and Schizophrenia
Chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, UC Irvine
Professor of Psychiatry

Judy Van de Water, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Conte Center
Principal Investigator, Project 1: Maternal Immunity in MIA Susceptibility
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology/Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Associate Director Biological Sciences, UC Davis MIND Institute
Deputy Director, UC Davis MIND Institute IDDRC
Director, UC Davis NIEHS Center for Children's Environmental Health

Shuai Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences

Daniel H. Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Project 4: Refining Transcriptional Networks in MIA
Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment, UCLA School of Medicine
Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics, UCLA
Professor of Neurology; Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Tim Hanks, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Project 2: Striatal Circuits in MIA Phenotypic Heterogeneity
Associate Professor of Neurology
Center for Neuroscience

Ana-Maria Iosif, Ph.D.

Biostatistics Core, UC Davis Conte Center
Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences

Tyler Lesh, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator, Project 5: Systems and Circuits in MIA and Schizophrenia
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Richard Maddock, M.D., M.S.

Co-Investigator, Project 5: Systems and Circuits in MIA and Schizophrenia
Research Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Kimberley McAllister, Ph.D.

Vice Provost for Research, Scholarly Inquiry and Creative Activity, Wake Forest University
Professor of Translational Neuroscience

Cyndi M. Schumann, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator, Project 3: Neurodevelopment in an NHP MIA Model
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UC Davis MIND Institute

Martin Styner, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator, Project 5: Systems and Circuits in MIA and Schizophrenia
Professor of Psychiatry and Computer Science
Associate Director Developmental Neuroimaging Core, CIDD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Roza M. Vlasova, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator, Project 5: Systems and Circuits in MIA and Schizophrenia
Research Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill