Molecular mechanisms of opiate addiction, tolerance and withdrawal.

The cannabinoid ligands, their endogenous ligands and signal transduction.

Regulation of microglial activation by cannabinoids: Possible role in neurodegenrative and neuroinflammatory diseases

Proton NMR Spectroscopy of Solids

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Surface mobility of molecules in mesoporous materials

The ecological and evolutionary role of programmed cell death in single-celled marine photosynthetic microorganisms

The role of infochemicals and their regulation of cell fate and cell-cell interactions in marine photosynthetic microorganisms

Sensing Environmental Stress and Acclimation Strategies in Marine Algae

Cell Signaling Pathways and their role in the Chemical “Arms Race” during Algal Host-Virus and Predator-Prey interactions

Physical processes in relativistic electron-positron plasma.

The theory of nonthermal radiation from compact astronomical objects (pulsars, white dwarfs, gamma-ray bursters etc.).

Physical processes in very strong magnetic fields.

Physical processes at the surface and astrophysical appearance of strange-quark-matter stars.

Hydrodynamics and high-energy physics of colliding stellar winds in binary systems.

Vision, image understanding, brain theory, artificial intelligence.

Roles of long noncoding RNAs in gene regulation

* Neurophysiological recordings of individual neurons in freely flying bats, using radio-telemetry -- in hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

* The neural basis of behavior

* From the bat's biological sonar system to spatial cognition

* Mammalian hippocampus (hippocampal place cells) and entorhinal cortex (grid cells)

* Neuronal circuits: hippocampal and entorhinal neural activity in freely-behaving echolocating bats

* Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the mammalian brain

* Neurobiology of learning and memory: a systems neuroscience approach

Head muscle patterning and differentiation

Cardiac and skeletal muscle progenitors during vertebrate embryogenesis

Information transmission through dynamic synapses.

Modeling of cortical neuronal populations: From microcircuits to large scale networks.

Population activity in visual cortex.

Electron pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions: search for quark-gluon plasma and chiral symmetry restoration.

R&D, construction and installation of an HBD (Hadron Blind Detector) for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC.

Study of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions using the PHENIX detector at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the CERES detector at CERN