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Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF
Welcome to the Neuroscience Graduate Program Website
Program Introduction
The University of California, San Francisco offers an interdisciplinary program for graduate training in neuroscience. The purpose of this program is to train doctoral students for independent research and teaching in neuroscience.
Our program seeks to train students who will be expert in one particular approach to neuroscientific research, but will also have a strong general background in other areas of neuroscience and related disciplines. To achieve this objective, our students take interdisciplinary core and advanced courses in neuroscience, as well as related courses sponsored by other graduate programs. In addition, they carry out research under the supervision of faculty members in the program.
The faculty of the Neuroscience program are drawn from 15 basic science and clinical departments and three affiliated organized research institutes. At present the program includes 70 faculty members and 98 students. Research interests encompass diverse areas ranging from molecules and cells to systems, cognition, and behavior. Many of our faculty conduct basic research in areas important for understanding neurological disorders, including pain, addiction, degenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders. Laboratories use a variety of different organisms for these studies, ranging from invertebrate genetic models to fish, birds, mice and other species of vertebrates.
The program tries to promote multi-disciplinary interactions in both research and teaching. To enhance interactions and knowledge, the program sponsors several activities open to all UCSF scientists, including an annual retreat, a weekly formal seminar series, a weekly journal club, and periodic symposia. The program also collaborates with other programs to sponsor activities of general interest that help advance the careers of our students and other trainees.
The Neuroscience Graduate Program is a member of a consortium of graduate programs, the Herbert W. Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (P.I.B.S.), providing students with access to exceptional faculty and resources for biological research. In addition to Neuroscience, P.I.B.S. consists of graduate programs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Genetics. All activities of P.I.B.S. programs, including seminars, journal clubs and retreats, are open to Neuroscience graduate students. Neuroscience graduate students also have the option of completing rotations and theses in any of the more than 200 P.I.B.S. laboratories. PIBS Program Website
The Neuroscience Program Acknowledges Generous Support From the Following Entities:
Administrative Services:
Department of Physiology
General Financial Support:
Department of Anatomy
Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction
UCSF School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Neurological Surgery
Department of Neurology
Department of Psychiatry
UCSF School of Pharmacy
Seminar Support:
Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry
Department of Ophthalmology
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology
W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Student Support:
Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
Herbert W. Boyer Educational Endowment
Herbert W. Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS)
Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction
UCSF Chancellor’s Discretionary Funds
UCSF Graduate Division
Institutional Training Grants:
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Eye Institute
Individual Fellowship Awards:
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Autism Speaks Foundation
Boehringer-Ingelheim-Foundation
Genentech Foundation
Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research
UCSF Chancellor
The UCSF Neuroscience Program wishes to honor Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, shown here with her co-Nobelist Dr. Stanley Cohen, at the celebration of her 100th birthday which took place on April 22, 2009, in Rome. (photo kindly provided by Moses Chao)
Seminar and Journal Club Schedules:
Neuroscience Formal Seminars
2009-2010
Neuroscience Journal Club
2009-2010
Neuroscience Admissions
Neuroscience Courses
Upcoming Events:
Neuroscience Formal Seminar
The next Neuroscience Formal Seminar will be on March 11, 2010
Seminar will be broadcast to Rock Hall Auditorium, Mission BayTo view the live Web Cast, you must have the Envivo plug in. Click here if you are having problems viewing the live stream.
Neuroscience Journal Club
Friday, February 12, 2010
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium
4:00pm-Admissions Reception
4:30pm-Talk Starts
Maggie Carr
Frank Lab
You Can Teach a New Spine New Tricks
Stably Maintained Dendritic Spines are Associated with Lifelong Memoires
Nature. 2009. 462:920-924
Rapid Formation and Selective Stabilization of Synapses for Enduring Motor Memories
Nature. 2009. 462:915-919
Faculty Coaches: Michael Stryker and Steve Finkbeiner
Allison Doupe
Wait, Don't Move!
Corticospinal Neurons in Macaque Ventral Premotor Cortex with Mirror Properties: A Potential Mechanism for Action Suppression?
Neuron. 2009. 64(6):922-930
Neuroscience Thesis Seminars
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium
1:30pm
Devon Ryan
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Characterization of a Novel Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channel (Kir2.6) and its Role in Thyrotoxic Hypokalemic Period Paralysis
Host: Louis Ptacek, 514-9305
Herbert W. Boyer Program in Biological Sciences
Neuroscience Informal Seminar
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Mission Bay - Rock Hall 402
4:00pm
Alain Chedotal, Ph.D.
Centre de Recherche
Institut de la Vision
Paris
Genetic Dissection of the Function of Hindbrain Axonal Commissures
Flyer
The Neuroscience Graduate Program administrative offices are located at
Mission Bay
Rock Hall
1550 4th Street
Room 484C