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Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF
Neuroscience Courses 2008 - 2009
Courses for Fall 2008
NS201A: Basic Concepts in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
An interdisciplinary introduction to fundamental aspects of nervous system function. The course emphasizes the ionic and molecular basis of excitability, synaptic transmission and signal transduction.
Directors: Jenny LaVail E-mail: lavailj@vision.ucsf.edu, Dorit Ron, email: dorit.ron@ucsf.edu, Herwig Baier, email: Herwig.baier@ucsf.edu
Offered: Every fall
Schedule: 9-11am, 3 times per week.
NS221: Current Topics in Neuroscience
Students will read and discuss papers related to the current week’s formal Neuroscience Seminar series, attend the seminar, and meet with the speaker.
Directors: Linda Noble, email: Linda.noble@ucsf.edu Antonello Bonci, Antonello.bonci@ucsf.edu
Offered: Every year
Schedule:Follows selected seminar speakers’ schedules. Meets twice a week 9-10am and 5:30-7:30pm for each selected speaker. Approximately 10 speakers selected per year.
Note: This is a year-long course. Students who wish to take in must sign up for it in the fall, winter and spring quarters (starting in the fall quarter).
NS222: Signaling in Neurobiology
This course will discuss receptor-mediated signal transduction and its regulation at the cellular level. The first part of the course will
be largely didactic, reviewing basic principles of information theory and molecular pharmacology that are relevant to all signaling
systems. The second part of the course will focus on selected receptors and regulatory mechanisms that function in neurons.
Faculty experts in each area will present a lecture and assign relevant research paper(s) for student discussion. Topics include G
protein-coupled receptors and regulation, regulation of ion channel signaling, receptor tyrosine kinases, Wnt signaling, TGF-beta
signaling, polarity and chemotaxis.
Director: Louis Reichardt email: louis.reichardt@ucsf.edu
Offered: Advanced Neuroscience Courses are taught in the evenings, 2 nights a week for 2 hours/night, between 5-8 pm. Every three years.
Schedule: Class starts on Oct. 2. Class will be 2 times a week.
NS201B: Basic Concepts in Systems Neuroscience
Introduction to fundamental aspects of nervous system development, including neural determination, axon guidance, and neuron-target interactions, and overview of basics of integrative neural function, including sensory, motor and limbic systems, and computational neuroscience.
Director: Michael Brainard, email: msb@phy.ucsf.edu, Herwig Baier, email: Herwig.baier@ucsf.edu
Offered: Every Winter
Schedule: 9-11am, 3 days/week. Schedule coming soon.
NS221: Current Topics in Neuroscience
Students will read and discuss papers related to the current week’s formal Neuroscience Seminar series, attend the seminar, and meet with the speaker.
Directors: Linda Noble, email: Linda.noble@ucsf.edu Antonello Bonci, Antonello.bonci@ucsf.edu
Offered: Every year
Schedule:Follows selected seminar speakers’ schedules. Meets twice a week 9-10am and 5:30-7:30pm for each selected speaker. Approximately 10 speakers selected per year.
Note: This is a year-long course. Students who wish to take in must sign up for it in the fall, winter and spring quarters (starting in the fall quarter).
NS219: Topics in Basic or Translational Neuroscience (Mini Courses)
Info for each course will be listed on the pages below:
MircoRNA's in Neuronal Development and Function
Fronto-Temporal Dementia
Addiction
PDF List of all PIBS Mini Courses for Spring 2009
Neuroscience Spring Mini Course Review Session:
Monday, June 8, 2009
10:00am
Genentech Hall S261, Mission Bay
NS221: Current Topics in Neuroscience
Students will read and discuss papers related to the current week’s formal Neuroscience Seminar series, attend the seminar, and meet with the speaker.
Directors: Linda Noble, email: Linda.noble@ucsf.edu Antonello Bonci, Antonello.bonci@ucsf.edu
Offered: Every year
Schedule:Follows selected seminar speakers’ schedules. Meets twice a week 9-10am and 5:30-7:30pm for each selected speaker. Approximately 10 speakers selected per year.
Note: This is a year-long course. Students who wish to take in must sign up for it in the fall, winter and spring quarters (starting in the fall quarter).
NS225: Neurobiology of Disease
This advanced course will provide an in-depth introduction to the mechanisms of some of the major neurological diseases that affect people. It will include lectures on aging, anxiety disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, epilepsy, other episodic diseases of the nervous system (e.g., migraine, ataxias, etc…), Huntington’s disease and other triplet repeat disorders, sleep disorders, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and eye disorders.
Director: Steve Finkbeiner, email: sfinkbeiner@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Offered: Every three years.
Schedule: Advanced Neuroscience Courses are taught in the evenings, 2 nights a week for 2 hours/night, between 5-9 pm.
NS214: Ethics and Responsible Conduct of Research
Coordinator: Bill Lindstaedt, email: bill.lindstaedt@ucsf.edu
All Correspondance to Shauna Brodie, email: ocpd@ucsf.edu
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Wednesdays at Parnassus N-217
Thursdays at Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Auditorium
Each week, the same session is taught at both Parnassus and Mission Bay. See the syllabus for exceptions!
2nd Year Students Must Attend