Neuroscience

Master of Science in Neuroscience
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: Norman Hackerman Building Building (NHB) 2.504, phone (512) 471-3640, fax (512) 471-0390; campus mail code: C7000

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Neuroscience, 1 University Station C7000, Austin TX 78712

E-mail: neuroscience@mail.clm.utexas.edu

URL: http://neuroscience.utexas.edu/

Facilities for Graduate Work

The Institute for Neuroscience offers excellent opportunities for multidisciplinary graduate study in the neurosciences. Facilities include those maintained by the participating programs in the Colleges of Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Education, and Communication, and in the Cockrell School of Engineering. Institutional support, training grants, and federal and state grants to investigators in the institute provide stipends and support research. Faculty members throughout the institute participate in interdisciplinary seminars, two semester-long broadly based neuroscience courses and multiple topically oriented neuroscience courses. The goal of the institute is to train students to employ multidisciplinary approaches in their careers in neuroscience research and teaching. Toward this end, the faculty seeks to provide a diverse, cohesive, and interactive atmosphere and a flexible curriculum that meets the needs of each individual.

Areas of Study

Neuroscience encompasses behavioral, systems, cellular, molecular, and computational approaches to understanding the nervous system. The faculty use a wide variety of state-of-the-art techniques for their studies, including functional magnetic and optical imaging, various behavioral analyses of animals and humans, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, molecular and cellular biophysics, cellular- and systems-level neurophysiology, biochemistry, molecular genetics, and various types of computer modeling. The research-intensive environment emphasizes multidisciplinary investigations. The program offers students both a sound education in neuroscience and a broad research experience.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.

Lawrence D Abraham Seema Agarwala Richard W Aldrich Greg Allen Nigel S Atkinson Chandrajit L Bajaj Dana H Ballard Jennifer S Beer Adela Ben-Yakar George D Bittner Alan C Bovik Craig A Champlin Bharath Chandrasekaran Jessica A Church-Lang Laura Lee Colgin Lawrence K Cormack Yvon Delville Juan M Dominguez Michael P Domjan Michael Drew Andrew K Dunn Christine L Duvauchelle Johann K Eberhart Ila P Fiete Richard H Finnell Wilson S Geisler III Nace L Golding Rueben A Gonzales F Gonzalez-Lima Andrea C Gore Lisa Griffin Jeffrey M Gross Andreana P Haley Kristen M Harris R A Harris Mary M Hayhoe

Johann Hofmann Alexander C Huk Jody Jensen Daniel Johnston Theresa A Jones Robert A Josephs Helmut J Koester Hongjoo J Lee W T Maddox Michael Mauk Robert Messing S J Mihic Risto P Miikkulainen Marie H Monfils Hitoshi Morikawa Richard A Morrisett Hiroshi Nishiyama Steven M Phelps Jonathan T Pierce-Shimomura Jonathan William Pillow Martin Poenie Russell A Poldrack George D Pollak Alison R Preston Nicholas J Priebe Kimberly Raab-Graham David Ress Michael J Ryan Timothy J Schallert David M Schnyer Eyal Seidemann Jason B Shear D M Snodderly John B Wallingford Harold H Zakon Boris Zemelman

Admission Requirements

The requirements of the Graduate School for admission into a Doctor of Philosophy degree program must be met. However, the qualifications of most admitted applicants exceed these minimum requirements. All applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, usually in a biological science, chemistry, computer science, experimental psychology, pharmacy, or engineering. Undergraduate preparation should include one year of chemistry, one year of biology, mathematics through calculus, and courses in psychology and physics. However, students without some of these prerequisites may be admitted on the condition that they make up any deficiencies during their first two years of study.