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; campus mail code: C7000
Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Neuroscience, 100 E 24th Street Stop C7000, Austin TX 78712
E-mail: neuroscience@mail.clm.utexas.edu
URL: https://neuroscienceinstitute.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, 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 (GSC) in the spring 2020 semester.
GSC list updated fall 2020 based on spring 2020 appointments. |
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Lawrence D Abraham Seema Agarwala Richard W Aldrich Nigel S Atkinson Chandrajit L Bajaj Dana Harry Ballard Adela Ben-Yakar George D Bittner Darrin H Brager Steven G Britt Audrey C Brumback Frances Anne Champagne Craig A Champlin Jessica Alice Church-Lang Laura Lee Colgin Lawrence K Cormack James Patrick Curley Yvon Delville Ming-Chieh Ding Lauren K Dobbs Juan M Dominguez Michael Drew Andrew K Dunn Joseph Edward Dunsmoor Jr Christine L Duvauchelle Johann K Eberhart Laura K Fonken Greg Anthony Fonzo Andrew David Gaudet Wilson S Geisler III Nace L Golding Marcel Goldschen Rueben A Gonzales F Gonzalez-Lima Andrea C Gore Robbe Lieve Theofiel Goris Liberty Hamilton Kristen M Harris R A Harris Mary Myleen Hayhoe Maya L Henry Johann Hofmann Mackenzie A Howard Alexander C Huk |
Alexander Huth Mbemba Jabbi Daniel Johnston Theresa A Jones John S Kuo Hongjoo Joanne Lee Jarrod Alan Lewis-Peacock Elizabeth Thomas Cox Lippard Michela Marinelli Michael Mauk Roy D Mayfield Esther Melamed Robert Messing S J Mihic Risto P Miikkulainen Marie Helene Monfils Hitoshi Morikawa Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay Luis A Natividad Ian Michael Nauhaus Hiroshi Nishiyama Kimberly Nixon Linda Jeanne Noble Caitlin A Orsini David Paydarfar Steven M Phelps Jonathan T Pierce George D Pollak Alison Renee Preston Nicholas J Priebe Samantha Rose Santacruz David M Schnyer William Schwartz Eyal Seidemann Eric Senning Jason B Shear D Max Snodderly Jr Stephen M Strakowski James Samuel Sulzer Thibaud Olivier Taillefumier Andrew J Watrous Xuexin Wei 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.