Ph.D. in Biomedical Science: Area of Concentration
Neuroscience
Research Facilities
Facilities and Environment
 The
Neuroscience Department faculty have laboratories, lab and seminar space
on the fourth floor of the connected L and E buildings, and associated
faculty are at most a few floors away. Graduate students who have not
yet selected a thesis advisor have desk space and computer in a room set
aside specifically for uncommitted students.
Departmental facilities include all the necessary space and equipment to
perform studies ranging from the psychoacoustics of binaural hearing to
the introduction of site-directed mutations using the polymerase chain
reaction; from the molecular basis of retinal degeneration to the
neurobiology of taste; from the effects of loud noise on the physiology
and anatomy of various stages in the auditory system to the biology of
myelin production; from schizophrenia to Huntington’s to Alzheimer’s to
Down’s syndrome; from excitotoxins to multiple sclerosis; from second
messengers to apoptosis; from computer models of cell biology to
computer models of neural circuits; from embryonic development to
geriatric neurology; and from fetal alcohol syndrome to purification of
proteins for crystallographic studies. The Neuroscience Department also
houses a High Technology Center for Excellence for the Neurological
Sciences. Support for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows is
provided via two NIH training grants and research grants to individual
faculty, plus there is institutional support for graduate fellowships.
School-wide facilities include the excellent
Lyman Maynard Stowe Library with
extensive printed holdings going back more than 50 years, plus over 1000
journals available electronically from any computer in the Health
Center. There is an electron microscopy center, a histology facility, a
molecular core facility for DNA sequencing and DNA array analysis and
oligonucleotide synthesis, the
Center for Cell Analysis
and Modeling with many confocal and other state-of-the-art
light microscopes, several computer centers, an NMR facility, and a new
and extensive transgenic mouse facility.
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