Boston University is creating a new Center for Integrated Life Science and Engineering (CILSE) for interdisciplinary research which will bring together outstanding scientists and engineers from across the University to work collaboratively in the areas of neuroscience and biological design.

CILSE will comprise 170,000 square feet. Its core resources will include a shared equipment facility for Cognitive Neuroimaging. Three new research Centers will be launched including the Center for Systems Neuroscience and the Center for Sensory Communication and Neural Technology.

 

 

Web Information

BU Neuroscience Website:  http://www.bu.edu/neuro/

Graduate Program for Neuroscience:  http://www.bu.edu/neuro/graduate/

Center for Systems Neuroscience:  http://www.bu.edu/csn/

Center for Sensory Communication and Neural Technology (formerly CompNet):  http://compnet.bu.edu/

 

Contact Information

Director of Graduate Program for Neuroscience, Shelley Russek: srussek@bu.edu

Director of Center for Systems Neuroscience, Michael Hasselmo:  hasselmo@bu.edu

Director of Center for Sensory Communication and Neural Technology, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham: shinn@bu.edu

 

BU Neuroscience

The Neuroscience Mission of BU resonates with a shared belief that major discoveries will come from innovative thinking and an interdisciplinary community of faculty and students.

The broad range of neuroscience research at BU is coordinated through a unified community of investigators from multiple research groups of our Charles River and MED campuses.

Centers bridge the efforts of  individual laboratories and their leaders via scientific retreats, innovative workshops, and collaborative research grants that stimulate ...

Neuroscience at Cornell University, Ithaca campus, emphasizes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. The Program in Neuroscience spans several graduate fields and includes faculty affiliated with many departments.

Faculty researcg encompasses neuroscience from human cognition to biophysics, including diverse experimental and computational approaches using a variety of model organisms. Graduate students acquire expertise in their primary disciplines while cultivating a broader understanding of the bigger picture.

Web Information

Website:  neuroscience.cornell.edu/index.html  Neuroscience at Weill Cornell:  http://neuroscience.med.cornell.edu/ BRAIN Grant – “Optimization of 3-photon microscopy for Large Scale Recording in Mouse Brain”

Contact Information

Email: kathie.ely@cornell.edu Phone: (607)254-4351 Address: Cornell University, W111 Mudd Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853

Faculty

About the Program

At the heart of neuroscience is the study of systems. Molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation underlie persistent synaptic plasticity and thereby mediate learning and memory. Decoding the information content of spike trains requires an understanding of the higher-order architectures of the neural circuits in which they are embedded. The adaptations of sensory systems to efficiently encode and interpret natural scenes reflect the species’ ecological niche and evolutionary descent. The analysis of cognitive processes depends on understanding the allocation of metabolic resources, from adenosine triphosphate to selective attention. The larger questions in neuroscience require an integrated approach.

Neuroscience at Cornell University, Ithaca campus, emphasizes an ...

The Program in Neuroscience draws together neuroscientists from across Harvard. The physical home base of the program is located at the Longwood Campus of Harvard Medical School, in the Department of Neurobiology.

Research sites include the Longwood Medical Area, Cambridge Campus, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the McLean Hospital. The Center for Brain Science unites many neuroscience labs and houses in the newly established Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience.

Web Information

Website: dms.hms.harvard.edu/neuroscience/prospective/AboutPIN Research Sites: dms.hms.harvard.edu/neuroscience/prospective/ResearchSites Brain Initiative Grant – “Comprehensive Classification Of Neuronal Subtypes By Single Cell Transcriptomics” BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) for Functional Brain Imaging in Humans” BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Mapping neuronal chloride microdomains” Brain Initiative Grant– “Neural circuits in zebrafish: form, function and plasticity”

Contact Information

Email: karen_harmin@hms.harvard.edu Phone: (617) 432-0912 Address: Program in Neuroscience Harvard Medical School 220 Longwood Avenue Goldenson 129 Boston, MA 02115

About the Program in Neuroscience

Mission Statement: We are an inter-departmental Ph.D. program for training in neuroscience. Our mission is to provide students with the instruction, research experience, and mentoring they need to become leaders in research and education.

Who we are: The Program in Neuroscience draws together neuroscientists from across Harvard. The physical home base of the program is located at the Longwood Campus of Harvard Medical School, in the Department of Neurobiology. Most coursework occurs at this campus, ...

MIT has numerous academic and research programs related to neuroscience. Key institutions include the Department of Brain, and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Biological Engineering, and the MIT Media Lab.

Important neuroscience related centers include: Center for Neurobiological Engineering (CNBE); McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program; Simons Center for the Social Brain (SCSB); Synthetic Biology Center;Picower Center for Learning and Memory; and the Martinos Imaging Center at MIT.

Grant Information

Brain Initiative Grant – “Advancing MRI & MRS Technologies for Studying Human Brain Function and Energetics” Brain Initiative Grant – “Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracing”“Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracing” Brain Initiative Grant – “Ultra-Multiplexed Nanoscale In Situ Proteomics for Understanding Synapse Types” Brain Initiative Grant – “Calcium sensors for molecular fMRI” Brain Initiative Grant – “Next generation high-throughput random access imaging, in vivo” Brain Initiative Grant – “Cortical circuits and information flow during memory-guided perceptual decisions”

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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48 faculty members,over 200 graduate & undergraduate students, 180 researchers and post-docs and 36 staff

Department Head: James Dicarlo, PhD

Department of Biological Engineering

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MIT Media Lab

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Center for Neurobiological Engineering (CNBE)

 

The Institute places particular emphasis on the close connection between theory, modeling and experimentation using the most advanced technologies.

Jon Cohen and David Tank serve as co-directors of the Institute. They view the Institute as a stimulus for teaching and research in neuroscience and related fields, as well as an impetus for collaboration and education in disciplines as wide ranging as economics and philosophy. Princeton collaborators come from an array of disciplines including mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry, computer science, ecology and evolutionary biology, and economics.

Website:  pni.princeton.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant –  “Mechanisms of neural circuit dynamics in working memory” BRAIN Grant – “Vertically integrated approach to visual neuroscience: microcircuits to behavior”

Contact Information

E-mail: ttayler@princeton.edu Phone:  (609)258-0826 Address: Washington Road | Princeton, NJ 08544

Co-Directors: Jon Cohen and David Tank

Faculty by Department Affiliation

CHEMISTRY

Clarence Schutt Biophysics and structural biology

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Robert Schapire Theoretical and applied aspects of machine learning

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Carolyn McBride Genes and neural circuits underlying behavioral evolution James Gould Programming and decision making in animals Daniel Rubenstein Adaptive patterns of social behavior

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Peter Ramadge Video and image processing, and adaptive systems

MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Philip Holmes Mathematical modeling Robert Stengel Optimal control ...

 

Summary

The goal of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute is to understand how the brain gives rise to mental life and behavior.

The Institute’s interdisciplinary community of scholars will draw from a multiplicity of disciplines, including neuroscience, medicine, education, law and business.  Their discoveries aim to remodel understanding of brain function, individuals, and society, enabling positive change and enhancing human potential. Current research themes: The Changing Brain, Cracking the Neural Code, Enhancing the Brain, Understanding Thought, and How We Learn.

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Information

Website:  neuroscience.stanford.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Protein voltage sensors: kilohertz imaging of neural dynamics in behaving animals”

Email: neuroscience@stanford.edu Phone: 650-497-8019 Address: James H. Clark Center 318 Campus Drive, Suite S170 Stanford, CA 94305-5443

Organization

Director: William T. Newsome

 

About Us

Our Mission

The goal of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute is to understand how the brain gives rise to mental life and behavior, both in health and in disease. Our research community draws from and informs multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, medicine, engineering, psychology, education and law. New discoveries will transform our understanding of the human brain, provide novel treatments for brain disorders, and promote brain health throughout the lifespan. We aim to create positive benefits ...

 

Summary

Yale University’s neuroscience research and academic programs are located in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the School of Medicine. 

The interdisciplinary research programs of Yale neuroscience faculty are central to Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP). Other major groups are the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience which awards grants to Yale faculty to support new research initiatives and the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Research which is dedicated to molecular and cell-based discoveries.

Information

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program website: medicine.yale.edu/neuroscience Kavli Institute for Neuroscience website:  kavli.yale.edu/research Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Research website: medicine.yale.edu/cnrr/ BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Development of Protein-based Voltage Probes” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “A Novel Approach for Cell-Type Classification and Connectivity in the Human Brain” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Three Dimensional Holography for Parallel Multi-target Optogenetic Circuit Manipulation”

 

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

The interdisciplinary research programs of Yale neuroscience faculty are central to Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP). This unique, broad-based training program can best be described as a “department without walls,” with the primary purpose of providing students with a maximum of diversity and depth in the most important areas of neuroscience research.

 

Academics

The interdisciplinary research programs of Yale neuroscience faculty are central to Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP). This unique, broad-based training program can best be described as ...

John Hopkins has two primary centers for neuroscience research: The Solomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Current research ranges from investigating the development of the nervous system, synaptic plasticity and the molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory to the neural basis of higher brain function such as perception and decision-making.

Web Information

Department of Neuroscience website: neuroscience.jhu.edu/about/contact-us/ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences website:  pbs.jhu.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Imaging in vivo neurotransmitter modulation of brain network activity in realtime”

Contact Information

Department of Neuroscience Phone: 410-614-2447 Address: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience 1003 Wood Basic Science Building 725 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21205 Director, : Rick Huganir

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Phone: (410) 516-7055 Address: Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences The Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218-2686

Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience

Welcome from the Director

Welcome to the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. The Department, founded in 1980 by brain science pioneer Sol Snyder, is one of the first Neuroscience Departments in the country. With 32 primary faculty, 4 adjunct faculty and 69 secondary faculty conducting research in all areas of neuroscience ranging from ...

University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has one of the largest neuroscience complexes in the world including the Sandler Neurosciences Center and Rock Hall. UCSF is ranked by NIH as the #1 department of neurology at US medical schools.

Research is done by the faculty in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and many centers including the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and the Center for Integrative Neuroscience. Affiliated centers include research at San Francisco Medical Centers and the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disorders.

Web Information

Department of Neurology Website: neurology.ucsf.edu/ UCSF Memory and Aging Center:  memory.ucsf.edu/ Center for Integrative Neuroscience: cin.ucsf.edu/index.html UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program: neuroscience.ucsf.edu/neurograd BRAIN Initiative Grant – ” Modular systems for measuring and manipulating brain activity” BRAIN Initiative Grant –  “Mapping the Developing Human Neocortex by Massively Parallel Single Cell Analysis” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Identification of enhancers whose activity defines cortical interneuron types”

Contact Information

Address: Sandler Neurosciences Center 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Suite 190 San Francisco, California

Sandler Neurosciences Center

In honor of Herbert and Marion Sandler’s extraordinary commitment to neurological disease research at UCSF, our new neurosciences building at Mission Bay has been named the Sandler Neurosciences Center. This 237,000 square foot facility has laboratories headed by principal investigators from the UCSF Department of Neurology, the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases ...

The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) at UC Berkeley is an active, collaborative research community that investigates fundamental questions about how the brain functions.

Using approaches from many disciplines (including biophysics, chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, genetics, mathematics, molecular and cell biology, physics, and physiology), HWNI seeks to understand how the brain generates behavior and cognition, and to better understand, diagnose and treat neurological disorders.

Web Information

Website:  http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/ Partnership with Zeiss: UC Berkeley-Zeiss BrainMIC Twitter:  https://twitter.com/UCBerkeleyNeuro Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Wills_Neuroscience_Institute BRAIN Grant – “Classification of Cortical Neurons by Single Cell Transcriptomics” BRAIN Grant – “MRI Corticography (MRCoG): Micro-scale Human Cortical Imaging” BRAIN Grant – ”Optical control of synaptic transmission for in vivo analysis of brain circuits and behavior”

Contact Information

Phone: 510.642.2593 Address:UC Berkeley 175 Li Ka Shing Center, MC#3370 Berkeley, CA 94720

Director: Ehud Isacoff Admin & Staff

Research & Technology Centers

Advances in understanding brain function and brain disorders are often enabled by cutting-edge technology. The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute fosters technological advances by sponsoring Technology Centers. These centers bring together physical scientists (e.g., from physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering) and neuroscientists to develop tools for neuroscience research, and apply these tools to advance our understanding of the brain.

Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses (CNEP)

Deep ...

 

Summary

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS) was created as a cross-school, campus-wide, interdisciplinary Institute with a commitment to building an interactive community of brain science research and scholarship.

DIBS encourages innovation and collaborations that transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines, bringing together a diverse community of academics from the biomedical sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, humanities, law, business, public policy, mathematics, computer science and engineering.

Information

Website:   http://www.dibs.duke.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Path Toward MRI with Direct Sensitivity to Neuro-Electro-Magnetic Oscillations”

Email:  contact form Phone: (919) 684-3422 Address: Duke University Box 91003 Levine Science Research Center, Room B107 450 Research Drive Durham, North Carolina 27708

Organization

Director: Michael Platt

 

About the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences was created in 2007 as a cross-school, campus-wide, interdisciplinary Institute with a commitment to building an interactive community of brain science research and scholarship. DIBS encourages innovation and collaborations that transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines, bringing together a diverse community of academics from the biomedical sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, humanities, law, business, public policy, mathematics, computer science and engineering.

Our Mission:

to advance interdisciplinary research and education that transforms our understanding of brain function and translates into innovative solutions for health and society

Our Vision:

an interactive community of scholars—faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows and staff—who ...

Mayo Clinic has multiple centers of neuroscience research activity.  In Rochester Minnesota, the main organizational center is the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering and in Florida, the Department of Neuroscience at Mayo Clinic.

Other Mayo Neuroscience related programs  and centers include a PhD program in Neurobiology, an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Migraine Research Program, Parkinson’s Disease Research Center, and the Traumatic Brain Injury Program.

 

Web Information

Website: Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering Department of Neuroscience at Mayo Clinic in Florida: mayo.edu/research/department-neuroscience-florida Wikipedia Entry:   wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Clinic Brain Initiative Grant – “Neurotransmitter Absolute Concentration Determination with Diamond Electrode”

Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering

Laboratories of primary and joint appointees in the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering:

Biomechanics and Motion Laboratories Bone Histomorphometry – Michael J. Yaszemski Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging – Martin G. Rodriguez-Porcel Cell Imaging and Physiology – Gary C. Sieck Computer-aided Molecular Design – Yuan-Ping Pang Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology – John R. Henley Gastrointestinal Physiology – Gianrico Farrugia Hepatic Vascular Cell Signaling – Vijay H. Shah Human Integrative Physiology – Michael J. Joyner Kidney Development and Cyst Formation – Caroline R. Sussman Liver Pathobiology – Gregory J. Gores Lung Deformation Injury – Rolf D. Hubmayr Magnetic Resonance ...

Summary

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, not-for-profit research and education institution at the forefront of molecular biology and genetics.

CSHL research generates knowledge that will yield better diagnostics and treatments for cancer, neurological diseases and other major diseases, and that will lead to improved and more diverse food resources and more efficient biofuels. The Watson School of Biological Sciences trains the next generation of scientists through an innovative Ph.D. program and other educational offerings.

 

Information

Website:  http://www.cshl.edu/ Wikipedia Entry: wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Spring_Harbor_Laboratory BRAIN Grant – “Towards quantitative cell type-based mapping of the whole mouse brain” BRAIN Grant – “An optogenetic toolkit for the interrogation and control of single cells.”

Email:  contact info Phone: 516-367-8800 Address: One Bungtown Road Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

President and Chief Executive Officer:  Bruce W. Stillman Leadership

 

Neuroscience

CSHL neuroscientists focus on understanding how neural activity and neural circuitry underlie behavior, and how disruptions in these circuits lead to neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, autism, schizophrenia and depression. These questions are addressed in two model systems—rodents and Drosophila—using molecular, cellular, genetic, developmental, theoretical, physiological and behavioral approaches.

Neuroscience research at CSHL is highly collaborative, and can be divided into three broad themes: sensory processing, cognition, and cognitive disorders.  The sensory processing group addresses basic questions about sensory representations (auditory, olfactory ...

Several Caltech laboratories are applying basic science findings to animal models of brain disorders, and these translational approaches are opening up novel therapeutic avenues.

Caltech Neuroscience research spans a wide range: from the molecular function of receptors; through signaling organelles like the synapse; the structure and function of single neurons; the assembly and function of circuits of nerve cells; and the collective function of brain systems in controlling behavior, perception, memory, cognition, and emotion.

 

 

Web Information

Neurobiology website:   http://neurobiology.caltech.edu/ Computaton & Neural Systems website: http://www.cns.caltech.edu/ Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology BRAIN Initiative Grant – Time-Reversal Optical Focusing for Noninvasive Optogenetics BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Modular nanophotonic probes for dense neural recording at single-cell resolution” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Integrative Functional Mapping of Sensory-Motor Pathways” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Dissecting human brain circuits in vivo using ultrasonic neuromodulation”

Contact Information

Email: meister@caltech.edu Phone: 626) 395-1782 Address: Neurobiology California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd., MC 216-76 Pasadena, CA 91125

Executive Officer for Neurobiology: Marianne Bronner

Computation and Neural Systems

Research

The CNS faculty maintain strong connections with colleagues throughout the Division, the Institute, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Our faculty collaborate with colleagues from Bioengineering, Biology, Electrical Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, and JPL.

Neurophysiology Allman : Andersen :

UCLA is the home of an outstanding and vibrant neuroscience community, including laboratories in diverse departments in the David Geffen School of Medicine, the College and the Samueli School of Engineering.

UCLA offers graduate training in Neuroscience through the Interdepartmental PhD Program for Neuroscience (NS-IDP). The program includes about 150 laboratories in diverse areas spanning the field from molecular analysis to genetics and behavior. Students learn modern problem solving skills and use state of the art approaches to explore a deeper understanding of how the brain processes information.

 

 

Web Information

Website: neuroscience.ucla.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Defining cell types, lineage, and connectivity in developing human fetal cortex” BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Novel Genetic Strategy for Sparse Labeling and Manipulation of Mammalian Neurons”

Contact Information

Email: felixs@ucla.edu Phone: ext. 4-5733 Address: UCLA Brain Research Institute 1506 Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center 695 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Organization

Chair: Felix E. Schweizer, Neurobiology Vice-Chair: Tom O’Dell, Physiology

Graduate Program

The Interdepartmental PhD Program in Neuroscience (NSIDP) is one of eighteenGraduate Programs in Biosciences at UCLA. The NSIDP has an independent admissions process and an independent curriculum, but all programs share some of the administrative structures.

Neuroscience research at UCLA is not restricted to an individual department. In fact ...

University of California Davis Neuroscience occurs both at the Sacramento campus, home of UC Davis Health System and at the UC Davis campus 15 miles west of Sacramento. 

The Center for Neuroscience is UC Davis’ hub for studying the entire scope of neuroscience, ranging from cellular and molecular neurobiology, through systems and developmental neuroscience, to studies of human perception, memory, language, and the nature of consciousness. Some of the major UC Davis Health System research centers include the UC Davis MIND Institute, Eye and Pain Medicine Centers.

Web Information

UC Davis Neurosciences Website: ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/giving/leadinginitiatives/neurosciences UC Davis Center for Neuroscience website: neuroscience.ucdavis.edu BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Large-Scale Recording-Modulation – New Technologies (RFA NS-14-007)” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Genetically encoded reporters of integrated neural activity for functional mapping of neural circuitry”

Organization

Director Center for Neuroscience: Cameron Carter

UC Davis MIND Institute, Vision Sciences and the Eye Center, and Pain Medicine

Neurosciences is a key strategic emphasis for UC Davis, and is a campus-wide research area with collaborations across nearly every school and college.

Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. are impacted by neurological, developmental, and ophthalmological disorders, as well as chronic pain. Advances in technology have opened possibilities for faculty in the vision sciences, neurosciences and pain medicine to better ...

The Washington University Neuroscience Program offers outstanding neuroscience education for Ph.D. students and exciting research opportunities for Postdoctoral scientists. 

The Program includes a broad spectrum of research laboratories that study how the brain works. Neuroscience research has included the nobel-prize winning insights of Rita Levi-Montalcini and Viktor Hamburger on formation and development of the nervous sytem, through development of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, to current innovations in detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease.

 

 

Web Information

Neuroscience Program website: hneuroscience.wustl.edu/ Office of Neuroscience Research website: neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Fast High-Resolution Deep Photoacoustic Tomography of Action Potentials in Brains”

Contact Information

Email:  susan@brainvis.wustl.edu Phone: (314) 362-7043 Address: Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 6313 

Letter from the Directors

Welcome to the Neuroscience Program at Washington University!

How does the brain control movement and produce thoughts, emotions, sensations, memories? How can we help those people for whom diseases have affected their normal cognitive or motor abilities? These questions present the largest and most exciting challenges in modern science. From the earliest work on nerve impulses to the current imaging of human brain activities, the laboratories of Washington University have been at the forefront of training outstanding young neuroscientists.

Today that training is organized into a comprehensive Neuroscience Ph.D. program representing more than 120 faculty ...

The Center for Neuroscience (CN) mission is to advance knowledge in basic and translational neuroscience through team-based interdisciplinary research.

The CN functions to integrate all neuroscience research activities across a collaborative enterprise of 40 laboratories throughout the WVU campus. Our faculty members are highly interactive and participate with trainees in regular scientific and social events where we explore recent breakthroughs and discuss the major topics in neuroscience research.

 

 

Web Information

Website: hsc.wvu.edu/wvucn/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Imaging the Brain in Motion: The Ambulatory Micro-Dose, Wearable PET Brain Imager”

Contact Information

Email: mpscott@hsc.wvu.edu Phone: 304.293.2930 Address: WVU Center for Neuroscience PO Box 9304 Morgantown, WV 26506-9304

Organization

Director: George Spirou

WVU Health Sciences Center

Message from the Director

The Center for Neuroscience (CN) mission is to advance knowledge in basic and translational neuroscience through team-based interdisciplinary research.

The CN functions to integrate all neuroscience research activities across a collaborative enterprise of 40 laboratories throughout the WVU campus. Our faculty members are highly interactive and participate with trainees in regular scientific and social events where we explore recent breakthroughs and discuss the major topics in neuroscience research.

Rather unique for research institutions, the WVU CN serves as the hub of activity across a broad array of neuroscience research topics to serve the entire ...

UC Irvine’s neuroscience efforts are primarily focused on the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology in the School of Medicine and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the School of Biological Sciences.

Research projects aim to discover treatments and cures for epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, learning and memory disorders, drug addiction, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), deafness and other hearing disorders, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, mental retardation and to learn more about systems neuroscience, learning and memory, cell signaling, and hearing research.

 

 

Web Information

Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology Website:  anatomy.uci.edu/ Department of Neurobiology and Behavior website: neurobiology.uci.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Towards a Complete Description of the Circuitry Underlying Memory replay”

Organization

Chair Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology: Ivan Soltesz Chair Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Marcelo Wood mwood@uci.edu

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior is made up of a community of faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows and staff who share a common goal: creating an exciting intellectual environment that optimizes our research and teaching missions. Our faculty are highly distinguished both nationally and internationally. Presently two of our faculty are in the National Academy of Science, two in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, two in the Royal Society of London, and ...

The University of Minnesta’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN) grew out of the Presidential Initiative on Brain Function across the Lifespan.The Institute is not a brick and mortar entity but an umbrella organization.

The Institute’s main goal has been to retain and recruit neuroscience researchers who exemplify the institute’s mission to make discoveries through team work.The Institute’s second goal is to foster and encourage collaboration amongst the scholars, researchers and centers.

Web Information

Website: itn.umn.edu/index.htm Brain Initiative Grant– “Advancing MRI & MRS Technologies for Studying Human Brain Function and Energetics” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Imaging Brain Function in Real World Environments & Populations with Portable MRI”

Contact Information

Email: oydx004@umn.edu Phone: 612-626-4951 Address: Wallin Medical Biosciences Building Room 3-114 2101 6th Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455

Organization

Director: Harry T. Orr

Institute for Translational Neuroscience

The Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN) was established in 2007 as a presidential university-wide initiative in order to promote the transfer of discoveries in the basic neurosciences to clinical practice. The institute is charged to enhance basic science discovery with new knowledge leading to subsequent clinical trials and establishment of new therapeutic principles or tools. The institute aims to attract and recruit top scientists to shape discoveries that will lead to tomorrow’s cures. The lTN exemplifies how different disciplines, departments ...

The Brain Research Institute (“Hifo”) is a neuroscience research center in the medical faculty of the University of Zurich.

The four laboratories on neural circuit dynamics, neural plasticity, neuroepigenetics, and neural regeneration and repair focus on basic research topics ranging from molecular and cellular processes to network functions in the nervous system. The main areas of investigation concern the ability of the central nervous system to learn new information and to regenerate after injury, the mechanisms underlying synaptic transmission, plasticity and synapses formation.

 

Web Information

Website: hifo.uzh.ch BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Multi-area two-photon microscopy for revealing long-distance communication between multiple local brain circuits”

Contact Information

Email: helmchen@hifo.uzh.ch Phone:+41 44 635 33 01 Address: Brain Research Institute Building 55 University of Zurich Irchel Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich

Organization

Co-Directors: Fritjof Helmchen and Isabelle Mansuy Managing Director: Sebastian Jessberger

 About

The Brain Research Institute (Institut für Hirnforschung, short “Hifo”) was founded in 1962 as a neuroscience research center in the medical faculty of the University of Zurich. The four laboratories on neural circuit dynamics, neural plasticity, neuroepigenetics, and neural regeneration and repair focus on basic research topics ranging from molecular and cellular processes to network functions in the nervous system. The main areas of investigation concern the ability of the central nervous system to learn new information and to regenerate after ...