Some of the more significant neuroscience research centers include: the Center of Cognitive & Social Neuroscience; Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering; Brain Research Imaging Center; Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering; Center for Peripheral Neuropathy; and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior.
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Columbia Neuroscience is centered around the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute with 70 labs in 15 different departments.
Cumulatively, the Columbia neuroscience community of world-class neurobiologists generates more research funding than any other group in the country. Among them are two Nobel Prize winners, KIBS Director Eric Kandel and KIBS Investigator Richard Axel; 11 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators; eight members of the National Academy of Sciences; and 13 members of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Columbia Neuroscience/KIBS website: kavli.columbia.edu/ Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute website: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Developing drivers for neuron type-specific gene expression”
Email: kavli@columbia.edu Phone: 646-774-6830 Address:Kavli Institute for Brain Science Columbia University 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 87 New York, NY 10032
Director: Eric Kandel
The mechanisms of the brain, the workings of the mind, the complexities of human behavior—these are the challenges that define the scientific frontier for the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
The past 30 years have revolutionized our understanding of the biology of the brain, as new methods and tools have been used to explore the structure of its component neurons and circuits. Unraveling the details of how these neuronal networks function ...
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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.
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”
48 faculty members,over 200 graduate & undergraduate students, 180 researchers and post-docs and 36 staff
Department Head: James Dicarlo, PhD
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”
E-mail: ttayler@princeton.edu Phone: (609)258-0826 Address: Washington Road | Princeton, NJ 08544
Co-Directors: Jon Cohen and David Tank
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The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) leads the nation as the top neurosciences department in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
With about 120 faculty members, UC San Diego’s Neuroscience department is among the nation’s largest. The program’s labs, medical centers and clinics are located in the heart of the San Diego life sciences district. There are many research centers at UCSD including Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind; Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience; and Research in Neuroscience at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Website: ucsd.edu/ Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind: kavlifoundation.org/university-california-san-diego Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience: http://sccn.ucsd.edu/index.html Research in Neuroscience at UC San Diego School of Medicine: neurosciences.ucsd.edu/research/Pages/default.aspx Wikipedia Entry: wiki/University_of_California,_San_Diego BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Revealing the connectivity and functionality of brain stem circuits” Brain Initiative Grant– “Classifying Cortical Neurons by Correlating Transcriptome with Function” BRAIN Initiative Grant– Optogenetic mapping of synaptic activity and control of intracellular signaling”
With about 120 faculty members, UC San Diego’s Neuroscience department is among the nation’s largest. The program’s labs, medical centers and clinics are located in the heart of the ...
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Centered around 76 cutting-edge laboratories working in a broad range of fields, The Rockefeller University fosters a collaborative research environment for its faculty and provides an innovative educational experience for its outstanding graduate students and postdoc researchers.
To help reduce artificial barriers and provide its investigators with the greatest degree of freedom, Rockefeller does not have academic departments. As a result, the university is not constrained to perform research in any particular field and can recruit the most accomplished and gifted investigators across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the sciences.
Website: rockefeller.edu/ Wikipedia Entry: wiki/Rockefeller_University Brain Initiative Grant – “Remote regulation of neural activity”
Email: contacts Phone: 212-327-8000 Address: The Rockefeller University | 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
The Fisher Center is a nexus for Alzheimer’s disease research at Rockefeller. The center’s scientists use state-of-the-art technologies to expand and accelerate Alzheimer’s research and lay the foundation for new treatment strategies.
The center’s investigations build on Alzheimer’s studies conducted in Rockefeller University labs, particularly research focused on how the cells of the brain process the amyloid precursor protein (APP). Faulty regulation of APP processing — in which APP is chopped into smaller pieces during normal brain cell ...
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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.
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”
Address: Sandler Neurosciences Center 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Suite 190 San Francisco, California
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 ...
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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.
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”
Phone: 510.642.2593 Address:UC Berkeley 175 Li Ka Shing Center, MC#3370 Berkeley, CA 94720
Director: Ehud Isacoff Admin & Staff
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.
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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.
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
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 ...
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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.
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”
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
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.
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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.
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”
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
Chair: Felix E. Schweizer, Neurobiology Vice-Chair: Tom O’Dell, Physiology
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 ...
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The longest-standing neuroscience graduate program in the United States, we are a collegial and interactive group that performs research across the breadth of the neuroscience field.
The University of Michigan Neuroscience program captures the excitement and interdisciplinary collaboration intrinsic to the field of neuroscience by drawing on the expertise of over 120 faculty members from more than 20 departments.Primary research fields include: Sensory & Computational Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience,Behavioral Neuroscience,Molecular Neuroscience, and Clinical Neuroscience.
Neuroscience Graduate Program website: neuroscience.med.umich.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – ” Modular High-Density Optoelectrodes for Local Circuit Analysis”
Email: neuroscience.program@umich.edu Phone: (734) 763-9638 Address: Neuroscience Graduate Program 4137 Undergraduate Science Building (USB) 204 Washtenaw Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2215
Welcome! The Graduate Program at the University of Michigan was constituted in 1971, making it the longest-standing neuroscience graduate program in the United States. We are a collegial and interactive group of 60+ students and 120 faculty that perform research across the breadth of the neuroscience field. Neuroscience graduate students on this campus form a cohesive group, which promotes interactions among the faculty, making the Graduate Program the nexus of the neuroscience community. Graduates receive a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, which provides tremendous flexibility in choosing one’s career path. There are more than ...
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The Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Graduate Program offer cutting-edge interdisciplinary training in several areas: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognitive Science; Computational Neuroscience; and Systems Neuroscience.
These research activities are carried out in laboratories housed in six colleges and 17 different departments on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Through our official partnership with the National Institutes of Health and active collaboration with Children’s National Medical Center, NACS graduate students may also receive research training.
Website: nacs.umd.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Crowd coding in the brain: 3D imaging and control of collective neuronal dynamics”
Email: NACS@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-8910 Address:2131 Biology-Psychology Bldg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Director: Jens Herberholz
The Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program strives to educate exceptional scientists whose integrative training will form the basis for significant scientific contributions. This is a research doctoral program designed on an apprenticeship model: students train to become professional scientists by doing independent research and participating in all aspects of the profession under the guidance of a mentor.
Students receive their doctorates from NACS. Support is available from training grants, research and teaching assistantships, and university fellowships and includes tuition and health benefits. Students have extensive opportunities for interaction through classes, seminars, special programs, and ...
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The UNC Neuroscience Center is an interdepartmental research center at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
The mission of the Neuroscience Center is to promote neuroscience research that is innovative, collaborative and translational. The Center promotes this goal by bringing together researchers working on fundamental problems in basic and clinical neuroscience. By integrating work across the spectrum of neuroscience, we aim to advance our understanding of brain development and function, and to identify new therapeutic approaches to a broad range of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
UNC Neuroscience Center website: med.unc.edu/neuroscience Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program: bnpsych.unc.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – ” Dreadd2.0: An Enhanced Chemogenetic Toolkit”
Email: admin info Phone: (919) 843-8536 Address: 8109 Neuroscience Research Building CB# 7250 115 Mason Farm Rd. Chapel Hill, NC 27599
The UNC Neuroscience Center is an interdepartmental research center at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The mission of the Neuroscience Center is to promote neuroscience research that is innovative, collaborative and translational. The Center promotes this goal by bringing together researchers working on fundamental problems in basic and clinical neuroscience. By integrating work across the spectrum of neuroscience, we aim to advance our understanding of brain development and function, and to identify new therapeutic approaches to a broad range ...
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Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), also known as Paris 6 has more than 5,000 researchers and professors working in 100 laboratories across four divisions: Modeling & Engineering; Energy, Matter & the Universe; Living Earth & Environment; Life & Health.
The research ranges from fundamental to applied, with the aim to push the boundaries of knowledge and to explore major issues of sustainable development that preoccupy our society in the twenty-first century, including health, climate change, water, biodiversity, energy, and communications.
Website: http://www.upmc.fr/en/research.html Wikipedia Entry: wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_and_Marie_Curie_University Brain Initiative Grant – “Three Dimensional Holography for Parallel Multi-target Optogenetic Circuit Manipulation”
Phone: +33 1 44 27 44 27 Address: UPMC 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris cedex 05, France
UPMC has more than 5,000 researchers and professors working in 100 laboratories across four divisions: Modeling & Engineering; Energy, Matter & the Universe; Living Earth & Environment; Life & Health. The research ranges from fundamental to applied, with the aim to push the boundaries of knowledge and to explore major issues of sustainable development that preoccupy our society in the twenty-first century, including health, climate change, water, biodiversity, energy, and communications.
Knowledge production happens at all levels, in national and international research laboratories, and with industrial partners through technology transfer and innovation. UPMC has particularly focused on multidisciplinary approaches to ...
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The University of Houston neuroscience programs include the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience program in the Department of Psychology and various centers including Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science and the Center for Neuromotor, Biomechanics Research (CNBR). and the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: http://www.uh.edu/class/psychology/dev-psych/research/
Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science: http://cnecs.egr.uh.edu/
Center for Neuromotor, Biomechanics Research: http://www.hhp.uh.edu/cnbr/about.php
Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab: http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~nbmis/
The Developmental Psychology graduate program in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston is divided into the following research laboratories:
Behavioral Neuroscience Lab, Director: Leigh Leasure Cognitive Development Lab, Director: Hanako Yoshida Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience, Director: Therese Kosten Laboratory for the Neural Bases of Bilingualism, Director: Arturo Hernandez The Texas Center for Learning Disabilities, Overall Project Principal Investigator: Jack M. Fletcher Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics, Director: David J. Francis; Associate Director: Coleen D. Carlson Visual Cognition Lab, Director: Bruno BreitmeyerThis center is the successor of the Cognitive Science Initiative, and its primary mission is to conduct basic and applied research in neuro-engineering and cognitive science.
Other important objectives include the education of students in a multi-disciplinary ...
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