The Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Brown University offers advanced study for academic and research careers in the field of neuroscience. The program promotes and encourages interdisciplinary research that crosses traditional discipline and department boundaries, while at the same time providing a strong foundation in core concepts. Research in the program encompasses multiple levels of investigation from genes, molecules, cells, networks, systems, to behaving animals and employs an impressive array of methods. All students receive their Ph.D.s from Brown after satisfying program requirements and completing a significant body of original research. |
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The core curriculum instructs students at the level of genes, cells, systems, cognition, translational neuroscience and diseases of the nervous system. At all stages of instruction, there is integration of skills considered essential for successful, independent research careers in neuroscience. These include critical thinking and reasoning, effective science writing and oral presentation, knowledge of scientific review processes and training in ethics. Admission is limited to applicants for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience
The Brown Neuroscience Graduate Program is funded by a prestigious training grant that supports graduate students in their early years of study. This allows students flexibility to pursue cross disciplinary-type research in the Program. A list of programs funded by the Jointly Sponsored Predoctoral Training Grant in the Neurosciences can be found here.
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Graduate Program News
Welcome to the Entering Class of 2008
The Neuroscience Graduate Program would like to welcome the entering class of 2008:
Tyler Ard, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jonathan Barchi, University of Pennsylvania
Timothy Bellay, University of Texas, Dallas
Rayna Carter, Trinity University
Lauren Bowers, Salve Regina University
Scott Herrick, Georgetown University
David Ho, Stanford University
Mark Johnson, Cornell University
Jermaine Ross, University of Michigan
Emily Stackpole, Smith College
Valerie Yorgan, MIT
Dr. Jodi Gilman's Paper Featured on NPR
Tune in to hear Dr. Jodi Gilman interviewed by Ira Flatow on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” this Friday, May 2nd between 2:20 and 3 PM. Jodi will talk about her new Journal of Neuroscience paper describing fMRI studies and alcohol.
Neuroscience Graduate Students Receive NSF Predoctoral Fellowships
Congratulations to Lachlan Fanquemont and Kaivon Paroo who both received highly competitive NSF predoctoral fellowships to support their thesis work here at Brown. Kristin Kerr and James McFarland received honorable mentions.
Lachlan Franquemont will be a second year graduate student working with Professor John Donoghue. He is interested in developing computationally efficient models to decode neural signals for use in neural prostheses.
Kaivon Paroo is also begining his second year at Brown and will spend the summer in Dr. Donoghue's lab.
Jodi Gilman Publishes Research in Science
Neuroscience graduate student Jodi Gilman, part of Brown’s Graduate Partnerships Program with the National Institutes of Health, has published research in Science showing that a brain circuit associated with stress is a promising treatment target for alcoholism.
David T. George, Jodi Gilman, Jacqueline Hersh, Annika Thorsell, David Herion, Christopher Geyer, Xiaomei Peng, William Kielbasa, Robert Rawlings, John E. Brandt, Donald R. Gehlert, Johannes T. Tauscher, Stephen P. Hunt, Daniel Hommer, and Markus Heilig
Published online February 14 2008; 10.1126/science.1153813 (Science Express Reports)
Press release
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/feb2008/niaaa-26.htm
Abstract
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1153813
GPP press release
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-071.html
Ilya Monosov Publishes in Neuron
Monosov IE, Trageser JC, Thompson KG.
Measurements of Simultaneously Recorded Spiking Activity and Local Field
Potentials Suggest that Spatial Selection Emerges in the Frontal Eye Field.
Neuron. 2008 Feb 28;57(4):614-25.
http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS089662730800041X
Neuron also published a preview of Ilya’s paper:
http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627308001207
Brown-NIH will celebrate the 5th year anniversary of the Brown-NIH Graduate Program Partnership
Hold the date: NIH and Brown will hold a joint retreat at the Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA, March 26th through 28th, 2009, to celebrate the 5th year anniversary of the Graduate Partnership Program.