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 Brown Neuroscience Graduate Program is supported in part by two prestigious training grants. The Jointly Sponsored Predoctoral Training Grant in the Neurosciences supports students in their first two years of training and promotes cross disciplinary-type research. The NINDS Predoctoral Training Program supports later year students whose research will promote our understanding of neurological diseases and stroke.
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Graduate Program News
CONGRATULATIONS TO
Dr. Anne Booker, Dr. Benjamin A. Philip and Dr. Ammar Shaikhouni
on
their successful defenses
Anne Booker
"The Long and Short of the Fragile X Mental Retardation 1 Gene"
Benjamin A. Philip
"Control of Continuous Reaching Movements in Primary Motor and Posterior Pariental Cortex"
Ammar Shaikhouni
“Sensory Input to the Human Primary Motor Cortex After Long Term Damage to Motor Output Pathways: Implications for the Design of Neural Interface Devices”
Recent Faculty Awards
Congratulations to Professsor Diane Lipscombe for receiving the 2008 Harriet W. Sheridan Teaching Award. Full Article
Dr. Gilad Barnea has been selected as one of "Twenty of America's Most Promising Scientists Selected as 2008 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences" Full Article
Brown-NIH Retreat
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Our inaugural NIH-GPP Brown retreat was held at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole March 26th – 28th, 2009. The program included talks from Brown and NIH faculty as well as graduate students. Thursday evening's guest lecturer was Dr. Ann Graybiel, of MIT, who discussed “Habits, rituals, and the evaluative brain: the basal ganglia as a common theme”. On Friday evening, Dr. Bernardo Sabatini, of Harvard, presented “Presynaptic control of postsynaptic integration.”
Student speakers included Summer Allen (Brown), Cole Graydon (NIH), Ethan Bromberg-Martin (NIH), Luke Woloszyn (Brown), Jennifer Kim (Brown), and the first graduate of the NIH-GPP program, Dr. Jodi Gilman (NIH).
The full program can be found here:
Brown-NIH Retreat Program
Fellowships
Julia Najera has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at NIH to study “The Role of Biglycan in Regulating the Dystrophin and Utrophin Protein Complexes” in the lab of Dr. Justin Fallon.
Summer Allen has received an outstanding score on her recent NRSA predoctoral fellowship application and she is waiting to hear if she made the payline – stay tuned.
Other students awarded individual predoctoral fellowships include: Omar Ahmed (NRSA), Mark Bell (NSF), Lachlan Franquemont (NSF), Jennifer Kim (NRSA), Kaivon Paroo (NSF), and Timothy Zolnik (NRSA).
Congratulations also to Spiro Marangoudakis and Ceci Phillips who were recently awarded Levy travel predoctoral fellowships from the Division of Biology and Medicine.
“Bench to Bedside – Unraveling Diseases of the Nervous System”
NEUR 2930E
May 20, 2009 "Epilepsy”
DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
