UTSW Graduate School Catalog: Neuroscience
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NEUROSCIENCE • biological chemistry • biomedical engineering • cancer biology • cell regulation • genetics and development • immunology • integrative biology • molecular biophysics • molecular microbiology UT SOUTHWESTERN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE NEUROSCIENCE Jennifer Hsieh Ann Stowe Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000 Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical Center, 2006 I CHAIR, GRADUATE PROGRAM Kimberly M. Huber Jiang Wu Ege T. Kavalali, Ph.D. Ph.D., UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Ph.D., UT Austin, 2001 I DEGREE OFFERED at Houston, 1995 Chun-Li Zhang Doctor of Philosophy Weichun Lin Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2002 Ph.D., State University of New York, 1996 FACULTY Qing “Richard” Lu OBJECTIVES I PROFESSORS Ph.D., Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1997 he Neuroscience Graduate Program focuses Ilya B. Bezprozvanny T on cellular and molecular neurobiology. Ph.D., Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Lisa Monteggia Topics of particular interest include synaptic Sciences, 1992 Ph.D., Chicago Medical School, 1998 physiology and synaptic plasticity; membrane Stephen C. Cannon Craig Powell biophysics, especially receptors and ion channels; M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1986 M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, 1994 neuronal organelle traffic, particularly the Jeffrey Elliott Jonathan Terman biogenesis and exo- and endocytosis of synaptic M.D., Washington University, St. Louis, 1988 Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1997 vesicles; neurogenetics of invertebrates and vertebrates; development of neural systems; and Joel Elmquist Gang Yu molecular and cellular basis of complex behavior. D.V.M., Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1992, 1993 Ege T. Kavalali, Ph.D. Ph.D., University of Calgary, Canada, 1996 Chair, Graduate Program Mark Goldberg SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION I ASSISTANT PROFESSORS M.D, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1984 Roberto Coppari Students wishing to join the Neuroscience Graduate Program must be enrolled in the Carla Green Ph.D., University of Marche, Italy, 2002 David W. Self Division of Basic Science and be in good standing Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical Center, 1991 Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1992 Jay Gibson academically. Usually students seek enrollment Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1995 Robert Greene Dean P. Smith in the Program toward the end of their first year Ph.D., George Washington University, 1982; M.D., University of Utah, 1986; Ph.D., University Matthew Goldberg of study following completion of the set of M.D., University of Maryland, 1983 of California, San Diego, 1992 Ph.D., Yale University, 1998 research rotations and selection of a mentor. Prospective students should note that the diverse Mark J. Henkemeyer Joseph Takahashi Ryan Hibbs Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990 Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1981 Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2006 research topics in the field make neurobiology an appropriate doctoral subject for those with Donald W. Hilgemann Carol A. Tamminga Taekyung Kim undergraduate degrees in physics, chemistry, Ph.D., University of Tübingen, Germany, 1980 Ph.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical School, 1971 engineering, mathematics, and psychology, as New Jersey, 2000 Jane E. Johnson Masashi Yanagisawa well as in biological disciplines. Ph.D., University of Washington, 1988 M.D., Ph.D., University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1985, Genevieve Konopka Ege T. Kavalali 1988 Ph.D., Harvard University, 2004 CURRICULUM Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995 Julian Meeks I eurobiology is a field defined not by a ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Ph.D., Washington University, 2006 N Helmut J. Krämer specific intellectual approach or Ph.D., University of Cologne, Germany, 1989 James A. Bibb Juan M. Pascual experimental technique but by its subject matter: Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony M.D., Universidad de Granada, Spain, 1990; the cells of the nervous, sensory, and muscular Luis F. Parada Brook, 1994 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, 1995 systems. Because of the variety of methods that 1985 Amelia Eisch Janine Prange-Kiel must be brought to bear in studies of these Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1997 systems, the optimal training for a career in José Rizo-Rey Ph.D., University of Tuebingen, Germany, 1998 neurobiological research includes an in-depth Ph.D., University of Barcelona, Spain, 1988 P. Robin Hiesinger Adrian Rothenfluh exposure to the principles of biochemistry, Ph.D., Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1999 Michael Rugg Germany, 2000 biophysics, cell and molecular biology, Ph.D., University of Leicester, 1979 85 2013 – 2015 2013 – 2015 86 UT SOUTHWESTERN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE developmental biology, genetics, immunology, molecular, cellular, developmental, and I ANNUAL NEUROSCIENCE RETREAT training may defer the qualifying examination pharmacology, and physiology, as well as integrative neurobiology. New topics are selected per approval of the Program Chair. Once a year, students, postdoctoral fellows, and behavioral neuroscience. yearly to reflect the evolution of research in the The written component is a research proposal faculty members gather for an all-day meeting to field. dealing with a group of related scientific I CORE COURSE present current work and exchange research problems in an area of study different from that I NEUROSCIENCE COURSES ideas. This meeting is held off campus in a setting By providing a solid background in the above in which the student expects to conduct his or where participants have the opportunity to areas, the first-year Core Course offers appropriate Course descriptions are listed in the Division of her dissertation. The oral examination ordinarily present their research in a manner similar to the training for first-year students who elect to join Basic Science chapter of the catalog. is given in a single closed session lasting from annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. the Neuroscience Graduate Program. The first-year one to two hours. The student is expected to Fundamentals of Neuroscience All students in the Neuroscience Graduate course also provides 15 hours of course credit answer questions relating to material in courses Heritable Neurological Diseases of Mice and Men Program are expected to attend, and advanced toward the minimum 24 hours required for that he or she has taken, to the subject matter in Neurobiology of Drug Addiction students are required to present their research in graduation. the written proposal, and to general information Neurobiology of Mental Illness a formal setting. I LABORATORY ROTATIONS in the field of neurobiology. I NEUROSCIENCE JOURNAL CLUB QUALIFYING EXAMINATION First-year students participate in three laboratory DISSERTATION DEFENSE The Neuroscience Journal Club offers students an rotations. Insofar as possible, students with an he qualifying examination comprises a opportunity to keep abreast of recent research T complete copy of the dissertation must be interest in neurobiology should seek rotations written and an oral component, each of A results, to sharpen critical acumen, and to approved by the dissertation committee that expose them to a wide variety of technical which must be passed as part of the qualifications develop speaking skills. Every student in the before a public dissertation defense can be approaches, including anatomy, behavior, for admission to Ph.D. candidacy. Unless a prior Graduate Program is expected to attend a journal scheduled. The defense is composed of a public biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, genetics, extension is granted by the Steering Committee, club and to participate actively. In addition, each lecture describing the main observations of the molecular biology, and physiology. At the end of each student must complete the qualifying student is required to make at least one journal research, followed by an oral examination by the the first year of study, students choose a mentor examination by the end of September of his or club presentation per year. dissertation committee. Attendance during the for dissertation research. her second year of graduate enrollment. Those oral examination is restricted to faculty members I NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR students in the Medical Scientist Training I ADVANCED TOPICS IN of the Graduate School, and participation is Program who initially take two years of medical NEUROSCIENCE Weekly neuroscience seminars hosted by the restricted to the examination committee. Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Each student in the Neuroscience Graduate Neurotherapeutics, and Neuroscience are held to Program is required to accrue at least nine hours present current advances in all areas of modern of credit from the advanced courses offered neurobiology. One or two seminars are organized within the Division of Basic Science. Three of by the students of the Neuroscience Graduate these credit hours come from Fundamentals of Program. Furthermore, numerous scientific Neuroscience, and at least three more come from presentations of interest to neurobiologists occur the advanced courses given by the Neursocience each year in seminar series offered by the Graduate Program. (See list below.) Although the Departments of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, third and subsequent years will be devoted largely Pharmacology, and Physiology, among others. to research