Neuroscience
Graduate, medical, and dental scholars are trained to conduct basic, translational, clinical, social, and behavioral research generating new knowledge that contributes to research in an effort to reduce health disparities in the areas of neurological disease, mental health, sleep and cognition, drug abuse/ addiction, and chronic pain. Along those same lines, we provide students with an intensive and integrated knowledge of neuroscience including neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, and clinical aspects, and expose them to research methodologies that span from molecular and cellular to systems level approaches including human subjects research. Students gain a problemsolving approach to the understanding of neuroscience that makes a reasoned, objective correlation between neuroscience and other types of knowledge; this approach serves as both a foundation and methodology toward developing solutions.
Past Performance
Research accomplishments within the school have been funded by federal agencies such as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.
Specialized Equipment
Electrophysiology equipment for in-vivo electrophysiology and electropharmacology• Equipment for behavioral studies. Nikon A1R laser and resonance scanning confocal microscope. Nikon TIRF microscope. Orbitrap Exploris 120 Mass Spectrometer with RSLC 3000 nano-chromatograph
• Bio-Rad NGC 100 LC system with fraction collector• Agilent 1260 Infinity II analytical UHPLC• Nicoya OpenSPR surface plasmon resonance instrument
• Zeta View exosome particle analyzer• ProteinSimple Wes automated Western blot system• Real Time PCR-CFX96 c1000 • LI-Cor Odyssey imaging system,
• Hitachi ABI 3100 genetic analyzer • BD FACSAria III Flow cytometer• Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometer• Synergy microplate reader• BSL-3 laboratory for restricted pathogens• Specialized software packages for Genomics (CLC Genomics Workbench), Proteomics (PEAKS), and statistical analysis (MATLAB)
