Curriculum
Year 1
Fall
GS 606-9 Foundations of Biomedical Science Sequence (A-D) — 7
credits
GS612 Laboratory Rotation — 2 credits
GS604 Research Opportunities — 0 credits
9 credits
Spring
GS604 Research Opportunities — 4 credits
GS892 Journal club — 1 credit
N507 Introduction to Neuroscience (also available in the summer) — 3 credits
or N601 Neuroscience — 3 credits
8 credits
Year 2
Fall
GS603 Responsible Conduct — 2 credits
N613 Sensory Integration — 2 credits
N614 Motor and Cognitive Function — 2 credits
6 credits
Spring
Topics courses:
N602 Principles of Membrane Excitability — 2 credits
N603 Topics in Signaling in the Autonomic and Central Nervous
Systems — 2 credits
N610 Topics in Developmental Neurobiology — 2 credits
N616 Topics in Vision I — 2 credits
N618 Topics in Vision II — 2 credits
N619 Neurobiology of Disease — 2 credits
7 credits
Other options
N621 Neuroanatomy Laboratory — 2 credits
GS605 Grant Writing — 3 credits
Various statistics courses — 2-3 credits
Courses hosted by other programs
Total Required Coursework — 30 credits
Summer
Qualifying Exam
Year 3 to completion
N700 Research in Neuroscience — 60 or less credits
One of many research initiatives in assistant professor Rick Matthews' lab focuses on the role of extracellular matrix and cell surface glycoproteins in the developing nervous system and in learning, memory, plasticity and diseases. This slide shows extracellular matrix (ECM) staining on a glioma initiating cell.