The UCI Molecular Neurobiology Graduate Training Program is part of the large, multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences. The Molecular Neurobiology Training Program functions as an area of study within the larger program, sharing a common core curriculum and admissions process. We believe that the most important advances in the field of Neurosciences will come from investigations at the molecular and cellular levels. Particular research interests of participating faculty and departments range throughout the neurosciences and include developmental neurobiology, systems neuroscience, response to injury and mechanisms of regeneration, gene expression in the nervous system, growth factors, synaptic function, ion channels, signal transduction, and mechanisms of neurological disease; these broad ranging issues are being studied primarily through cellular and molecular approaches.
The Molecular Neurobiology Graduate Training Program includes both formal coursework and intensive research laboratory experiences. While emphasis of the program is on training neuroscientists to undertake fundamentally important original research, it is clear that Neuroscience is a rapidly evolving field that covers a huge data base of information. An important step in graduate education is the acquisition of a broad base of knowledge and the core curriculum blends in-depth study of both molecular and cellular biology and the neurosciences. Along with the formal coursework, students are actively engaged in laboratory research beginning the first week of graduate study. Normally, students have three laboratory research rotation experiences before choosing the laboratory in which they intend to conduct their dissertation research.
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