INSTITUTIONAL GRANT FOR NEUROBIOLOGY

Sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH

 

Graduate Neuroscience Training Grant
Administered by the Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Contact: Tina Schulstad, 206-543-0954

 

Description:

This training grant provides support for pre-doctoral (Ph.D.) students in neurobiology at the University of Washington. Fifty-three faculty members from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior serve as training grant faculty. All of these faculty members direct active, externally-funded research programs and are committed to training graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists. These mentors provide a breadth of neuroscience research areas extending from molecular biology to behavioral neurobiology. Further, this is a collaborative faculty. Their large number provides the opportunity for trainees to learn many different techniques and approaches to research through their lab rotations, journal clubs, seminar series and course work.

 

Qualifications:


Students working in the laboratory of one of the faculty mentors (see list below) are eligible for support on this training grant after completing one or more years of graduate study. Note: First-year students are only rarely awarded positions on this training grant. In those exceptional cases, the student has committed to pursuing dissertation research in the advisor's laboratory and preliminary results beyond those acquired in a typical lab rotation have been included in the application. Applications from underrepresented minority students will be given special consideration.

 

Requirements:


Trainees will be required to:

1) attend training sessions in the use of animals in research offered by the Department of Comparative Medicine;
2) attend the Biomedical Research Integrity lecture series sponsored by the Medical School during the summer quarter;
3) attend NEUBEH 510, Seminar in Neurobiology, each quarter and
4) attend the annual Neurobiology Training Grant retreat.

 

Applications:

Click here for the application form to print. Please submit this completed form and requested attachments on or before April 15, 2009 to:

Marc D. Binder, Director
Institutional Grant for Neurobiology
Department of Physiology & Biophysics |
309 HHL (Harris Hydraulics Lab)
Box 357290

Applications are for positions which will start no earlier than July 1, 2009 and no later than June 16, 2010.

 

Faculty Mentors:
Binder, Marc Fuchs, Albert Rieke, Fred
Bajjalieh, Sandy Gordon, Sharona Robinson, Farrell (Ric)
Beavo, Joe Hille, Bertil Roelink, Henk
Berger, Albert Jagadeesh, Bharathi Rubel, Ed
Bernstein, Ilene La Spada, Albert Santana, Fernando
Bothwell, Mark   Shadlen, Mike
Brenowitz, Eliot McKnight, Stan Sherk, Helen
Buck, Linda Moody, Bill Sisneros, Joseph
Carlson, Steve Moon, Randy Spain, Bill
Catterall, Bill Nathanson, Neil Steiner, Robert
Chavkin, Charles Neumaier, John Storm, Dan
Covey, Ellen Olson, James Sullivan, Jane
Dacey, Dennis Palmiter, Richard Tempel, Bruce
Daniel, Tom Perkel, David Truman, James
Detwiler, Peter Raible, David Willows, Dennis
Fairhall, Adrienne Ransom, Bruce Wingfield, John
Fetz, Eberhard Reh, Tom Xia, Zhenqui
Froehner, Stan Riddiford, Lynn Zagotta, Bill

 

Last updated: May 7, 2008
by: Tina Schulstad