Typical Schedule for the First Two Years

 

The schedule of individual students vary according to their interests, but most students take two courses each quarter while doing laboratory rotations and beginning their thesis research. Most students have completed the course work and are working fulltime on their thesis research by the end of the second year.

 

Attendance of Journal Club and Departmental Seminars are required of all first and second year students in all quarters.

 

FIRST YEAR

First Quarter

Neuroscience Cognition I

Elective (e.g. Neuropharmacology)

Research Symposia

Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

Science, Ethics and Society

 

Second Quarter

Neuroscience Cognition I

Elective (e.g. Topics in Somatosensory Research)

Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

Laboratory rotation I

 Science, Ethics and Society

 

Third Quarter

Neuroscience Cognition II

Elective  (e.g.Current Issues in Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience; Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Death; Stem Cells:  Unit of Regeneration)

Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

Science, Ethics and Society

 

Fourth Quarter

Neuroscience Cognition II

Elective (e.g. Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Development; Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission; Topics in Somatosensory Research)

Laboratory rotation II

Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

Science, Ethics and Society

 

Summer

Laboratory rotation III

 

SECOND YEAR

First Quarter

Begin thesis research

Elective (e.g; Trends in the Neurobiology of Aging) 

 Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

 

Second Quarter

Elective  (e.g. Physiology of Sensory Transduction)

Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

 

Third Quarter

Elective (e.g. Cellular Substrates of Learning and Memory; Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Death: Necrosis to Apoptosise; Teaching in Neuroscience)

Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

 

Fourth Quarter

Elective (e.g. Diseases of the Brain; Cellular Substrates of Learning and Memory; Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Development; Topics in Somatosensory Research)

Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)

Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)

 

The Graduate Board Oral Exam must be arranged by April 15th and completed by July 1st.

 

THIRD YEAR

 

The Thesis Proposal must be arranged by October 1st and completed by December 1st.

 

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