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Graduate Programs
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Useful Internet Links
Neuroscience and Physiology are interdependent fields that strive to understand the principles
and mechanisms that regulate behavior and function in complex environments. Neuroscience and Physiology encompass a broad range of
disciplines and techniques, ranging from invertebrate nerve networks to the human brain, from homeostatic control to mechanisms for
survival in extreme environments, from molecules to synapses to cognition and behavior. These fields are explicitly integrative, and
draw extensively from biology, genetics, medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and psychology.
The School of Life Sciences (SOLS) at Arizona State University offers graduate researchers the
opportunity for multidisciplinary training in neuroscience and physiology with coursework and diverse opportunities for research in
SoLS, and the departments of Psychology, Kinesiology, Bioengineering, Mathematics, and the BioDesign Institute. Areas of strength
include synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis, neuroendocrine regulation of behavior, metabolism, motor control and biomechanics,
stress research, environmental and evolutionary physiology, bioimaging, immunology, sensory systems and behavior, aging and
neurodegeneration, and mechanisms of learning and memory.
PARTICIPATING FACULTY
- Gro Amdam - Neuroendocrine regulation of social behavior; neurobiology of aging
- Doug Chandler - Sperm-egg interactions; sperm chemotaxis
- Yung Chang - Mechanisms of antigen receptor diversity; lymphocyte development
- Sharon Crook - Computational neuroscience; genomics and neuroinformatics
- Dale DeNardo - Physiology and ecology; reporductive endocrinology and behavior
- Pierre Deviche - Behavioral neuroendocrinology; environmental physiology
- Carsten Duch - Neuronal and synaptic plasticity in metamorphosis
- Jim Elser - Environmental and ecological physiology
- Jon Harrison - Ecological physiology of insects
- Bert Hoelldobler - Behavioral physiology; evolution of social organizations
- Steve Hoffman - Psychoneuroimmunology; brain-reactive auto-antibodies
- Lei Lei - Molecular Control of Neural Development
- Juergen Liebig - Chemical communication and the evolution of sociality
- Larry Mandarino - Syndrome X; metabolism
- Kevin McGraw - Physiology of bright coloration in birds; animal behavior
- Michael Moore - Endocrine regulation of behavior; reproductive physiology
- Miles Orchinik - Neurobiology of stress; behavioral neuroendocrinology
- Robert Page - Genetic and hormonal factors in complex social behaviors
- Stephen Pratt - Mechanisms of decision-making in complex social behaviors
- Ronald Rutowski - Vision, visual signals and reproductive behavior in insects
- Brian Smith - Neuroethology of sensory processing
- William (Jamie) Tyler - Synaptic plasticity; sensory physiology
- Glenn Walsberg - Ecological physiology and biophysical ecology
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- Michael Berens - TGEN
- Dianne Lorton - Sun Health Research Institute
- Vinodh Narayanan - St. Joseph's Medical Center
- Joseph Rogers - Sun Health Research Institute
- Andrej Romanovsky - St. Joseph's Medical Center
- Adrienne Scheck - Barrow Neurological Institute
- Yong Shen - Sun Health Research Institute
- Fu-dong Shi - Barrow Neurological Institute
- David F. Smith - Mayo Clinic
- Dietrich Stephan - TGEN
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GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Students in the School of Life Sciences can receive graduate education in neuroscience and physiology by applying to one of three degree programs:
M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Biology
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience (If you are applying to the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Neuroscience degree program for Fall 2008 admission, please apply to the School of Life Sciences Biology Ph.D. degree program and select "*Interdisciplinary Neuroscience PhD Degree Program" from the drop down list under Specializations.)
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GRADUATE COURSES OFFERED
BIO 466 Neurophysiology Lab
BIO 520 Biology of the Desert
BIO 543 Molecular Genetics
BIO 552 Developmental Genetics
BIO 560 Comparative Physiology
BIO 561 Comparative PhysiologY
BIO 562 Endocrine Physiology
BIO 563 Environmental Physiology
BIO 564 Cell Physiology and Signaling
BIO 565 Neurophysiology
BIO 565 Neurophysiology
BIO 567 Neuroscience: Molecules to Behavior
BIO 562 Endocrine Physiology
BIO 564 Cell Physiology and Signaling
BIO 566 Environmental Physiology
BIO 569 Computational Neuroscience
BIO 598 Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
BIO 598 Stress
BME 519 Topics in Biocontrol Systems
BME 521 Neuromuscular Control Systems
BME 598 Neurotrauma: Neural Repair, Regeneration & Functional Recovery
BME 598 Modeling and Simulation of Physiological Systems
BME 598 Neural Prostheses
KIN 510 Introduction to Biomechanics Research Methods
KIN 512 Biomechanics of the Skeletal System
KIN 530 Exercise Physiology
KIN 532 Exercise Biochemistry
KIN 533 Exercise Endocrinology
KIN 536 Fuel Metabolism
KIN 610 Advanced Topics in Biomechanics
KIN 621 Motor Learning/Control
MAT 502 Neural Modeling
MAT 503 Mathematical Cell Physiology
MCB 540 Functional Genomics
MCB 555 and 556 Advanced Molecular and Cellular Biology I and II
PSY 426/591 Neuroanatomy
PSY 524 Advanced Physiological Psychology
PSY 528 Sensation and Perception
PSY 570 Advanced Psychopharmacology
PSY 591 Neuroanatomy
SHS 513 Neurophysiology of the Auditory Sysnumerous graduate seminars on special topics
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NEUROSCIENCE AND PHYSIOLOGY LINKS
Societies
American Physiolgical Society
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Society for Neuroscience
Funding Agencies
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Mental Health
National Science Foundation -- Integrative Organismal Biology
Local Research Centers
Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital
Biodesign Institute at ASU
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Sun Health Research Institute
Translational Genomics Research Institute
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