About
the UAB Neurobiology
Graduate Program
Welcome
to the UAB Department of Neurobiology's Graduate Program web site. Many
exciting opportunities are available to students in one of the nation's
fastest growing neurobiology post graduate programs.
The Department
of Neurobiology offers students interested in the nervous system a program
of study that leads to the Ph.D. in Neurobiology or a combined M.D./Ph.D.
through The University of Alabama School of Medicine located at UAB. The
graduate program has 35 faculty members
with active research programs from a broad range of areas in contemporary
neuroscience with a major focus on topics of biomedical importance. Molecular,
cellular and biophysical approaches are emphasized to address fundamental
problems of brain function, development and disease. All students take
a series of graduate courses in biochemistry and molecular biology, cell
biology, ion channel biophysics, synaptic function, developmental neurobiology
and medical neurobiology.
In addition
to the core curriculum, students perform a series of three laboratory
rotations, they select from a series of advanced elective courses including
receptor and ion channel kinetics, synaptic plasticity, intracellular
signaling and the biology of neurological and psychiatric disease. Students
also participate in journal clubs, student presentations and a visiting
speaker’s program. Students are encouraged to attend national and
international neuroscience meetings throughout their graduate training.
A thesis advisor is selected by students at the end of the first year.
Students take a departmental qualifying examination and present a thesis
proposal in the second year. Upon successful completion of these requirements,
the student is admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. The Ph.D. is awarded
after the defense of the final dissertation, usually in the fourth or
fifth year.
Exciting research and training
opportunities are
available to students in UAB's Neurobiology program.
Class of
2006-2007
Click here for a full-size PDF
poster of the class of 2006-2007.
Poster is 13x19-inches but can be
printed on smaller paper sizes
from Acrobat.
