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  • Neuroscience Graduate Program
    UC Davis
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 757-8845
    Fax: (530) 752-8822
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Neuroscience

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Final: Dec. 15

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan I
  • M.S. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Bachelor's degree, GRE scores, and a completed application.
  • There are no course prerequisites for the program.

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of molecular biophysics of channels and receptors through motor control; neuroethology; retinal organization; development of visual systems; cortical organization; and cognitive functions. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching regarding nerve cells and the ways they are organized to form nervous systems that mediate behavior.

M.S. offered only under special circumstances.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Neuroscience website.

Contacts

Program Chair
W. Martin Usrey Neuroscience (530) 754-5468
Academic Advisers
Robert F Berman
(Adviser: Primary Contact)
Med Neurological Surgery 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 754-5102
Elva Denise Diaz
(Adviser: General)
Pharmacology: Med 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-6080
Arne Ekstrom
(Adviser: General)
Neuroscience 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 757-8850
Mitchell L Sutter
(Adviser: Admissions Only)
Neuro Physio & Behavior 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 754-5078
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Cristeta Rillera Neuroscience (530) 757-8845
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Laura Young Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772