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Florida Atlantic University Integrative Biology and Neuroscience

Jupiter, FL
Program Description
The Integrative Biology-Neuroscience PhD program is a joint FAU-Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience program. The program, which admitted its first students in Fall 2011, is housed within the Department of Biological Sciences. Completion of the neuroscience concentration provides students with both knowledge and practical experience in the neuroscience field at an advanced level. In the evolving and growing field of neuroscience, students who complete the IB-N concentration will have the appropriate training to succeed both within and outside of academia. The neuroscience curriculum focuses strongly on knowledge-based and experimental-based neuroscience courses and includes training in scientific methodologies. IB-N faculty are active experts in their respective neuroscience fields and will support development of the students who can focus on a number of research areas, including neuronal circuitry, learning and memory, neurodegeneration, drug discovery, stress neurobiology, neurogenetics and/or neurodevelopment. The Scripps Research Institute of Florida has partnered with FAU and also contributes expertise to this program.  Participants in the Integrative Biology-Neuroscience Ph.D. Program are also eligible to complete an en passant Master's degree (along the way).

The program requires separate application to both the Department of Biological Sciences as well as the Graduate College. Please see the following links for more information and to apply:
http://biology.fau.edu/academics/graduate/phd-biology-admission-requirements-graduate.php
http://biology.fau.edu/pdf/ib_phd_application_2_25_2016.pdf
http://www.fau.edu/graduate/prospective-students/

For questions, please contact Dr. Catherine Trivigno at trivigno@fau.edu.

Key words: Learning, memory, neurodegeneration, drug discovery, neurobiology, development, neurodevelopment, axon guidance, neuronal circuitry, stress neurobiology, modeling.
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Student and Faculty
Number of Faculty: 38 Number of Students: 18
Ethnicity Hispanic Percent: 0.00% Non-Hispanic Percent: 0.00%
Race Asian: 0.00% American Indian or Alaskan Native: 0.00% Black or African American: 0.00% White: 0.00% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander:: 0.00%
Unique Program Features
Program Characteristics
Year Established: 2010 Type of Campus:
Contact Info

1(561)297-0384 210819961@sfn.org

Program Director
Rodney K Murphey, PhD rmurphey@fau.edu (561)297-0384

Contact
Catherine Trivigno, PhD trivigno@fau.edu

Research Areas