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Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF
Neuroscience Courses 2012 - 2013
Year Long Courses
NS221: Current Topics in Neuroscience
Description: Students will read and discuss papers related to the current week’s formal Neuroscience Seminar series, attend the seminar, and meet with the speaker.
Directors: Ying-Hui Fu and Stavros Lomvardas
Offered: Every year
Schedule: Follows selected seminar speakers’ schedules. Class meets twice a week 5:30-6:30pm on Tuesdays and 9-10am on Fridays for each selected speaker. Approximately 10 speakers selected per year.
Note: This is a year-long course. Students who wish to take in must sign up for it in the fall, winter and spring quarters (starting in the fall quarter).
Courses by Semester
NS201A: Basic Concepts in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to fundamental aspects of nervous system function. The course emphasizes the ionic and molecular basis of excitability, synaptic transmission and signal transduction.
Directors: Jeffry Lansmanand Eric Huang
Offered: Every fall
Schedule: 9-11am, 3 times per week.
NS230: Membrane Biophysics and Synaptic Physiology
Description: Topics addressed in this course will include ligand- and voltage-sensitive calcium permeation, ion transport, exocytosis/endocytosis, calcium domains and buffering in the nerve terminal, transmitter release statistics, neuromodulation of ion channels, cotransmission, short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity, dendritic back propagation, lateral inhibition, and integration.
Director: Erik Ullian
Schedule: 3-5pm, 3 times per week.
NS219: Topics in Basic or Translational Neuroscience (Mini Course)
Brain Injury
Description: The course will consider brain injury, focusing on traumatic and ischemic insults. We will critique experimental models and address determinants of secondary injury and recovery, age at time of injury, genetic and pharmacological rescue strategies, and benchmarks for translation to clinical trials.
Directors: Linda Noble and Zena Vexler
Schedule: 3-5pm, Monday through Friday
NS201B: Basic Concepts in Systems Neuroscience
Description: Introduction to fundamental aspects of nervous system development, including neural determination, axon guidance, and neuron-target interactions, and overview of basics of integrative neural function, including sensory, motor and limbic systems, and computational neuroscience.
Director: Michael Brainard
Offered: Every Winter
Schedule: 9-11am, 3 days/week
NS225: Neurobiology of Disease
Description: Lectures and student-led discussions on physiological and molecular bases of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, autism, addiction, triple repeat and prion diseases.
Directors: Vikaas Sohal and Scott Baraban
Schedule: 9am-11am, Mondays and Wednesdays
NS219: Topics in Basic or Translational Neuroscience (Mini Course)
Neurolinguistics
Description: In this mini-course, we will provide a introduction to basic concepts in the neurobiology of speech. The goals of the course are to learn the defining behavioral properties of speech and the the underlying neurological underpinnings. Topics include human neuroanatomy, current models of cortical organization, perception (listening to speech sounds), production (speaking), sensorimotor integration, speech disorders and errors, and machine algorithms (which attempt to mimic human natural abilities, eg. automatic speech recognition). We will read and discuss seminal papers for each topic.
Director: Edward Chang
Schedule: 3-4pm, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
NS219: Topics in Basic or Translational Neuroscience (Mini Courses)
Info for each course will be listed on the pages below:
Opioids
Howard Fields and Jennifer Whistler
Molecular Biology of Nociceptors/Molecules and Pathways of Pain Sensation
Allan Basbaum and David Julius
Computational Motor Control
Philip Sabes
NS214: Ethics and Responsible Conduct of Research
The syllabus can be found here:
Coordinators: Bill Lindstaedt
cc: all correspondence to Julia Clark
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am (Late arrivals will NOT be given credit for the session and will need to make up the session next year)
Wednesdays at Parnassus, room N729
Thursdays at Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, room 114
Each week, the same session is taught at both Parnassus and Mission Bay. See the syllabus for exceptions!
2nd Year Students Must Attend