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Stanford is well positioned to maintain and enhance its reputation as a leading neurosciences center. Our faculty are recognized internationally for their many seminal contributions to neuroscience. An independent survey based on the impact of published papers, and reported in Science, found our Program at Stanford to be rated "tops in brain research" among the nation's largest neuroscience research programs. The expertise of our faculty includes molecular neurobiology, developmental neuroscience, membrane excitability, cellular neuroscience, systems/behavioral/cognitive neuroscience and computational neuroscience. The range and quality of their expertise offer unique interdisciplinary training and research opportunities. A single campus includes both the Medical Center and Departments of Biological Sciences, Engineering and Psychology and facilitates close interactions between students, faculty and postdocs. Our faculty are affiliated with a variety of departments but function as a cohesive Neurosciences Program. The faculty is well known for its excellent collaborative efforts in both teaching and research. Students in the Program can choose to work with any of the approximately 55 faculty members who make up the Neurosciences Ph.D. Program.
Facilities
The Neurosciences faculty are well-funded with research grants and their laboratories are equipped with all the modern tools of neuroscience research. In addition, a number of specialized facilities are operated as a service for the benefit of individual research efforts. These include: facilities equipped for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), electron, confocal and fluorescence microscopy; imaging and fluorescence-activated cell sorting facilities for single cell measurements; a nucleic acid and protein facility for synthesis and sequencing of nucleic acids and proteins; minicomputer clusters linked over the campus computer network for searches and analyses of nucleic acid and protein databases. We are proud to have a distinguished campus system of libraries, each with subscriptions to essentially all periodicals of special interest to neuroscientists as well as to periodicals of general interest to all other disciplines. Rooms with computer clusters enable students to work more effectively as well as access the Medline database. Finally, Hopkins Marine Station on the Monterey Bay is an important and special asset for the Program. In addition to providing laboratories for thesis research, it serves as a teaching resource for summer courses on microscopy, molecular and cellular analysis of ion channels and development biology.
Faculty Research Interests
The major research interests of faculty in the Program can be divided into five research areas/approaches with considerable overlap. Every fundamental area of neuroscience is represented in our faculty. The complementary nature of their expertise and interests creates an unusually rich intellectual community.
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