EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
Our 16 Core Facilities are state-of-the art resources that
provide training, equipment, and outsourcing for diverse needs such as functional imaging,
gene sequencing and transgenics, microarray analysis, animal behavior, tissue banking,
and advanced microscopy. Such resources allow our students to efficiently
integrate multiple disciplines to produce innovative findings.
We also have
a High Performance Computing Cluster for
running complex neural simulations and bioinformatics algorithms.
A strong research environment enables our students to become confident, skilled investigators;
typically a student will have 2-4 publications at graduation. In the 2006-2007 academic year,
our senior graduate students were first authors on 15 published manuscripts and
received 7 major funding awards in addition to other honors.
Our students' research competes very well for grant funding, as demonstrated by a high rate of
success (more than 60%) in obtaining NRSA fellowships.
To date, the program has produced 65 alumni, and those that have chosen to
stay in research have obtained excellent postdoctoral positions to pursue further training.
Because the program is relatively young, the first graduate students have only recently begun to
complete their postdoctoral training and enter the job market, and thus far
have competed very well for jobs in academia, industry, and research institutes.
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