Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience
Neuroscience Graduate Program
The Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP) at the University of Montana provides multidisciplinary training for students interested in pursuing careers in academia or industry research. Administratively housed in the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences students have the opportunity to work with faculty from within the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences, which receives more than $14 million annually in federal research funding, and is currently ranked 11th in total funding among all Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy in the United States.
The Neuroscience Graduate Program at The University of Montana was approved by the Board of Regents in March 2004 and began accepting students in the fall semester of 2004. This new program is a direct result of the dramatic increase in the
number of neuroscience-based research faculty that have been recruited to UM over the past decade and their desire to design a graduate curriculum that builds on existing programs in Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Toxicology, and Chemistry in a manner that is specifically tailored to the Neurosciences.
Multidisciplinary by design, faculty within the NGP are a diverse group of researchers from various departments on campus providing students with considerable options in terms of the novel approaches they can learn to better understand how the CNS functions. While research within the neuroscience graduate program touches upon a wide range of disciplines, there is an especially strong emphasis at the neurochemical, protein, and cellular levels, particularly as related to investigating mechanisms of neuronal communication and how alterations in these processes contribute to CNS disease and injury.
Questions? For more information contact CSFN Program Coordinator Jen Geist at jennifer.geist@umontana.edu or (406) 243-4324.
Picture: Neuroscience graduate student Katie Hoffman at the Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference in 2010. In 2010 and 2011, Katie received an award for Outstanding Poster Presentation in Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences for her presentations on “The effect of glutamate transport on learning and memory.”