Various Qualified students may undertake specific research projects in the laboratories of faculty members. Weekly seminars are presented by participating students, postdoctoral fellows, UT Memphis faculty, and prominent outside speakers each year. The course concentrates on neuronal connections, synaptic circuitry, and integrative properties of neurons in several representative parts of the nervous system.
Students read extensively from research and review articles.
Presentations by the students are a key part of the course. Companion laboratory sessions include dissections of human and rodent brains. An introductory course in neuroscience is highly recommended. Instruction will be by faculty actively employing these techniques in their own research and who, in several cases, have contributed to the innovation and improvement of a method. It is intended to provide practical experience in the major techniques of neuroscience.