[Comp-neuro] Neuroscience Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania

The Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG) at the University of Pennsylvania is a collaborative and interdisciplinary PhD program that is currently accepting applications for matriculation in the fall of 2014. We are particularly interested in attracting exceptional applicants with backgrounds in Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, and/or Psychology and are interested in the broadly defined field of Computational Neuroscience. We have a robust and growing community of scholars in this field, including:

Vijay Balasubramanian, Department of Physics

Danielle S Bassett, Department of Bioengineering

David H Brainard, Department of Psychology

Maja Bucan, Department of Genetics

Gregory C Carlson, Department of Psychiatry

Alice S Chen-Plotkin, Department of Neurology

Brian Chow, Department of Bioengineering

Yale E Cohen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Diego Contreras, Department of Neuroscience

Christopher M Fang-Yen, Department of Bioengineering

Maria Neimark Geffen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Joshua I Gold, Department of Neuroscience

John B Hogenesch, Department of Pharmacology

Joseph W Kable, Department of Psychology

Michael J Kahana, Department of Psychology

Max Kelz, Department of Anesthesiology

Brian Litt, Departments of Neurology and Bioengineering

Joel D Mainland, Department of Neuroscience

Javier F Medina, Department of Psychology

Nicole C Rust, Department of Psychology

Robert G Smith, Department of Neuroscience

Alan A Stocker, Department of Psychology

Penn also has strong programs in Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, and Psychology with faculty actively involved in machine learning, decision making, perception, and computational learning theory. NGG students are encouraged to pursue collaborations and interactions with these groups.

The application deadline for the NGG is December 2, 2013. For more details please see our website:

http://www.med.upenn.edu/ngg/app_info.shtml

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Joshua Gold

University of Pennsylvania

Department of Neuroscience

116 Johnson Pavilion

3610 Hamilton Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6074

office phone: 215-746-0028

lab phone: 215-746-0168

e-mail: jigold@mail.med.upenn.edu

http://www.med.upenn.edu/goldlab