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Neuroscience Program Administration

Program Information:

Neuroscience Graduate Program
4137 Undergraduate Science Building (USB)
204 Washtenaw Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-2215

Email:neuroscience.program@umich.edu
Phone: (734)763-9638
Fax: (734)647-0717

NGP Interim Co-Director: Audrey Seasholtz, PhD

 

Professor of Biological Chemistry, Research Professor of Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute

Email: aseashol@umich.edu

 

NGP Interim Co-Director: Arun Anantharum, PhD

Associate Director for Preliminary Exams

Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School 

Associate Professor of Biophysics, LSA Cellular and Development Biology 

                   Email: arunanan@umich.edu                                

 

 

NIH T32 Training Grant Co-Director:

Les Satin, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Internal Medicine

Email: lsatin@umich.edu

NIH T32 Training Grant Co-Director:

Richard Altschuler, PhD

 

 Professor of Otolaryngology and Cell & Developmental Biology

Email: shuler@med.umich.edu

 

 

Associate Director: Sara Aton, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Email: saton@med.umich.edu

Assistant Director of Quantitative Neuroscience Education-Ivo Dinov, PhD

 

Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics-Medical School
Email: dinov@umich.edu 

Assistant Director for Admissions-Shelly Flagel, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute

Email: sflagel@umich.edu

 

Student Services Administrator: Rachel Harbach

Office: (734) 763-9638

Email: neuroscience.program@umich.edu

Grants and Finance Administrator: Valerie Smith

 

Office: (734) 615-1783
Email: vssj@umich.edu

 

Executive Committee:

  • Les Satin, NGP Director - Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Internal Medicine
  • Sara Aton, NGP Associate Director - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
  • Catherine Collins - Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
  • Carol Elias - Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez, Student Representative
  • Gideon Rothschild - Assistant Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical School
  • Brendon Watson - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School

DEI Committee:

  • R. Keith Duncan, Rackham Faculty Ally

  • Richard Altschuler

  • Sami Barmada

  • Shelly Flagel

  • Audrey Seasholtz

  • Muyu Situ, Student Representative

  • Valerie Smith

  • Lois Weisman

Qualifying Exams Committee:

  • Arun Anantharam, NGP Associate Director

  • Anuska Andjelkovic-Zochowska

  • Pierre Apostolides

  • William Birdsong

  • Jillian Hardee

  • Jonathan Morrow