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

Director: Les Satin, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Internal Medicine
Email: lsatin@umich.edu

Associate Director: Sara Aton, PhD

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

NIH T32 Training Grant Director: Richard Altschuler, PhD

Professor of Otolaryngology and Cell & Developmental Biology
Email: shuler@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

Associate Director for Preliminary Exams-Arun Anantharam, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Associate Professor of Biophysics, LSA Cellular and Developmental Biology

Email: arunanan@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