The Graduate Program in Neuroscience
The Graduate Program in Neuroscience is part of the Basic Health Sciences Institute at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). It is a stricto sensu, multidisciplinary and multi-departmental graduate course, which gathers neuroscientists dedicated to the study and understanding of the nervous system under physiological and pathological conditions.
The faculty members are experts in several areas of the neuroscience field, including (1) neurobiology of behavior, (2) neurophysiology, (3) neurochemistry, (4) neurohistology, and (5) cellular neurobiology and developmental neurobiology. With such diversity, our Neuroscience Graduate Program presents several research lines, including neuropsychopharmacology, the neurobiology of social behaviors, neural networks, the neurobiology of pathological states, the neurobiology of rehabilitation, neuroglial and synaptic plasticity, comparative neurobiology, neurology, neurobiological consequences of early events, neuroimmunomodulation and translational neuroscience. Our Program has 24 faculty members from different Departments / Institutes of UFRGS (Biophysics, Biochemistry, Morphological Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Pharmacology, Physics, Physiology, Institute of Psychology and Psychiatry), and other institutions such as UFCSPA (RS) and McGill University (Canada).
Goals
The main purpose of our Program is to focus on the high-quality level of graduate students training in different areas of neuroscience to provide research of excellence in the scientific, technological, and social fields. Thereby producing high-quality work for publications in important journals in the neuroscience field and preparing the trainees for future academic life and beyond. For this, we offer practical training and diversified courses in Portuguese and English, to provide students with consistent and up-to-date training. Another important aspect of our Program is the activities of science popularization. Frequently, our faculty members and students are intensively involved in several events organization to take neurosciences beyond the University borders, including the Neuroscience Summer Course, the Neuroscience Workshop, and the Neuropsychobiology Course.