The Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy is strongly committed to its major academic missions of research and education. Teaching and leadership roles in both graduate and medical education remain enduring commitments today, as they have been since the inception of the medical campus in the 1920s. This is matched by our commitment to research on the structure and function of the nervous system.
Over thirty-five faculty (primary and joint) are actively engaged in neurobiology research across a broad spectrum of interests, including sensory, motor and integrative systems, cell signaling and transmission, development and aging, neurobiology of disease, learning and plasticity, cognition and perception, neuro-engineering, and computational neurobiology.
Extensive state-of-the-art instrumentation and methodologies are available for investigators and students, both within laboratories and across a set of departmental and institutional research cores.
Close interactions with other Departments and Centers sharing interests in neuroscience ensure that this discipline holds a leading presence throughout our unified medical and college campus, while the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy remains central to Rochester's research and teaching programs in the neural sciences. For students at all levels, this translates into a highly attractive environment leading toward careers as scientist/educators and clinician/scientists of the future.