Academics

The Michigan State University Neuroscience Program offers world-class research and unparalleled education paired with outstanding mentors and a highly collaborative environments. The program provides a wide range of research opportunities for our students that covers molecules to man.

Faculty are located in East Lansing on the main campus of MSU, in the Grand Rapids Research Center in Grand Rapids, and expansion is anticipated to the Detroit Medical Center and Macomb University Center in southeast Michigan.

Research Interests Include

Autonomic nervous system function
Neural development and plasticity
Neural imaging
Neural mechanisms of behavior
Neurodegenerative disease
Neuroendocrinology
Sensory and motor systems
Synaptic transmission
Signal transduction
Intracellular metabolism
Evolution

Diverse Model Systems

From flies to rodents to humans
From genes to molecules to systems

Current Approaches Include

Cre-Lox animal models
Electrophysiology
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Gene therapy
Computational modeling
Animal behavior
Neuroimaging
Optogenetics
Live confocal imaging

Neuroscience Program Director
A.J. Robison
robiso45@msu.edu
517-884-5003

Giltner Hall
293 Farm Lane, Room 108
East Lansing, MI
48824-1101

Phone: (517) 353-8947
Fax: (517) 432-2744

neurosci@msu.edu

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