About the Neuroscience Department

The Department of Neuroscience coordinates neuroscience educational and research programs within the Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences and the Tufts University School of Medicine. Departmental faculty direct research programs in many different areas of cellular and molecular neuroscience with emphasis on synapse neurobiology and the use of neurogenetics approaches. They participate in a new Synapse Neurobiology Graduate Training Program that is directed by Kathy Dunlap. The department hosts the Tufts Neuroscience Seminar Series and a student/postdoc presentation series during the academic year.

In addition to educational and research activities, faculty of the department supervise activities of the Tufts Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR), a center funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS). The CNR supports six different core research facilities, several located within departmental space, that provide services to all research labs of the medical school and its affiliated hospitals.

Please see the Contact link to the left for additional information about the Department of Neuroscience. Follow the Neuroscience Program link for information about our graduate program.