Neuroscience Core Faculty

The Neuroscience Program offers two types of faculty membership - core member and associate (non-core) member. Core members with thesis supervision status have the privilege of supervising graduate students. Core members with non-thesis supervision status may only co-supervise graduate students. Associate members may participate in all aspects of academic activities but not graduate student supervision. Core members must have their membership approved by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Associate membership may also apply to have non-core membership with the Faculty of Graduate Studies. At the time of application for membership in the Neuroscience Program, the individual must be active in neuroscience research and hold a primary faculty appointment, at the rank of assistant professor or higher, in a department of the University of Western Ontario or an affiliated hospital or research institute. Further information is contained in a document “Criteria for Membership in the Neuroscience Program”, approved by the Program at its 2002 Annual Meeting.

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NOTE: The following faculty members will NOT be taking new neuroscience students for the 2013-2014 academic year, please do not contact them regarding supervision:
D. Ansari, L. Archibald, A. Brown, J. Culham, M. Goodale, P. Gribble, E. Hampson, V. Han, S. Kohler,J. MacDonald, S. MacDougall-Shackleton, R. Martin, K. McRae, R. Menon, T. Peters, D. Purcell, S. Sims, B. Timney, T. Vilis, P. Williamson.

The Program Committee

This committee is comprised of 6 Core Members of faculty plus the Director of the Program, and is responsible for the administration of the graduate programs in Neuroscience. Its duties include: i) the evaluation of applicants for admission and for funding by internal and external sources; ii) the evaluation of requests for transfer from the masters to the doctoral program; iii) the establishment of Advisory Committees; iv) approval of the scope of and examiners for the Ph.D. comprehensive examinations, and for thesis examinations; v) the conduct of yearly reviews of the progress of each graduate student; vi) the coordination of program requests for funds from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and from other sources; vii) the preparation of reports for reviews of the graduate programs; viii) the formulation and presentation to the Program of changes in policies and guidelines for the programs.

The members of the Program Committee are elected by mail ballot by all core members of the program. Excluding the Director, no more than 2 members of the Program Committee are drawn from one academic department at any one time. Program Committee members serve terms of three years; members terms are staggered, normally two members elected each year, so that there is continuity of membership with some new members added each academic year. A student member, elected by the students, also serves as a member of the program Committee for a one-year term.

The director of program is selected by a search committee called by the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and is appointed for a term of 3 years. The Director reports to the Associate Dean (Biosciences Division) and the Vice-Provost (Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies).

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Michael Poulter, Ph.D. Director

Ms. Carol Anderson
Program Coordinator
neuroscience@uwo.ca

T (519) 661-4039
F (519) 661-4153

The University of Western Ontario
Robarts Research Institute, RRI 5260a
100 Perth Drive
London, Ontario, CANADA N6A 5K8

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Fields of Research

Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience

Neural Substrates of Behaviour

Neuroanatomy/Neuropathology

Neuroimaging

Neurophysiology

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