Welcome to Anatomy and Neurobiology
The Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University
of Tennessee Health Sciences Center is currently home to 25 active neuroscientists with
primary appointments and another 26 with secondary appointments, all
participating in the campus-wide Neuroscience Institute,
which includes over 80 neuroscience faculty. These investigators focus on
research on neurological and neurodegenerative disorders, motor control,
excitable properties of neurons and synaptic function, sensory information
processing, brain tumor biology, vision and retina, neurogenetics and neural
development, and intracellular signaling in neurons. UTHSC is one of the world’s
leading centers exploiting novel genomic approaches to explore brain
development, CNS function and behavior, and psychiatric and neurodegenerative
diseases.
Core facilities for neuroscience research include an ultrastructure facility,
histology laboratory, confocal scanning microscope, image analysis laboratory,
and a proteomics/mass spectrometry laboratory, which are staffed by specialists.
There are centralized laboratories to make transgenic and knockout mice.
Investigators are expert in all areas of modern neurobiology, including in vivo
and in vitro recording, patch-clamp studies, tissue culture, immunocytochemical
localization of neurotransmitters and peptides, in situ localization of mRNA,
retrograde and anterograde axonal tracing, calcium imaging, computer-assisted
reconstruction of neuronal morphology, DNA sequencing and microarray analysis,
and genetic and QTL analysis.
Graduate students in neuroscience receive broad training in an interdisciplinary
environment, essential to modern neurobiological research. Students wishing to
pursue graduate training in neurobiology enter the Neuroscience Track within the
Integrated Program in Biomedical Sciences.
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