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The Health Center
The Health Center encompasses state of the art biomedical
research facilities, teaching and administrative areas, hospitals
and clinics, a vivarium and the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library
which is the Regional Medical Library for New England.
The Neuroscience Department
The Neuroscience Department faculty have laboratories, lab
and seminar space on the fourth floor of the connected L and
E buildings, and associated faculty are at most a few floors
away. Graduate students who have not yet selected a thesis
advisor have desk space and computer in a room set aside specifically
for uncommitted students.
Departmental facilities include all the necessary space and
equipment to perform studies ranging from the psychoacoustics
of binaural hearing to the introduction of site-directed mutations
using the polymerase chain reaction; from the molecular basis
of retinal degeneration to the neurobiology of taste; from
the effects of loud noise on the physiology and anatomy of
various stages in the auditory system to the biology of myelin
production; from schizophrenia to Huntington’s to Alzheimer’s
to Down’s syndrome; from excitotoxins to multiple sclerosis;
from second messengers to apoptosis; from computer models
of cell biology to computer models of neural circuits; from
embryonic development to geriatric neurology; and from fetal
alcohol syndrome to purification of proteins for crystallographic
studies. The Neuroscience Department also houses a High Technology
Center for Excellence for the Neurological Sciences. Support
for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows is provided
via two NIH training grants and research grants to individual
faculty, plus there is institutional support for graduate
fellowships.
School-wide facilities include the excellent Lyman Maynard
Stowe Library with extensive printed holdings going back more
than 50 years, plus over 1000 journals available electronically
from any computer in the Health Center. There is an electron
microscopy center, a histology facility, a molecular core
facility for DNA sequencing and DNA array analysis and oligonucleotide
synthesis, the Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology with
many confocal and other state-of-the-art light microscopes,
several computer centers, an NMR facility, and a new and extensive
transgenic mouse facility.
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