Neuroscience Bootcamp

Catalog description

This is a laboratory course that meets twice weekly. The goal of this course is to engage incoming graduate students in the Neuroscience Program to a didactic/hands-on methods-based primer and overview of modern neuroscience laboratory methodology. After successful completion of this course, students will be able to: - Demonstrate an understanding of basic laboratory safety and standard laboratory practices. - Demonstrate an understanding of how to keep data and records in a proper laboratory notebook. - Demonstrate an understanding of basic laboratory approaches used in a modern neuroscience research lab to address questions in neuroscience. - Demonstrate an understanding of how to perform and interpret laboratory experiments and analyze data acquired from those experiments.