Administrative and Contact Information
The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute is an umbrella organization comprised of over fifty Berkeley faculty members involved in research related to diverse aspects of neuroscience. The faculty are also training future neuroscientists in the Neuroscience Graduate Program which is formally designated as an "augmented graduate group," authorized to award the Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience. Although there are many graduate groups on campus, the Neuroscience Graduate Program was only the second graduate group at Berkeley to be granted the authority to make core faculty appointments. One of the first core faculty appointments was Professor Mark D'Esposito. He was followed by Assistant Professors Lu Chen and Kristin Scott, Professor William Jagust, Assistant Professors Jonathan Wallis and Michael Silver, and Adjunct Assistant Professor Shaowen Bao. Most recent faculty appointments include Associate Professors Bruno Olshausen, Marla Feller and Dan Feldman, Assistant Professors Silvia Bunge and Michael DeWeese, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor Fritz Sommer.
The strength of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute is in its disciplinary diversity. Neuroscience is a broad field that spans the spectrum from genes and molecules to brain and behavior and is intersected at all levels by the physical sciences and engineering. At present, the Institute faculty hold appointments in the Colleges of Chemistry, Engineering, Letters & Science and Natural Resources, as well as the Schools of Optometry and Public Health. Individual departments represented are: Chemical Engineering, Insect Biology, Vision Science, Integrative Biology, Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics, and Psychology. In addition, the Institute has faculty research affiliations with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC San Francisco, and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland.
Contact Information
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
3210F Tolman Hall MC 3192
Berkeley, CA 94720-3192
Voice: (510) 642-2593
FAX: (510) 643-4966
Comprehensive Financial and Human Resource Services: Research Enterprise Services (RES) (as of July 1, 2008)
Neuroscience Graduate Program3210F Tolman Hall, MC 3192
Berkeley, CA 94720-3192
Voice: (510) 642-8915
FAX: (510) 643-4966
E-mail:
| Director |
Robert T. Knight - Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience (Psychology)
Executive Committee
The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute is governed by an Executive Committee consisting of the following members:
John Ngai, Coates Family Professor of Neuroscience (MCB) - Head, Graduate Program and Neurogenomics Center
Professor Ehud Isacoff (MCB) - Head, Division of Neurobiology
Professor Richard Ivry (Psychology) - Director of Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Professor John Flannery (Vision Science)
Professor Yang Dan (MCB) - member at-large
Emily Jacobs - Graduate Student Representative
Ex-Officio Members
Professor William Jagust (Public Health) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research liaison
Bruno Olshausen (Neuroscience, Vision Science) - Head, Redwood Center
for Theoretical Neuroscience
| Staff |
Administrative oversight of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, its technology centers, and the Neuroscience Graduate Program, is provided by the following members of the professional staff:
voice 510-643-4053; fax 510-643-4952
Kati Markowitz - Graduate Program Coordination,
voice 510-642-8915; fax 510-643-4966
Alyssia Bryan McKelvey - Director's Support, Human Subjects Payments & Keys,
voice 510-642-2593
Email: or Voice: (510) 642-8915
This page updated 2/20/2009
Computer and Network Support
| Computational and network support for the Neuroscience Institute is provided by the Computational Infrastructure for Research Laboratories (CIRL). For more information see: https://cirl.berkeley.edu/ |
For immediate assistance, please contact the CIRL Helpdesk: https://cirl.berkeley.edu/view/helpdesk/