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. The first core faculty appointments were Professor Mark D'Esposito and Assistant Professor Noam Sobel. They were 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
Administrative Office
Helen Wills Neuroscience Administration
3210F Tolman Hall MC 3192
Berkeley, CA 94720-3192
Voice: (510) 642-2593
FAX: (510) 643-4966
Neuroscience Graduate Program
3210F 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 510-495-4965; fax 510-643-4966
Tamara Artman - Research Protocols Coordination,
voice 510-643-4969; fax 510-666-2588
Marianne Ashton - Contracts & Grants: Pre-Award Coordination,
voice 510-643-6383; fax 510-666-2586
La Tonia Bolds - Payroll & Personnel Assistance,
voice 510-643-1274; fax 510-666-2591
Guadalupe Pinela Brandon - Budget & Financial Analysis (non-C&G),
voice 510-643-4951; fax 510-643-4966
Angela He- Contracts & Grants: Post-Award Coordination,
voice 643-9606; fax 510-643-4966
Alexis Kurland-Deeds - Manager, Contracts & Grants,
voice 510-643-4951; fax 510-666-2589
Kati Markowitz - Graduate Program Coordination,
voice 510-642-8915; fax 510-666-2590
Liway Martinez - Financial & Purchasing Services, nspurchasing@berkeley.edu /
voice 510-643-6516; fax 510-643-4966
Alyssia Bryan McKelvey - Human Subject Payments,
voice 510-642-2593
Josephine O'Shaughnessy - Human Resources Coordination,
voice 510-643-1274; fax 510-666-2493
Lochland Trotter - Contracts & Grants: Progress Report & Fellowship Application Coordination, Post-Award Analysis,
voice 510-643-4969; fax 510-666-2594
Vacant - Financial & Purchasing Services, nspurchasing@berkeley.edu
voice 510-643-6636; fax 510-643-4966
Email: or Voice: (510) 642-8915
This page updated 08/17/2007
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/ |
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