• Ph.D. Student
    Anshuman Swain
    Publishes
    First-Author Paper
    in PNAS
    on Bacterial Diversity
  • Katherine Pizano
    Named Visiting
    Fellow in
    Neuroscience
  • Ph.D. Student
    Karen Gu
    Awarded NSF
    Graduate Research
    Fellowship

Our Faculty Members Advise Students in Several Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

The University of Maryland's location also provides our students unparalleled access to local and global resources such as the National Institutes of Health and Smithsonian Institution. 

Biological Sciences Graduate Program

Biological Sciences Graduate Program

Concentrations include Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics; Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; and Physiological Systems.

Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Graduate Program

Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Graduate Program

Focus areas include Cellular & Molecular, Cognition & Emotion, Computational Modeling & Theory, Development & Aging, Disorders & Treatment, Language & Speech, and Sensory & Motor Systems.

Additional Graduate Programs

Additional Graduate Programs

Our faculty also advise graduate students in other university programs including Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences; Biophysics; and Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation.

Recent Graduate Student Publications

Calandra Stanley

Calandra Stanley

First-author paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

"Variable tropical moisture and food availability underlie mixed winter space-use strategies in a migratory songbird"

Pablo Villar

Pablo Villar

First-author paper in Journal of Neuroscience

"Long-range GABAergic inhibition modulates spatiotemporal dynamics of the output neurons in the olfactory bulb"

Anshuman Swain

Anshuman Swain

First-author paper in PNAS

"Higher-order effects, continuous species interactions, and trait evolution shape microbial spatial dynamics"

Ji Liu

Ji Liu

First-author paper in Journal of Neuroscience

"Diversity of receptive fields and sideband inhibition with complex thalamocortical and intracortical origin in L2/3 of mouse primary auditory cortex"

Meet Our Graduate Students