1234567891011121314

Commencement 2025

View the Commencement Program

News

Professor Joseph Esdin Awarded 24-25 Distinguished Teaching Award

Professor Joseph Esdin Awarded 24-25 Distinguished Teaching Award

Professor Joseph Esdin, a continuing lecturer in the department is recently named one of the sixth awardees of this year’s 2024-2025 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty.
Read more
The Stephanie Leal Lab Publishes New Paper in The Journal of Neuroscience

The Stephanie Leal Lab Publishes New Paper in The Journal of Neuroscience

The Stephanie Leal Lab Publishes New Paper in The Journal of Neuroscience, "Fine-tuning the details: post-encoding music differentially impacts general and detailed memory".
Read more
Drs. Xia Yang and David Walker selected for the 2025 cohort of the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society

Drs. Xia Yang and David Walker selected for the 2025 cohort of the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society

Coordinated by the UCLA Office of Faculty Development, the Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society recognizes UCLA faculty for excellence in mentoring. The Society, which is supported by a University of California Office of the President (UCOP) grant for faculty development, honors the time and effort that faculty mentors have contributed to the professional development of early and mid-career faculty at UCLA.
Read more
In a collaborative paper, the Frye Lab performed live imaging to show the physiological function of molecular gradients of synaptic connectivity within the visual system 

In a collaborative paper, the Frye Lab performed live imaging to show the physiological function of molecular gradients of synaptic connectivity within the visual system 

In a collaborative paper, the Frye Lab performed live imaging to show the physiological function of molecular gradients of synaptic connectivity within the visual system
Read more

Educational Programs

The department is proud of its long history in training the next generation of thinkers and leaders in science and medicine. The department offers an Undergraduate Program (B.S. in Physiological Science) as well as a two-year, research-oriented Master’s Program (M.S. in Physiological Science). We are a co-founder and home to the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, which is one of 11 Ph.D.-granting programs in the Graduate Programs in Biosciences (GPB) at UCLA. The department is also highly engaged with the Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program (UNSIDP). Specifically, IBP provides administrative expertise and support for UNSIDP’s leadership; staff; instruction; curriculum; courses; teaching assistants; and financial support for selected activities.

Events

Stay Connected