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CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Pharmacology,
Physiology & Neuroscience
USC School of Medicine
6439 Garners Ferry Road
VA Building 1, Third Floor
Columbia, SC 29208
(For packages, use 29209)
Phone: 803-733-3254
Fax: 803-733-1523
Office of the Dean:
803-733-3200
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Department News
- PPN invites applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level.
- Dr. Marlene Wilson has been named Chair of the department.
- Congratulations to Dr. Alex McDonald of being the recipient of a NIDA/NIH grant "synaptic organization of the Basolateral Amygdala," a 2008 resubmission.
- Congratulations to Dr. Jim Augustine for being awarded the prestigious USC Educational Foundation Outstanding Service Award.
- Dr. Britt Wilson does a phenomenal job winning 2009 MI Teacher of the Year.
- Dr. Steve Wilson has been awarded an NIH grant to study "Gene Transfer into Selected Brain Neurons".
- Congratulations to graduate student Sloka Iyengar for winning honorable mention at the Newton Symposium, and being awarded the 2009 Dean Barnhardt Award.
- Congratulations to our newest undergraduate Magellan Scholars: Allison Clark (Dr. Reagan), Melissa Smith (Dr. Marlene Wilson), and Halley Woollen (Dr. Housley).
- Congratulations to Discovery Day 2009 Casey O'Neill from the lab of Sandra Kelly & Shana Dykema from the lab of Janet Fisher.
- Congratulations to Jeet Guram (Dr. Sweitzer) and Shana Dykema (Dr. Fisher) on Synapse Travel Awards and Student Oral Presentations.
- Dr. Jim Augustine has recently completed a book on the human brain and spinal cord entitled Human Neuroanatomy published by Academic Press (2008).
- Recent Department News
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FEATURED ARTICLE
Iyengar, SS and Mott, DD. Neuregulin blocks synaptic strengthening after
epileptiform activity in the rat hippocampus. Brain Research 1208:467-73;
2008.
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MISSION
The department provides expert instruction and conducts innovative research in neuroscience, physiology and pharmacology. Department faculty members teach students of medicine, nurse anesthesia and biomedical science in the classroom and the laboratory. Research activities focus on the roles of specific molecules in cellular function and their importance to organismal physiology and behavior.
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