Director Spotlight
On location with Neuroscience Program Director Daniel Tranel, PhD
"Join the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Iowa and become part of the bright team of scientists trying to solve the mystery of the human brain."
Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Provides collaborative support for the neuroscience community.
IDGP Neuroscience Events
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Avery Van De Water
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 1:00pm
Avery Van De Water is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Their research has been conducted in Dorit Kliemann's laboratory.
If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Angela Smith
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 11:00am
Angela Smith is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Her research has been conducted in both Kathleen Sluka's and Stephanie Gantz's laboratories.
If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.
Outstanding Alumni
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"The fact that I was able to perform at this level and do this work is representative of this program. The strength of the Neuroscience Program at the University of Iowa is what makes it such a destination program for people.”
Carver College of Medicine Research Events
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, September 9, 2027 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, August 12, 2027 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, July 8, 2027 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, June 10, 2027 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, May 13, 2027 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, April 8, 2027 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, March 11, 2027 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
Neuroscience News
Sigmund to lead UI Department of Pharmacology
Thursday, June 17, 2010
University of Iowa Health Care leaders have announced the appointment of Curt Sigmund, Ph.D., as professor and head of the Department of Pharmacology in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Sigmund, who is currently a faculty member in the departments of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics, will become head of pharmacology July 1, pending...
Perlman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
University of Iowa microbiologist Stanley Perlman, M.D., Ph.D., has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The honor recognizes scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology.Perlman, professor of microbiology and pediatrics in the UI Carver College of Medicine, was one of 78 scientists elected to the academy this year.Perlman's research...
CLAS names Collegiate Fellows, Stuit and Starch Faculty Fellows
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) named Physics Professor Thomas F. Boggess Jr. and Mathematics Professor Weimin Han Collegiate Fellows in recognition of their distinguished teaching, research and service. The college named Professor John Freeman the first Stuit Faculty Fellow in Psychology, and Psychology Professor Susan Lutgendorf a Starch Faculty Fellow...
UI studies brain's moral judgments
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A new study suggests that our ability to respond appropriately to intended harms is seated in a brain region associated with regulating emotions. The finding offers a new piece to the puzzle of how the human brain constructs morality. Among the study's authors is DANIEL TRANEL of the University of Iowa.
Andreasen book discusses creative people and depression (Back Stage, March 22)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
In her book "The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius," NANCY C. ANDREASEN, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Iowa, argues that the same attributes that help artists create -- such as openness and sensitivity -- may also make them more susceptible to mental and emotional problems. Back Stage is a Web site devoted to covering the theatrical industry.
11th Annual Brain Bee Competition - Winners Announced
Friday, February 12, 2010
The 11th Annual Brain Bee Competition was held on Saturday, February 6th in 283 EMRB. The competitors were ready for the judges and quiz questions. After a number of rounds, the winner of the competition was Shairaz Sidhu from Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The second and third place winners were Michael Clapp - Regina Catholic Education Center and Ellenette Hiland - Iowa City West...
UI study finds second pathway to feeling heartbeat
Thursday, December 10, 2009
A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers. The UNIVERSITY OF IOWA study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
UI researchers study brain's fear center
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The brain's fear center apparently has a built-in chemical sensor triggered by a primordial terror -- threat of suffocation.
Be remarkable - Dan Tranel
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
His graduate students simply call him Dan. Not Dr. Tranel. Not Professor Tranel.This isn’t a lack of respect for their mentor, one of the top neuroscientists in his field. They just see him as a normal guy who happens to have a 100-yard football field, complete with goal posts at each end, on his farm in southern Johnson County.
Campbell, Welsh renewed as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Two researchers in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have been renewed for another five years as investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Both researchers, Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., and Michael Welsh, M.D., have been HHMI investigators since 1989.