Site Visit Dates: December 10-11, 2012

Site Visit Dates: December 10-11, 2012

UCLA Academic Senate Program Review
Department of Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine
Site Visit: December 10-11, 2012
Review Team Members:
Guillaume Chanfreau, RT Chair, Graduate Council
Karen Reue, Graduate Council
Sunday, December 9
7:00 p.m.
Christine Gall, UC Irvine
Nicholas Spitzer, UC San Diego
Dinner meeting: Initial organizational session for review team members only
Location:
Luxe Hotel (11461 Sunset Blvd, Bel Air, CA 90049; 310-476-6571)
Monday, December 10
All meetings will be held in 73-240 CHS, unless otherwise indicated.
8:00
Breakfast discussion with Department Chair, Marie-Francoise Chesselet
9:00
Meeting with Ren Sun, Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, David Geffen School of Medicine
9:45
Meeting with the Graduate Program Committee: Nicholas Brecha (Graduate Student Advisor), Dean
Buonomano (Chair, Graduate Program Committee), Marie-Francoise Chesselet (Department Chair),
Lars Dreier, Ben Novitch, Felix Schweizer (Department Vice-Chair for Education)
10:30
Individual meeting with John Mazziotta, Associate Vice Chancellor/Executive Vice Dean, David Geffen
School of Medicine
11:00
Individual meeting with Kelsey Martin, Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Co-Chair of
the Bioscience Initiative Committee
11:20
Individual meeting with Christopher Evans, Director of the Brain Research Institute (BRI)
11:40
Break
12:00
Lunch – review team members only [to be catered on site – 73-240 CHS]
1:00
Group meeting with graduate students in the Neurobiology program (Weixiang Chang, Ryan Jones,
Dika Kuljis, Thomas Rogerson, Allison Sargoy, David Sherman)
2:00
Group meeting with representative graduate students in Dept of Neurobiology labs (including the
Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cell and Integrative Physiology Interdepartmental
Programs) (Katrina Adams, Adam Frank, Vishwa Goudar, Jennifer Kong, Katherine Myers, Alexander
Reeves, Helen Vuong)
3:00
Break
3:15
Meetings with representative postdoctoral scholars and researchers (Ana Caputo, Arlene Hirano, Beth
Lopour, Paul Mathews, Koorosh Mirpour, Meera Pratap, Yuki Quinones)
4:00
Closed session for the review team
5:00
Social gathering for the review committee and department (all invited) – Gonda 1357
7:00
Dinner for the review committee with invited faculty – Napa Valley Grille
Tuesday, December 11
8:00
Organizational breakfast meeting [for review team members only]
9:00
Individual meeting with Michael Levine, Chair of the Neuroscience (graduate) IDP
9:20
Individual meeting with Scott Chandler, Chair of the Neuroscience Undergraduate Program
9:40
Individual meeting with Barney Schlinger, Chair of the Department of Integrated Biology &
Physiology
10:00
Meeting with Neurobiology faculty
11:00
Tour of Facilities (CHS, NRB, Gonda) with the Chair.
12:30
Lunch – review team members only [to be catered on site – 73-240 CHS]
1:30
Meeting with Neurobiology Staff (Staci Chikami, Shannon Devaney, Soon-ok Dixon, Mark Lucas, Eva
Mellado, Art Rocha, Catherine Weston)
2:00
Closed session [review team members only]
3:00
Final review team meeting with Department Chair
3:30
Walk to Murphy Hall
4:00
Exit meeting (2121 Murphy Hall): The meeting includes Review Team Members, Department Chair
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost Scott L. Waugh, Senior Associate Dean of
Graduate Studies Ren Sun, Graduate Division Dean/Vice Provost Robin L. Garrell, Vice Provost for
Faculty Diversity and Development Christine Littleton, Graduate Council Chair Joseph Nagy, CPB
Representative Shane White
Department Staff Contacts:
Mark Lucas, Chief Administrative Officer; [email protected]; Office: 310-825-9552
Catherine Weston, Assistant to the Chair; [email protected]; Office: 310-206-3944
Academic Senate Staff Contact:
Kyle Cunningham, Graduate Council Analyst; [email protected]; Office: 310-825-1162