Courses 2012-13

The courses listed below offer a pluri-disciplinary education in all fields of neuroscience at the doctoral level. Those students not holding a MS degree in Neuroscience or Bio-Medical Sciences are encouraged to follow master level courses in order to reach the required level for advanced doctoral courses.

Lectures are given in English, except for those courses which titles are indicated in French.

REGISTRATION to EPFL-EDNE PhD courses

LN PhD students are most welcome to attend the courses listed in the section "Doctoral Program courses" at the EPFL-EDNE PhD courses website, except from the BIO609 course.

Since February 2012, the EPFL request external students to register as an auditor beforehand, by way of a special form that will be transmitted to you by email upon request. This form is to be filled in and sent back to the EDNE administrator with a scanned copy of the PhD student card, and with notice to your home program administration. Sending your PhD student card for the registration as an EPFL external auditor is only necessary once.

Please keep these points in mind:

1. Some EPFL-EDNE courses have limited space. For those, the EDNE students have the priority, therefore sending your e-mail to the EDNE administrator is not a confirmation of attendance.
2. Registration to courses taking place in the Spring Semester is possible anytime.
3. Use your university email account (no gmail, hotmail, etc), copying the LN coordinator and your thesis director in your message to the EDNE administrator.
   If you don't respect these rules, we will not be able to process your registration!

REGISTRATION to other EPFL PhD courses

You might also find interesting PhD courses in other EPFL programs. Please ask the LN coordinator if you wish to take any of the EPFL PhD courses outside the EPFL-EDNE program.
To register to any EPFL PhD course outside the EDNE program, please apply directly to the coordinator of the specific program.

The EPFL-EDNE coursebook website recommends some MSc courses to its Neuroscience PhD students. You might also find interesting MSc courses in other EPFL programs.

Please ask the LN coordinator if you wish to take any of the EPFL MSc courses. To register to any MSc EPFL course, please apply through the EPFL Students' Desk.

Click here to find information about the Neuroscience branch of the Unil MSc degree in Medical Biology. The 2012-13 schedule of the 6 courses included in the Neuroscience branch is detailed this Excel file:

Click here to see the program of the Geneva MSc program in Neuroscience.

Please note that four compulsory courses are given in English:

• Principles of neurobiology I - Dominique Müller et Jean-Marc Matter
• Principles of neurobiology II - Jean-Marc Matter et Dominique Müller
• Techniques for investigating Brain Functions - Christoph Michel
• Introduction to cognitive and affective neuroscience - Patrik Vuilleumier

as well as  other ones that might be interesting for your thesis project:

• PET and MRI Imaging in Neuroscience - Philippe Millet
• Psychiatric Neuroscience - Alain Malafosse

Moreover, two other courses are given in French:

• Analyses de données multivariées - Julien Chanal
• Neuropsychologie cognitive - Alan Pegna

For all the courses, the exam can be taken either in English or in French (by request to the person in charge of the course).

Please note that these MSC courses are validated with 3 credits for MSc students (as indicated in the PDF), but we will validate only 2 credits for our PhD students.

To register, please send an e-mail to the LN Coordinator.

To register to these courses, e-mail the LN Coordinator at least two weeks before the beginning of the course. 

You can register to the "Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science (module 1)" directly online in the RESAL website, but please remember to inform the LN coordinator about your registration, with copy to your thesis director as usual.