Neuroscience at Wellesley College

8 faculty and 31 courses in Neuroscience at Wellesley College.

Faculty

• Barbara Beltz, Allene Lummis Russell Professor Emerita of Neuroscience h-index 43
  Es on the production of new neurons in the adult nervous system (adult neurogenesis), using the crustacean brain as the model system. My laboratory’s primary goal is to understand the sequence of events leading to the production of new nerv
• Marc Tetel, Allene Lummis Russell '46 Professor of Neuroscience h-index 33
  Neuroendocrinology, effects of hormones, and lifestyle factors on the human microbiome. Visit the Tetel Lab website . My lab is interested in how the ovarian steroid hormones, estradiol and progesterone, regulate behavior and physio
• Deborah Bauer, Associate Teaching Professor in Neuroscience h-index 20
• Sharon Gobes, Professor of Neuroscience h-index 16
• Sara Wasserman, Associate Professor of Neuroscience h-index 11
  Es on examining the genetic identities, cellular mechanisms, circuit physiology, and computations that underlie the behavioral algorithms that allow nervous systems to discriminate and assign subjective value to sensory stimuli in order to
• Courtney Marshall, Kresa Family Assistant Professor of Neuroscience h-index 10
  Es on the microtubule associated protein tau and glutamatergic receptors. Specifically, we are interested in elucidating how the synaptic
• Ginny Quinan, Associate Teaching Professor in Neuroscience
• Mike Wiest, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
  Es on sensory integration in rats, attempting to understand how neural activity in different parts of the brain gets combined or coordinated to generate a single coherent perception. Because we can only infer mental states in rats from thei

Courses

• Neuroendocrinology BISC 315
• Introduction to Neuroscience NEUR 101
• The Emotional Brain NEUR 107X
• FYS: Brains, Minds & Machines NEUR 125Y
• Intermediate Neuroscience I with Lab NEUR 201
• Lab: Intermediate Neuroscience I NEUR 201L
• Intermediate Neuroscience II with Lab NEUR 202
• Lab: Intermediate Neuroscience II NEUR 202L
• Group Neuroscience Research NEUR 240
• Research or Individual Study NEUR 250
• Career Exploration and Grant Writing NEUR 301
• Excitation, Plasticity & Disease w/Lab NEUR 305
• Lab: Excitation, Plasticity & Disease NEUR 305L
• Neuroethology: Decision Making with Lab NEUR 310
• Lab: Neuroethology: Decision Making NEUR 310L
• Neuroethology: Decision Making NEUR 310X
• Neurodegenerative Diseases with Lab NEUR 320
• Lab: Neurodegenerative Diseases NEUR 320L
• Sleep, Learning & Memory w/ Lab NEUR 325
• Lab: Neurobiology of Sleep, Learning & Memory NEUR 325L
• Sleep, Learning & Memory NEUR 325X
• CSPW: Neuroscience and/in/for Society (& ART) NEUR 330
• Neuropharmacology NEUR 332
• Computational Neurosci w/Lab NEUR 335
• Lab: Computational Neuroscience NEUR 335L
• Behavioral Neurobiology NEUR 340
• Senior Thesis Research NEUR 360
• Senior Thesis NEUR 370
• + 3 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.