As director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Lennart Mucke has established a vigorous interdisciplinary program for research and training in disease-focused neuroscience. To support behavioral research across multiple laboratories at the Gladstone Institutes, UCSF and beyond, he also created Gladstone’s Behavioral Core, which provides expert assistance and training in relevant approaches.
Deeply committed to training the next generations of scientists, Lennart Mucke has mentored over 60 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Several of them have assumed leadership positions in academia or industry, many run their own productive labs, and most continue to make meritorious contributions to disease-focused neuroscience and translational neurobiology. Some examples are highlighted in the diagram above.
“While there clearly are some general mentoring principles that are useful to follow in most situations, I strongly believe in tailoring mentorship to the particular needs and potential of each individual, and I much enjoy helping my mentees become the best they can be.”
Lennart Mucke
Postdoctoral Fellows
The Mucke lab offers opportunities for interdisciplinary training in disease-related neuroscience with a particular emphasis on molecular, cellular, and neural network mechanisms underlying cognitive impairments and behavioral alterations. Scholarship and research training are individualized to allow for biomedical or more basic scientific interests and career development. The following links provide a list of Lennart Mucke’s Past Trainees and general information on Gladstone’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program.
Advanced Postdoctoral Training in Integrative Neuroscience
In partnership with the NOMIS Foundation, Lennart Mucke established the NOMIS-Gladstone Fellowship program, which offers exceptional postdoctoral scientists the freedom to address big unanswered questions at the intersection of two or more scientific disciplines.
Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Lennart Mucke is on the faculty of several UCSF graduate training programs: the Neuroscience Program, which is a component of the Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS), the Biomedical Sciences (BMS) Program, and the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). Undergraduate students from different programs at UC Berkeley have also been accepted into the lab for internships.
Medical Students and Resident Physicians
As a physician-scientist and active member of UCSF’s Department of Neurology, Lennart Mucke also participates in the training of medical students and neurology residents. All trainees benefit from the Mucke Lab’s affiliation with UCSF’s Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the diverse resources it offers.
Seminars
The Gladstone-UCSF community offers a large number of lectures, seminars and journal clubs, featuring local experts as well as outstanding scientists from around the world. Lennart Mucke established the weekly GIND Seminar series, which provides a stimulating and highly interactive forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research in basic and disease-related neuroscience.
Other Educational Outreach
Lennart Mucke established the annual Bay Area Alzheimer’s Disease Researchers Symposium in partnership with the Northern California Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and other Bay Area academic centers, including UCSF, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and the Buck Institute. To promote collaborations and advance solutions, this annual symposium brings together top academic researchers to discuss their research and other new developments in the Alzheimer's field.
Are you an electrophysiologist with an interest in the pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders and would like to contribute to this important area in an intellectually stimulating, interdisciplinary academic environment?
Join the Mucke Lab
Are you a graduate student or early-stage postdoctoral fellow well trained in electrophysiology and interested in the neurophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease and other major brain disorders?
This interdisciplinary training and research program offers exceptional postdoctoral scientists the freedom to address big unanswered questions at the intersection of two or more scientific disciplines.