This American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Institutional Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program provides hands-on summer research experiences to undergraduate students.  The scientific research focus of this SURF program is Neuropharmacology.  Research will be conducted under the mentorship of faculty in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks, ND.  Mentors, all of whom are members of ASPET will work closely with students to develop an independent research project.  Some possible research projects involve adrenergic regulation of neurogenesis & cognitive function; dopamine transporter (DAT) pharmacology & regulation, DAT & serotonin transporter structure function; epigenomic modification; neuroimmunology.  These research projects are relevant to a number of neurological disorders including Addiction, Alzheimer’s disease, Anxiety, Depression, Epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and Schizophrenia.  Specific research activities being conducted by ASPET faculty mentors are: