Education

B.A., Biology, Bryn Mawr College,
Ph.D., Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1985

Professional Experience

Post-Graduate Education
1985-1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, (Advisor: M. Constantine-Paton), Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. The role of NMDA receptors in development of the topographic retinotectal projection.
1989-1990 Postdoctoral Fellow, (Advisor: R. Tsien), Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Beckman Center, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA. Calcium imaging in optic tectal cell cultures.
1995 Student, Cloning of Neural Genes Summer Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Employment
1976 Student Research Assistant, (C. DeDuve), Lab of Biochemical Cytology, The Rockefeller University
1977-1979 Research Assistant, (A. S. Schneider) Department of Endocrinology, Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Institute
1990-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1994-1996 Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
1997-1998 Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
1998-2008 Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
2000-2008 Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2002-2006 Director of Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2008- Professor, Depts of Neuroscience & Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, CA
2016-present, Co-Chair, Dept. of Neuroscience, Scripps Research, CA

Awards & Professional Activities

Activities
AAAS: Electorate Nomination Committee (2004-2006)
Society for Neuroscience: Councilor (2002-2006)
Society for Neuroscience: Program Committee (2001-2004)
NINDS Board of Scientific Counselors (2004-2007)
Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Exec Committee (1998-2006), Founding member
AAAS Fellows Nomination and Election Committee (2007-2012)
Society for Neuroscience: Secretary (2010-2013)
National Eye Institute, Advisory Council Member (2011-2015)
NICHD Division of Intramural Research, Blue Ribbon Panel Member (2012-2014)
Society for Neuroscience: President (2015-2016)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Advisory Council (2018-2021)

Awards and Honors
NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2005)
American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow (2012)
TSRI Outstanding Mentor Award (2013)
Director, Neurobiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (2008-2009)
Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
National Academy of Sciences, member (2022)
American Academy of Arts and Science, member (2023)

Professional Memberships
Society for Neuroscience
American Academy for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Cell Biology
American Physiological Society

Editorial Boards
Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Journal of Developmental Neurobiology
Neural Development