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Name
  
Gina Turrigiano

Role
  
Neuroscientist

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship


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Education
  
University of California, San Diego, Reed College

Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis University.

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She graduated from Reed College, B.A., and from University of California, San Diego, with a Ph.D. She now lives in Weston, MA with her husband, Sacha Nelson (also a neuroscientist) and two sons, Gabriel Nelson, and Raphael Turrigiano.

Awards

  • 2013 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA)
  • 2012 HFSP Nakasone Award
  • 2007 NIH Directors Pioneer Award
  • 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 1996 National Institutes of Health Career Development Award
  • 1996 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
  • 1995 Whitehall Foundation Research Award

    • Works

  • "Homeostatic Regulation of Cortical Networks", Toward a theory of neuroplasticity, Editors Christopher Ariel Shaw, Jill McEachern, Psychology Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84169-021-6
  • "Behavioral Correlates of Stomagrastric Network Function", Dynamic biological networks: the stomatogastric nervous system, Editor Ronald M. Harris-Warrick, MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-262-08214-3

    • References

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