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Building Brains: The Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits. Thomas Jessell (2008)
Thomas Michael Jessell (born 2 August 1951 in London) is Claire Tow Professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University in New York City.
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- Building Brains The Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits Thomas Jessell 2008
- Thomas jessell 2012 canada gairdner international award
- Training and career
- Scientific discoveries
- Awards
- Books
- Notable former trainees
- References
Thomas jessell 2012 canada gairdner international award
Training and career
Jessell received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School with Gerald Fischbach. In 1981 he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. In 1985 he joined the Columbia University faculty and rose to the ranks to become Claire Tow Professor of Motor Neuron Disorders (in Neuroscience). Jessell has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1985.
Scientific discoveries
Jessell is known for his work on chemical signals that play a role when nerve cells assemble to form neuronal circuits. In 1994, he showed that netrin guides commissural axons in the vertebrate spinal cord.
Awards
In 1994 Jessell was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences. He was a co-recipient, with Pasko Rakic and Sten Grillner, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for Neuroscience in 2008. In 2014, he was awarded the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996.. He won the Ralph W. Gerard Prize from the Society for Neuroscience in 2016
Books
Jessell is the co-editor, with Eric R. Kandel and James Schwartz, of the well-known textbook Principles of Neural Science.
Notable former trainees
