Gina G. Turrigiano

Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis University.^[1][2]

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 ^[3]
• 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

1. http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?emplid=40d2f93a15af190491a5b0c8283e59da9ac6bdff
2. http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/turrigiano.html
3. http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/09_05_2000/story07.htm

External links

• "Gina G. Turrigiano", Scientific Commons
• "Gina G Turrigiano", Neurotree