Gina Turrigiano is a full professor in the Dept. of Biology, the Volen Center for Complex Systems, and the Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis. She has received numerous awards for her research including a Sloan Foundation fellowship, a MacArthur foundation "genius" award, McKnight Foundation Technological Innovation and Neurobiology of Disease awards, an NIH director’s pioneer award, and the HFSP Nakasone Award. she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests include mechanisms of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity and the experience-dependent rewiring of neocortical microcircuitry. Awards and Honors Javitz Neuroscience Investigator Award (2015) Joseph Levitan Chair in Vision Science, Brandeis University (2015) Member, National Academy of Sciences (2013) Election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012) HSFP NAKASONE AWARD (2012) McKnight Technological Development in Neuroscience Award (2007 - 2009) NIH Directors Pioneer Award (2007 - 2012) Heller Distinguished Lecturer, Hebrew University (2006) McKnight Neurobiology of Disease Award (2004 - 2008) MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2000 - 2005) 1st Alberta Goothardt Strage and Henry Strage Award for Aspiring Young Science Faculty (1999) National Institutes of Health Career Development Award (1996 - 2001) Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1996 - 1997) Whitehall Foundation Research Award (1995 - 1999) National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow (1990 - 1992) Phi Beta Kappa (1984) Regent's Fellowship, UCSD (1984 - 1985)

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