VOLUME 12, NUMBER 16 • FEBRUARY 23, 2001

Tsien to Discuss Single Synapses Today

Richard Tsien, the George D. Smith Professor at Stanford University Medical Center, will present the Friday lecture today (Feb. 23). Tsien’s topic will be "Modulating the Song of Single Synapses."

Tsien’s laboratory studies signaling mechanisms that link electrical activity to cytoplasmic events and to intracellular and intercellular communication. Tsien was the founder of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biophysiology at Stanford University and was chairman of the department from 1988 to 1994. In addition, he has been the directior of Silvio Conte-National Institutes of Mental Health Center for Neuroscience Research since 1991.

Richard Tsien is the George D. Smith Professor at Stanford University Medical Center.

Tsien received his S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in biophysics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

He has won a number of awards for his work and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Tsien’s talk will take place in Caspary Auditorium at 3:45 p.m. and is preceded by a tea at 3:15 p.m. All are welcome