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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Erin Schuman, Ph.D., director, department of synaptic plasticity, and professor, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Speaker bio(s)

An individual neuron in the brain possesses approximately 10,000 synapses, many of which are hundreds of microns away from the cell body, which can process independent streams of information. During synaptic transmission and plasticity, remodeling of the local proteome occurs via the regulated synthesis of new proteins. Dr. Schuman will discuss previous and current studies aimed at understanding how the local transcriptome, obtained with deep sequencing, and the local proteome, obtained with BONCAT, might influence synaptic transmission and plasticity.

 

Dr. Schuman earned her B.A. in psychology at the University of Southern California in 1985, and completed her Ph.D. in 1990 in neuroscience at Princeton University. Dr. Schuman completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University and became assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology in 1993, associate professor in 1999 and full professor in 2004. In 1997 Dr. Schuman was appointed investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She has received several awards and grants, including the Pew Scholars Award, the Beckman Young Investigator Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. In 1995, Dr. Schuman was named as the American Association of University Women's Emerging Scholar. In 2009, she became director of the department of synaptic plasticity at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Her areas of expertise include cellular and molecular neuroscience, synaptic plasticity and proteomics.

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Gloria Phipps

Phone

(212) 327-8967

Sponsor

Gloria Phipps
(212) 327-8967
phippsg@rockefeller.edu