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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

David Ginty, Ph.D., Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor, department of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

The somatosensory system endows us with enormous capacity for object recognition, texture discrimination, sensory-motor feedback and social exchange. Innocuous touch of the skin is detected by physiologically distinct low-threshold mechanosensory neurons (LTMRs). Dr. Ginty's lab has amassed a genetic toolbox that enables interrogation of the physiology, morphology and function of LTMR subtypes and their synaptic target neurons in the spinal cord. Dr. Ginty will discuss morphological and physiological features of LTMRs and the organizational logic of LTMR projections and circuits in the central nervous system.

 

Dr. Ginty earned his Ph.D. in physiology at East Carolina University School of Medicine, and did postdoctoral work in molecular neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He has been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1995, and in 2013 he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School as the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology. He has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2000. Dr. Ginty is a recipient of the Klingenstein Foundation Award in Neuroscience, the American Chemical Society Junior Faculty Research Award, the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Scholars Award, the Pew Scholars Award and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award.

Open to

Public

Reception

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

Contact

Alena Powell

Phone

(212) 327-7745

Sponsor

Alena Powell
(212) 327-7745
apowell@rockefeller.edu