Brain-wide Screening for Evolutionarily-conserved Dynamical Principles
The Student Sponsored Lecture
Event Details
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- Friday Lecture Series
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Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., D.H. Chen Professor, departments of bioengineering, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Speaker bio(s)
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Karl Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry at Stanford, and an HHMI Investigator. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard (1992), Ph.D. from Stanford (1998), and M.D. from Stanford (2000). Deisseroth completed medical internship and adult psychiatry residency at Stanford, is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and founded and directs the Stanford Human Neural Circuitry (HNC) program. In addition to resolving the structural and functional mysteries of natural light-gated ion channels, and exploring how properties of the brain arise from activity of cellular components, Deisseroth has also published a book of literary nonfiction: Projections (Penguin Random House 2021).
Deisseroth was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010, National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and National Academy of Engineering in 2019. He has received the 2010 Nakasone Prize, 2012 Perl Prize, 2013 Lounsbery Prize, 2013 Gabbay Prize, 2013 BRAIN Prize, 2014 Dickson Prize in Science, 2014 Keio Prize, 2015 Breakthrough Prize, 2015 Lurie Prize, 2015 Albany Prize, 2015 Dickson Prize in Medicine, 2016 BBVA Award, 2017 Massry Prize, 2017 Fresenius Prize, 2018 Gairdner Award, 2018 Kyoto Prize, 2020 Heineken Prize, 2021 Lasker Award, 2022 Horwitz Prize, 2023 Japan Prize, and 2025 Asan Prize.
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- Tri-Institutional