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Nobel Laureate to Present Gladstone Distinguished Lecture
Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel -- a winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine -- will present the Gladstone Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 4 p.m., at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, Carr Auditorium, in Building 3. The title of his lecture is "Genes, Memory Storage, and the Search for New Types of Synaptic Actions." Kandel is a professor at Columbia University, senior investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, Center for Neurobiology & Behavior and departments of biochemistry & molecular biophysics, physiology & cellular biophysics, and psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He has made seminal contributions to the field of neurobiology. His research has focused on the molecular mechanisms of the long-term synaptic changes related to learning in both invertebrates and mammals in the Aplysia nervous system and hippocampus. Recent work has focused on the molecular switch that converts short-term to long-term memory and on how long-term memory can be restricted to specific synapses. A graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Medicine, Kandel trained in neurobiology at the National Institutes of Health and in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974, as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology & Behavior. Kandel is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Science Academies of Germany and France. In addition to the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he has won the Lasker Award, the Gairdner Award, the Harvey Prize, and the National Medal of Science. Links: |
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