Gina G. Turrigiano

Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis University.[1][2]

She graduated from Reed College, B.A., and from University of California, San Diego, with a Ph.D. She now lives in Weston, MA with her husband, Sacha Nelson (also a neuroscientist) and two sons, Gabriel Nelson, and Raphael Turrigiano.

Awards
  • 2013 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA)
  • 2012 HFSP Nakasone Award
  • 2007 NIH Directors Pioneer Award
  • 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 1996 National Institutes of Health Career Development Award[3]
  • 1996 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
  • 1995 Whitehall Foundation Research Award

Works
  • "Homeostatic Regulation of Cortical Networks", Toward a theory of neuroplasticity, Editors Christopher Ariel Shaw, Jill McEachern, Psychology Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84169-021-6
  • "Behavioral Correlates of Stomagrastric Network Function", Dynamic biological networks: the stomatogastric nervous system, Editor Ronald M. Harris-Warrick, MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-262-08214-3
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References
  1. "Gina G Turrigiano - Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu.
  2. "Life Sciences Faculty - Gina Turrigiano". www.bio.brandeis.edu.
  3. "Newsletter". nihrecord.od.nih.gov. 2000-09-05. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
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