John E. Lisman

John E. Lisman (died October 20, 2017) was the Zalman Abraham Kekst Chair in Neuroscience at the Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.[1] He was Professor of Biology Amplification and Switching in Signal Transduction and Memory, noted for his research on neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Alzheimer's disease. For his research, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.[2]

Education

Lisman graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1966. He completed graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a postdoctoral with Nobel laureate George Wald at Harvard University.[3]

John E. Lisman Memorial Lecture in Vision Science

The John E. Lisman '66 Memorial Lecture in Vision Science is an annual award and lecture given by a leading international scholar in vision research who is selected by a committee at Brandeis University. Scholars are selected based on their extraordinary contributions to vision research and receive a $5000 prize. The scholar visits Brandeis for 1-2 days to meet faculty, students, and postdoctoral fellows, and often participates in teaching an ongoing Brandeis course.

The Lisman award is endowed by a gift from the Lifelong Vision Foundation (previously: Midwest Cornea Research Foundation), a public charity established to promote and disseminate vision research that is aimed at preserving and restoring sight. The award was initially established[4] by Brandeis alumni Jay Pepose (BS 1975) and Susan Feigenbaum (BS 1974), and, prior to 2018, was named the Jay Pepose ’75 Award in Vision Sciences. In 2018,[5][6] the award was renamed to honor the memory of John E. Lisman (1944-2017), a Brandeis alumnus (BS 1966) and faculty member from 1974 until his death[7] in 2017.

Date of Lecture Awardee Affiliation Title or Topic of Lecture
February 8, 2010 Jay Neitz University of Washington Gene therapy for red-green color blindness in adult primates[4]
February 9, 2010 Maureen Neitz University of Washington Retinal Activity Patterns and the Cause and Prevention of Nearsightedness[4]
March 14, 2011 Peter Schiller Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parallel Information Processing Channels Created in the Retina[8]
March 12, 2012 Michael Stryker University of California, San Francisco Rewiring the Brain: Mechanisms of Competition and Recovery of Function in the Mammalian Cortex[9][10][11]
March 13, 2013 Gordon Fain University of California, Los Angeles The G-protein Cascade of Photoreceptors[12][13]
March 12, 2014 Richard Masland Harvard Medical School The neuronal organization of the retina: answers and problems[14][15][16][17]
May 18, 2015 William Newsome Stanford University School of Medicine A New Look at Gating: Selective Integration of Sensory Signals through Network Dynamics[18][19][20]
April 12, 2016 David Williams University of Rochester Seeing through the retina[21][22]
March 13, 2017 Frank Werblin University of California at Berkeley The Evolution of Retinal Research[23][24]
April 10, 2018 David Fitzpatrick Max Planck Florida Institute Functional synaptic architecture in primary visual cortex[5][25][26]
April 9, 2019 Constance Cepko Harvard Medical School The Development of the Vertebrate Retina and Nanobodies as Regulators of Intracellular Activities[27]
April 28, 2020 Doris Tsao California Institute of Technology How the brain represents objects[28] (lecture postponed until 2020-2021 academic year)
March 7, 2021 John E. Dowling Harvard Medical School TBD
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