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This year’s Annual Meeting will be held from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. Although in-person attendance is ...

The NAS Award in the Neurosciences is awarded every three years to recognize extraordinary contributions to the progress of the neuroscience fields, including neurochemistry, neurophysiology, ...

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Erik Jorgensen is a geneticist studying the molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission. He was born and raised in Saratoga, California. Jorgensen was a vocational arts student, draftsman and ...

Emery N. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of ...

Leif Andersson is a specialist in genetics and genome biology. He explores the relationship between genetic and phenotypic variation. He has been working on comparative genomics using domestic animals ...

My research deals with mechanisms of T cell development and activation. For the past several years our focus has been on the interaction of antigen receptor and costimulatory signals. Recent work has ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton studies the formation and subsequent evolution of rocky planets. She was born and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and now splits her time between Arizona and Massachusetts.

As a vascular biologist and experimental pathologist, I have focused my research efforts on understanding the role of the endothelium, the single-cell-thick lining of the cardiovascular system, in ...

As a cognitive scientist interested in the origins and ontology of humans' capacity for language, I study language development in human infants from the earliest moments of life. Using cross-cultural ...