Professor
School of Medicine and Public Health | Department of Neuroscience
Hometown: Warners, NY (outside of Syracuse, NY)
I am a first-generation Professor. Neither of my parents went to college and I was the first in my family to obtain a PhD. I received my BA from Colgate University, my PhD from UW-Madison and I did postdoctoral work at MIT. I have been a professor at UW-Madison for 19 years. I study neuronal development and plasticity including brain development and learning and memory.
Talks:
How does the brain develop at the cellular level?
I would give an introduction of how the brain develops during late fetal development and give examples of what happens when neuronal migration goes wrong.
How to we learn and remember? Cellular and subcellular introduction
What is actually happening in the brain when we learn and remember? What is happening in the brain at the cellular level? How can neurons keep track of changes?
A perspective of a first generation neuroscience professor
Although many aspects of life have changed in the last 40 years I can describe my journey from a first generation student to a university professor and why it is important for the federal government to fund students to succeed.