Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist

Neuroscientist

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, and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

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She graduated from Reed College

Reed College

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, B.A.,and from University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

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, 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

• 2012 HFSP Nakasone Award
• 2007 NIH Directors Pioneer Award
• 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program
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• 1996 National Institutes of Health Career Development Award
• 1996 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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  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 9781841690216
• "Behavioral Correlates of Stomagrastric Network Function", Dynamic biological networks: the stomatogastric nervous system, Editor Ronald M. Harris-Warrick, MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 9780262082143

External links

• "Gina G. Turrigiano", Scientific Commons
• "Gina G Turrigiano", Neurotree