2013 Scolnick Prize Lecture: Thomas Jessell

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Channel: McGovern Institute · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Dr. Thomas Jessell of Columbia University is the winner of the 2013 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for his pioneering work on synaptic plasticity, the process by which the brain’s connections are modified in response to experience.

On April 1, 2013, he delivered the Scolnick Prize lecture, entitled “Sifting Circuits for Motor Control.”

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