Cornelia Bargmann

Isabella Cornelia Bargmann called Cori ( b. 1961 in Virginia ) is an American neurobiologist.

Bargmann grew up in Athens, Georgia the daughter of a computer science professor. She studied biochemistry at the University of Georgia with a bachelor 's degree in 1981 and 1987 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Robert Allan Weinberg doctorate. At that time, she dealt with oncogenes (including cloned them the Her2 gene). As a post - doctoral student in the laboratory of H. Robert Horvitz at MIT, she turned to neurobiology and examined the behavior of C. elegans, a nematode, which is a preferred object of study in neuroscience because it has exactly 302 neurons. She examined his senses and the neural and molecular mechanisms behind his behavior and had his sense of smell after (32 neurons of C. elegans are so concerned ). In 1991 she was appointed Assistant Professor in 1998 and Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and as of 2004 she was a professor at Rockefeller University ( Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HHMI ).

In 2003, she discovered a molecule ( SYG -1), which is important for making the neural connections in the development of C. elegans. Next they identified in their laboratory, the gene npr -1, which controls whether the nematodes go in groups or alone in search of food. It is closely related to a human gene, plays a role in appetite, and fear. In addition, she discovered her team a gene that is responsible for odor discrimination in C. elegans.

In 2004 she received the Kemali Prize, the 2009 Richard Lounsbery Award, 2010, the Perl -UNC Neuroscience Prize, the 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience and the 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. In addition, she was awarded the Charles Judson Herrick Award for comparative neurology of the American Association of Anatomists and the Takasago Prize for olfactory research. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Organization ( EMBO) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She is married to Nobel Laureate Richard Axel.