Eve Marder

Eve Esther Marder (* May 30, 1948 in New York City ) is an American neurobiologist.

Life

Marder graduated from Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and in 1974, received his PhD at the University of California, San Diego in biology. As a post - doctoral student, she was in 1975 at the University of Oregon and 1976 to 1978 at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. After that, she was a professor at Brandeis University, since 1990 full professor.

She is married to Arthur Wingfield.

Work

Marten examines the mechanisms by which modify neurotransmitters and neuropeptides little nervous circuits and the numerical dynamics of small networks. She studied at the beginning of their careers small neural circuits at the example of the stomatogastric Ganglionsysteme (STG ) of lobsters and other crustaceans that control the digestive system consist of 30 large neurons and produce a rhythmic pattern. They could show that the behavior of different substances that modulate the neurons depended and thus was not fixed ( they showed neuroplasticity ). These findings were then very influential and resulted in a shift in neurobiology. Later she also did pioneering work in the numerical simulation of realistic small neuronal networks. She developed a computer -controlled experimentation with other tool with real neuron cells ( dynamic clamp ), which received wide coverage ..

In recent times, it is concerned with the stabilization mechanisms of ever new reconfigured neural networks that are important for maintaining the biological function of these networks.

1984 to 1990 she was editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology. In 2007, she was president of the Society for Neuroscience.

Honors and Memberships

2013 she was awarded the Gruber Prize for Neuroscience. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences ( 2007) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1995 she received a McKnight Foundation Award, 1987 Javits Award in Neurosciences, the MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH), 2005 Ralph W. Gerard Prize and the Miriam Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award of Women in Neurosciences.

Writings

  • RM Harris - Warrick with modulation of neural networks for Behavior, Annual Review of Neuroscience, Volume 14, 1991, pp. 39-57
  • RM Harris - Warrick with, Allen Selverston, M. Moulin (Editor): Dynamic Biological Networks: The Stomatogastric Nervous System, Cambridge: MIT Press 1992
  • With TB Kepler, LF Abbott Reduction of conductance -based neuron models, Biological Cybernetics, 66, 1992, 381-387
  • With IR Epstein: Multiple modes of a conditional neural oscillator, Biological Cybernetics, 63, 1990, 25-34
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