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The Edward A. Kravitz Lectureship
August 1, 2006 - 8:00 PM, Whitman Auditorium - Reception to follow in the Meigs Room, Swope.
“Variability, Compensation and Homeostasis in Neuronal Networks and Behavior”
Eve Marder, Ph.D., Brandeis University
Eve Marder is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience in the biology department and Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University. Dr. Marder received her Ph.D. in 1974 from UCSD, and was a postdoc at the University of Oregon and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France. She joined the faculty at Brandeis in 1978, and has been instrumental in the establishment of both undergraduate and graduate programs in Neuroscience. Dr. Marder has served as the chief editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology since 2002, and serves on numerous other editorial boards. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a trustee of the Grass Foundation. Dr. Marder was the Forbes Lecturer at the MBL in 2000 and the Einer Hille Lecturer at the University of Washington in 2002. She received the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women in Neuroscience in 2002, and will receive the Gerard Prize at the 2005 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
Dr. Marder has studied the dynamics of small neuronal networks using the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system. Her work was instrumental in demonstrating that neuronal circuits are not “hard-wired” but can be reconfigured by neuromodulatory neurons and substances to produce a variety of outputs. Together with Larry Abbott, her laboratory pioneered the “dynamic clamp.” Dr. Marder was one of the first experimentalists to forge long-standing collaborations with theorists and has for almost 15 years combined experimental work with insights from modeling and theoretical studies. Her work today focuses on understanding how stability in networks arises despite ongoing channel and receptor turnover and modulation, both in developing and adult animals.
Dr. Edward A. Kravitz is the George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of the City College of New York (B.S. in biology and chemistry) and The University of Michigan (Ph.D. in biological chemistry). His post-doctoral studies were at NIH with Drs. Earl Stadtman and P. Roy Vagelos. He went to Harvard Medical School in 1961, becoming a professor in 1969. Dr Kravitz’s research interests have centered on neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and now focus on explorations of the role of such substances in aggression using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model organism. In earlier studies, Kravitz and his colleagues (Kuffler, Potter, Otsuka, Iversen, and Hall) were the first to demonstrate that GABA was a neurotransmitter, and with Tony Stretton was the first to demonstrate that an intracellular fluorescent dye could be successfully used to determine neuronal geometry. The Kravitz laboratory has published over 100 papers in first rank journals. Presently Kravitz is supported by grants from NIGMS for his research on aggression.
In addition to being a member of many professional societies including the International Society for Neuroethology where he became president in August 2004, Dr. Kravitz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, is a fellow of the AAAS, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his awards and honors, Dr. Kravitz is most proud of his Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring award from Harvard Medical School, and the Education Award from the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs.
Dr Kravitz has long-standing interests in education. He has served as the director of the MBL’s Neurobiology course, was the co-founder of the Neurobiology of Disease Teaching Workshops at the Society for Neuroscience, and the first director of the graduate program in neuroscience at Harvard University. He is committed to the education of minorities in the sciences and medicine.
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