A. James Hudspeth

Albert James Hudspeth (* 1945 ) is an American neurophysiologist at Rockefeller University in New York City .

Life

Hudspeth grew up near Houston , Texas . He acquired in 1967 a bachelor in biochemistry at Harvard College in Boston , Massachusetts , in 1968 a master and in 1973 a Ph.D. at the Department of Medical Sciences at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences . The title of his dissertation was Intercellular Junctions in Epithelia . In 1974 he received an MD from Harvard Medical School . Here he worked for the later Nobel Prize winners Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel . As a postdoctoral fellow , Hudspeth went to the Karolinska Institute near Stockholm , Sweden . In 1983 he moved to the University of California, San Francisco and 1989 as a professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas Medical Center in Dallas , Texas before 1995 as Professor of Sensory Science (about sensory -sciences) at the Rockefeller University in New York City changed. Hudspeth is also doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in New York City.

Act

Hudspeth is considered a leader in the study of mechano-electrical transduction . With exceptionally elegant and original experiments, he was able to describe the electrophysiological response of the hair cell in the inner ear to mechanical stimuli and measure the mechano-electrical coupling of the ion channels on which this response is based.

More recent work deals with genes that code for functional proteins in hair cells , with the zebrafish serving as a model organism .

Awards (selection)

1976 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1985 W. Alden Spencer Award
1991 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
1997 Rosenstiel Award
2000 Hugh Knowles Prize from Northwestern University
2002 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 Ralph W. Gerard Prize
2015 membership in the American Philosophical Society
2018 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience
2019 Passano Award

Web links

A. James Hudspeth, MD, Ph.D. and Research Introduction at Rockefeller University (rockefeller.edu); Retrieved June 19, 2011
A. James Hudspeth, MD, Ph.D. Biography , autobiographical notes, and research abstract at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org); Retrieved June 20, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ Neuroscientist A. James Hudspeth Joins Rockefeller Faculty at Rockefeller University (rockefeller.edu); Retrieved June 20, 2011
^ Past Winners - Rosenstiel Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
^ Hugh Knowles Prize - Knowles Hearing Center. In: knowleshearingcenter.northwestern.edu. May 10, 2016, accessed March 28, 2018 .
↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed March 28, 2018 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Hudspeth, A. James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hudspeth, Jim; Hudspeth, Albert James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American neurophysiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1945

[1] Neuroscientist A. James Hudspeth Joins Rockefeller Faculty at Rockefeller University (rockefeller.edu); Retrieved June 20, 2011

[2] Past Winners - Rosenstiel Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .

[3] Hugh Knowles Prize - Knowles Hearing Center. In: knowleshearingcenter.northwestern.edu. May 10, 2016, accessed March 28, 2018 .

[4] Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed March 28, 2018 (English).