Carla Shatz

Carla Shatz

Carla Jo Shatz (* 1947 ) is an American neuroscientist at Stanford University .

Life

Shatz grew up in West Hartford , Connecticut . She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Radcliffe College in 1969 , but also attended lectures by Rudolf Arnheim and Nobel Prize winner George Wald . With a Marshall scholarship , she went to study physiology at University College London , where she received an M.Phil. completed. Shatz obtained a Ph.D. in 1976 from the later Nobel Prize winners David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel at Harvard University. in neurobiology . As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with Paško Rakić at Harvard Medical School . In 1978 she received her first professorship at Stanford University Medical School . In 1992 she moved to the University of California, Berkeley with her then husband . From 1994 to 2000 she also conducted research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . In 2000 Shatz received the Chair of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School . Since 2007 she has headed Bio-X , an interdisciplinary research institute at Stanford University .

Eckhard Friauf is one of her doctoral students .

Act

Shatz was able to make significant contributions to the elucidation of brain development in humans - before and after birth. In particular, it is concerned with the development of neural networks / neuronal excitation circuits (neural circuits) and was able to show how the visual system adapts its compounds and what role neurotrophins in developing an ocular dominance play. Other important works by Shatz deal with the interactions between the immune system and the nervous system ( neuroimmunology ).

Awards (selection)

• 1979 Sloan Research Fellowship
• 1992 member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 1992 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1994/1995 President of the Society for Neuroscience
• 1995 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1996 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 1996 W. Alden Spencer Award
• 1997 member of the American Philosophical Society
• 2000 Weizmann Women in Science Award
• 2002 honorary doctorate from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• 2010 Honorary Doctorate from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• 2011 Ralph W. Gerard Prize
• 2011 Foreign member of the Royal Society
• 2013 Pasarow Foundation Award for Neuropsychiatry
• 2015 Gruber Prize for Neuroscience
• 2016 Kavli Prize
• 2016 Prémio de Visão António Champalimaud
• 2017 Harvey Prize of the Technion in Israel

literature

• Virginia Gain: Carla Shatz, director, BioX, Stanford University, Stanford, California . In: Nature . tape 447 , no. 7144 , May 31, 2007, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 610 , doi : 10.1038 / nj7144-610a .

Web links

• Carla Shatz and Shatz Lab at Stanford University (stanford.edu)
• Carla Shatz - David Starr Jordan Director of Stanford Bio-X, Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at Bio-X (biox.stanford.edu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carla J. Shatz, PhD - HHMI.org. In: hhmi.org. Retrieved June 19, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Neurotree - Carla Shatz J Family Tree. In: neurotree.org. Retrieved June 19, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 1.1 MB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); accessed on June 14, 2015.
4. ↑ Carla Shatz. In: nasonline.org. 2018, accessed on February 10, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Dr. Carla J. Shatz. In: amphilsoc.org. Retrieved June 14, 2015 . 
6. ^ Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience Recognizes Outstanding Contributions of Carla Shatz. In: sfn.org. November 12, 2011, accessed February 22, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Professor Carla Shatz J ForMemRS - Royal Society. In: royalsociety.org. Retrieved June 14, 2015 . 
8. ^ Carla Shatz - The Gruber Foundation. In: gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved June 14, 2015 .