Rachel I. Wilson

Rachel Irene Wilson (* 1973 ) is an American neurobiologist at Harvard University .

Wilson grew up near Kansas City , Missouri . She received a BA in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2001 from Roger A. Nicoll at the University of California, San Francisco. in neuroscience . Her dissertation was titled Retrograde signaling by endogenous cannabinoids at hippocampal synapses . As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with Gilles Laurent at the California Institute of Technology before becoming a professor of neurobiology at Harvard University in 2004. Since 2009 she has also been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Wilson's early work looked at non-classical neurotransmitters such as endocannabinoids in the mammalian hippocampus and their impact on memory . In her own research group, she uses Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism . She explores how neural circuits extract information from sensory stimuli (especially olfactory and mechanosensory stimuli) . She combines approaches from mathematical models , electrophysiology , neuropharmacology , molecular genetics , functional anatomy and behavioral biology .

In 2008 Wilson received a MacArthur Fellowship . In 2014 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2017 to the National Academy of Sciences . Rachel Wilson has (as of December 2018) an h-index of 36.

Web links

• Wilson Lab - the biophysics of neural computation at Harvard University (harvard.edu)
• Rachel I. Wilson, PhD at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org)
• Rachel I. Wilson at neurotree.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rachel Wilson. In: macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation, accessed December 17, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Rachel Wilson. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed December 17, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Rachel I. Wilson. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar, accessed December 17, 2018 .