BLOOMINGTON, Ind.-Neuroscientist from Duke University and The Rockefeller University will be honored this week at the symposium the annual Linda and Jack Gill Gill Center for Biomolecular science at Indiana University Bloomington.
Marc g. Caron, James b. Duke Professor in the Department of cell biology and Neurobiology Professor and research in the Department of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, will be awarded the Gill in 2011. Recipient of the 2011 Young Investigator Award is Gill investigator Leslie b. Vosshall, Robin Neustein Chemers, Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute and head of the laboratory of Neurogenetics and behavior at Rockefeller University. This award recognizes outstanding scientists who have emerged as an international leader in cellular, molecular neuroscience or membrane.
Gerry Oxford, Executive Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the Stark IU School of Medicine, the Caron is highly regarded as a "skilled and enthusiastic teacher." Oxford Word Caron's little research focused on how signaling molecules such as monoamines produces physiological effects. His lecture was entitled "Monoaminergic neurotransmission health and disease."
"Dr. Caron's work is a powerful combination of genetics, molecular biology, cell physiology and behavior analysis that frankly unprecedented in this field," said Oxford.
Vosshall's research focuses on how complex behavior such as modulated by odor detection signal external and internal physiological state.