Gina G. Turrigiano is an American

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, Biological neural network, n ...

, and is the Levitan Chair of Vision Science at

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

. Turrigiano is known for her pioneering work on the mechanisms that allow brain circuits to remain both flexible and stable. Turrigiano and colleagues discovered several forms of "homeostatic" plasticity, most notably

Synaptic scaling In neuroscience, synaptic scaling (or homeostatic scaling) is a form of homeostatic plasticity, in which the brain responds to chronically elevated activity in a neural circuit with negative feedback, allowing individual neurons to reduce their ove ...

and intrinsic homeostatic plasticity, and have characterized how these forms of plasticity contributes to learning and experience-dependent plastic changes in the brain. She graduated from

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

, B.A., and from

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

, with a Ph.D. She now lives in Weston, MA with her husband, Sacha Nelson (also a neuroscientist). She has two children, Gabriel Turrigiano Nelson, and Raphael Nelson Turrigiano.

Notable Awards and Honors

* 2023 Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship, NINDS * 2023 Vallee Visiting Professorship * 2022 President, Society for Neuroscience * 2018 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science * 2015 Javitz Neuroscience Investigator Award * 2013 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA) * 2012 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (USA) * 2012

HFSP Nakasone Award } The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) is a non-profit organization, based in Strasbourg, France, that funds basic research in life sciences. The organization implements the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) an ...

* 2007 NIH Directors Pioneer Award * 2000

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

* 1996 National Institutes of Health Career Development Award * 1996

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors. The Sloan Foundation makes grants to support or ...

Fellowship

Works

Turrigiano has published >100 research articles in her field; her complete scholarship can be found here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lAjsH-wAAAAJ&hl=en
"Homeostatic Regulation of Cortical Networks"
''Toward a theory of neuroplasticity'', Editors Christopher Ariel Shaw, Jill McEachern, Psychology Press, 2001,
"Behavioral Correlates of Stomagrastric Network Function"
''Dynamic biological networks: the stomatogastric nervous system'', Editor Ronald M. Harris-Warrick, MIT Press, 1992,

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