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, neural circuits, and glial ...

, 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 , ...

. 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 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 land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

, 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 * 2007 NIH Directors Pioneer Award * 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program * 1996 National Institutes of Health Career Development Award * 1996 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 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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