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author bshanks@bshanks.dyndns.org
date Wed Jul 08 14:21:46 2009 -0700 (16 years ago)
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bshanks@122 25 == Biosketch: Charles F. Stevens ==
bshanks@122 26
bshanks@122 27 === Professional Preparation ===
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bshanks@123 29 ==== Undergraduate and Graduate Institutions ====
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bshanks@123 31 \begin{tabular}{llll}
bshanks@123 32 Harvard College & Psychology & BA & 1956
bshanks@123 33 \\Yale Medical School & Medicine & MD & 1960
bshanks@123 34 \\Rockefeller University & Biophysics & PhD & 1964
bshanks@123 35 \end{tabular}
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bshanks@123 38 ==== Postdoctoral Training ====
bshanks@123 39 I took an Assistant Professorship in 1963 without a postdoctoral fellowship. I did a year of postdoctoral work as a sabbatical, however.
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bshanks@123 41 Lorentz Instiute, Leiden University \qquad Statistical Mechanics \qquad 1969-1970
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bshanks@122 43
bshanks@122 44 === Appointments ===
bshanks@122 45 \begin{tabular}{lp{12.5cm}}
bshanks@123 46 1990 $-$ Present & Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute
bshanks@122 47 \\1986 $-$ 2008 & Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
bshanks@122 48 \\1983 $-$ 1990 & Professor and Chairman, Section of Molecular Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
bshanks@122 49 \\1975 $-$ 1983 & Professor, Department of Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine
bshanks@122 50 \\1972 $-$ 1975 & Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of
bshanks@122 51 Medicine
bshanks@122 52 \\1969 $-$ 1970 & Guest Investigator, Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden,
bshanks@122 53 Netherlands (sabbatical leave)
bshanks@122 54 \\1968 $-$ 1972 & Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington
bshanks@122 55 School of Medicine
bshanks@122 56 \\1963 $-$ 1968 & Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington
bshanks@122 57 School of Medicine
bshanks@122 58 \end{tabular}
bshanks@122 59
bshanks@122 60
bshanks@122 61 === Publications ===
bshanks@123 62 ==== Most related ====
bshanks@123 63
bshanks@123 64 Stevens, C. F. (2001) An evolutionary scaling law for the primate visual system and its basis in cortical
bshanks@123 65 function. Nature 411:193-195.\\
bshanks@123 66 \\
bshanks@123 67 Chklovskii, D.M., Schikorski, T., and Stevens, C.F. (2002) Wiring optimization in cortical circuits. Neuron
bshanks@123 68 34:341-347.\\
bshanks@123 69 \\
bshanks@123 70 Stevens, C.F. (2002) Predicting Functional Properties of Visual Cortex from an Evolutionary Scaling Law.
bshanks@123 71 Neuron 36:139-142.\\
bshanks@123 72 \\
bshanks@123 73 Klyachko, V.A. and Stevens, C.F. (2003) Connectivity optimization and the positioning of cortical areas. PNAS 10:7937-7941.\\
bshanks@123 74 \\
bshanks@123 75 Stevens, C.F. (2004) Preserving properties of object shape by computations in primary visual cortex. PNAS
bshanks@123 76 101:15524-15529.
bshanks@122 77
bshanks@122 78
bshanks@123 79 ==== Other recent publications ====
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bshanks@123 82 Gandhi, S.P., and Stevens, C.F. (2003) Three modes of synaptic vesicular recycling revealed by single-vesicle imaging. Nature 423:607-613.\\
bshanks@122 83 \\
bshanks@123 84 Klyachko, V.A. and Stevens, C.F. (2006) Excitatory and feed-forward inhibitory hippocampal synapses work synergistically as an adaptive filter of natural spike trains. PLoS Biology 4:0001-0014.\\
bshanks@122 85 \\
bshanks@122 86 Lee, S and Stevens, C.F. (2007) General design principle for scalable neural circuits in a vertebrate retina.
bshanks@123 87 PNAS 104:12391-12935.\\
bshanks@122 88 \\
bshanks@122 89 Zhu, Y. and Stevens, C.F. (2008) Probing synaptic vesicle fusion by altering mechanical properties of the
bshanks@123 90 neuronal surface membrane. PNAS 105(46):18018-18022. \\
bshanks@122 91 \\
bshanks@122 92 Stevens, C.F. (2009) Darwin and Huxley revisited: the origin of allometry. Journal of Biology 8:14.
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bshanks@123 95
bshanks@122 96 === Synergistic Activities ===
bshanks@123 97
bshanks@123 98 Teaching in Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Computational Neurobiology Course, June 2009\\
bshanks@123 99 \\
bshanks@123 100 Einstein Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 2009. Visit to CAS Institutes in Beijing and Shanghai included lectures on interdisciplinary approaches to neurobiology, and extensive interactions with faculty and students.\\
bshanks@123 101 \\
bshanks@123 102 Editorial Board, PNAS. 1996 – present. Includes handling papers from a wide range of disciplines.\\
bshanks@123 103 \\
bshanks@123 104 External Faculty Member, The Santa Fe Institute. 1997 – present. Includes interactions involving many disciplines.\\
bshanks@123 105 \\
bshanks@123 106 General Member, Aspen Center for Physics. 1998 – present. Participation in selecting scientific programs at ACP, selecting participants in workshops, developing programs for broadening participation of under-represented scientists.
bshanks@123 107
bshanks@122 108
bshanks@122 109 === Collaborators \& Other Affiliations ===
bshanks@123 110 \noindent No collaborations in the past 48 months.
bshanks@123 111
bshanks@123 112 \noindent Thesis advisor: Keffer Hartline (dead)
bshanks@123 113
bshanks@123 114 \noindent Previous postdoctoral fellows and graduate students (last 5 years):
bshanks@123 115
bshanks@123 116 \begin{tabular}{ll}
bshanks@123 117 Jane Sullivan & University of Washington
bshanks@123 118 \\Vitaly Klachko & Washington University
bshanks@123 119 \\James Williams & MIT, Harvard Medical School
bshanks@123 120 \\Edward Han & Salk Institute
bshanks@123 121 \\Sunil Ghandi & UCSF
bshanks@123 122 \end{tabular}
bshanks@123 123
bshanks@123 124 \noindent Total number of postdoctoral fellows: 31
bshanks@123 125
bshanks@123 126 \noindent Total number of graduate students: 18
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bshanks@122 131 \end{document}
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