Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Professor of Neurological Surgery, Heather and Melanie Muss Endowed Chair
• Principal Investigator, Brain Tumor Research Center

EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND:
• 1983: Licenciado in Biomedical Research, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
• 1982-1983: Graduate Courses, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
• 1988: PhD, Rockefeller University
• 1988-1989: Postdoctoral Research, Rockefeller University
• 1989-1991: Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University
• 1991-1995: Assistant Professor & Head of Laboratory, Rockefeller University
• 1995-2000: Associate Professor & Head of Laboratory, Rockefeller University

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• Society for Neuroscience
• International Brain Research Organization
• Society for Biochemistry
• Academia de Ciencias de America Latina (ACAL)
• International Society for Stem Cell Research

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS:
1981-1982: Undergraduate International Fellowship – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
1983: Medal Gavino Barreda – UNAM
1992: Robert L Sinsheimer Award in Molecular Biology
2000: Jacob Javits Award
2002: Neuronal Plasticity Prize. Fondation IPSEN, France (shared with Dr R McKay and Dr S Weiss)
2003: Catedra Miguel Aleman, Meixco, DF
2004: The Givaudan-Roure 2004 Lecture and Award (Association for Chemoreception Sciences)
2006: Catedra Santiago Grisolía, Spain. Lecture and Award
2006: 'Académico Correspondiente Extranjero'. Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Spain
2007: Catedra Ramón y Cajal, Sociedad Española de Neurología, Spain

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His expertise encompasses the fields of developmental biology, developmental neuroscience, neurobiology, molecular and cellular neurobiology, and learning and plasticity. An innovator and inventor as well as a scientist, Dr Alvarez-Buylla has designed a device for mounting tissue sections on histological slides, a digital stereotaxic apparatus for mice and song birds, a computer-based mapping system for tissue sections, and a fluorescent staining technique.

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