This seminar will be held in the Neurological Institute of New York's Auditorium (1st floor). Columbia University's Intercampus Shuttle Service is the best way to travel between campuses.

Erin Schuman was born in 1963 in California. After completing her BA in Psychology at the University of Southern California in 1985, Erin Schuman received her PhD in Neuroscience from Princeton University in 1990. She conducted postdoctoral studies in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. She was appointed to the Biology Faculty at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1993 and stayed there until 2009. In 2009, she moved to Frankfurt, Germany to found the Department of Synaptic Plasticity in Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Schuman’s lab studies the cell biology of synaptic function, with a particular emphasis on protein synthesis and degradation.

In 1997 Erin Schuman was appointed Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). She received several awards and grants, including the Pew Scholars Award, the Beckman Young Investigator Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. She has given many named lectures including the Gordon Research Conference Cruikshank Lecture, the Hodgkin Huxley Katz Prize Lecture by the Physiological Society (UK) and the Forbes Lectures at the Marine Biological Labs. She is an elected EMBO member and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2018 she was awarded the Society for Neuroscience’s Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award.

Those who wish to meet the speaker during their visit should contact Lisa Randolph (Hengst lab) . For general inquiries please contact [email protected].

The Columbia Neuroscience Seminar series is a collaborative effort of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.