Escape from the Nuisances by Barbara Chapman

She also co-directed the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory summer course on 'Structure, Function and Development of the Visual System' (2005–2011). In addition to her research, she was deeply committed to graduate education and served both as the Master Advisor (2003–2006) and the Chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Program (2009–2012). In 1995, Barbara joined the faculty in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and the Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis, where she rose to the rank of full professor in 2007. They had two daughters: Eliana in 2000 and Natalia in 2004. She returned to San Francisco and married Lee Stone, her grad-schoolmate, at the Conservatory of Flowers in 1994. Scott Fraser, she extended her studies of neuronal development to the vestibular organ of the zebra fish.

Barbara continued to study the development of orientation preference as a postdoc with Dr. Michael Stryker, she studied the development of orientation selectivity in visual cortex, the effects of visual deprivation on cortical development and the organization of thalamic connections that establish orientation selectivity. from UCSF in 1991 and conducted postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich and CalTech. She received her bachelor’s degree cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1984.īarbara received her Ph.D. Morley Medal for Scientific Achievement of an alumna. Wood prize, given to the senior whose “work and accomplishment was distinguished by exceptional effort and whose example has been of great value to academic morale.” In 2007, WRA awarded her the Edward E.

was an inspiring educator at the University of California, Davis and a leader in developmental neuroscience at the Center for Neuroscience.īorn on February 6, 1963, in Niagara Falls, New York, Barbara spent her childhood and adolescence in Hudson, Ohio, where she graduated from the Western Reserve Academy (WRA) in 1980 and was awarded the Harlan N.

Escape from the Nuisances by Barbara Chapman