
Rooma Desai, Ph.D.
Dept. of Pharmacology
Yale School of Medicine
333 Cedar St.
New Haven, CT, 06511
USA
Project Title:
Isolation of K+ Currents Underlying the "Chopper Response" of Principal Cells of the Lateral Superior Olive (LSO)

Sunil Gandhi
Molecular Neurobiology Lab
The Salk Institute
10010 North Torrey Pines Rd
La Jolla, CA, 92037
Project Title:
Visualizing the Post-Fusion Movement of Synaptic Vesicle Membrane Proteins with Evanescent Wave Fluorescence Microscopy

Matthias Gruhn, Ph.D.
Section of Neurobiology and Behavior
W159 Seeley G. Mudd Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, 14853
Project Title: Correlation of Extracellular Nerve Recordings and Behavioral Activity in Live Crayfish Using Implantable Electrodes and High-Speed Video Technology

Beate Mittmann, M.S.
Humboldt Universität
Institut für Biologie
Vergleichende Zoologie
Phillipstr.13
D-10115 Berlin
Germany
Project Title:
The Development of the Nervous System in the Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus (Chelicerata, Ziphosura) and its Implication for Arthropod Relationships
1st Prize Winner: MBL Photo contest, category scientific image
MBL Scientific Award, Graduate Students

Gonzalo Garcia de Polavieja, Ph.D.
Dept. of Zoology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Project Title:
Behavioral Algorithm and Circuitry for Visual Motion Detection in the Leech

Dima Rinberg, PhD
Biological Computation Research Dept.
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies
Murray Hill, NJ
Project Title:
Optical Recording of Multineuron Activity Using Ballistic Delivery of Voltage Sensitive Dyes

Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras, Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience
University of California, Davis
1544 Newton Ct.
Davis, CA, 95916
Project Title:
Intrinsic properties, Distribution and Morphology of Inhibitory Neurons in the Midbrain Auditory Pathway of Chicken

Michael Smotherman, Ph.D.
Dept. of Physiological Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
621 Charles E. Young Dr. S.
Life Science Bldg.
Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1606
Project Title: Descending Control of Chromatophore Motoneurons in the Cephalopod Brain
MBL Scientific Award: Junior Scientist

Damian Wheeler
Dept. of Physiology
McGill University
McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg.
3655 Promenade Sir William Olser
Montreal, PQ, H3G 1Y6
Canada
Project Title:
Multiprotein Complex Signaling from Synapse to Nucleus
new address:
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University
SUMC B-100
Stanford, CA, 94305-5345

Program Director
Susan R. Barry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Clapp Laboratory
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA 01075-6410

Program Associate Director
Melissa Ann Vollrath, Ph.D.
Dept. of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Forbes Lecturer 2002
William T Newsome III Ph.D.
Dept. of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Sherman Fairchild Bldg., Room 209
Stanford, CA, 94305
Celebrating the continuous success of the committee....
Thank You Bill !!