Dr. L. Rene Garcia Texas A&M University, USA

L. Rene Garcia is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station and an HHMI Investigator. He received his doctorate for studying bacterial viruses at the University of Texas at Austin. For his postdoctoral training, he changed fields and went to Caltech to understand how neural circuits are assembled... read moreto produce instinctive behaviors. Rene's current interest is to determine how changes in receptor and channel function can modify motivated behaviors.