Prof. Nelson Spruston HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, USA

Nelson Spruston is a Scientific Program Director and Laboratory Head at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. Formerly, he was Professor and Chair in the Department of Neurobiology & Physiology at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He received a BSc degree from... read morethe University of British Columbia and a PhD from the Baylor College of Medicine. He did postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, before joining the faculty at Northwestern in 1995. His current research interests include synaptic integration, dendritic structure and function, and neuromodulation.