The Department is delighted to welcome James Bourne, PhD as the speaker for our next Distinguished Scientist Lecture speaker on February 28, 2025.
Dr. Bourne is the Chief of the Section on Cellular and Cognitive Neurodevelopment at the National Institute of Mental Health. He received his BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London) and his PhD in Neuropharmacology from King’s College London. He then spent the next two decades in Australia at the University of Queensland and later at Monash University. In 2003, he was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Fellowship and started to advance an independent area of research exploring the development and maturation of the primate visual system. Through a multidisciplinary cell-to-system approach, his group has influenced views on the developmental organization and plasticity of the primate visual system and how perturbations to specific circuits at a particular period in development can have life-long implications on visually-guided behaviors.
Join us in person in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium or via Zoom using the following information:
Zoom Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93810589380
Passcode: 068119
For More Information. Please contact Shardai Key Ward at keysj4@upmc.edu.
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