Cornelia Bargmann
Cori Bargmann | |
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Neurobiology | |
Institutions | Rockefeller University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Weinberg |
Other academic advisors | H. Robert Horvitz |
Cornelia Isabella "Cori" Bargmann (born January 1, 1961)
Early life and education
Bargmann was born in Virginia and grew up in Athens, Georgia.[4] Her parents are European immigrants.[5] She is one of four sisters, and the daughter of Rolf Bargmann, a statistician and computer scientist at the University of Georgia.[6] She grew up playing the piano and was exposed to literature and education from a very young age. She described her family as “frighteningly well educated”.[7] She was inspired to study science because her older sister attended medical school. She also says that growing up in the space era fostered her love for science.[5]
She completed undergraduate studies at the
Career and research
Bargmann completed a postdoc with H. Robert Horvitz at MIT, working on molecular biology mechanisms of neuroscience. She began working on chemosensory behavior in C. elegans, and achieved several breakthroughs, demonstrating, among other things, that nematodes have a sense of smell.[7][8]
Bargmann accepted a faculty position at
She continued her studies of worm behavior and neural control, focusing on
In 2004, Bargmann moved to Rockefeller University.[11] She says that the reason for the move is that she wanted more flexibility to focus on research.[5] She served as an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2016 before she took the President of CZI. Bargmann's lab uses a relatively simple organism, the nematode C. elegans, and its extremely sensitive sense of smell to study how genes regulate neuronal development, function, and behavior. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards including election to the National Academy of Sciences. She also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2012.
Bargmann's research was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1995 to 2016.[14] She was the co-chair of the BRAIN initiative and the Head of Science for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.[3] She won the Breakthrough prize in Life Sciences in 2013.[5]
Bargmann is married to fellow olfactory scientist Richard Axel, a Nobel laureate. Previously, she had been married to Michael J. Finney, who also completed graduate studies at MIT and is now a Director at Sage Science, Inc.
For a vivid portrait of Bargmann as a young scientist working in Weinberg's lab, see Natalie Angier's book Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene.
Notable papers
- S2CID 14685930.
- Troemel, Emily R; Kimmel, Bruce E; Bargmann, Cornelia I (October 1997). "Reprogramming Chemotaxis Responses: Sensory Neurons Define Olfactory Preferences in C. elegans". Cell. 91 (2): 161–169. S2CID 14194098.
- Zhang, Yun; Lu, Hang; Bargmann, Cornelia I. (November 2005). "Pathogenic bacteria induce aversive olfactory learning in Caenorhabditis elegans". Nature. 438 (7065): 179–184. S2CID 4418821.
- Chalasani, Sreekanth H.; Chronis, Nikos; Tsunozaki, Makoto; Gray, Jesse M.; Ramot, Daniel; Goodman, Miriam B.; Bargmann, Cornelia I. (November 2007). "Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegans". Nature. 450 (7166): 63–70. S2CID 4352901.
- Chalasani, Sreekanth H.; Kato, Saul; Albrecht, Dirk R.; Nakagawa, Takao; Abbott, L. F.; Bargmann, Cornelia I. (May 2010). "Neuropeptide feedback modifies odor-evoked dynamics in Caenorhabditis elegans olfactory neurons". Nature Neuroscience. 13 (5): 615–621. PMID 20364145.
Awards
- Lucille P. Markey Award (1990–1995)[7]
- Searle Scholar Award (1992–1995)[7]
- Taskago Prize for olfaction research (1997)[16]
- W. Alden Spencer Award for neuroscience research (1997)[16]
- Charles Judson Herick Award for comparative neurology (2000)[16]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)[1]
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences(2003)
- Dargut and Milena Kemali Prize for Basic and Clinical Neuroscience (2004)[16]
- Richard Lounsbery Award (2009)
- Perl-UNC Prize (2010)
- Kavli Prize in neuroscience (2012)
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters[17]
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (2012)
- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013) for the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules
- Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences (2015)[18]
- Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience (2016)[19]
- Salk Medal for Research Excellence (2021)[20]
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
- ^ "Our Leadership". Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
- ^ a b "Rockefeller neuroscientist Cori Bargmann to lead science work at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Newswire". 2016-09-23. Archived from the original on 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "The Kavli Prize: "Cornelia Bargmann"". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013.
- ^ PMID 30108194.
- ^ a b Crevar.
- ^ PMID 15728356.
- ^ "Features | As the Worm Turns". 2012-02-17. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ Friend, Tim (March 10, 2003). "Nerve cell mystery is unlocked". USA Today.
- ^ a b "Internationally renowned neurobiologist to join Rockefeller University; Cori Bargmann discovered "matchmaker" molecule". News. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "UCSF News Office". 2005-05-08. Archived from the original on 2005-05-08. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "I Smell a ... Worm". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "Cornelia I. Bargmann". HHMI.org. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ UCSF (description of paper)
- ^ a b c d "policy". AIBS.
- ^ "Utenlandske medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "Cori Bargmann awarded 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal". News. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- ^ Trafton, Anne (2016-02-25). "McGovern Institute awards prize to neurogeneticist Cori Bargmann". MIT McGovern Institute. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- ^ "Salk Institute Medal". Salk Institute. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
External links
- Bargmann lab
- Cori Bargmann's Seminar: "Genes, the Brain and Behavior"
- The 15 most amazing women in science today
- Bargmann CI Author Profile Page on Pubget