Erich Jarvis

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Erich D. Jarvis
Born(1965-05-06)May 6, 1965
Harlem, New York City, NY, USA
NationalityAmerican
Education
Known for
Birdsong, language
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
Institutions

Erich Jarvis is an American professor at

brain circuits
for vocal learning.

In 2002, the

biomedical research. In 2008, Jarvis was selected as Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[6]

Life and career

Erich Jarvis was born in Harlem, New York in 1965. Jarvis was one of four children of Sasha McCall, a gospel singer, and James Jarvis, a musician and amateur scientist. Since the age of six, he was primarily raised by his mother, after his parents divorced in 1970.

Ph.D. in Animal Behavior and Molecular Neurobehavior under Fernando Nottebohm in 1995. He continued his postdoctoral education at Rockefeller University until 1998.[10]

Jarvis became an assistant and an adjunct assistant professor at Rockefeller University from 1995 to 2002. He then was an

Duke University Medical Center until December 2016, when he returned to Rockefeller University, where he is professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language.[11]

The focus of Jarvis' research is the vocal learning capabilities in birds and how they learn to mimic sounds.[12] His research with songbirds is being used to show the evolution of human language capacity and speech disorders.[13] His research combines behavioral, anatomical, electrophysiological, molecular biological, and genomic techniques. The discoveries of Jarvis and his collaborators include the first findings of natural behaviorally regulated gene expression in the avian brain, social context dependent gene regulation, convergent vocal learning systems across distantly related animal groups, the FOXP2 gene in vocal learning birds, and the finding that vocal learning systems may have evolved out of ancient motor learning systems.[citation needed]

His research identifies the neurological basis of birdsong at the tissue, cellular and genetic levels. A recent project seeks to transform birds without songs such as pigeons into birds that sing by genetic neuro-engineering, e.g. injecting new genes into the forebrain.[14] If successful, this could have implications for treating patients with loss of speech after stroke.[8]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ Fenz, Katherine (12 July 2016). "Rockefeller's newest faculty member studies birdsong to illuminate the origins of human language".
  2. ^ Shah, Sonia (20 September 2023). "The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean? - Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn't so. + comment". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "Erich D. Jarvis". Our Scientists. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  4. ^ Singing In The Brain Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Duke Magazine, Nov-Dec 2001.
  5. ^ "|| DukeMedNews || Erich Jarvis Receives NIH Pioneer Award". Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-05-29., Duke News
  6. ^ "Erich Jarvis Named Howard Hughes Investigator - DukeHealth.org". Archived from the original on 2008-09-21. Retrieved 2009-02-10., Dukehealth.
  7. ^ Robbins J. The Wonder of Birds. New York, Spiegel and Grau, 2017, pp172-174
  8. ^ a b Adler, Jerry. "Song and Dance Man". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  9. ^ "From Songbird Science to Salsa Dancing". NIH Director's Blog. 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  10. ^ "Erich Jarvis's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  11. ^ https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/27399-erich-jarvis-speaks-with-high-school-students-about-the-evolution-of-speech-and-diversity-in-science/
  12. ^ "Brain Pathways for Vocal Learning • iBiology". iBiology. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  13. ^ "Erich Jarvis - In Birds' Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech". Quanta Magazine. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  14. ^ Robbins J. The Wonder of Birds. New York, Spiegel and Grau, 2017, pp172-174
  15. ^ "Alan T. Waterman Award Recipients, 1976 - present [2016]". National Science Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 March 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  16. ^ "Dominion Honors Nine in 15th Annual Strong Men and Women Educational Series". 20 January 2005.
  17. ^ "Erich Jarvis Receives NIH Pioneer Award". Duke Today. 29 September 2005.
  18. ^ "The Fifth Annual Brilliant 10". 18 March 2019.
  19. ^ "Jarvis, Erich D." The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  20. ^ "Erich D. Jarvis Receives 2015 Ernest Everett Just Award from the American Society for Cell Biology, Writes Associated Essay, "Surviving as an underrepresented minority scientist in a majority environment" | Duke Neurobiology". www.neuro.duke.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-12.

External links

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