Eve Marder

Eve Marder is a University Professor and the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. At Brandeis, Marder is also a member of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems. Dr. Marder is known for her pioneering work on small neuronal networks which her team has interrogated via a combination of complementary experimental and theoretical techniques.

Marder is particularly well known in the community for her work on neural circuits in the crustacean

Marder has received numerous awards for her pioneering work in the field including memberships in the

Marder was born in Manhattan and raised on the east coast. Although she loved biology from an early age, Marder has shared that she held very diverse academic interests prior to starting her undergraduate degree and in fact entered Brandeis University as an undergraduate in 1965 with a plan to study politics and become a lawyer.^[1] She would instead find herself re-captivated by the world of biology and switched majors to Biology after her freshman year. Marder has shared that a pivotal turning point in her scientific self-development was writing a paper on schizophrenia during an abnormal psychology class during her junior year. Her subsequent library studies on inhibition in neural signaling solidified her career goals to become a neuroscientist and launched her on what would become her lifelong academic path.^[1]

Marder received her B.A. from

Along with Larry Abbott, she also developed the dynamic clamp method, which enables an experimenter to induce mathematically modeled conductances into living neurons to view the output of theoretical circuits.^[4]

She is currently an elected counselor for the

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Eve Marder has an extensive publication record in the areas of neuromodulation, computational neuroscience, the dynamics of small networks, and neuropeptides. A selection of works are listed below:

• Marder, E.; Calabrese, R. L. (July 1, 1996). "Principles of rhythmic motor pattern generation". Physiological Reviews. 76 (3): 687–717.
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• Bucher, Dirk; Marder, Eve (November 27, 2001). "Central pattern generators and the control of rhythmic movements". Current Biology. 11 (23): R986–R996.
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• Marder, Eve; Bucher, Dirk; Prinz, Astrid A. (2004). "Similar network activity from disparate circuit parameters". Nature Neuroscience. 7 (12): 1345–1352.
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• Marder, E.; Abbott, L. F.; Turrigiano, G. (May 13, 1994). "Activity-dependent changes in the intrinsic properties of cultured neurons". Science. 264 (5161): 974–977.
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• Sharp, A. A.; O'Neil, M. B.; Abbott, L. F.; Marder, E. (March 1, 1993). "Dynamic clamp: computer-generated conductances in real neurons". Journal of Neurophysiology. 69 (3): 992–995.
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• Marder, Eve; Goaillard, Jean-Marc; Schulz, David J. (2006). "Variable channel expression in identified single and electrically coupled neurons in different animals". Nature Neuroscience. 9 (3): 356–362.
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• Marder, Eve; Wood, Debra; Swensen, Andrew M.; Blitz, Dawn M.; Nusbaum, Michael P. (March 1, 2001). "The roles of co-transmission in neural network modulation". Trends in Neurosciences. 24 (3): 146–154.
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• Honorary Doctorate from University of Liège (2023) ^[10]
• Honorary Doctorate from Princeton University (2022)^[11]
• National Academy of Science Award in the Neurosciences (2019)^[12]
• Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University (2017)^[13]
• Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2016)^[14]
• Gruber Neuroscience Prize (2013)^[15]
• Member, Institute of Medicine (2013)
• George A. Miller Prize, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2012)^[16]
• Karl Spenser Lashley Prize, American Philosophical Society (2012)^[17]
• Honorary Doctor of Science, Bowdoin College (2010)
• Fellow, Biophysical Society (2008)
• Member, National Academy of Sciences (2007)
• President, Society for Neuroscience (2007)^[18]
• President-Elect, Society for Neuroscience (2006–2007)
• Gerard Prize, Society for Neuroscience (2005)
• Trustee of the Grass Foundation (2002–2005)
• Women in Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award (2002–2003)
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001–2001)
• MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award, National Institutes of Health (1995–2000)
• McKnight Endowment fund for Neuroscience Investigator Award (1994)
• Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Advisory Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Council (1987–1994)

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