Rafael Yuste

Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. After a brief period of research in Sydney Brenner's group at the LMB in Cambridge, UK, he studies with Larry Katz in Torsten Wiesel's laboratory at the Rockefeller University in New York and at Bell Labs, where he was a postdoctoral student of David Tank and Winfried Denk. In 1996 he joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. In 2005 he became an HHMI investigator and co-director of the Kavli Brain Circuits Institute at Columbia. Since 1997 he has been a visiting researcher in Javier DeFelipe's laboratory at the Cajal Institute in Madrid. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the New York City Mayor's Young Investigator Award and the Society for Neuroscience Award. He is currently involved in launching the Brain Activity Map Project, a large-scale international project sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology that aims to measure the activity of each neuron in a neural circuit. Q>