{"id":2420,"date":"2013-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-institute-promotes-three-top-scientists\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T07:00:00","slug":"salk-institute-promotes-three-top-scientists","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-institute-promotes-three-top-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk Institute promotes three top scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA, CA\u2014The Salk Institute is pleased to announce the promotions of faculty members, John Reynolds to the rank of full professor and Clodagh O&#8217;Shea and Tatyana Sharpee to associate professors based on recommendations by the Salk faculty and nonresident fellows, and approved by President William R. Brody and the Institute&#8217;s Board of Trustees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It is especially gratifying to be able to award these promotions to such an excellent group of scientists,&#8221; says Brody. &#8220;This is well deserved acknowledgment of all they have accomplished as scientific leaders and innovative researchers in their respective fields. On behalf of the Salk community, I extend to each of them our congratulations.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/de\/faculty\/reynolds.html\/\"><br \/>\nJohn Reynolds<\/a><\/strong> who conducts his research in the Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, explores the fundamental nature of the computations that are carried out by the neocortex, including those that enable us to attend to sensory stimuli.  He seeks to understand how and why these computations fail in brain disease\u2014research that is essential to developing treatments for disorders in which attention and vision are impaired, such as visual agnosia, Balint&#8217;s Syndrome, visual neglect, attentional aspects of autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease. The long-range goal of Reynolds&#8217;s laboratory is to understand the neural mechanisms of selective visual attention at the level of the individual neuron and the cortical circuit, and to relate these to perception and conscious awareness.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/de\/faculty\/oshea.html\/\"><br \/>\nClodagh O&#8217;Shea<\/a><\/strong> of the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and holder of the William Scandling Developmental Chair, is an expert on oncolytic viruses \u2013 viruses that can only reproduce in cancer cells. Such viruses offer a novel and potentially self-perpetuating cancer therapy: Each time a virus infects a cancer cell and successfully multiplies, the virus ultimately kills the cancer cell by bursting it open to release thousands of viral progenies. The next generation seeks out remaining tumor cells and distant micro-metastases but leaves normal cells unharmed.  O&#8217;Shea is at the forefront of this cutting edge technology and her lab has developed a new generation of the engineered adenovirus to more effectively seek out and rupture cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells intact. Her lab is also working in parallel on other multi-pronged strategies ranging from arming tumor-seeking viruses with toxic proteins to re-engineering their outer &#8220;coat&#8221; so they can home in on tissue-specific targets.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/de\/faculty\/sharpee.html\/\"><br \/>\nTatyana Sharpee<\/a><\/strong> of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory studies how the brain operates in a natural sensory environment. She works on theoretical principles of how the brain processes information and examines how sensory processing is shaped by the need to create parsimonious representations of events in the outside world. Using methods from physics and information theory, Sharpee and her colleagues are developing statistical methods that can help identify how the brain can rapidly recognize objects despite variations in their position relative to us. This work may eventually lead to better prostheses for patients whose object recognition has been impaired as a result of a stroke or neurodegenerative diseases.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00dcber das Salk Institute for Biological Studies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Das Salk Institute for Biological Studies ist eine der weltweit f\u00fchrenden Institutionen f\u00fcr Grundlagenforschung, an der international renommierte Fakult\u00e4tsmitglieder grundlegende Fragen der Biowissenschaften in einem einzigartigen, kollaborativen und kreativen Umfeld untersuchen. Mit dem Fokus auf Entdeckungen und die Ausbildung zuk\u00fcnftiger Forschergenerationen leisten Salk-Wissenschaftler bahnbrechende Beitr\u00e4ge zu unserem Verst\u00e4ndnis von Krebs, Alterung, Alzheimer, Diabetes und Infektionskrankheiten durch die Untersuchung von Neurowissenschaften, Genetik, Zell- und Pflanzenbiologie sowie verwandten Disziplinen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDie Leistungen der Fakult\u00e4t wurden mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen gew\u00fcrdigt, darunter Nobelpreise und Mitgliedschaften in der National Academy of Sciences. Das 1960 vom Polio-Impfstoff-Pionier Dr. Jonas Salk gegr\u00fcndete Institut ist eine unabh\u00e4ngige gemeinn\u00fctzige Organisation und ein architektonisches Wahrzeichen. <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[104,107,66],"disease-research":[127,169,46,124,167],"class_list":["post-2420","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-clodagh-oshea","faculty-john-reynolds","faculty-tatyana-sharpee","disease-research-alzheimers-disease","disease-research-autism","disease-research-cancer-biology","disease-research-neuroscience-and-neurological-disorders","disease-research-schizophrenia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salk Institute promotes three top scientists - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-institute-promotes-three-top-scientists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk Institute promotes three top scientists - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LA JOLLA, CA\u2014The Salk Institute is pleased to announce the promotions of faculty members, John Reynolds to the rank of full professor and Clodagh O&#8217;Shea and Tatyana Sharpee to associate professors based on recommendations by the Salk faculty and nonresident fellows, and approved by President William R. 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