Lynn T Landmesser

Lynn Landmesser carried out undergraduate and PhD studies at UCLA and was a Professor at Yale University and the University of Connecticut, prior to coming to CWRU in 1993, where she has been chair of the Neurosciences department since 1999. Throughout her career she has tried to understand how neural circuits develop, and how both genes and environmental stimuli, some generated by the nervous system itself prior to birth, contribute to appropriate neural circuit formation. She has served on numerous national and international scientific advisory panels, including the NIH, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also been the director of an NIH sponsored training grant for neuroscience graduate students since 1995.