Event Details:
The Leong Memorial Lecture is hosted by the Stanford Department of Neurobiology in memory of Jonathan Leong.
Food & drinks will be provided.
About the Speaker:
Tom Clandinin is the Shooter Family Professor and chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University. He completed his Ph.D. under the guidance of Paul Sternberg at the California Institute of Technology in 1998, before beginning his postdoctoral work at University of California, Los Angeles in the lab of Larry Zipursky. He established his lab at Stanford in 2002. Tom has trained more than 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows over his time at Stanford. His honors include an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a career development award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a Searle Scholar Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Scholar Award from the McKnight Foundation.
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