Tsai set for Sanders-Bush Lecture
Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D., DVM, director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will deliver the 2012 Elaine Sanders-Bush Lecture at 2 p.m. Friday, May 18, in 208 Light Hall.
Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D., DVM
Her lecture is entitled “Restoring memory formation following neurodegeneration-mediated cognitive impairment.” A reception will follow in the North Lobby of Light Hall.
Tsai, who studies the cellular and molecular underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease, is Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a councilor of the Society for Neuroscience.
The lecture is named for Elaine Sanders-Bush, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology, Emerita, who is known internationally for her contributions to understanding the brain chemical serotonin and its receptors.
For more information, contact Chase Jeffords in the Department of Pharmacology at chase.jeffords@vanderbilt.edu or 322-6118.