Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Dr. Lise Eliot, Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School, received her Ph.D. in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics from Columbia University in 1991.  Working in  Eric Kandel's laboratory, she combined electrophysiology and calcium imaging methods to analyze the synaptic mechanisms underlying learning in the marine mollusc, Aplysia californica. From 1991 to 1994, she trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow with  Daniel Johnston at Baylor College of Medicine, where her research addressed the mechanisms of calcium influx in hippocampal neurons. She joined the CMS faculty in 1998 and currently directs the Medical Neuroscience course for first year medical students, the Ethics in Biomedical Research course for first year PhD students, and the Interdepartmental PhD Program in Neuroscience. Dr. Eliot has published more than 50 works, including peer-reviewed journals articles, magazine pieces, and the book, What's Going on in There?  How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Bantam, 2000).  Honors include a Magna cum laude bachelor's degree from Harvard, a predoctoral NSF fellowship, a postdoctoral NIH fellowship, a Grass Fellowship in Neurophysiology, a Whiteley Scholarship from the University of Washington, and a Rosalind Franklin Award for Excellence in Teaching.  Dr. Eliot's newest book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain:  How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It,  will be published in September 2009 by Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt.