UCSF Professor of Physiology Michael Stryker has been named to the advisory board of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a medical research organization dedicated to brain research.
As a geneticist, Jane Gitschier, PhD, is interested in teasing out the relative contributions of genes and environment on behavior. For more than a decade, she and former UCSF colleague Nelson Freimer, PhD, now at UCLA, have been exploring this question by studying the capacity that some people have for "perfect pitch," the ability to instantly and precisely identify a musical note.