Presidential Faculty Fellows

9553176萨哈，总统学院院士奖授予一位年轻的神经生物学家。她的研究是关于大脑从一张简单的细胞片发育成高度复杂结构的机制的基本问题。以非洲爪蛙为模型系统，研究了几个基因在组织相互作用中的作用，重点研究了早期胚胎发育过程中神经组织和血管系统之间的相互作用。她的教学内容包括神经生物学课程和面向非主修学生的生物史课程、面向小学和中学的积极推广计划，以及面向高中教师和有天赋的高中教师的暑期课程。研究和教育的影响都将是高的，并从神经生物学延伸到一般的科学教育。

9553176 Saha This Presidential Faculty Fellow award is to a young neurobiologist. Her research is on basic issues concerning the mechanism by which the brain develops from a simple sheet of cells into a highly complex structure. The role of several genes in mediating tissue interactions are studied, using the frog Xenopus as a model system, with the major focus on reciprocal interactions between the nerve tissue and the blood vascular system during early embryonic development. Her teaching includes neurobiology courses and courses to non-majors on the history of biology, an active outreach program to elementary and middle schools, and summer courses to high school teachers and gifted high school teachers. The impact of both the research and education will be high and extend beyond neurobiology to science education in general.