PYI: Development of Asymmetry in the Nervous System

韦尔斯利学院的芭芭拉·贝尔茨博士凭借其杰出的研究成就和对本科教育的奉献精神，获得了享有盛誉的总统青年研究员奖。有了这个奖项，她将继续她在神经元可塑性发展方面的工作。贝尔茨博士开创了免疫细胞化学的方法，这是一种非常有价值的神经解剖学程序。她在伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室教授了一门非常受欢迎的一流免疫细胞化学方法课程，这门课程后来发展成了一本书。Beltz博士将利用这一奖项专注于发育神经生物学中的一些重要问题：递质和多肽系统的获取、可识别神经元的可塑性以及发育过程中特定运动程序和行为的出现。她的重点将是描述神经元的神经递质和肽系统的解剖学、生理学和发育。这些数据将为我们理解在开发神经网络时如何做出递质和肽的选择提供重要的见解。她的研究领域非常重要，这些研究可能会揭示神经元如何发育的潜在原理。

Based on her outstanding research accomplishments and her devotion to undergraduate education, Dr. Barbara Beltz of Wellesley College, received the prestigious Presidential Young Investigator award. With this award, she will continue her work on the development of neuronal plasticity. Dr. Beltz pioneered methods in immunocytochemistry, an invaluable neuroanatomical procedure. She has taught a very popular and first-class course in immunocytochemical methods at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, which developed into a book. Dr. Beltz will use this award to focus on an number of important questions in developmental neurobiology: the acquisition of transmitter and peptides systems, plasticity in identifiable neurons, and the emergence of specific motor programs and behaviors during development. Her emphasis will be to characterize the anatomy, physiology and development of neurotransmitter and peptide systems of neurons. These data will add important insights to our understanding of how the transmitter and peptide choices in developing neural networks are made. Her research area is of great importance and the studies are likely to reveal underlying principles of how neurons develop.