Jeff W. Lichtman MD, PhD

Jeff W. Lichtman is Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Ramon y Cajal Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Lichtman is a developmental neurobiologist interested in the way in which experience alters nervous system organization in long-lasting ways. He has participated in the development of a number of methods that describe neural connectivity at the level of individual synapses (connectomics) and how these networks change over time using fluorescence (e.g., Brainbow) and electron microscopical methods (e.g., ATUM). Lichtman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1951 and grew up in the northeast. He graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in Biology and from Washington University School of Medicine in 1980 with a Ph.D. in Neurobiology and an MD After postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School, Lichtman joined the faculty of Washington University and remained there for 20 years before moving to his present position at Harvard in 2004.