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Synaptic transmission and plasticity

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Sir John Eccles

Sir John Eccles (1903–1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for work on ionic mechanisms of excitation and inhibition in nerve cell membranes.

Stephan J. Sigrist

Stephan J. Sigrist, born 1967 in Freiburg, is a German molecular neuroscientist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin who studies how presynaptic active zones organize neurotransmitter release.

Stephen Kuffler

Stephen Kuffler (1913–1980) was a Hungarian-born American neurobiologist who founded modern neurobiology, established the world's first neurobiology department at Harvard in 1966, and mentored Nobel laureates Hubel and Wiesel.

Stuart Cull-Candy

Stuart Cull-Candy is a British neuroscientist at University College London who pioneered patch-clamp studies of glutamate receptors and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2002.

Tamás Freund

Tamás F. Freund is a Hungarian neurobiologist known for his work on hippocampal interneurons and endocannabinoid signaling, who became president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Te Pei Feng (冯德培)

Te Pei Feng (冯德培, 1907–1995) was a Chinese neurophysiologist and pioneer of modern physiology in China, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1986.

Thomas A. Blanpied

Thomas A. Blanpied is an American neuroscientist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who studies the nanoscale organization of glutamatergic synapses and received the 2007 PECASE award.

Thomas L. Schwarz

Thomas L. Schwarz is a neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School based at Boston Children's Hospital, studying axonal transport and mitochondria.

Timothy A. Ryan

Timothy A. Ryan is an American neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for optical probes of synaptic vesicle recycling and presynaptic ATP, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Tomoyuki Takahashi (高橋 智幸, born 1944) is a Japanese neuroscientist who studies synaptic transmission and vesicle recycling at the calyx of Held, a giant synapse in the auditory brainstem.

Wade G. Regehr

Wade G. Regehr is a neuroscientist and Bullard Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, known for fluorescence techniques measuring presynaptic calcium and for work on short-term synaptic plasticity and cerebellar function.

Zach W. Hall

Zach W. Hall is an American neuroscientist known for research on the neuromuscular junction, his UCSF deanship, and his leadership of NINDS and California's stem cell agency.

Zhen Yan

Zhen Yan is a neuroscientist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo who studies synaptic and epigenetic mechanisms of brain disorders, including autism and Alzheimer's disease.