DESPLAN ELECTED TO EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ORGANIZATION

NYU’s Claude Desplan, a Silver Professor of Biology, has been elected as an associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, whose membership includes 48 Nobel Laureates. Much of Desplan’s research has been in understanding visual systems. His laboratory focuses on two major developmental questions: the evolution of early embryonic development and the establishment of retinal and brain circuitry that underlies color vision.
    Desplan, part of NYU’s Center for Developmental Genetics, has been at NYU since 1999 and is an associated faculty member at NYU’s Center for Neural Science.

—James Devitt