Erich Jarvis

Erich D. Jarvis
Born Harlem, New York City, NY, USA
Education
Scientific career
Institutions

Erich Jarvis is an American professor at The Rockefeller University.[1] He leads a team of researchers who study the neurobiology of vocal learning, a critical behavioral substrate for spoken language. The animal models he studies include songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds. Like humans, these bird groups have the ability to learn new sounds and pass on their vocal repertoires culturally, from one generation to the next. Jarvis focuses on the molecular pathways involved in the perception and production of learned vocalizations, and the development of brain circuits for vocal learning. To accomplish this objective, Dr. Jarvis takes an integrative approach to research, combining behavioral, anatomical, electrophysiological, molecular biological, and genomic techniques. The discoveries of Dr. Jarvis and his collaborators include the first findings of natural behaviorally regulated gene expression in the brain, social context dependent gene regulation, convergent vocal learning systems across distantly related animal groups, the FOXP2 gene in vocal learning birds, and the finding that vocal learning systems may have evolved out of ancient motor learning systems.

In 2002, the National Science Foundation awarded Jarvis its highest honor for a young researcher, the Alan T. Waterman Award.[2] In 2005 he was awarded the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award[3] providing funding for five years to researchers pursuing innovative approaches to biomedical research. In 2008 Dr. Jarvis was selected to the prestigious position of Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[4]

Jarvis was an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center until he moved to Rockefeller in December 2016.

Jarvis received a B.A. from Hunter College and a Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University under Dr. Fernando Nottebohm.

Awards and honors

  • 1986 First Place Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, NIH-MBRS Annual Symposium
  • 2000 Esther & Joseph Klingenstein Award in Neuroscience
  • 2000 Whitehall Foundation Award in Neuroscience
  • 2000 David and Lucille Packard Foundation Award
  • 2001 Duke University Provost Bioinformatic Award
  • 2002 Duke University Provost Computational Biology Award
  • 2002 Hall of Fame: Alumni Association of Hunter College
  • 2002 Human Frontiers in Science Program Young Investigators Award
  • 2002 NSF Alan T. Waterman Award.[5] NSF’s highest award for young investigators given annually to one scientist or engineer who under the age of 35 made a significant discovery/impact in science. Awarded for molecular approach and findings to map brain areas involved in behavior.
  • 2003 The 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award of the City University of New York
  • 2005 Dominion Award: Strong Men and Women of Excellence: African American Leaders.[6] Prior awardees include Arthur Ashe, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan.
  • 2005 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award[7]
  • 2006 Discover magazine top 100 science discoveries of 2005; avian brain nomenclature listed at #51
  • 2006 Diverse magazine’s top 10 emerging scholars of 2006
  • 2008 HHM Investigator Award
  • 2015 Ernest Everett Just Award, American Society for Cell Biology[8]

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ Fenz, Katherine (12 July 2016). "Rockefeller's newest faculty member studies birdsong to illuminate the origins of human language".
    2. ↑ Singing In The Brain Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine., Duke Magazine, Nov-Dec 2001.
    3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-05-29. , Duke News
    4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-09-21. Retrieved 2009-02-10. , Dukehealth.
    5. ↑ "Alan T. Waterman Award Recipients, 1976 - present [2016]". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
    6. ↑ "Dominion Honors Nine in 15th Annual Strong Men and Women Educational Series". 20 January 2005.
    7. ↑ "Erich Jarvis Receives NIH Pioneer Award". Duke Today. 29 September 2005.
    8. ↑ "Erich D. Jarvis Receives 2015 Ernest Everett Just Award from the American Society for Cell Biology, Writes Associated Essay, "Surviving as an underrepresented minority scientist in a majority environment" | Duke Neurobiology". www.neuro.duke.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
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