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Ben Barres

Ben Barres

Stanford University
National Medal of Science

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Dr. Ben Barres is a professor at the Neuroscience department at Stanford School of Medicine. Barres earned his BA in biology from MIT, and completed a medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School. He continued his medical training as a neuroscience resident at Cornell University, completed his PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, and joined the laboratory of Dr. Martin Raff at University College London for his postdoctoral training. In 1993, Barres joined the faculty of neurobiology at the Stanford School of Medicine, where he has been the chair since 2008.

For over 20 years, Barres has studied the development and function of glial cells and how they interact with neurons in the nervous system. For his scientific contributions, he received the McKnight Investigator Award, the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011), and the National Academy of Sciences (2013). Learn more about Dr. Barres’ research here.

Talks with this Speaker

What Do Reactive Astrocytes Do?

Ben Barres categorizes two types of reactive astrocytes, A1 and A2, and describes how they affect the fate of neurons after brain injuries (Talk recorded in January 2017)

  • Part 1: What do reactive astrocytes do?
    Part 1: What do reactive astrocytes do?
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 00:48:44
  • Part 2: Women in Science
    Part 2: Women in Science
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    Duration: 00:08:33

How to Pick a Graduate Advisor

Ben Barres gives advice on how to pick a graduate advisor. He strongly suggests picking an advisor who is not only a good scientist, but also a good mentor. (Talk recorded in June 2014)

Ben Barres
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
Duration: 15:08

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