1. Barry J Dickson was born on 14 August 1962 and is an Australian neurobiologist who studies the development of neuronal networks in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
13 Facts About Barry Dickson
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Barry Dickson was born in Melbourne, and studied mathematics, computer science and genetics at the University of Melbourne.
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Barry Dickson received his first bachelor of science degree in 1984.
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Until 1986, Barry Dickson worked as a research assistant at the epidemiology unit at the University of Melbourne and at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.
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Barry Dickson gained further research experience working in the Laboratory of Joachim Spiess at the Salk Institute in San Diego between 1987 and 1989.
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Barry Dickson was awarded a PhD in 1992 and remained in the lab as postdoctoral researcher for two more years.
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In 1994, Barry Dickson joined Corey Goodman for postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Barry Dickson continued this work while establishing his own research group at the University of Zurich.
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In 1998, Barry Dickson moved to Vienna where he became group leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology for five years, followed by a position as senior scientist at the newly founded Institute of Molecular Biotechnology.
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Shortly after this discovery, Barry Dickson received a Wittgenstein Award in recognition of his work.
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In 2006, Barry Dickson succeeded Kim Nasmyth as scientific director of the IMP.
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In 2013, Barry Dickson followed a call to the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Barry Dickson continued his studies of fruit fly mating behavior to help uncover how the brain processes information and makes decisions.