26 Facts About Cornelia Bargmann

Cornelia Isabella "Cori" Bargmann was born on January 1,1961 and is an American neurobiologist.

Cornelia Bargmann is known for her work on the genetic and neural circuit mechanisms of behavior using C elegans, particularly the mechanisms of olfaction in the worm.

Cornelia Bargmann has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and had been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSF and then Rockefeller University from 1995 to 2016.

Cornelia Bargmann was the Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative from 2016 to 2022.

Cornelia Bargmann is one of four sisters, and the daughter of Rolf Bargmann, a statistician and computer scientist at the University of Georgia.

Cornelia Bargmann grew up playing the piano and was exposed to literature and education from a very young age.

Cornelia Bargmann was inspired to study science because her older sister attended medical school.

Cornelia Bargmann says that growing up in the space era fostered her love for science.

Cornelia Bargmann completed undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia in 1981, with a degree in biochemistry.

Cornelia Bargmann completed graduate school from MIT with a Ph.

Cornelia Bargmann examined the molecular mechanisms of oncogenesis, and helped identify the role of Ras in bladder cancer.

Cornelia Bargmann wrote her thesis on neu, a non-Ras oncogene.

Cornelia Bargmann began working on chemosensory behavior in C elegans, and achieved several breakthroughs, demonstrating, among other things, that nematodes have a sense of smell.

Cornelia Bargmann accepted a faculty position at UCSF in the department of Anatomy in 1995.

Cornelia Bargmann was ultimately promoted from assistant professor to professor in 1998, and served as vice chair of the department from 1999 to 2000.

Cornelia Bargmann continued her studies of worm behavior and neural control, focusing on olfaction at the molecular level.

Cornelia Bargmann looked for genes similar to those found by Richard Axel and Linda Buck to be the basis of smell and taste, and found those genes in the recently sequenced genome of C elegans.

Cornelia Bargmann's work led to discoveries of the mechanisms underlying complex behaviors, such as feeding behaviors.

Cornelia Bargmann says that the reason for the move is that she wanted more flexibility to focus on research.

Cornelia Bargmann served as an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2016 before she took the President of CZI.

Cornelia Bargmann's work has been recognized with numerous awards including election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Cornelia Bargmann served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2012.

Cornelia Bargmann's research was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1995 to 2016.

Cornelia Bargmann was the co-chair of the BRAIN initiative and the Head of Science for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Cornelia Bargmann won the Breakthrough prize in Life Sciences in 2013.

Cornelia Bargmann is married to fellow olfactory scientist Richard Axel, a Nobel laureate.