Mriganka Sur is the Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Mriganka Sur was on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2010 and has been serving as jury chair from 2018.
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Mriganka Sur did his early schooling at the St Joseph's Collegiate School, Allahabad.
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Mriganka Sur received the Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur in 1974, and the Master of Science and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1975 and 1978, respectively, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
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Mriganka Sur joined the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986.
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Mriganka Sur was named in 1993 professor of neuroscience and in 1997 head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
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Mriganka Sur is currently the Newton Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Mriganka Sur's laboratory uses experimental and computational approaches to study developmental plasticity and dynamic changes in mature cortical networks during information processing and learning.
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Mriganka Sur's laboratory has discovered fundamental principles by which neurons of the cerebral cortex are wired during development and operate dynamically in adulthood to enable perception, cognition and action.
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The Mriganka Sur lab pioneered all-optical measurements of single-neuron activity with cell-specific manipulations to discover unique functions of inhibitory neuron classes in brain computations.
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Mriganka Sur has been elected to the membership of the National Academy of Medicine USA, the Royal Society of London, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the World Academy of Sciences.
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Mriganka Sur has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, India, the Rodin Academy Sweden, and the Neurosciences Research Program.
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Mriganka Sur has been awarded the Krieg Cortical Discoverer Prize and the Doctor of Science honoris causa from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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Mriganka Sur has been honoured at MIT with the Hans-Lukas Teuber Scholar Award in the Brain Sciences, the Sherman Fairchild Chair, and the Newton Chair.