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Shelley Halpain
B.S. Biological Sciences, 1981,
University of California, Irvine
Ph.D., Neuroscience, 1986, The
Rockefeller University
Shelley Halpain first developed
her interest in neuronal and synaptic structure while an undergraduate
at University of California, Irvine, where she received her B.S.
degree in Biological Sciences in 1981. She went on to complete a
Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Rockefeller University in New York in 1986.
Her postdoctoral training was at the Rockefeller University in the laboratory
of Professor Paul Greengard, a 2001 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
She next accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at
the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in 1992, where she initiated
her work on the function and regulation of cytoskeletal proteins.
Dr. Halpain has continued pioneering work in this area in the Department
of Cell Biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California,
where she has been an Associate Professor since 1999.
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