Peter Bruce L. McNaughton FRSC is a Canadian neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), as well as a Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Polaris Brain Dynamics research group at The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience.[2][3] He joined the faculty of UC Irvine in 2014, after having taught at the University of Lethbridge for six years. He had moved his lab from the University of Arizona to the University of Lethbridge in 2008 after winning the Polaris Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.[4] He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016.[5] He is also a lifetime member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[2]
Bruce McNaughton | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Carleton University Dalhousie University |
| Known for | Systems neuroscience |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Arizona University of Lethbridge University of California, Irvine |
| Thesis | The dynamics of synaptic modulation in the medial and lateral components of the perforant pathway to the fascia dentata in the rat (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Graham Goddard |
| Notable students | Edvard Moser[1] |
References
edit- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Bruce McNaughton". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Dr. Bruce McNaughton". University of Lethbridge. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ Cruz, Sherri (3 March 2014). "UCI boosts its brain power with top neuroscientist". Orange County Register. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Three U of L professors elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada". UNews. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
External links
edit- Faculty page
- Bruce McNaughton publications indexed by Google Scholar
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