Bio:

Tirin Moore is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator and the Ben Barres Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Professor Moore received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Princeton University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a visiting research fellow at Princeton before starting his lab at Stanford in 2003. Professor Moore is a visual neuroscientist who studies neural mechanisms of visual perception, visual-motor integration, and the neural basis of cognition (e.g. attention). His research has made fundamental and insightful contributions to our understanding of the neuronal circuitry of visual spatial attention. His work demonstrated that visual spatial attention is controlled by prefrontal cortical neurons involved in gaze control. He and his collaborators also discovered a topographic map of complex movements in motor and premotor cortex. Professor Moore has been a Sloan fellow, a Pew Scholar, a McKnight Scholar, and he received an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Before becoming an HHMI investigator, he was an HHMI Early Career Scientist. For his work on mechanisms of visual attention, Professor Moore received the Troland Research Award and the Pradel Research Award, both from the National Academy of Sciences, and the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Moore currently serves on council for the National Eye Institute and the BRAIN Initiative’s Multi-Council Working Group of the National Institutes of Health.