Paul Brehm

Paul Brehm is Senior Research Scientist at the Vollum Institute at Ohio State University. He was formerly at Stony Brook and played a key role in stimulating Martin Chalfie to work on Green fluorescent protein for which Chalfie shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008.

Biography

He graduated in zoology from the University of Wisconsin and earned his Ph.D. UCLA under James Morin focusing on marine biology and bioluminescence. Postgraduate training with Roger Eckert at UCLA and Yoshi Kidokoro at the Salk Institute focused on calcium channels and synaptic transmission. The next 10 years were spent as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at Tufts Medical School and summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. In 1990 he moved to Stony Brook University where he served as Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior before assuming a position as Senior Scientist at the Vollum in 2007. [ [http://www.ohsu.edu/vollum/faculty/brehm/ Vollum Institute Faculty Information] ]

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