Linda J Richards

Linda J Richards, PhD

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Regular Washington University

Saint Louis, MO US




Bio

Professor Richards did her undergraduate degree at Monash University and obtained her BSc (Hons) and a PhD from The University of Melbourne and The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in the laboratory of Prof. Perry Bartlett. Her thesis was on the determination of neuronal lineage in the developing spinal cord. She then moved to the USA to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where she worked with Professor Dennis O’Leary on cortical development and formation of the lateral cortical projection through the internal capsule. She began her independent laboratory at The University of Maryland Medical School in 1997, in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology chaired by Professor Michael Shipley. In 2005 she moved her laboratory to The University of Queensland and was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Queensland Brain Institute and The School of Biomedical Sciences. She was appointed as an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in 2006 and promoted to Professor at The University of Queensland in 2010 and as an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow in 2011.

Neuroscience Sub-Discipline
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Developmental Neuroscience
Disorders of the Nervous System

SfN Service History

CommitteeTitleMember Status
International Brain Bee RepresentativeMemberPast
International Brain Bee RepresentativeMemberPast
Gruber International Award Selection CommitteeMemberPast