CURRICULUM VITAE

Revised December 2006

Robert H. Wurtz

EDUCATION:

A.B., 1958, Oberlin College; Chemistry
Ph.D., 1962, University of Michigan; Psychology (Physiological)

POSITIONS HELD:

2002- Senior Investigator and Chief, Section on Visual Motor Integration, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
1978- 2002 Founding Chief, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
1966-1978 Physiologist, Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
1975-1976 Visiting Scientist, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge University, England
1965-1966 Research Psychologist, Spinal Cord Section, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Supervisors, Phillip Nelson, Karl Frank.
1962-1965 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, and Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri. Supervisor, Sidney Goldring
1962-1963 Research Associate, Committee for Nuclear Information, St Louis, Missouri
1962-Spring Predoctoral Instructor, University of Michigan
1958-1962 Research Assistant, 1958-1961, and PHS Predoctoral Fellow
1961-1962, in laboratory of Dr. James Olds, University of Michigan
1958-Summer Research Assistant, laboratory of Dr. Russell L. DeValois and Dr. Charles J. Smith, University of Michigan

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Phi Beta Kappa, Oberlin College, 1958
Grass Foundation Research Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1961
Appointed to Senior Executive Service, NIH, 1984
Gordon Holmes Lecture, European Neuroscience Society, l985
James M. Sprague Lecture, Univ. Pennsylvania, 1986
Morris B. Bender Lecture, Mt. Sinai Medical School, 1986
Special Lecture, Society for Neuroscience Meeting, 1986
W. Alden Spencer Award, Columbia University, 1987
George H. Bishop Lecture, Washington University, 1988
Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 1988
Associate, Neuroscience Research Program, 1989-1994
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1990
Elected President, Society for Neuroscience, 1990-1991
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1990
Clinton N. Woolsey Lecture, 1991
Keynote Lecture, Neural Control of Movement Meeting, 1992
Society for Neuroscience Presidential Award, 1993
Special Lecture, Society for Neuroscience Meeting, 1994
John P. McGovern Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
Karl Spencer Lashley Award, American Philosophical Society, 1995
G. Burroughs Mider Lecture, NIH, 1995
Friedenwald Award, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1996
Elected to Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1996
Appointed to Senior Biomedical Research Service, NIH, 1996
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association, 1997
Elected to Institute of Medicine, 1997
Keynote Lecture, Neurobiology Retreat, Washington University, 1999
Plenary Lecture, Japanese Neuroscience Society, 2000
Seventh Annual Lecture, Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, University Pittsburgh, 2001
Eighth Annual American Legion Lecture, University of Minnesota Brain Sciences, 2002
Keynote Lecture, Salk Institute Annual Faculty Meeting, 2003
National Eye Institute Director's Award 2004
Dan David Prize for the Future Time Dimension: "Brain Sciences"
(with William Newsome and Amiram Grinvald), 2004
NIH Director's Award, 2004
Ralph W. Gerard Prize of the Society for Neuroscience, 2006

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES:

Vision Research, Board of Editors, 1978-1980
Annual Review of Neuroscience, Editorial Committee, 1979-1983
Journal of Neuroscience, Associate Editor, 1981-1988
Journal of Neurophysiology, Editorial Board, 1987-1991
Society for Neuroscience

Program Committee, 1979-1982, Chair, 1982
Donald B. Lindsley Prize Committee, Chair, 1981
Ad Hoc Committee on Neuroscience Meetings, 1983
Nominating Committee, 1983
Councilor, 1988-1990
President-elect, President, Past-President, 1989-1992
Young Investigator Award Committee, 1993-1994
Gerard Prize Committee, 1994
Decade of the Brain Committee, 1990-1999
International Affairs Committee/US National Committee to IBRO 2006-

Visual Sciences B Study Section, NIH, 1987-1991
European Journal of Neuroscience Editorial Board 1989 - 2000
McKnight Foundation Research Awards Review Committee, 1986-1997
Grass Foundation Trustee, 1994-1997
Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship Committee, 1988-1994
Seattle Regional Primate Center, Visiting Committee, 1991-1994
Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Advisory Committee, 1990- 1998
Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, Advisory Committee, 1992-
Member Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, 1993-
Neuroscience Institute Visiting Committee 1995-
Board of Scientific Advisors, Center for Neural Science, New York University, 1997-
National Academy of Sciences

Elected to Council, 1996-1999
Audit Committee, 1998-2001
Koshland Museum Committee, 1999-2002
Proceedings Editorial Board, 1999-2000
Nominating Committee, 2001, 2006
Systems Neuroscience, Section Chair, 2001-2004
Troland Award Committee 2005, 2006

McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations Awards Review Committee, 1998-2003
Syracuse University Vision Center Visiting Committee, 1998
American Psychological Assn, Committee on Scientific Awards, 1999-2001, Chair, 2001
Faculty of 1000, Co-head, Section on Motor Control, 2001-
Stanford University Neurobiology Review Committee, 2000
Non-Resident Fellow, The Salk Institute, 2001-
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Scientific Board, 2001 -
Acting Director of Intramural Research, NEI, NIH, 2001- 2002
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University and

University of Pittsburgh, Scientific Advisory Board, 2004

Scientific Review Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2004 - 2006
AAAS, Electorate Nominating Committee, 2006-2007.

RESEARCH:

Neurobiology of vision and eye movements.
Neuronal basis of cognition particularly perception, attention, and action.

MEMBERSHIPS:

American Association for Advancement of Science (Fellow)
American Physiological Society
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Society for Neuroscience
Society of Experimental Psychologists