James L. Olds, PhD, is currently the Assistant Director for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation, leading the investments of NSF in the life sciences. Dr. Olds is concurrently the Shelley Krasnow University Professor of molecular neuroscience and the editor-in-chief of The Biological Bulletin published by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.

This seminar is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and the University of Pittsburgh Office of the Provost.