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Leslie Tolbert, a
faculty member at the University of Arizona since 1987, is a
Regents’ Professor in the Arizona Research Laboratories Division
of Neurobiology, with a joint appointment in the Department of
Cell Biology and Anatomy. She became Vice President for
Research, Graduate Studies, and Economic Development in July
2005.
Leslie
received her A.B. in applied mathematics from Radcliffe College
(Harvard University) and her Ph.D. in neuroanatomy from the
Division of Medical Sciences of Harvard University in 1978. She
held a postdoctoral fellowship with John Hildebrand (now at the
UA!) at Harvard Medical School and then was a research associate
with Ron Calabrese at Harvard’s Biological Laboratories. She
then was a faculty member at Georgetown University School of
Medicine for five years before moving to the University of
Arizona in 1987.
She
leads a research group that studies mechanisms underlying the
important role of sensory input in guiding the development of
sensory areas of the brain, carrying out their research in
experimentally advantageous insect model systems. She has
taught undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, and is a
member of several graduate programs, including the campus-wide
GIDP in Neuroscience, which she chaired for seven years, and the
GIDP in Applied Math, for which she served on the steering
committee for many years.
Outside of the university, Leslie recently served as president
of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences and is currently
a councilor of the Society for Neuroscience. She sits on the
editorial board of Chemical Senses and was an associate editor
of The Journal of Comparative Neurology from 2001 to 2005.
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