Gina G. Turrigiano


Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist. She is currently a Professor of Biology and the Levitan Chair of Vision Science at Brandeis University.
Gina was born in 1963.

Professional work

Turrigiano is known for her pioneering work on the mechanisms that allow brain circuits to remain both flexible and stable. Turrigiano and colleagues discovered several forms of "homeostatic" plasticity, most notably Synaptic scaling and intrinsic homeostatic plasticity, and have characterized how these forms of plasticity contribute to learning and allowing experience-dependent plastic changes in the brain.

Education

She graduated from Reed College, B.A., and from University of California, San Diego, with a Ph.D.

Personal

She now lives in greater Boston with her husband, Sacha Nelson. She has two children, Riel Turrigiano Nelson, and Raphael Nelson Turrigiano.

Notable awards and honors

Works

  • , Toward a theory of neuroplasticity, Editors Christopher Ariel Shaw, Jill McEachern, Psychology Press, 2001,
  • , Dynamic biological networks: the stomatogastric nervous system, Editor Ronald M. Harris-Warrick, MIT Press, 1992,
  • "", Andrea A Guerrero, Gina Turrigiano bioRxiv 2025.04.24.650518; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.24.650518
Turrigiano has published >100 research articles in her field, many of which can be found in Journals such as Cell, , , Proceedings of the [National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America].
Her complete scholarship can be found here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lAjsH-wAAAAJ&hl=en