Professor
James William Truman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Neuroscientist; Developmental biologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Neurosciences
Elected
2009
Group Leader, Janelia Farm Research Campus; professor of Biology, Emeritus, University of Washington. Elucidated the role of the neurosecretory eclosion hormone, which is necessary for the proper orchestration of molting behavior in insects. Discovered the metamorphic changes in the central nervous system of insects and their regulation by hormones and how hormones are involved in the evolution of insect metamorphosis.
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