Tirin Moore, Ph.D.
Administrative Accomplishments
For the Society for Neuroscience, I’ve served on the Committee on Committees, the Gruber Prize Committee, the Program Committee, and I was a reviewing editor for the Journal of Neuroscience. I’m currently a member of the NIH’s National Advisory Eye Council, a member of the Multi-council Working Group for the NIH BRAIN Initiative and a Senior Editor for eLife. I previously served on the Board of Scientific Councilors for NIMH. I have served on external review committees for neuroscience programs at Princeton, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, MIT and the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Lastly, I served as Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee for Stanford’s Neuroscience Ph.D. program, and as a member of the review committee for HHMI’s Hanna Gray Fellowship program.
The above service and leadership positions have taught me a great deal about strategic planning for large communities of neuroscientists.
Degree, Institute, Year Earned
| Degree | Institute | Year Earned |
| B.A., Summa Cum Laude | California State University, Chico | 1990 |
| Ph.D., Neuroscience and Psychology | Princeton University | 1995 |
Research Areas
- Neural mechanisms of visual perception, visuomotor integration, neural mechanisms of cognition, neural circuitry, visually guided behavior, large-scale electrophysiology
Current Position(s) at Your Current Institution
- Ben Barres Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Memberships
| Organization | Position Held | Year(s) |
| Society for Neuroscience | Member | 1993-present |
| Committee on Committees – Member | 2018-2022 | |
| Nominating Committee – Member | 2018-2022 | |
| Ralph W. Gerard Prize Selection Committee – Chair | 2019-2022 | |
| Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize Selection Committee – Member | 2016-2019 | |
| Program Committee – Member | 2013-2016 | |
| Gruber International Award Selection Committee – Member | 2012-2014 |
Service Positions
Editorial Boards:
| Publication | Position Held | Year(s) |
| eLife | Senior Editor | 2021-present |
| JNeurosci | Reviewing Editor | 2020-2023 |
| Associate Editor | 2009-2014 |
Other Service Positions:
| Organization | Position Held | Year(s) |
| NIH Brain Initiative | Multi-council working group |
2022 |
| National Eye Institute, NIH | National Advisory Eye Council |
2022 |
| Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics | Scientific Advisory Council |
2021 |
| HHMI | Hanna H. Gray Fellow review cmte. |
2017-2023 |
Science Biography
Tirin Moore is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator and the Ben Barres Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Professor Moore received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Princeton University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a visiting research fellow at Princeton before starting his lab at Stanford in 2003. Professor Moore is a visual neuroscientist who studies neural mechanisms of visual perception, visual-motor integration, and the neural basis of cognition (e.g. attention). In addition, his laboratory develops novel and more powerful approaches to systems-level neurobiology. His research has made fundamental and insightful contributions to our understanding of the neuronal circuitry of visual spatial attention. His work demonstrated that visual spatial attention is controlled by prefrontal cortical neurons involved in gaze control. He and his collaborators also discovered a topographic map of complex movements in motor and premotor cortex. Professor Moore has been a Sloan fellow, a Pew Scholar, a McKnight Scholar, and he received an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Before becoming an HHMI investigator, he was an HHMI Early Career Scientist. For his work on mechanisms of visual attention, Professor Moore received the Troland Research Award and the Pradel Research Award, both from the National Academy of Sciences, and the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Moore currently serves as an external scientific advisor for the Allen Institute of Neural Dynamics, the Kavli Neural Systems Institute at Rockefeller University, and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences visiting committee at MIT. He also serves on council for the National Eye Institute and the BRAIN Initiative’s Multi-Council Working Group of the National Institutes of Health.
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