Katz chosen as new director of the Center for Neural Communication and Computation
 Friday, August 20, 2004 - Paul Katz has been named director of the Center for Neural Communication and Computation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Katz, an Associate Professor of Biology who studies neural communication, succeeds Don Edwards, Professor of Biology, who now directs the Brains and Behavior program, a new interdisciplinary initiative focusing on behavioral neuroscience. Katz plans to integrate the center with the Brains and Behaviors program to foster collaborations that will ultimately lead to new funding opportunities for research.
The Center for Neural Communication and Computation (CNCC), formed in 1995, advances research and education in fundamental neuroscience, focusing on the neural mechanisms of sensory processing, neuronal computation, motor pattern generation, and development. The center promotes research interaction between the neuroscience faculty at Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and area colleges. The CNCC provides opportunities for faculty and students to present their research by sponsoring local and regional meetings and an annual retreat and has also played an important role in procuring research equipment such as the multiphoton and confocal laser scanning microscopes, which are shared by researchers at participating universities.
Katz joined the biology faculty in 1997. His research focuses on neuromodulation, synaptic gating and nervous system biochemical networks and is currently funded by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, the Georgia Research Alliance, and the GSU Research Program Enhancement. Katz served as the director of the Graduate Scholars Program for the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience from 2000-2003, and he worked to organize the Life Sciences Lecture Series. He also advises undergraduates for the biology department and has helped develop the department's website. |
