Elissa Hallem | |
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 Photograph of Hallem in 2016 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Williams College; Yale University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurobiologist |
| Institutions | UCLA |
Elissa A. Hallem is an American neurobiologist. She won a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship. [1] [2] Hallem is Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA. [3]
Elissa Hallem was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1977. In 8th grade she enrolled in a summer program run by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth where she followed a course in psychology held at the Loyola Marymount University at Los Angeles. During high school, she worked in a UCLA lab with professor S. Lawrence Zipursky, a family friend.[ citation needed ]
Hallem graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in biology and chemistry in 1999, and received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2005. [4] She completed her post-doctoral training at California Institute of Technology in 2010. [1]
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