Werner Michael Graf
Dept. Physiology & Biophysics
Howard University College of Medicine
520 W Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20059 - USA
Tel: (202) 806-6330
Fax: (202) 806-4479
E-mail: wgraf@howard.edu

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Personal data:
Date of Birth: October 10, 1948
Place of Birth: Oettingen/Bay, Federal Republic of Germany
Citizenship: Germany, Fed. Rep. (US permanent resident status)
 
Education:
1969
Graduation from High School (Albertus-Gymnasium, Lauingen/Do)
President of the Student Council
1970-1975
Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
1976
Internship, Oettingen Hospital (Surgery) and University Clinic, Freiburg (Internal Medicine), ECFMG (USA), Approbation
1977-1978
Field research in the Amazon region in Manaus/Brazil (Instituto Nácional des Pesquisas dô Amazônia)
1979-1981
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, New York Univ. Medical School, New York, NY with Drs. R. Baker and J.I. Simpson (Chairman: Dr. R. Llinás)
 
Degrees:
1975
M.D. (Staatsexamen)
1976
ECFMG (Foreign Medical Graduates' Exam USA)
1977
Ph.D. (Dr. med.), University of Freiburg, Neurology Hospital (Director: Prof. R. Jung) (thesis advisor: Prof. J. Dichgans)
1979
Approbation (Physician's Licence)
 
Positions:
1977-1979
Research Associate at the Neurobiology Unit (P.Doz.Dr.D.L. Meyer) Institute for Histology and Neuroanatomy, Georg-August-University in Göttingen (Director: Prof. P. Glees)
1981-1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurophysiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY (Dr. V.J. Wilson)
1986-1991
Associate Professor, Department of Neurophysiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY (Dr. V.J. Wilson)
1992-1995
Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurophysiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY (Dr. V.J. Wilson)
1992-2005
Directeur de Recherche, Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action. CNRS/Collčge de France, Paris (Dr. A. Berthoz)
2005-
Professor and Chairman, Dept. Physiology & Biophysics, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC
 
Awards:
1979
Research Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG: Gr 688/1, 2 yrs.)
1981
Grass Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2002
Prix Antoine Lacassagne (Lacassagne Prize of the Collčge de France)

Teaching experience:
- Neuroanatomy, including laboratory (Göttingen University Medical School)
- Artificial membrane laboratory (New York University Medical School)
- Neurophysiology course, including laboratory (The Rockefeller University)
- Neuroscience Program (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)
- Ecole des Neurosciences (Masters), Université Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)
- Ecole doctorale des Neurosciences (BMIC et DEA) - Université Lyon 1
- Neurobiology course for students of the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (Traçage transneuronal avec le virus de la rage)

Professional affiliations:
Society for Neuroscience (USA)
Société des Neurosciences (France)
International Society for Neuroethology
International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
European Neuroscience Association
European Brain and Behaviour Society
Bárány Society
J.B. Johnston Club
Corporation Member, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Research support:
NIH (EY-04613): Spatial coordinates of visuo- vestibulo-ocular reflexes (1983-1994)

NIH (DC-00239): Adaptive changes in flatfish vestibular system (1984-1992)

EC-Human Capital and Mobility (CHRXCT930267): Representation of three-dimensional space in monkey neocortex, 1994-1997

French-Japanese scientific collaboration (Convention Internationale CNRS-Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: JSPS/RC1/95011): Saccular control of skeletal geometry, 1995. French-German scientific collaboration (Programme d'Actions Integrées PROCOPE: 96114): Asymmetry of the nervous system in flatfishes, 1996-1998

Human Frontier Science Program (RG-71/96 B): Neuronal mechanisms for self-motion perception. Principal applicant (coordinator), 1996-1999

EC-Biotechnology (BIO4-CT98-0546): Transneuronal tracing reveals the modular building blocks of the nervous system -TRANS-VIRUS, 1998-2001

CNES: Microgravity and vestibular system development: influence on cell differentiation and neuronal connectivity, 1999-2002

EC-5th FP (QLRT-2001-00151): Oculomotor function and self-motion perception in the elderly - EUROKINESIS, (coordinator), 2002-2005

EC-6th FP (EST 7825): European Early Stage Research Training ("Multisensory information processing in non-human primates" - SensoPrim), 2005-2008

Conference support:
- NIH (EY-04613): Spatial coordinates of visuo- vestibulo-ocular reflexes (1983-1994)

- NSF (BNS-8904738): International conference on the Head-Neck Movement System (Paris, 1989), 1989-1990

- European Science Foundation-European Research Conferences: (Conference series: Three-Dimensional Sensory and Motor Space: 97-110) (with Drs. V. Henn, Zürich and M. Frens, Rotterdam)
    I: Polysensory interaction in the generation of eye movements. Giens/Toulon, Sept. 5-10, 1997
    II: Cortical neuronal mechanisms and psychophysics of orientation and motion in three-dimensional space.Castelvecchio Pascoli, April 9-14, 1999
    III: Cerebellar and cortical control of eye movements. Granada, March 31-April 5, 2001
    IV: Computational Mechanisms for the Generation and Perception of Action in 3D Space. Aquafredda di Maratea. April 5-10, 2003


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