Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
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Barry Dickson |
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Barry Dickson grew up in Australia, studying mathematics, computer science and genetics at the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland. After a brief stint as a research assistant at the Salk Institute, San Diego, he moved to Europe to conduct his PhD research on Drosophila visual system development with Ernst Hafen at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. For his postdoctoral research, he joined Corey Goodman at the University of California in Berkeley. During this time, he began to work on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of axon pathfinding, which was continued in his own group, first at the Univeristy of Zurich and then the IMP in Vienna.
In 2003 he was appointed as senior scientist at the IMBA in Vienna, and in 2006 moved back to the IMP to succeed Kim Nasmyth as Scientific Director. Research in the lab is now increasingly focused on understanding the genetic and neural underpinnings of innate behaviours in Drosophila. |
