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Thomas Schwarz | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard College, Harvard Medical School |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics, neurobiology |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Kravitz |
Thomas L Schwarz is an American neuroscientist and molecular biology researcher at Children's Hospital, Boston,[1] and a professor of Neurology and Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.[2]
Thomas Schwarz is best known for discovering and characterizing the Drosophila protein Milton.[3] This protein has been shown to be crucial to mitochondrial localization to the nerve terminal.
Education
Thomas Schwarz graduated from Harvard College, where he was heavily involved with the college's WHRB radio, before earning a PhD from Harvard Medical School. His doctoral advisor was scientist Edward Kravitz.
References
- ^ CHB. "CHB". CHB. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ^ Harvard Medical School. "HMS". Harvard. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ^ Stowers, Steven; Laura J. Megeath; Jolanta Górska-Andrzejak; Ian A. Meinertzhagen; Thomas L. Schwarz (12 December 2002). "Axonal Transport of Mitochondria to Synapses Depends on Milton, a Novel Drosophila Protein". Neuron. 36 (6): 1063–1077. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(02)01094-2. PMID 12495622. S2CID 10397128.
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