School Supervisor

Curriculum Vitae

Michael A. Silver

School of Optometry

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University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 97420-2020 USA

Email: ********@********.*******://argentum.ucbso.berkeley.edu

Telephone (office): 510-***-****

Telephone (cell): 510-***-****

Fax: 510-***-****

Education

1999 Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Univ. of Calif., San Francisco (advisor: Michael Stryker)

1991 B.S. in Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

1991 B.S. in Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Research Experience

7/2005presentAssistant Professor of Optometry and Vision Science and Neuroscience,

School of Optometry and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of

California, Berkeley (also Affiliated Professor in Department of Psychology

)

2/20026/2005Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, Stanford University,

laboratory of David Heeger, and Department of Psychology, University of

California, Berkeley, laboratory of Mark D Esposito. Functional magnetic

resonance imaging and pharmacological studies of human visual perception

and attention.

4/2000 1/2002 Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,

TUbingen, Germany, laboratory of Nikos Logothetis. Psychophysical and

electrophysiological studies of neural correlates of visual perception.

11/19993/2000Postdoctoral fellow, RIKEN Institute, Wako-shi, Japan, laboratory of

Takao

Hensch. Effects of visual cortical and basal forebrain nerve growth factor

administration on cortical EEG activity.

9/199210/1999Graduate student, Department of Physiology, University of California,

San

Francisco, laboratory of Michael Stryker. Anatomical studies of changes in

distributions of presynaptic terminals in visual cortex following monocular

deprivation. Effects of nerve growth factor administration on cortical

plasticity (assessed using single-unit electrophysiology and intrinsic signal

optical imaging) and on basal forebrain cell biology (assessed with

immunohistochemistry).

9/19916/1992Research assistant, Academic Department of Pharmacology, Royal Free

Hospital School of Medicine, London, England, laboratory of Annette

Dolphin. Pharmacological and biochemical studies of interactions among

GABA receptors, G proteins, and calcium channels.

Awards and Fellowships

2011 Visiting Scholar, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and School of

Psychology, Bangor University, Wales (to take place in summer 2011)

2010 Recipient, Royal Society Travel Grant for International Collaboration, to visit

the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, England

2002-2005 National Institutes of Health, Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral National

Research

Service Award (NRSA), administered by the National Eye Institute

1993-1998 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship in Biological Sciences1992-1993 University of California Regents Fellowship

1991-1992Rotary Foundation Scholarship, Academic Department of Pharmacology, Royal

Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, England

Grants

20102012Principal Investigator, R21 grant, National Eye Institute, Neural mechanisms

of

perceptual learning in the human brain, $275,000

2009 2010 Principal Investigator (with Lynn Robertson), Chancellor s Faculty

Partnership

Fund, UC Berkeley, Space perception and cortical organization in

patients with retinal degeneration, $100,000

2008 2010 Principal Investigator, R21 grant, National Eye Institute, Analysis of human

cortical networks during sustained visuospatial attention, $275,000

2008 2010 Lundbeck Foundation, Acetylcholine and attention networks in the human

brain, $84,697

20082009Hellman Family Faculty Fund, UC Berkeley, Pharmacological studies of spatial

integration and visual perception in macular degeneration patients,

$37,000

2007 2008 Lundbeck Foundation, Physiological and pharmacological analysis of cortical

networks during sustained visuospatial attention, $68,907

2007 2008 Fight for Sight Foundation Grant-in-Aid, Space perception and cortical

organization in patients with retinal degeneration, $20,000

Teaching Experience

2010 Instructor, VS300, Teaching Methods in Vision Science (UC Berkeley Vision

Science, Optometry, and Bioengineering graduate students)

Co-instructor, Opt10, Vision in a Changing Environment (UC Berkeley freshman

seminar)

Co-instructor, VS206D, Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Eye and

Visual System (UC Berkeley Optometry students)

Co-instructor, VS212B, Visual Neurophysiology and Development (UC

Berkeley Vision Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering

graduate students)

Guest Lecturer, Psych214, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods

(UC Berkeley Psychology and Neuroscience graduate students)

2009 Instructor, VS262, Visual Cognitive Neuroscience (UC Berkeley Vision Science,

Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering graduate students)

Instructor, VS300, Teaching Methods in Vision Science

Co-instructor, Opt10, Vision in a Changing Environment

Co-instructor, VS206D, Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Eye and

Visual System

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Co-instructor, VS212B, Visual Neurophysiology and Development

Guest Lecturer, Psych214, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods

2008 Instructor, VS300, Teaching Methods in Vision Science

Co-instructor, Neurosc290, Student Research Presentation Seminar (UC

Berkeley Neuroscience graduate students)

Co-instructor, Opt10, Vision in a Changing Environment

Co-instructor, VS206D, Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Eye and

Visual System

Guest Lecturer, Psych214, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods

2007 Instructor, VS300, Teaching Methods in Vision Science

Co-instructor, Opt10, Vision in a Changing Environment

Co-instructor, VS206D, Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Eye and

Visual System

Co-instructor, VS212B, Visual Neurophysiology and Development

Guest Lecturer, Psych214, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods

2006 Instructor, VS300, Teaching Methods in Vision Science

Co-instructor, Opt10, Vision in a Changing Environment

Co-instructor, VS206D, Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Eye and

Visual System

Co-instructor, VS212B, Visual Neurophysiology and Development

Guest Lecturer, Psych214, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods

2005 Co-instructor, VS300, Teaching Methods in Vision Science

Guest Lecture, VS212B, Visual Neurophysiology and Development

Guest Lecturer, Psych214, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods

Mentoring

2010 present PhD supervisor, Elise Piazza, UC Berkeley Vision Science Program (co-

mentor with Marty Banks)

2009 present PhD supervisor, Rachel Denison, UC Berkeley Neuroscience Program

2009 present PhD supervisor, Caterina Gratton, UC Berkeley Neuroscience Program (co-

mentor with Mark D Esposito)

2007 present PhD supervisor, David Bressler, UC Berkeley Vision Science Program

2006 2010 PhD supervisor, Ariel Rokem, UC Berkeley Neuroscience Program

2008 Mentor in Pierce College/UC Berkeley Partnership in Neuroscience

(students: Amir Dori and Ebonnie Widjaja)

2007 - present Mentor in National Eye Institute T35 Summer Research Training Program for

Optometry students (students: Han Duong, Shradha Sanghvi, Betty

Wang)

2006 present Mentor in UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program

(students: Kimberly Chan, Hong-Chun Chao, David Garg, Vanessa

Hoffman, Jonathon Kelvey, Matthew Koh, Andrew Lu, Natalie

Pierson, Sabrina Shen, Jonathan Toomim, Joanna Tung, Christopher

Vasilas)

2006 Mentor in UC Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program (student:

Clare Gollnick)

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Professional Service

2010 Chair and Organizer, minisymposium entitled The Role of Acetylcholine in

Cortical Processing and Plasticity, Society for Neuroscience

conference

2009 present Chair of the Faculty of the School of Optometry, UC Berkeley

2009 present Administration Committee member, School of Optometry

2009 present Academic Advisory Committee, School of Optometry

2008 2010 Admissions Committee member, Vision Science Graduate Program

2008 ad hoc Merit Review Committee member, School of Optometry

2007 present Curriculum Committee member, School of Optometry

2007 present member of Committee on Graduating with Honors, School of Optometry

2007 2010 President/Representative, San Francisco Bay Area Society for Neuroscience

Chapter

2007 present Faculty Adviser for Graduate Student Instructor Affairs, Vision Science

Graduate Program

2007 present Optometry Student Fellowships and Awards Advisory Committee member,

UC Berkeley

2007 2009 Academic Adviser, Neuroscience Graduate Program

th

2007 Co-presenter, tutorial entitled The Pharmacology of Perception, 11 annual

meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

2007 Session Chair, Society for Neuroscience conference

2007 Admissions Committee, Neuroscience Graduate Program

2006 - 2009 Secretary of the Faculty of the School of Optometry, UC Berkeley

2006 Admissions Committee, Vision Science Graduate Program

Thesis committee member Elena Allen (Neuroscience), Bryan Alvarez (Psychology), Matthew

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Canada

2010 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore, MD

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging session, Society for Imaging Science and

Technology conference, San Jose, CA

Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, England

Presidential Symposium, annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological

Research, Portland, OR

Science@Cal Lecture Series, UC Berkeley

Townsend Center Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind, UC Berkeley

Vision Colloquium Series, Department of Psychology, Boston University,

Boston, MA

2009 Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar, University of California, San Francisco

Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego

National Youth Leadership Forum, UC Berkeley

Progress in Systems Biology Symposium, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology,

University of Ottawa, Canada

2008 Biology Fellows Program Summer Research Seminar, UC Berkeley

Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center Research Day, UC Berkeley

National Youth Leadership Forum, UC Berkeley

Vision Science retreat, UC Berkeley

2007 Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center Research Day, UC Berkeley

Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA

Vision, Imaging Science, and Technology Activities (VISTA) Group, Stanford

University

Vision Science retreat, UC Berkeley

2006 Behavioral Neurology seminar, University of California, San Francisco

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging session, Society for Imaging Science and

Technology conference, San Jose, CA

Vision Science retreat, UC Berkeley

2005 Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis

Colloquium, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA

Department of Psychology, University of Michigan

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute retreat, UC Berkeley

Interdisciplinary Forum on Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, University of

California, San Francisco

Oxyopia seminar series, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley

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2004 Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute retreat, UC Berkeley

Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, University of

California, San Francisco

2002 Institute Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, TUbingen,

Germany

2001 Colloquium, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA

2000 Brain Science Institute Forum, RIKEN Institute, Wako-shi, Japan

Communications Research Laboratory, Kansai Advanced Research Center, Kobe,

Japan

Department of Neurophysiology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan

Laboratory for Neural Circuits, RIKEN Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Reviews

Review Editor, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Journals: Brain Research, Cerebral Cortex, Consciousness and Cognition, Current Biology,

Frontiers in Biological Sciences, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in

Neuroanatomy,

Frontiers in Neuroscience, Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, Journal of

Cognitive

Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Vision,

NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Letters, Ophthalmic and

Physiological Optics, PLoS Biology, Psychological Science, Vision Research

Granting agencies: Israeli Science Foundation, National Science Foundation (Cognitive

Neuroscience Program)

Media Coverage

Science Daily:

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Science Today radio program (broadcast nationally on CBS radio):

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Publications

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B-1 to 75270B-9 (invited paper).

Conference Abstracts

Silver MA, Kind PC, Stryker MP, Hockfield S (1995) The monoclonal antibody Cat-305 labels

some geniculocortical afferents in areas 17 and 18 of 40 day old kitten visual cortex.

Society for

Neuroscience Abstracts 21:395.

Silver MA, Radeke MJ, Feinstein SC, Stryker MP (1996) TrkB-like immunoreactivity is not

evident on geniculocortical afferents in layer IV of kitten visual cortex by visual image

inspection, but it is revealed by quantitative object-based image analysis. Society for

Neuroscience Abstracts 22:1479.

Silver MA, Stryker MP (1997) Synaptic density in geniculocortical afferents remains

constant

following monocular deprivation in the cat. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23:1664.

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