Athens Native Cordelia "Cori" Bargmann Wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Neurobiologist Cori Bargmann, a University of Georgia graduate, is one of 11 scientists to win a Breakthrough Prize of $3 million. At Rockefeller University, Bergmann is the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior. She works on C. elgans.

According to an article in Science News,

Bargmann is being recognized for her work on the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules. She studies the relationships between genes, the nervous system and behaviors in the roundworm C. elegans, a powerful model system for the analysis of neural circuits. Her lab has identified genes and neural pathways for its actions and has determined how sensory inputs regulate those circuits.

Bargmann grew up in Athens, where her father, Rolf Bargmann, was a UGA faculty member.