Gleeson Laboratory
Laboratory for Developmental Neurogenetics
Bibliographical Information
Joseph Gleeson received his Bachelors degree at the University of California, San Diego, and his Medical Degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He then completed his internship and residency in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston and in Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. He was then Chief Resident in Child Neurology at Children's Hospital Boston. His postdoctoral work was with Dr. Christopher A. Walsh at Harvard Medical School. He has been on the Faculty at the University of California San Diego since 1999.
Dr. Gleeson has been honored for his research with the Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society, the Searle Scholar Program, the Merck Award in Developmental Disabilities, the Klingenstein Award in the Neurosciences, the Burroughs Wellcome Award in Translational Research, the Ray Thomas Edwards Award, and the Research Advocacy Award from the Joubert Syndrome Foundation.
The Gleeson Lab has been interested in neuronal development, and in the application of human genetics, mouse models and cell biology to these problems. At UCSD, he is the Director of the Center for Cerebellar Malformations, which serves to coordinate diagnosis and treatment of children with these abnormalities. He is the Director of the UCSD Neurosciences Microscopy Imaging Core, which has several state-of-the-art microscopy systems to evaluate the function of genes in neurons and neural tissue. He heads the UCSD Neuroscience Seminar Series, and is a member of the Dean's Research Council and the Neurology Residency Training Program.
