A UD graduate, Lynch is one of the world's foremost experts on the mechanism of learning and memory. His research has opened new frontiers in understanding how the brain encodes, organizes and uses memory, as well as how it deteriorates with age.
In his tenure as a professor at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, Lynch has focused on two aspects of memory storage--the physiological and biochemical processes responsible for rapidly producing stable changes in synapses, and the anatomy and physiology of circuitries responsible for encoding certain types of memory.
Lynch's recent research has concentrated on novel and potential pharmacological treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases. He has authored more than 550 publications, received 20 patents and founded three technology-based companies (Synaptics Corporation, Cortex Pharmaceuticals and Thuris Corporation).
The lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the 2008 Grass Traveling Scientist Program Lecture Series and made possible through a grant to the Delaware Chapter from the Society for Neuroscience and the Grass Foundation.
