Brian M. Salzberg
Biography
Brian M. Salzberg is Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology in the School of
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in the fields of neuroscience,
physiology, and biophysics. He is particularly interested in harnessing optical
measurement techniques to monitor membrane potentials in a wide variety of biological
tissues including otherwise inaccessible nerve terminals. His group’s research is focused
on the broader application of optical methods to cell physiology, and to the biophysics of
nervous systems. Salzberg’s original training was in High Energy Physics (Ph.D.,
Harvard, 1971). He has published over 200 articles in leading scientific journals,
including 60 full papers in major peer-reviewed journals and has received numerous
honors for important research. Some of these include: the MBL Award of the Marine
Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA) for the Best Scientific Paper (1981) and
selection as the Arturo Rosenblueth Visiting Professor at the Centro de Investigacion y de
Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico (1987). He was elected to the Board
of Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory for three terms (1980-1991), to the
National Council of the Society of General Physiologists, to the National Council and to
the Executive Board of the Biophysical Society (two terms each), and to the Executive
Council of the Division of Biological Physics of the American Physical Society. He was
also elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America. In 1991, Salzberg
was selected to be a Guest Fellow of the Royal Society (UK). He has participated in
meetings of Study Sections of the National Institutes of Health and of the National
Science Foundation. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of General
Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, and Cell Biochemistry and
Biophysics, and is now Associate Editor of the Biophysical Journal and of
Neurophotonics. He has also been a Reviewer for most of the important journals in his
field, including Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
(PNAS), Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, American Journal of
Physiology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Biophysical
Journal, American Journal of Physiology, etc.