Barry Dickson

Barry J. Dickson
Barry Dickson in October 2017.
Born	Barry Dickson (1962-08-14) 14 August 1962 (age 62)
Alma mater	University of Melbourne (BSc) Charles Darwin University (BSc) University of Zurich (PhD)
Awards	Wittgenstein-Preis (2005) AAAS Fellow (2009) EMBO Member (2003)
Scientific career
Fields	molecular basis of behavior, neural circuits, neurobiology
Institutions	Janelia Research Campus Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Thesis	Specificity and Competence in Cell-Cell Interactions: Induction of the R7 Cell Fate in the Developing Eye of Drosophila melanogaster.[1]  (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Ernst Hafen
Website	www.janelia.org/lab/dickson-lab

Barry J. Dickson FRS (born 14 August 1962) is an Australian neurobiologist who studies the development of neuronal networks in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Dickson is a group leader at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Loudoun County, Virginia and a former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria.