Education
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1987 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Rockefeller University in 1993.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1987 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Rockefeller University in 1993.
She came back to Rockefeller University as assistant professor in 2000, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006. In April 2010, she was granted tenure and is currently the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior. She became one of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute"s investigators in 2008.
In 2015 Voshall was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Vosshall LB, Amrein H, Morozov Personal, Rzhetsky A, Axel R (March 1999). "A spatial map of olfactory receptor expression in the Drosophila antenna".
Cell 96 (5): 725–36. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80582-6. PMID 10089887. Vosshall LB, Wong Department of Administration and Management, Axel R (July 2000).
"An olfactory sensory map in the fly brain".
Cell 102 (2): 147–59. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)00021-0. PMID 10943836.
She then returned to Columbia for a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of future Nobel laureate Richard Axel. Vosshall has won numerous awards. In 2001, she received a Beckman Young Investigators Award, and received a McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. In 2002, she was named a John Merck Fund Fellow and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and in 2007, she was named a winner of the 2007 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. In 2010 Vosshall was awarded The Dart/New York University Biotechnology Achievement Award.
