Rate My Professor Tamily Weisman

Since joining Lewis & Clark College around 2011, Weissman-Unni has led a research program applying Brainbow and fluorescence techniques to the zebrafish model to examine neural circuit development, connectivity, and degeneration in vivo. Her publications include "Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system" (Nature, 2007), "Brainbow: New resources & emerging biological applications for multicolor genetic labeling & analysis" (Genetics, 2015), "Combining near-infrared fluorescence with Brainbow to visualize expression of specific genes within a multicolor context" (Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2019), and "Multicolor lineage tracing using in vivo time-lapse imaging reveals coordinated death of clonally related cells in the developing vertebrate brain" (Developmental Biology, 2019). She has obtained grants from the National Science Foundation, such as for acquiring a laser scanning confocal microscope system (DBI-1338188), and from the National Institutes of Health. Honors include the Lynwood W. Murdock Trust Regional Faculty Excellence Award with $7,500 (2017), Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Educator Prize (2022), and first place in the IBRO Neuroscapes NeuroArt Exhibition (2006). She teaches Biology 202: Biology Core Concepts; Mechanisms, Biology/Psychology 252: Introduction to Neuroscience, and Biology 422: Neurobiology with laboratory. Her research images have appeared in prominent scientific venues.