Robert L. White, III

Education

2007            M.D. (Medicine), Ph.D. (Neuroscience)

                    Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)

                    Washington University, St. Louis, MO

                    Thesis Advisor: Lawrence H. Snyder M.D., Ph.D.

 

1999            Bachelor of Science

                    Washington University, St. Louis, MO

                    Major in Biomedical Engineering Sciences

                    Second Major in Biology

Employment

2007-Present  Resident Physician

                    Department of Neurology

                    University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

 

Awards

2007            AAN Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology

2002-2005  NEI Vision Sciences Predoctoral Training Grant

2002            Travel Fellowship: Vestibular Influences on Movement Barany Society Meeting

1999            Summa Cum Laude

1999            Ethan A. H. Shepley Award (for outstanding leadership, scholarship and service)

1995-1999  Washington University Woodward Fellowship

1999            Outstanding Senior in Biomedical Engineering

1998            Outstanding Junior in Biomedical Engineering

1997            Howard Hughes Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship

1995            Washington University Merit Scholar

1995-1999  Dean's List

 

Research Experience

1997-1999  Undergraduate Research Assistant

                    Washington University, St. Louis, MO

                    Principle Investigator: Michael L. Dustin, Ph.D.

 

1994-1996  Werner H. Kirsten Student Intern

                    National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD

                    Principle Investigator: George W. Cox, Ph.D.

Publications

White RL, Snyder LH. Subthreshold Microstimulation in the Frontal Eye Fields Updates Spatial Memories. Exp Brain Res, 181:477-92, 2007.

White RL, Snyder LH. Space Constancy and the Brain: Insights from Neural Networks. Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 362:375-82, 2007.

Lawrence BM, White RL, Snyder LH. Delay-Period Activity in Visual, Visuomovement, and Movement Neurons in the Frontal Eye Field. J Neurophysiol, 94:1498-508, 2005.

White RL, Snyder LH. A Neural Network Model of Flexible Spatial Updating. J Neurophysiol, 91:1608-19, 2004.

Abstracts

White RL, Snyder LH. Dynamics of memory-related spatial tuning in the frontal eye fields. SFN, 2005.

White RL, Snyder LH. Dynamic spatial mnemonic activity in the frontal eye fields. Computational Vision in Neural and Machine Systems, 2005.

White RL, Snyder LH. Delay period microstimulation in the frontal eye fields updates spatial memories. SFN, 2004.

White RL, Snyder LH. Delay period microstimulation perturbs memory-guided saccade behavior. CSHL Computational & Systems Neuroscience, 2004.

White RL, Baker JT, Snyder LH. Reference frames and spatial memory operations: a neural network model. SFN, 2002.

White RL, Snyder LH. A neural network model of flexible spatial updating. J Vestib Research 11:3-5, 2002.

Baker JT, White RL, Snyder LH. Reference frames and spatial memory operations: area LIP and saccade behavior. SFN, 2002.