David J. Perkel, Ph.D., joined the University of Washington in 2000 and is currently professor in the Departments of Biology (chair) and Otolaryngology. He is also adjunct professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and former co-director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Prior to joining UW, he held a faculty position in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.  He earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California at San Francisco and did postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology. From 1995-2000.