Carole E. Landisman 

ART EXHIBITIONS       

Solo Shows [prior to 1999]

1993  “Works in Bronze” - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX

1994   Introductions: “First Convergence” - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX

1997   “Hard Sensualism” - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY

1998   “Whispered Stories” - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY

Juried Group Shows [prior to 1999]

1994   Annual Houston Retablo Show - Lawndale, HOUSTON, TX

1995   Mannequin group show - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX

1995 “Confluence” - Hill Country Arts Foundation, INGRAM, TX

- juried by Peter Doroshenko, Director, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum

1996   Group Show - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY

1997   “Primitive Works” - New Gallery, HOUSTON, TX

1997   Group Show - Gang Gallery, NYC, NY

1997 “17th Annual Faber Birren Color Show” - STAMFORD, CN

- juror: Naomi Urabi, curator, The Whitney Museum, NYC, NY

1998   “In/Out Sites” - Agora Gallery, NYC, NY

[Juried Group Shows after 2017]

2018 “Creativity Persists” – Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA), SEATTLE, WA

- juror: Jodi Bento, Director, Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Gallery

2018 Seattle Recycled Arts Festival, Juried Arts – Phinney Center, SEATTLE, WA
2018 Really Affordable Art Show – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, BROOKLYN, NY.

- juror: Brinda Kumar, curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Met. Museum of Art, NYC, NY

2018  “Jewish Words” – Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga, Jewish Cultural Center, CHATTANOOGA, TN

2019   “Motherland” – Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA), SEATTLE, WA

- juror: Amanda Manitach, former Visual Arts Editor at City Arts Magazine

2019 “Recycle 2019” – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), BROOKLYN, NY Certificate of Recognition

- juried by John Cloud Kaiser, Director of Education at Materials for the Arts

2019  “Wide Open 10” – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, BROOKLYN, NY

- juried by Ylinka Barotto, Assistant Curator, the Guggenheim Museum, NCY, NY

2020   “Rose Quartz” – Envision Arts, online (Dallas, TX)

2020 “2020 VISION” – Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA), SEATTLE, WA

2020   “ICON 2020” – Lynn Hansen Gallery, SEATTLE, WA

2021   “REFLECTION” - Nuu Muse Gallery, DALLAS, TX

2021 ART MARATHON – CoCA, SEATTLE, WA

2021   “The FL3TCH3R Exhibit 2021” — JOHNSON CITY, TN Best in Show

2022  “ART IN THE TIME OF CORONATM | A Global Art Project”, Dab Art Co., LA, CA

- online gallery: Jun 2021 - Dec 2023. Book published Feb 2022

2022 “LIKE MOTHER 2022” - University House, SEATTLE, WA

- juried by June Sekiguchi

Postponed “JIM CROW MUST GO” – Book to be published, CoCA, SEATTLE, WA     

ART MEMBERSHIPS, CURATING, & VOLUNTEERING

  • Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, WA (member and volunteer since 2018, and current coordinator of artist discussion groups to facilitate connections amongst CoCA members, particularly during Covid) 

  • Curator, Gallery CEL - Instagram page @Gallery.CEL to feature and sell work by artists who are struggling financially due to Covid. All profits go directly to the artists.

  • American Guild of Judaic Art 

  • Set up and curated the Guild’s Instagram page @AmericanGuildofJudaicArt, Jun 2019-Nov 2020

  • Origin Story” - Designed and co-curated the online annual online art show, 2020 https://jewishart.org/walanka-2020/

  • board member, 2019-2020

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EDUCATION

1990 - 1996     THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY  NYC, NY PhD thesis: “CORTICAL MECHANISMS of COLOR VISION”. Laboratory of Neurobiology (Torsten Wiesel)

1984 - 1988     RICE UNIVERSITY  HOUSTON,TX                                   B.S. in Electrical Engineering, emphasis in Bioengineering

WORK EXPERIENCE

2014-2017       CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL                SEATTLE, WA                      

  • Senior Research Associate, Center for Integrative Brain Research

2007-2014       HARVARD UNIVERSITY   CAMBRIDGE, MA

  • Assistant Professor, Center for Brain Science

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTON BOSTON, MA

  • Department of Neurology

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL BOSTON, MA

  • Department of Neurobiology

2004 -  2006      HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL                BOSTON, MA

  • Instructor (Research Faculty), Department of Neurobiology

2002 - 2004            BROWN UNIVERSITY                           PROVIDENCE, RI

  • Investigator (research faculty), Department of Neuroscience

1996 -  2002           BROWN UNIVERSITY                      PROVIDENCE, RI

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, laboratory of Barry Connors, Department of Neuroscience

SELECTED ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES 

  • Landisman CE, Long MA, Beierlein M, Deans MR, Paul DL, Connors BW. Electrical synapses in the thalamic reticular nucleus. J Neurosci 2002;22(3):1002-9. http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/1002

  • Landisman CE, Connors BW.  Long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian thalamus. Science 2005; 310:1809-13.

Press Coverage:

- Hughes SW and Crunelli V. Hardwiring goes soft: long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian brain. Cell Science 2006.

- Stern P. Editor’s Choice: Modification of Electrical Synapses. Science, STKE 2005, tw457 (2005).

  • Haas JS, Zavala Z, Landisman CE. Activity-dependent long-term depression of electrical synapses. Science 2011; 334:389-393.

Press Coverage:

- Perspectives, Hestrin, S. The strength of electrical synapses. Science 2011; 334:315.

- Synaptic Plasticity: Tuning electrical synapses. Research Highlights, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2011; 12.

- Verrico, CD. Does neuronal activity affect the strength of electrical synapses? Physiology, Feb 2012.

  • Wang Z, Nealy RA, Landisman CE. Activation of Group I and Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Causes LTD and LTP of Electrical Synapses in the Rat Thalamic Reticular Nucleus.   J Neurosci 2015; 35(19): 7616-7625.

Press Coverage:

- Teresa Esch. mGluRs Induce LTD and LTP of Electrical Synapses. This Week in the Journal, J. Neurosci 2015; 35(19): i.

  • Coulon P, Landisman CE. The Potential Role of Gap Junctional Plasticity in the Regulation of State. Neuron 2017; 93: 1275-1295.