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Life

Erich Jarvis was one of four children of Sasha McCall, a gospal singer, and James Jarvis, a musician an amateur scientist.

Jarvis credits his family, and primarily his father's mind and enthusiam for science, for his interest in biology.

Mother: raised Jarvis, after divorcing his father, James Javis in 1970.

Father:, was homeless, lived in various local parks.

****** Father became a heavy drug user, prior to droping out of college.

His father suffered from drug-induced schizophrenia. Jarvis father's mind, peaked his interest in biology, as well as his fathers knowlegede in science.

His father was the victim of a fatal shooting in 1989.

Jarvis attend the High School of Preforming Arts, were he studied ballet

Jarvis turned down a Alvin Ailey American Dance theater audition to study at Hunter College, where he earned Bacholars degrees in Biology and Mathmatics in 1988.

In 1995, he earned his Ph.D. in Animal Behavor and Molecular Neurobehavior from Rockefeller University

. He continued his postdoctoral education at The Rockefeller University until 1998. Career

vocal learning: birds

The focus of Jarvis' research is the vocal learning capablities in birds and how they learn to mimic sounds

** FOXP2 gene

* The housekeeping gene playes a major role in vocal development.

His research with songbirds is being used to show the evolution of human language capacity and speech disorders.

* Works to develop a program that would create an oppertunity for underrepresented minority students to partisipate in research at Rockefeller University.

awards:

MARC-NIGMS Pre-doctoral National Research Service AwardFORD Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Summit Award with NSF and NINDS from the American Society for Association Executives for successes of the Society for Neuroscience’s Scholars Program

"To accomplish this objective, Dr. Jarvis takes an integrative approach to research, combining behavioral, anatomical, electrophysiological, molecular biological, and genomic techniques. The discoveries of Dr. Jarvis and his collaborators include the first findings of natural behaviorally regulated gene expression in the brain, social context dependent gene regulation, convergent vocal learning systems across distantly related animal groups, the FOXP2 gene in vocal learning birds, and the finding that vocal learning systems may have evolved out of ancient motor learning systems."

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