Address:                     Department of Biology                                      Tel:   (617) 452-2605

                                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology               Fax:  (617) 452-2249

                                    46-3243, 43 Vassar St.                              E-mail: troy@mit.edu

Cambridge, MA 02139-4307                                                  

http://web.mit.edu/flybrain/littletonlab/   

Date of Birth:             March 19, 1967

Place of Birth:            West Monroe, Louisiana

Academic Appointments:

2011-                           Professor, MIT

2004-2011                   Associate Professor, MIT

2000-2004                   Assistant Professor, MIT

            Department of Biology

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

            The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Education:

 1989-1997       Ph.D. in Neuroscience (1994), M.D. (1997) 

Medical Scientist Training Program

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

1985-1989       B.S. in Biochemistry (magna cum laude), Minor in Zoology

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA    

Research Training:

1997-2000       Helen Hay Whitney Post-Doctoral Fellow with Barry Ganetzky

Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin

1990-1994       Graduate Training in Neurobiology with Hugo Bellen & Mark Perin

Dept. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

1985-1989      Research Assistant with John Caprio, Ph.D., Dept. of Zoology &

                        Physiology, Louisiana State University

                        Honor Thesis:  Electrophysiological investigation of the response properties of the facial taste system of the catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, to nucleosides and nucleotides. 

1987                Grass Foundation Scholar with Bill Carr, The Whitney Marine Laboratory,

                        University of Florida "Characterization of purinergic chemosensation in the    

                        gustatory and olfactory systems of the Spiny Lobster

Honors and Awards:

1989                Phi Beta Kappa

1989                East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society Outstanding Undergraduate Award

1990-1997       NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship

1992-1994       Baylor College of Medicine Dean's Award for Excellence

1992-1994       National Institute of Mental Health Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

1994                Arnold O. Beckman Academic Achievement Award

1994                Minora Suzuki Award for Excellence in Neuroscience

1995                Sigma Xi Dissertation Excellence Award in Biology

1995                Elkins Memorial Lecture, Cold Spring Harbor Neurobiology of Drosophila

1997-2000       Helen Hay Whitney Post-Doctoral Fellowship

1998                Society of General Physiologists Fumio Mekata Fellowship

2000-2003       Poitras Scholar Award in Neuroscience

2001-2003             Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

2001-2004             Human Frontier Science Program Junior Faculty Fellowship

2001-2004       Searle Scholar Award

2002                                Surdna Research Foundation Award

2002                Wade Fund Award

2002-2007             David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering

2005-2008             Fred and Carole Middleton Career Development Professorship

2009-               Member, Faculty of 1000

2011                Distinguished Alumni Award, Baylor College of Medicine

Professional Activities:

1988-1989       Louisiana State University Honors Research Program

1989                Summer Medical and Research Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine

1991, 1995      Teaching Assistant, Medical Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

1993                Neurobiology of Drosophila Course Participant, Cold Spring Harbor      Laboratory

1998                Neurobiology Course Participant, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory

2000-2006             Reviewer:  Neuron, Nature, Science, J. Neurochem., J. Neurosci., Nature Neurosci., EMBO J., Cell, PNAS, J. Biol. Chem., J. Cell Biol., J. Neurophysiol., PloS, Genetics, BMC Neuroscience, Mol. Cell. Neuro.

2000-2004       Scientific Advisory Board, Cambria Biosciences

2001-2003       NIH MDCN-1 Study Section Associate Member

2001, 2002      Neurobiology Course Faculty, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory

2003                                MIT Biology Department IAP Organizer, “Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Neurobiology: Pathfinding into the Next Decade”

2003-2007       NIH “Synapses, Cytoskeleton and Trafficking” Study Section Associate Member

2005                Session Chair “Spines and Postsynaptic Structure”, Society for Neuroscience 35^th

Annual Meeting

2006                Session Chair “New Technologies in Neuroscience”, 5^th Annual Picower-RIKEN          

                        Neuroscience Symposium “New Frontiers in Brain Science”, Cambridge, MA

2006                Session Chair “Neurophysiology and Behavior”, 47^th Annual Drosophila Research         

Conference, Houston, TX

2008-2012             NIH “Synapses, Cytoskeleton and Trafficking” Study Section Member

2008-               Director, MIT Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience (MCN) Graduate Program

2010-               Scientific Advisory Council, Universidad Central del Caribe Neuroscience Program