Dr. Terman completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois in 1991. After working for a year in Marine Science, he began his graduate work at The Ohio State University and received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1997. As a graduate student in George F. Martin’s laboratory he utilized the unique embryology of the marsupial opossum and focused on understanding the potential for axon regeneration in the spinal cord of mammals and the factors associated with its failure. As an initial step towards identifying the molecular mechanisms limiting axon regeneration, he focused his postdoctoral training on investigating the molecular mechanisms that enable axonal growth and guidance. While a postdoctoral fellow with Alex L. Kolodkin at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Terman utilized molecular and genetic approaches in both Drosophila and mammals to better characterize the molecular mechanisms underlying axon guidance. He joined the faculty of UT Southwestern in 2005.
