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Dr. David Owens is a Program Director in the Repair and Plasticity Cluster at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He earned a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Columbia University where he studied cellular signaling during neocortical development and conducted postdoctoral research in developmental neurobiology at NINDS.  His current interests include the role of neurotransmitter signaling during early stages nervous system development, the signals that influence the proliferation, migration, and differentiation of cells of the cerebral cortex, and stem cell biology.