Dr. Lyon is a Cal State Long Beach Alumnus, Class of 1992. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, and then trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Dr. Lyon�s work has been instrumental in providing detailed maps of the neural circuitry of the brain related to sensory processing and has produced more than 30 publications in well-respected neuroscience journals. A key aspect of his work has focused on the implementation and development of neurotropic viruses to enable study of brain circuits at very fine levels of resolution.