University System of GeorgiaFormat for New Program Proposal

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Institution _Georgia State University____Date__March 6, 2009__________

School/Division_College of Arts and Sciences____Department_Neuroscience Institute__

Name of Proposed Program_M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience___________

Degree __M.S./Ph.D.___Major ____ Neuroscience _____ CIP Code__30.2401__

Starting Date _August 2009____

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Table of Contents:

1. Program Description and Objectives:......................................................................22. Justification and need for the program....................................................................53. Procedures used to develop the program...........................................................14144. Curriculum...............................................................................................................155. Inventory of faculty directly involved....................................................................206. Outstanding programs of this nature in other institutions..................................257. Inventory of pertinent library resources................................................................278. Describe the desired qualifications of the students who will be recruited and admitted to the proposed program, including ethnic populations that will be targeted.........................................................................................................................27289. Facilities.....................................................................................................................2810. Administration......................................................................................................282911. Assessment................................................................................................................2912. Accreditation.............................................................................................................3013. Affirmative Action impact.......................................................................................3014. Degree inscription....................................................................................................3115. Fiscal and Enrollment Impact, and Estimated Budget.........................................31APPENDICES...............................................................................................................3637APPENDIX I.................................................................................................................3738APPENDIX II................................................................................................................4647APPENDIX IIIB............................................................................................................5556APPENDIX IV..............................................................................................................6465APPENDIX V............................................................................................................227228

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1. Program Description and Objectives:

The program description, written in a one or two page abstract, is a summary of the proposed program. It should be in a format suitable for presentation to the Board of Regents and should include the following: the objectives of the program; the needs the program would meet; an explanation of how the program is to be delivered at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels; and information related to costs, curriculum, faculty, facilities, desegregation impact, and enrollment. Indicate the degree inscription which will be placed on the student's degree upon his/her completion of this program of study. In the program description, it must be clear that the proposed program is central to the institution's mission and a high priority within the institution's strategic plan.

This proposal describes a plan for establishing a multidisciplinary, multi-departmental, M.S./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience (offering a M.S. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience) that will enhance the behavioral and life sciences training and research efforts of Georgia State University (GSU). The program will respond to requests from students and to a need for highly trained specialists in the areas of Neurobiology and Behavioral Neuroscience. The M.S./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience will provide students with the training necessary for careers in the rapidly expanding biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries as well as for academic careers in several related disciplines. Recent studies, as well as our own survey (appended), clearly indicate that prospective students in the neurosciences prefer to earn advanced degrees specifically in Neuroscience rather than in traditional biological or behavioral science programs. The M.S./Ph.D.program in Neuroscience will therefore enhance the ability of GSU to compete for top graduate students nationally and internationally.

The proposed M.S./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience has its origins in the neuroscience-related concentrations within the Ph.D. programs in the Biology and Psychology departments at GSU. However, the proposed M.S./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience will be administered by the new Neuroscience Institute, an interdisciplinary unit within the College of Arts and Sciences at GSU. Instruction of students in the proposed program would be provided by faculty with primary (core) appointments (n=14) in the Neuroscience Institute (most with previous appointments in the departments of Biology and Psychology) as well as by faculty associated (n=41) or affiliated (n=12) with this institute. While the majority of these faculty originate from Biology and Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute with joint appointments in those departments, additional faculty and students in other departments are working in neuroscience-related areas, including theory of mind studies in Philosophy, robotics and neural modeling in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Math & Statistics, and Physics & Astronomy, bioinformatics in Computer Science and Math & Statistics, neurogenic communication disorders in Educational Psychology and Special Education, and drug development and imaging strategies in Chemistry.

Both the diversity and depth of the neuroscience research community at GSU will define the curriculum of the M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Specifically, all students will be

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required to complete three Core courses that cover the full range of neuroscience research, one course in Statistics and an Introduction to Graduate Studies course. All other coursework will be chosen from electives so that each student, in consultation with their advisor, can customize their curriculum to their particular research interests. Topics and Concepts classes and journal clubs will bring together students whose research areas are complementary

We expect that the M.S./Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience would require only minimal administrative resources at its inception; otherwise it is cost-neutral. Our proposed degree program will not require an alteration of the institutional mission because the newly-formed Neuroscience Institute will administer the Neuroscience doctoral program. The proposed M.S./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience does not call for course delivery formats that are new or different for Georgia State University. We anticipate that each tenure-track faculty with a primary appointment in the Neuroscience Institute will have at least one doctoral student in the program and most will have two or more students. When combined with doctoral students mentored by neuroscience-related faculty in other departments, we estimate a total of 65 students enrolled at any one time. For a 5-year program, we expect to graduate approximately 14 Ph.D.s in Neuroscience per year and award a similar number of M.S. degrees annually.

The establishment of a M.S./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience will support the overarching goal of GSU to become one of the nation's premier research universities located in an urban setting. In particular, the strategic plan for GSU calls for increasing interdepartmental or multidisciplinary research in areas of excellence. The strength and interdisciplinary nature of the neuroscience community at GSU was recognized by the establishment and heavy investment by the Provost in the Brains and Behavior Program, one of three multi-disciplinary research foci that built on GSU’s strongest and most successful research programs. To date, this has developed into a vibrant association of faculty and students spanning multiple departments in the natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and humanities. Similarly, GSU is the lead institution of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN), a NSF-funded consortium of more than 100 researchers at seven Atlanta institutions who examine the neural mechanisms underlying complex social behaviors. Establishment of a M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience within the newly-formed Neuroscience Institute would formally unite the faculty and students participating in neuroscience research and align with the University’s larger strategy of training students in cross-disciplinary subjects. The proposed M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience at GSU would be unique in that this program would be the only M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience administered by an Institute within a College of Arts and Sciences and unaffiliated with either a medical college or a health professions Institute within the University System of Georgia and, indeed, the Southeast region. This program would also increase our ability to supply, as we currently do, a majority of minority neuroscience-trained Ph.D.s nationally.

Lastly, formation of this graduate program aligns with the strategic plan released by the Georgia Board of Regents, which included goals for the state directly relevant to the formation of new degree programs. Strategic Goal 2 noted the need to increase enrollment capacity in the state by 100,000 by 2020, with a particular emphasis on

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closing the gap in educational achievement by underrepresented minorities. Although enrollment in GSU’s program per se will make only a small contribution toward that goal, it will help position GSU, as one component of the University System, to expand its science degree offerings and to do so in an area with a high population of underrepresented minorities. Furthermore, the neuroscience degree program is linked to one of the Georgia Research Alliance’s Centers of Excellence, the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, which connects Georgia State to Georgia Tech and to high quality undergraduate institutions in the Atlanta area, such as Spelman and Morehouse Colleges, which train talented minority undergraduates. This connection will help to serve the component of Strategic Goal 2 which aims to close the educational gap between different population components in the state by enhancing recruitment of underrepresented minorities into science training within advanced degree programs.

Instituting GSU’s neuroscience degree program will serve Strategic Goal 2 in the context of Strategic Goal 3 (“Increase the System’s participation in research and economic development to the benefit of a global Georgia; Enhance and encourage the creation of new knowledge and basic research across all disciplines”) in several ways. One component of that goal is to foster collaboration across its research universities. The Neuroscience Institute, with the help of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, will use its degree program to foster such collaboration via partnership with Georgia Tech in a new joint research imaging center and between the computational neuroscience faculty in Computer Science, Physics, and Math & Statistics associated with GSU’s neuroscience training faculty; with Emory University, through collaboration with its neuroscience graduate programs; and, hopefully, in the future with the University of Georgia via connections with components of its neuroscience graduate program that are not reflected in GSU’s program and vice versa. It will also contribute to the element of Strategic Goal 3 that aims for nurturing a culture of research and academic development, in that GSU’s proposed neuroscience graduate program is configured to connect with, and include as part of its training faculty, members of the Biology and Chemistry departments that are focused on drug design, biological diagnostics and detection, and other bioscience areas, such as robotics and medical devices related to neuroprostheses, directly related to the state’s economic development goals. In addition, neuroscience faculty have already partnered with GSU’s business school as well as the business schools at Georgia Tech and Clark Atlanta University to pilot a joint business-neuroscience course at the undergraduate level. Once established, the Neuroscience Institute will use the neuroscience graduate program’s courses as anchors to develop training experiences and certificate programs for cross training business and science students and professionals.

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2. Justification and need for the program

1. Indicate the societal need for graduates prepared by this program. Describe the process used to reach these conclusions, the basis for estimating this need, and those factors that were considered in documenting the program need.

NEUROSCIENCE IS A GROWTH FIELDThe neurosciences are a set of disciplines that have a common interest in

understanding the structure and function of the nervous systems of animals, including humans. The neurosciences embrace the traditional fields of neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neurology, and the newer fields of neuroethology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuropsychology, behavioral, cognitive, computational, and developmental neuroscience, dynamical systems, and the informativs field of neuromics. Neuroscience is informed by and informs psychology, psychiatry, pharmacology, biophysics, computer science, robotics, education, and speech/language pathology. The neurosciences are a growing field; one measure of the growth is the membership of the Society for Neuroscience, which has increased from 500 to over 37,000 since its beginning in 1969. The Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) (http://www.andp.org/) lists 158 graduate and 42 undergraduate programs in Neuroscience as members as of 2007 (the year of its last survey). Formation of a neuroscience graduate program will move Georgia State University into this growing field of science and allow it, and the state, to enhance training in this important area.

A M.S./Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience will benefit the University, the System, and the state in many ways, including the following:

NEUROSCIENCE IS INTERDISCIPLINARY, A KEY TO TODAY’S SCIENCEThe interdisciplinary nature of Neuroscience research is fundamental and thereby

unites faculty across various disciplines as perhaps no other life science initiative can, as witnessed by the Brains & Behavior Area of Focus incorporation of 9 different departments from 3 different Colleges at Georgia State University. Neuroscience encompasses several fields of biological and behavioral research and is typically subdivided into the following disciplines: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Systems and Integrative Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, and Clinical Neuroscience. Allied areas include biophysics of membranes, biochemistry of neurotransmitters and signal transduction pathways, robotics, brain/computer interfaces, learning/educational research, psychotropic drug design, social behavior, marketing strategy, philosophy of mind, and others.

NEUROSCIENCE IS THE LAST MAJOR FRONTIER IN MEDICINE.The major medical problems facing the population in the foreseeable future are

brain problems. The killer diseases of previous generations, such as polio, heart disease, cancer, and even diabetes, are increasingly preventable or treatable, but diseases or injuries of the brain currently have few solutions. Topics related to these diseases include:

Drug abuse

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Social pathology (e.g. various anti-social personality disorders)Spinal cord regenerationTraumatic brain injuryEpilepsyChildhood developmental disordersChronic pain DeafnessObesity-induced diabetes, hypertension, joint pain, and congestive heart failureMental health/affective disorders (e.g. autism, schizophrenia and other dementias, bipolar disorder, depression, post traumatic stress disorder)Neurological ramifications of disease statesRobotics, sensory and motor prosthesesTerrorism- neurotoxins, neuroimmunologyAge related diseases (e.g., Arthritis, Age-and diabetes related blindness, e.g. macular degeneration, glaucoma, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Diffuse Lewy Body Syndrome)

NEUROSCIENCE PROMOTES RESOURCE DEVELOPMENTGSU has important resources for supporting students in the emerging field of

neuroscience. Individual neuroscience faculty at Georgia State University hold research and education grants from NIH, NSF, and other federal agencies totaling an average annual federal funding for Neuroscience at GSU has been $5,685,160 over the last five years. Strengthening graduate education in this area will enhance GSU’s ability to increase this funding. In addition, several current Centers related to neuroscience training exist at Georgia State University and serve as catylists for additional resource development.

The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) founded in 2000 is an NSF-funded Science and Technology Center, and is a consortium of more than 100 researchers at seven Atlanta institutions examining the neural mechanisms underlying complex social behaviors. Over its 10 years of existence, the CBN has received nearly $40,000,000 in NSF center funding for its research, education and outreach programs across its member institutions in Atlanta. GSU is the lead institution and administrative unit of the CBN. The social behaviors that are essential for species survival, such as fear, affiliation, aggression, and reproductive behaviors, are an important frontier in Neuroscience. The research efforts are complemented by an educational program designed to integrate scientific progress into the curricula of students at all levels. In addition, there is knowledge transfer conducted to promote science literacy. Therefore, the CBN works with its community partners -- Zoo Atlanta, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, and the Georgia Aquarium-- to develop Neuroscience-related educational exhibits and activities, as well as with the industry group Georgia Bio. CBN’s mission of integrating neuroscience research and education, and of stimulating interdisciplinary research would also be enhanced by a neuroscience doctoral program at GSU, and would in turn provide a valuable asset to it. The CBN has developed into having a leading role in linking GSU to the

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undergraduate and graduate programs of several strong colleges and universities in Atlanta, including institutions with a high proportion of underrepresented minorities. These links include obtaining resources for graduate training in neurosciences via federally funded training grants and foundation grants in targeted areas. Presently, such grants are strongly helped by being multi-institutional and by offering training that cuts across traditional academic departments. A neuroscience doctoral program at GSU would help in obtaining such external funding, both by allowing students access to training across GSU departments and by facilitating the integration of a GSU graduate training program with those at other Atlanta institutions. At the same time, the CBN will provide links between neuroscience students trained at GSU and complementary programs, facilities, and mentoring opportunities at institutions such as Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Morehouse School of Medicine. Furthermore, a neuroscience doctoral program at GSU would aid the CBN’s efforts to increase minority recruitment into neuroscience graduate programs and more generally to elevate the national profile of GSU as a major center for neuroscience research and education.

The Center for Neuromics, founded in 2006 as the first center of its kind, emerged from the former Center for Neural Communication and Computation. This Center fosters research that takes advantage of recent advances in molecular, physiological, and computational techniques to support research in the study of neurons and their interactions. An ultimate goal is to build increasingly precise cellular wiring diagrams of the brain. The Center is dedicated to supporting efforts in this field through sponsorship of seminars and conferences and providing funding for students. Through seed funding from the Georgia State University Brains & Behavior Initative, the Center started a collaborative project between biologists and computer scientists to build NeuronBank, a knowledge base of neuronal circuitry, which has now received NIH funding.

The Center for Research on Atypical Development and Learning (CRADL) is an interdisciplinary center founded in 1998 that stimulates basic and applied research and facilitates educational and outreach efforts. CRADL consists of 23 faculty members who represent a broad span of academic orientations including developmental, clinical and educational psychology, neuropsychology, special education, and speech-language pathology. CRADL and its faculty coordinate and support scholarly efforts that focus on gaining a fuller understanding of atypical development and learning processes from birth through adolescence.

The Language Research Center (LRC), founded in 1971, is a world renowned primate research facility. At the LRC, scientists from GSU and around the world conduct cognitive, biobehavioral, social and cultural research with bonobos (Pan paniscus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and human adults and children. Located on a wooded 55-acre facility south of Atlanta, the LRC is supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and other agencies. The varied research

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programs in learning, memory, attention, executive functioning, problem solving, spatial cognition, numerical reasoning, categorization, tool making and use, and communication find convergence under the LRC banner.

The Clinical Neuropsychology Laboratories, founded in 1983, share the goal of

investigating cognitive and emotional functions in humans using several methodologies, including functional neuroimaging, psychophysiology, experimental cognitive tasks, and traditional clinical neuropsychological assessment measures. The faculty has interests in learning more about the biological, psychological, and social-environmental processes underlying developmental disorders and acquired neurological conditions across the lifespan. Their goals are to advance the understanding of brain-behavior relationships, and to further the development of empirically validated classification criteria, reliable and valid assessment measures and effective intervention strategies for these clinical populations.

The Georgia State – Georgia Tech Research Imaging Center has now been established through the joint efforts of the two institutions. When operational in March 2009 it will provide state of the art brain imaging facilities to support research in basic and clinical human neuroscience. It will provide an invaluable training site for neuroscience and psychology students as well as being the impetus for new grants in this are of neuroscience.

NEUROSCIENCE IS BIG BUSINESS

Neuroscience has attracted the lion’s share of federal funding in recent decades, particularly in the “Decade of the Brain” established by Congress from 1990 to 2000. Approximately $5 billion are currently awarded by NIH to Neuroscience-related projects in the USA. Another $800 million comes from NSF, with smaller amounts from Howard Hughes, the McKnight Foundation, March of Dimes, Whitehall Foundation, Klingenstein, drug companies, and neurological disease-specific funding agencies. Additional awards come from other government sectors such as the Departments of Defense and Education. The average annual level of Neuroscience funding at GSU over the last five years has been $5,685,160. The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience seed funds for research and student training have leveraged over $8 million since inception. A neuroscience degree would act as a recruitment tool so that more highly trained scientists can be hired, and as a marketing strategy to get attention by funding agencies.

In addition to these academic incentives, increased graduate training in neuroscience is important to the the economic development of Georgia. Workforce development is a key to economic growth in the 21st Century. This program will help sustain the growth of an industry segment that promises to be an economic driver in Georgia as well as support the health needs of the state, as both require training a scientifically sophisticated workforce in many areas of bioscience, of which

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neuroscience is a major component. Neuroscience has in fact been identified by the Georgia Research Alliance as an area of strength in Georgia that could be exploited for this purpose. Formation of a neuroscience graduate program at GSU will contribute to this workforce training directly at the advanced level. In addition, a strong graduate program will enhance undergraduate training, both because graduate students often assist in teaching undergraduate courses and because undergraduates will gain hands-on science training in the neuroscience research labs that support graduate training. Furthermore, neuroscience faculty at GSU are heavily involved in STEM education at the K-12 level, thereby enhancing the pipeline of qualified students aimed at biotechnology areas of the economy.

It should also be noted that the capacity for enhancing federal funding coming into GSU is in itself of benefit to the State’s economic development needs due to direct job creation. An analysis by Georgia Bio indicates that over 7500 bioscience jobs currently exist in universities, the CDC, and other public sector entities. Within universities, many if not most of these jobs are directly tied to federal grants. Spending from those grants both for these additional research personnel and for supplies and services, often from local companies, generates a considerable multiplier for the economic impact. It is estimated that the average NIH research grant held at a university generates seven jobs (taken from testimony before the subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives by Raynard S. Kington, Acting Director, NIH, released 11/13/08).

2. Indicate the student demand for the program in the region served by the institution. What evidence exists of this demand?

CURRENT NEUROSCIENCE STUDENTS AT GSU SUPPORT THE FORMATION OF A M.S./Ph.D.PROGRAM IN NEUROSCIENCE.

We have conducted a survey of students currently connected with the Brains & Behavior and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Programs. Most are currently working on a degree in Biology or Psychology; a few are from the other departments involved in the Brains & Behavior Area of Focus. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Out of 51 respondents, 31 agree or strongly agree that they would have applied to such a program, and only 10 said they would not, with the rest neutral. Only 8 out of 51 disagreed with the statement “I would prefer to earn my degree in Neuroscience.” Please see Appendix I for details.

DEMAND FOR TRAINING IN A NEUROSCIENCE PHD PROGRAM IS GROWING NATIONWIDE

Data generated from surveys conducted by the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) reveal a growing trend among prospective graduate students to apply to these Neuroscience programs. Since 1969 the Society for Neuroscience has grown from 500 to 37,000 members. By 2005 (the last year in which their formal survey

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of programs was done) the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) grew to 130 degree programs; as of 2007, the number of ANDP listed graduate programs members has reached 154. The ANDP survey reveals an increasing trend for students to earn advanced degrees specifically in “Neuroscience” rather than in traditional biological or behavioral sciences. By 2005, neuroscience graduate programs had evolved from being virtually nonexistent, to parts of traditional departments, to the majority being stand along departments (18%) or interdepartmental programs overseen by an Institute or Center (64%). Nationally, as of 2005 the number of applications per neuroscience degree program has increased 45% from 1991 and 154% from 1986.

Additionally, the average number of students applying to and enrolling per program has increased steadily as students interested in Neuroscience report wanting to have a M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience to reflect their specialized knowledge and training. The annual number of applications for graduate training in the neurosciences has almost tripled during the past 19 years and is now ~65 per program, while the number of matriculates has doubled and is now ~8 students per program. Nonetheless, the academic quality of incoming graduate students has remained high, as suggested by their undergraduate GPA (average = 3.49), their scores on the GRE (average = ~69th percentile), and their research experience.  Nationwide 23% of the incoming students to neuroscience graduate programs have an undergraduate major in Neuroscience or Behavioral Neuroscience. Other common majors were Biology (23%), Psychology (15%), and Chemistry (6%), and an additional 8% had dual majors including one or more of these disciplines. An M.S./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at GSU will facilitate our national and international reputation, paying dividends in greater numbers and quality of students as well as better postdoctoral and faculty positions for our Ph.D. graduates. This, in turn, will heighten awareness of Neuroscience at GSU, specifically, and GSU research more generally in the national/international arena.

A M.S./Ph.D. PROGRAM IN NEUROSCIENCE AT GSU WILL FACILITATE ADMINISTRATION OF OUR NEUROSCIENCE DEGREE PROGRAMS

A unified M.S./Ph.D. program under the administration of the Neuroscience Institute would produce a seamless program of study for Neuroscience graduate students across departments and aid in advising, mentoring, and planning of their training. Current neuroscience graduate programs exist in Biology and Psychology, and students undergoing neuroscience related training exist in several other departments as well. This program will consolidate training under a single administrative structure (The Neuroscience Institute), making advisement and curriculum development more efficient and consistent across students. Establishment of this degree program will also align Georgia State with national trends in neuroscience graduate training. Faculty who would jointly train M.S./Ph.D. students in the proposed Program come from several departments as well as from the Neuroscience Institute. The ANDP 2007 Report finds that more than half of all Neuroscience programs are institution-wide, reflecting the broad-based, interdisciplinary nature of the field. Only 18% are located strictly within Departments of Neuroscience or Neurobiology. In contrast, 64% of the programs link neuroscientists in multiple departments (or in a “Center”, “Division”, or “Institute” of Neuroscience) in a

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unified, degree-granting program. These numbers are similar to those obtained in the 2000/2001 and 2003 ANDP surveys. On average, there are 51 faculty members per program. In 75% of the programs, the degree awarded to graduate students trained in the neurosciences is a Ph.D. in Neuroscience or in Neurobiology (or in a discipline that had those words in their name). This situation represents a striking reversal from that which occurred 19 years ago, when the majority of such degrees were awarded in other disciplines. The median number of graduate students in a program is 25. The latest ANDP survey indicates that the Ph.D. degrees awarded per year average 3.9 per program and this number has been steadily increasing. The attrition rate is only 4%; 69% accepted postdoctoral positions, 26% were in other neuroscience-related positions, 1% were employed outside the field, and 0% were unemployed.

3. Give any additional reasons that make the program desirable (for example, exceptional qualifications of the faculty, special facilities, etc.)

NEUROSCIENCE IS IMPROVING EDUCATION AND MINORITY PARTICIPATION

The Society for Neuroscience has made outreach to K-12 students a fundamental part of its mission, and Atlanta’s Neuroscience community has taken this charge to heart, primarily under the auspices of the NSF-funded Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) headquartered at GSU. Neuroscience faculty are actively involved in efforts to improve science education at the K-12 level via initiatives coordinated by the CBN. GSU neuroscience educators have established partnerships with the Decatur School System and the DeKalb County School system for a series of programs involving teachers and students, including teacher training workshops, school visits, and a lending library of science education materials made available to classroom teachers. Integrated into these teacher and classroom-oriented activities are summer programs for students, including the ION (Institute on Neuroscience) program for high school students in which the students gain formal mentoring and an opportunity to work in neuroscience labs at GSU and other Atlanta universities and colleges, and Summer Brain Camps, summer science camps for middle school students which both provide science experiences for the students during which GSU science faculty and public school teachers who have completed one of the teacher training workshops work together. GSU neuroscience educators also hold a two-day Neuroscience Expo at the Atlanta Zoo, the first day of which students from a Decatur middle school are exposed to neuroscience-related activities, while on the second day the Expo is open to all children and their parents who visit the Zoo. School-oriented programs are focused on schools with high proportions of underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged students. Summer programs and other student-oriented activities have >80% minority student participation. The Georgia Biomedical Partnership recognized the CBN for its outstanding work in education and community outreach with its 2006 Biomedical Community Award.

Neuroscience faculty members lead the CBN’s undergraduate education initiatives as well. The nationally recognized BRAIN program for undergraduates is held

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each year, bringing in 22 undergraduates from Atlanta institutions and across the nation for neuroscience research fellowships to gain hands-on research experience at GSU and other Atlanta universities and colleges while attending lectures and seminars on neuroscience topics and professional skills. Historically, >75% of the participants have been women and >60% have been underrepresented minorities. A similar academic year program, CBNuf, is currently being tested, and is targeted specifically at minority undergraduates at Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University. Neuroscience faculty have established strong relationships with these Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Atlanta. Career Days and Research Days at Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University are attended by neuroscience faculty and CBN staff to provide information about graduate school opportunities, and several students from these institutions have worked in GSU neuroscience labs and/or enrolled in its graduate programs. In recognition of his work with these institutions, CBN Director and GSU neuroscience faculty member Dr. Elliott Albers was named Mentor of the Year by The Center for Biomedical and Behavioral Research at Spelman College in 2006. Improvements in education extend to the professional level as well. There is enhancement of graduate and research programs through the CBN Graduate Scholars Program (providing doctoral students with an interest in behavioral Neuroscience the opportunity to gain a broader breadth of experience by working in a collaborative research environment) and a CBN Post-Doctoral Fellows program.

A M.S./Ph.D. PROGRAM IN NEUROSCIENCE AT GSU WILL BE ENHANCED BY NEW FACILITIES IN OUR NEW SCIENCE PARK.

GSU is currently building a new Science Park, which will house the neurosciences and other life sciences. This will bring together faculty from across the campus into contiguous space for teaching, research, and administration. Uniting the students doing Neuroscience research under one degree program and one building will promote collaborative work and should enhance acquisition of new grants. The new science buildings would help to unify Neuroscience researchers under one roof and provide space for new faculty recruitment in the Neurosciences.

NEUROSCIENCE IS PROFITABLE FOR GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Across the last five years, the average annual federal funding for Neuroscience at GSU has been $5,685,160, a sizable percentage of all NIH/NSF funding at our institution. With the help of more and even higher quality graduate students, as well as the inevitable increase in faculty that occurs with growing highly successful programs, we can do better, largely because Neuroscience research is a unifying theme across many of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers. The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research was launched in 2004 with 15 participating Institutes and Centers to provide a framework for coordinating research, and developing tools and resources which are broadly useful for advancing Neuroscience research (http://Neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/ ). To this end, the NIH is generating a series of focused initiatives designed to catalyze Neuroscience research. In fiscal years 2005 and 2006, the Blueprint supported the creation and distribution of resources that are of broad

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utility to the entire Neuroscience community. In fiscal years 2007-2009, the NIH Blueprint plans to address three specific, cross-cutting themes: neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, and neuronal plasticity. Note that the Neuroscience-related faculty members at GSU are particularly strong in these areas, and future hires will hopefully expand this expertise.

4. List all public and private institutions in the state offering similar programs. Also, for doctoral programs, list at least five institutions in other southeastern states that are offering similar programs. If no such programs exist, so indicate.

Programs in Georgia:Private: Emory UniversityPublic: University of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia

Southeast Region: Duke University, Vanderbilt University, University of Alabama- Birmingham, Wake Forest University, Florida State University, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University

Potential overlap with other programs in Georgia: Both the Medical College of Georgia and the Emory University neuroscience graduate programs are centered in medical school and therefore offer a very different training atmosphere than would the program at Georgia State University. Several aspects of GSU’s and the University of Georgia’s (UGA) neuroscience graduate programs differ in such a way that they make distinct, but complementary, programs available to the state. UGA’s program is centered in UGA’s Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, while GSU’s program is centered within the College of Arts and Sciences. In part because of this, UGA’s program is connected much more strongly with the health sciences departments there (e.g., Kinesiology, Pathology, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Exercise Science, and Foods and Nutrition) as well as having a unique association among Georgia neuroscience programs with a Veterinary School (e.g., the departments of Small Animals Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology, and Animal and Dairy Sciences). GSU’s program does not overlap at all with that latter component of UGA’s program, and very little with the former. In contrast, because of its administrative position within the College of Arts and Sciences, GSU’s program draws primarily from the Biology and Psychology departments for its training emphases, and is tightly connected to the physical and computer science departments (Chemistry, Math & Statistics, Physics & Astronomy, Computer Science) creating a biophysics and computational component to the program that does not significantly overlap with UGA’s program. In addition, GSU’s program includes training faculty from the Philosophy Department, extending it into a component of Philosophy of Mind studies, a component that further makes it distinct from UGA’s. In sum, the UGA program’s participating departments emphasize biomedical and health sciences and take advantage of the unique contribution of the Veterinary School, while GSUs program

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centers on basic biology and psychology and extends them in one direction to the physical and computer sciences and in the other to Philosophy. It is the case that some departmental representation and programmatic elements overlap in the two programs, but these are mainly the basic molecular, cell, and systems physiology components of neuroscience that are fundamental to all neuroscience training regardless of the research emphases. In addition, there is some overlap in one component of the psychology contributions to the programs in research represented by human neuroimaging. As for the fundamentals, it is difficult to have a viable, nationally recognized neuroscience graduate program without some representation in this area, given the need to connect any aspect of basic neurobiology to human cognition and behavior.

Areas of advanced training emphases also differ between the two departments. Two major GSU concentrations do not overlap with those at UGA. First, because of the GSU program’s strong connections with the physical and computer science departments and the presence of computational neuroscientists connected to the Biology Department, GSU’s program contains a computational neuroscience component related to modeling, biophysics, motor control, and robotics that does not overlap with UGA. This component of GSU’s program provides an opportunity for links with Georgia Tech, which has strong computer engineering and computational modeling, but lacks the basic biologically-oriented laboratory neuroscience found at GSU. Second, GSU’s behavioral neuroscience concentration has a strong emphasis on the basic neurobiology of social behavior, with a supporting focus on neuro- and behavioral endocrinology. This area of neuroscience is not represented at UGA. Conversely, UGA’s program has a very strong concentration in physiology and pharmacology, which does not overlap significantly with the areas of GSU’s program. UGA also has a concentration in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, which plays a relatively small, supporting role in GSU’s program rather than representing an area of concentration. UGA’s Behavioral and Systems concentration focuses more on sensory processing, language, and systems related to behavioral pharmacology, rather than the emphasis on neuroendocrinology and social neuroscience at GSU (although both include components related to neural plasticity and learning, which are necessary for any nationally ranked neuroscience program). Both programs maintain a Cellular and Molecular component to provide training in the neuroscience fundamentals necessary for all neuroscience programs, although the course work for UGA suggests a heavier biochemistry component, as opposed to the biophysics and developmental neurobiology coverage emphasized in GSU’s program. (See http://www.biomed.uga.edu/divisions/neuroscience/ for a list of UGA’s content course offerings in its concentrations.

Given these differences, we do not expect significant competition in graduate recruitment between the two programs. Furthermore, GSU has traditionally drawn its students from within the state from different populations that UGA, due to GSU’s setting in urban Atlanta. We expect this to further decrease the applicant pools from which the two programs draw.

3. Procedures used to develop the program.

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Describe the process by which the institution developed the proposed program.

The proposed program was developed through a well-considered and highly collaborative process that has been ongoing for several years. A faculty committee composed of members of the Biology and Psychology Departments, with imput from several other academic units oversaw the process which included numerous meetings with faculty, students, and administrators. With the formation of the Neuroscience Institute in July 2008, the committee continued with similar involvement. Graduate students were polled (see Appendix 1). Surveys performed regularly by the Association of Neuroscience Degree Programs (ANDP) were accessed and used to determine national trends (see information quoted in othe sections as applicable). Peer and aspirational programs were investigated to ascertain national standards and trends for neuroscience graduate programs in order to develop the proposed curriculum. National leaders in the field were consulted.

As the number, strength, and reputation of our students and faculty increased, the motivation for creating the degree has overcome the energetic and administrative barriers standing in the way. Communication and collaborations between neuroscience researchers and educators in Atlanta are already extensive, and numerous retreats, workshops, seminars, and meetings are held annually, facilitating development of a program proposal with a high level of buy-in from all stake holders. Furthermore, with the creation of an interdisciplinary Neuroscience Institute, it has become clear how such a degree program would be administered.

4. Curriculum

List the entire course of study required and recommended to complete the degree program. Give a sample program of study that might be followed by a representative student. Indicate ways in which the proposed program is consistent with national standards.

Students in the Neuroscience M.S./Ph.D. Program must fulfill all requirements of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and their department of enrollment as well as Neuroscience program requirements. A Master of Science degree will be earned in the course of the Neuroscience Ph.D. program. In addition to course work and research available at the university, students are encouraged to take advantage of research and professional experiences, conferences, workshops and seminars related to the Neurosciences both nation- and world-wide.

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Coursework Requirements A minimum of 90 hours of graduate credit is required for the Ph.D. degree in

Neuroscience. To satisfy the requirements for the degree, the student must complete successfully:

1. A minimum of 30 hours of graduate classroom coursework, which must include:- Neuroscience core courses (11 hours)- Neuroscience electives (3-4 hours)- Statistics core course (3 hours)- Introduction to Graduate Studies core courses (4 hours)- Topics, Concepts and Seminar courses (8 hours)

2. Students are required to take a minimum of 60 semester hours of research credit. This requirement can be satisfied by enrolling in Biol 8800/9999 or Psyc 8999/9999 or similar courses in other departments. At least 30 hours of Dissertation Research are required. Students may enroll in Dissertation Research only after they have chosen a research advisor and prepared a dissertation proposal that has been approved by their Dissertation Committee.

3. Doctoral students are expected to earn an M.S. degree en-route to the completion of the Neuroscience Ph.D. degree. To do so, students are required to register for a relevant course in their department such as Biol 8888 (Non-thesis Master’s Paper Preparation) or Psyc 8999 (Psychology Masters’ Thesis Research) during the preparation of their dissertation proposal. The dissertation proposal will count as the Masters’ thesis. With acceptance of the proposal, students who have completed their Ph.D. coursework will have earned the 40 credit hours necessary for the completion of the M.S. degree.

M.S. degree requirements:- Neuroscience core courses (11 hours)- Neuroscience electives (3-4 hours)- Statistics core course (3 hours)- Introduction to Graduate Studies core courses (4 hours)- Topics, Concepts and Seminar courses (7-8 hours)- Biol 8800 or equivalent (4 hours)- Biol 6900 or equivalent (2 hours)- Biol 8888 or Psyc 8999 (4 hours) or equivalent

CoursesIt is anticipated that neuro-related courses will be designated by the prefix NEUR and will be cross-listed with Biology, Psychology, and other departments as appropriate.

A. Core Courses (11 hours)Biol 8010/ Psyc 8616 Cellular Neurobiology (4) ANDBiol 8020/ Psyc 8617 Integrative Neurobiology (4) ANDBiol 8070 /Psyc 8618 Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience (3)

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B. Electives (3-4 hours)Biol 6074 Developmental Biology (4)Biol 6094 Developmental Neurobiology (4)Biol 6114 Neural Mechanisms of Regulatory Behavior (4)Biol 6180 Neurobiology Laboratory (4)Biol 6240 Endocrinology (4)Biol 6241 Hormones and Behavior (4)Biol 6242 Circadian Rhythms (4)Biol 6246 Advanced Animal Physiology (4)Biol 6248 Cell Physiology (4)Biol 6500 Human Genetics (4)Biol 6696 Laboratory in Molecular Biological Techniques (4)Biol 8220 Advanced Molecular Cell Biology (4)Biol 8610 Physiology and Genetics of Prokaryotes (4)Biol 8620 Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics (4)Biol 8910 Topics in Biology (4)Chem 6610 Advanced Biochemistry (3)Phil 6130 Philosophy of Science (3)Phil 6330 Philosophy of Mind (3)Psyc 6116 Primate Behavior (3)Psyc 6130 Sensation and Perception (3)Psyc 6140 Introduction to Psychophysiology (4)Psyc 7560 Psychology of Animal Behavior (3)Psyc 8010 Research Methods in Psychology (3)Psyc 8420 Psychological Research Statistics II (3)Psyc 8430 Psychological Research Statistics III (3)Psyc 8615 Functional Human Neuroanatomy (3)Psyc 8620 Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology (3)Psyc 8630 Developmental Neuropsychology (3)Psyc 8640 Psychopharmacology (3)Psyc 9140 Neuropsychological Assessment (3)Math 8515 Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience (3)

C. Statistics Core (3 hours)Psyc 8410 Psychological Research Statistics I (3) ORBiol 6744 Biostatistics (3)

D. Introduction to Graduate Studies (4 hours)Biol 8550 Introduction to Graduate Studies (1)Bio/Psyc 6801 Survival Skills in Academia (3)

E. Topics/Concept and Seminar Courses (7-8 hours)Biol 8110 Concepts in Neurobiology (2)Biol 8700 Seminar (1)Biol 8950 Topics in Behavior and Neurobiology (1)Biol 8960 Topics in Cell Physiology and Biochemistry (1)

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Biol 8970 Topics in Molecular Biological Sciences (1)Phil 8130 Seminar in Philosophy of Science (3)Phil 8330 Seminar in Philosophy of Mind (3)Psyc 6800 Seminar (1-3)Psyc 8910 Topics in Neuropsychology (3)Psyc 8956 Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience (1)Psyc 9900 Seminar in Psychology (1-3)

Sample Program of StudyYear 1 (Fall)Biol 8010/ Psyc 8616 Cellular Neurobiology (4)Bio 8550 Introduction to Graduate Studies (1)

Year 1 (Spring)Biol 8020/ Psyc 8617 Integrative Neurobiology (4)Bio/Phil/PsycXXXX Topics, Concepts or Seminar Course (1-3)

Year 2 (Fall)Biol 8070 /Psyc 8618 Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience (3)Psyc 8410/ Biol 6744 Statistics Core Course (3)

Year 2 (Spring)Bio/Psyc 6801 Survival Skills in Academia (3)Bio/PsycXXXX Electives course (3-4)Bio/PsycXXXX Topics, Concepts or Seminar Course (1-3)

Year 3 (Fall)Qualifying Exam

Bio/PsycXXXX Topics, Concepts or Seminar Course (1-3)

Year 3 (Spring)Bio 8888/Psyc 8999 Non-thesis Master’s Paper (4)Bio/PsycXXXX Topics, Concepts or Seminar Course (1-3)

Taken over the course of residency at GSU:Bio 8800/Psyc 8999 Research (26)Bio 9999/Psyc 9999 Dissertation Research (30)

1. Clearly differentiate which courses exist and which are newly developed courses.

All courses listed above and in Appendix II already exist and most will be cross-listed with the originating department and the Neuroscience Institute (NEUR prefix).

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2. Append course description for all courses (existing and new courses).

Course descriptions are in Appendix II. There are no new courses proposed because the curriculum is viable at present. New courses will be added as new faculty are hired in the future.

3. When describing required or elective courses, list all course prerequisites.

Course prerequisites are listed under each course in Appendix II

4. Indicate whether courses in a proposed masters program are cross-listed as undergraduate courses and, if so, what safeguards are employed to ensure that courses taken as undergraduates are not repeated or that requirements are significantly different for graduate students and undergraduates enrolled in the same course.

According to the College of Arts and Sciences curriculum approval process, all dual-level, cross-listed courses must have different requirements at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

5. Provide documentation that all courses in the proposed curriculum have met all institutional requirements for approval.

All courses are listed in the University Course Catalog and have, therefore, met all institutional requirements for approval.

6. Append any materials available from national accrediting agencies or professional organization as they relate to curriculum standards for the proposed program.

There is no accrediting agency nor are there existing curriculum standards from the Society for Neuroscience or Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs. Our proposed curriculum is comparable to that offered in competing institutions’ Neuroscience programs.

7. When internships or field experiences are required as part of the program, provide information documenting internship availability as well as how students will be assigned and supervised.

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Not applicable. Internships or field experiences will not be a required part of the program.

8. Indicate ways in which the proposed program is consistent with national standards.

Not applicable. Please see answer to question #6.

9. List student outcomes associated with this program.

Current Learning Outcome Assessment Standards in the Departments of Biology and Psychology will be used to assess students in the Neuroscience M.S./Ph.D. Program. These include (see Appendix IIIa (Biology) and IIIb (Psychology) for details):

BIOLOGY:I. Scientific Inquiry

II. Communication

III. History, Nature, and Impact of the Discipline

IV. Content in the Discipline

PSYCHOLOGY:I. Expertise in Theory and Content II. Expertise in Research Methods III. Application of Psychological Principles in Professional ActivitiesIV. Communication and Collaboration SkillsV. Critical Thinking SkillsVI. Personal DevelopmentVII. Information and Technology LiteracyVIII. Ethics and ValuesIX. Sociocultural Awareness X. Career Planning and Development.

5. Inventory of faculty directly involved.

Core faculty will have a disciplinary focus in the neurosciences and a primary appointment in the Neuroscience Institute. They may have a joint appointment in another department. Their promotion and tenure decisions and workload (research, teaching, and service) will be reviewed within the Neuroscience Institute and will follow the College workload policy. Their graduate students will come primarily from the Neuroscience M.S./Ph.D. program, but core faculty in the Neuroscience

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Institute may chair committees in other departments depending on the nature of their individual appointments with those departments.

Associate faculty may have a disciplinary focus outside the neurosciences. They will have a strong interest in the neurosciences and a commitment to the goals and activities of the Neuroscience Institute. They will maintain a primary appointment in another department. They may have a joint appointment in the Neuroscience Institute. All of their budgetary affairs, promotion and tenure decisions, and workload will be determined by their primary department. Associate members will normally be expected to (a) teach courses that are part of the neuroscience degrees and/or certificate (many of the courses taught will be cross-listed courses between the Neuroscience Institute and the associate member’s home department), (b) direct students (e.g., fellows) in the Neuroscience Institute or in their primary department, (c) serve on committees for students in the Neuroscience Institute, and (d) participate significantly in Neuroscience Institute activities.

Affiliate faculty likely will have a disciplinary focus outside the neurosciences. They will have an interest in the neurosciences and in the goals and activities of the Neuroscience Institute. They may teach courses that are electives in the Program. They will have a primary appointment in another department. Affiliate members may serve as co-investigators on a seed grant, but not as a primary investigator or as chair of a dissertation/thesis committee. Affiliates should be willing to serve on committees of students in the Neuroscience Institute and participate in Neuroscience Institute activities.

The following table gives a summary of faculty currently electing to be core or associate members of the graduate faculty in the Neuroscience Institute. Their curriculum vitae are in Appendix IV. In the College of Arts and Sciences at GSU the base teaching load is five 3-credit courses per year. This includes teaching graduate students within each lab in research methods and relevant literature. Adjustments are made if faculty have research and/or administrative responsibilities that are above the norm. Each faculty member in the Neuroscience Program is expected to continue with their current teaching load. Core faculty in Neuroscience are expected to teach Neuroscience courses, conduct federally-funded research, train graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and contribute service to the Program, College, and University.

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Alphabetical list of core and associate faculty in the proposed Program:

Name Rank Role Discipline Ph.D. Postdoctoral

Elliott AlbersRegents’ Professor

CoreBiology, Psychology, Neuroscience

Tulane University

Harvard University,

Worcester Fdn

Marina AravAssociate Professor

AssociateMath & Statistics

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Deborah BaroAssociate Professor

Associate Biology Univ Ill-ChicagoCornell

University

Timothy Bartness

Regents’ Professor

AssociateBiology, Psychology

Univ FloridaWorcester Foundation

Al Baumstark Professor Associate ChemistryHarvard

University

Saeid BelkasimAssociate Professor

Associate Computer Sci Univ Windsor

Igor BelykhAssistant Professor

Associate Computer SciUniv Nizhny

Novgorod

Swiss Federation Institute of Technology

Sarah BrosnanAssistant Professor

Associate PsychologyEmory

University

Emory

University

Laura CarruthAssistant Professor

CoreBiology, Neuroscience

Univ. Colo-Boulder

UCLA

Robert ClewleyAssistant Professor

Associate Math and Stats Univ Bristol

Boston University,

Cornell University

Brad C. CookeAssistant Professor

CoreNeuroscience, Psychology

University of California, Berkeley

Northwestern University

Gennady Cymbalyuk

Assistant Professor

Associate PhysicsMoscow State

UniversityEmory University

Charles DerbyProfessor, Associate Dean

CoreBiology, Neuroscience

Boston University

University of Florida

Mukesh Dhamala

Assistant Professor

Associate PhysicsUniv Kansas-

LawrenceGeorgia Tech,

Florida Atlantic

Richard Dix Professor Associate Biology Baylor Coll Med

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Donald Edwards

Regents Professor

CoreBiology, Neuroscience

Yale UniversityUniv Calif-Berkeley

Kyle FrantzAssociate Professor

CoreBiology, Neuroscience

Univ Florida Salk Institute

Markus Germann

Professor Associate ChemistryUniversity of

CalgaryUniversity of

Calgary

Kathryn GrantAssociate Professor

Associate ChemistryColumbia University

Caltech

Matthew Grober

Associate Professor

Associate Biology UCLACornell

University

Julia HilliardProfessor, Eminent Scholar,

Associate Biology Baylor Coll Med

Kim Huhman Professor CorePsychology, Neuroscience

UGA GSU

Chun Jiang Professor Associate Biology Chinese Acad Sci Yale University

Paul Katz Professor CoreBiology, Neuroscience

Cornell University

Brandeis Univ, U Texas-Houston

Tricia KingAssistant Professor

Associate Psychology Univ Florida Brown University

Jacqueline Laures-Gore

Associate Professor

AssociateEducational Psychology & Special Ed.

Univ Wisconsin-Madison

Univ Wisconsin-Madison

Mary MorrisAssociate Professor

Associate Psychology Univ Florida

Robin MorrisRegents’ Professor

Associate Psychology Univ Florida

Anne MurphyAssociate Professor

CoreBiology, Neuroscience

Univ. CincinnatiUniv Maryland-

Baltimore

Eddy NahmiasAssistant Professor

Associate Philosophy Duke University

Michael OwrenAssociate Professor

Associate Psychology Indiana Univ

Sarah Pallas Professor CoreBiology, Neuroscience

Cornell University

M.I.T.

Yi Pan Professor Associate Computer Sci Univ Pittsburgh

Marise ParentAssociate Professor

Core Psychology Univ Calif-IrvineUniversity of

Virginia

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Unil Perera Professor Associate Physics Univ Pittsburgh

Aras PetrulisAssistant Professor

CorePsychology,

Neuroscience

Cornell University

Boston University

Sushil Prasad Professor Associate Computer SciUniv Central

Florida

Gengsheng QinAssociate Professor

Associate Math and StatsHong Kong Univ

Sci TechUniv. Victoria

Vincent Rehder Professor Associate BiologyFree University

BerlinColorado State

University

Diana RobinsAssistant Professor

Associate Psychology Univ Connecticut Yale University

Andrea Scarantino

Assistant Professor

Associate PhilosophyUniversità

Cattolica- Milan

Andrey Shilnikov

Associate Professor

Core Math and StatsUniv Nizhny

Novgorod

Cambridge Univ.,

UC Berkeley

Alexandra Smirnova

Associate Professor

Associate Math and StatsKansas State

Univ

Lucjan Strekowski

Professor Associate ChemistryPolish Acad

Sciences

Raj Sunderraman

Professor Associate Computer Sci Iowa State Univ

Phang TaiRegents’ Professor

Associate Biology Univ Calif-Davis Yale Univ

Erin McClure Tone

Assistant Professor

Associate PsychologyEmory

University

National Institutes of

Health

William Walthall

Associate Professor

Associate Biology SUNY-AlbanyColumbia University

Gangli WangAssistant Professor

Associate ChemistryUniv N Carolina-

Chapel HillUniv. Utah

David Washburn

Professor Associate Psychology GSU

Irene Weber Professor Associate BiologyOxford

UniversityYale University

Walt Wilczynski

Professor CorePsychology, Neuroscience

Univ MichiganCornell

University

Jenny Yang Professor Associate ChemistryFlorida State

UnivOxford Univ,

Yale Univ

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Yanqing ZhangAssociate Professor

Associate Computer SciUniv South

Florida

Yichuan ZhaoAssistant Professor

Associate Math and StatsFlorida State

Univ

Ying ZhuAssistant Professor

Associate Computer SciGeorge Mason

Univ

The faculty listed above are sufficient in number for directing the students in the Program. In addition to the above list of core and associate members of the Institute, the following faculty have declared their intention to be affiliate members:

Lauren Adamson (Professor, Psychology)Page Anderson (Assistant Professor, Psychology)Vadym Apalkov (Assistant Professor, Physics)Andrew Clancy (Senior Lecturer, Biology)Nikolaus Dietz (Associate Professor, Physics)William Edmundson (Professor, Law and Philosophy)Chris Goode (Lecturer, Psychology)Gary Hastings (Associate Professor, Physics)Xiaolin Hu (Assistant Professor, Computer Sci)Heather Kleider (Assistant Professor, Psychology)Scott Owen (Professor Emeritus, Computer Sci)George Rainbolt (Professor, Philosophy)Sebastian Rand (Assistant Professor, Philosophy)Mary Ann Romski (Professor, Psychology)Rose Sevcik (Professor, Psychology)Michael Weeks (Associate Professor, Computer Sci)

1. If it will be necessary to add faculty in order to begin the program, give the desired qualifications of the persons to be added, with a timetable for adding new faculty and plan for funding new positions.

One or two new faculty will be added within the next two years, funded by the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience or Brains and Behavior Area of Focus, but these additions are not necessary to begin the program.

6. Outstanding programs of this nature in other institutions.

List three outstanding programs of this nature in the country, giving location name, and telephone number of official responsible for each program. Indicate features that make these programs stand out. When available, append descriptive literature of the outstanding program. Indicate what aspects of these outstanding programs, if any, will be included in your program.

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1) Cornell University, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/gradstudiesoverview.shtml

Cornell’s Ph.D. program in Neurobiology and Behavior (NB&B) integrates the study of neurobiology with behavior at all levels of analysis.  Approaches range from the study of ion channels through neural networks all the way to the behavior of animal societies. Faculty come from a broad variety of disciplines including Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Applied Physics, Entomology, Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Medicine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Neurobiology and Behavior. Other outstanding features include graduate training grants, exceptional students, individually-tailored courses of study, and opportunities for students to learn from experts in both seminar and hands-on lab formats.

Joseph Fetcho, PhDDirector of Graduate Studies W103 Mudd Hall607 254-4341jrf49@cornell.edu

2) Michigan State University, Dept of Psychology, Graduate Program in Neuroscience: http://neuroscience.msu.edu/program.html

The Neuroscience Ph.D. program at MSU is an interdisciplinary program with over 45 participating faculty from eight different departments.  This program is known for having some of the top neuroendocrinologists and behavioral neuroscientists in the country.  The program highlights four focus areas:  cellular/molecular, imaging/physiology, behavior/integrative biology, and development/evolution. A broad-based curriculum is complemented by research training in specialized areas of neuroscience. The program is very active and offers weekly research seminars, weekly research forums for graduate students to present their work, and an annual research retreat.  The combination of classroom and laboratory training, plus the vast opportunities for professional interactions at Michigan State University, furnish students with an excellent understanding of the richness and diversity of approaches to the study of the nervous system, and equip them for successful careers in either the public or private sector. Our program regularly competes for the same pool of graduate students, but the fact that MSU offers a PhD in Neuroscience often sways students towards their program. 

Cheryl L. Sisk, Ph.D., Program DirectorNeuroscience Program108 Giltner HallMichigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: (517) 353-8947neurosci@msu.edu

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3) University of Maryland-College Park, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science: http://www.nacs.umd.edu/aboutus/index.html

The NACS Graduate Program offers world-class interdisciplinary training in several broad areas including systems neuroscience, molecular and cellular neuroscience, computational and cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive science. Within and across these areas, they have faculty with internationally renowned research programs in vision, audition, sensorimotor integration, synaptic plasticity, language and communication, learning, memory and decision making, and neuromorphic engineering. These research programs are housed in over 14 different departments, which participate in the NACS Graduate Program in College Park.  Through their partnerships with the National Institutes of Health and Children's National Medical Center, NACS graduate students may also receive research training in laboratories of adjunct faculty at neighboring institutions.

Robert J. Dooling, PhD.Professor and NSCS DirectorDepartment of Psychology2123D Biology-Psychology BuildingEmail: rdooling@umd.edu

7. Inventory of pertinent library resources.

Indicate--in numbers of volumes and periodicals--available library resources (including basic reference, bibliographic, and monographic works as well as major journal and serial sets; include any on-line resources) which are pertinent to the proposed program. How do library resources compare to those at institutions listed in section 6? What additional library support must be added to support the proposed program, and what is the plan for acquiring this support?

The newly-renovated Georgia State University Library contains over 1.4 million volumes, including 7,989 active serials, and almost 22,000 media materials. The library has access to 276 electronic periodical and resource indices (many with full text), almost 14,000 electronic journals with full text, and about 30,000 electronic books. Additionally, the library is a Federal Document Depository and holds more than 820,000 government documents with electronic access to many additional titles. (Source: 2006/2007 Library Annual Report)

The GSU Library has been very supportive of the neurosciences. (See http://www.library.gsu.edu/research/liaison.asp?ldID=115&guideID=0.) We currently have full-text electronic access to over 330 neuroscience-related journals and there are over 200 print journals on site. Important databases available include PubMed, Web of Science, PsychInfo, PsycEXTRA, Biological Abstracts, Animal Behavior Abstracts, CSA Neurosciences Abstracts, ERIC, ScienceDirect. This compares very favorably with competing programs in the Southeast and nationally (see chart in Appendix V).

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8. Describe the desired qualifications of the students who will be recruited and admitted to the proposed program, including ethnic populations that will be targeted.

We will seek domestic and foreign students with documented laboratory experience and excellent academic credentials, of all ethnic, economic, and racial backgrounds. The neuroscience programs in the Biology and Psychology departments are already attracting excellent students, and we expect to attract even more highly qualified students under the auspices of the Neuroscience Institute. Indeed a major impetus for establishing the M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience is to improve recruiting efforts. As discussed under #13, GSU has had tremendous success in recruiting underrepresented minorities into the existing neurobiology and neuropsychology programs.

9. Facilities

Describe the facilities available for the proposed program. How do these facilities and equipment compare to those of excellent programs elsewhere? What new facilities and equipment are required, and what is the plan for acquiring these facilities and equipment?

Faculty to be involved in the Program currently have labs spread across several research buildings, primarily Kell Hall and the Natural Sciences Building. Offices for most faculty are in Kell Hall or the Science Annex. Their laboratories are well-equipped and are supporting ongoing, funded reseach programs. Faculty who plan primary appointments in the Neuroscience Institute will move to new facilities currently under construction. It is expected that access to facilities and equipment will at least continue at current levels and will expand in the future as resources become available. Currently there are facilities and equipment for genomics and proteomics, imaging and confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, molecular biology, neurosurgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, neuroendocrinology, behavioral analysis and MRI.

The faculty within the Neuroscience Institute will elect a Committee on Research and Facilities (three members, two core and one associate) to oversee Neuroscience Institute research and core facilities activities. The chair of this committee will supervise staff associated with the facilities, coordinate activities in these spaces and be responsible for upkeep and maintenance of equipment in shared and core facilities. The committee chair will oversee revenue accounts associated with the use of core facilities. The committee chair will serve as a liaison to core facilities in other units that are frequently used by Neuroscience Institute faculty. The committee chair will ensure that research in the Neuroscience Institute is performed according to Federal and State guidelines and regulations. The committee may

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appoint subcommittees (which may include faculty not on the committee) if its workload makes this necessary.

10. Administration

Describe how the proposed program will be administered within the structure of the institution.

The PhD in Neuroscience will be administered by the Director of Graduate Studies in the Neuroscience Institute. The Director of Graduate Studies, appointed from the core faculty, oversees the graduate program and serves on the Graduate Council of the College of Arts and Sciences. The faculty will elect a Graduate Committee (three members, two core and one associate) that will work with the DGS on graduate issues.

The Neuroscience Institute faculty will elect a Committee for Interdisciplinary Activities to oversee Neuroscience Institute interdisciplinary activities including degree programs and formulate policy proposals to bring to the Executive Committee. It will be composed of three core and four associate faculty. One of the associate members will be selected to be chair by the Director in consultation with the Executive Committee. The Chair will cast a vote only to break ties.

11. Assessment

Indicate the measures that will be taken to assess the effectiveness of the program and the learning outcomes of students enrolled.

Current Learning Outcome Assessment Standards in the Departments of Biology and Psychology will be used to assess students in the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program. These include (see Appendix IIIa (Biology) and IIIb (Psychology) for details):BIOLOGY:

I. Scientific InquiryII. CommunicationIII. History, Nature, and Impact of the DisciplineIV. Content in the Discipline

PSYCHOLOGY:I. Expertise in Theory and Content II. Expertise in Research Methods III. Application of Psychological Principles in Professional ActivitiesIV. Communication and Collaboration Skills

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V. Critical Thinking SkillsVI. Personal DevelopmentVII. Information and Technology LiteracyVIII. Ethics and ValuesIX. Sociocultural Awareness X. Career Planning and Development.

Critical evaluations of students in the program will be conducted in the course of their qualifying exam, thesis proposal defense, and dissertation defense. All students are expected to publish their original data in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The rating of the journal will provide an additional assessment measure, although journals to be selected vary by subdiscipline. We will also use post-GSU employment as an additional way to assess the effectiveness of the program.

12. Accreditation

Where applicable, identify accrediting agencies and show how the program meets the criteria of these agencies. Append standards and criteria to the proposal. Provide evidence that the institution has notified SACS of its intent to apply for a change in degree level, if appropriate.

There is no accreditation procedure for graduate degrees in Neuroscience. SACS will evaluate all graduate programs at GSU. The Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) provided comparative data on different programs that we have used in designing our proposal.

13. Affirmative Action impact

Indicate what impact the implementation of the proposed program will have on the institution's desegregation and affirmative action programs. Include information relating to faculty, staff, administrators, and students in this section.

The neuroscience programs in the Biology and Psychology departments have been extraordinarily successful in under-represented minority recruitment, in part due to the initiatives made possible through the NSF-funded Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. The nationally recognized CBN BRAIN program for undergraduates is held each year, bringing in 22 undergraduates from Atlanta institutions and across the nation for neuroscience research fellowships to gain hands-on research experience at GSU and other Atlanta universities and colleges while attending lectures and seminars on neuroscience topics and professional skills. Historically, >75% of the participants have been women and >60% underrepresented minorities. Through the CBN, GSU has established strong ties with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Atlanta. Career Days and Research Days at Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University are attended by neuroscience faculty and CBN staff to provide information about graduate school opportunities. In recognition of his work with these institutions, CBN Director and GSU neuroscience faculty member Dr. Elliott Albers was

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named Mentor of the Year by The Center for Biomedical and Behavioral Research at Spelman College in 2006. Several students from these institutions at the AUC have worked in GSU neuroscience labs and/or enrolled in neuroscience graduate programs. Efforts are underway by GSU CBN faculty members to establish closer ties with several funded undergraduate research enhancement programs at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges to provide laboratory placement for undergraduates from those programs as a way to enhance our recruitment efforts.

These efforts will be facilitated by combining graduate neuroscience training at GSU into a single coherent Neuroscience M.S./Ph.D. program, thereby enhancing our current strong efforts to enroll under-represented minorities in graduate science training. Currently, as indicated by a survey of neuroscience doctoral students receiving CBN support, our combined neuroscience-oriented graduate programs have approximately doubled the proportion of under-represented minorities compared to the nationwide average across neuroscience-oriented degree programs (reported by the Association of Neuroscience Degree Programs) and they are also above the national average in women enrollees. Establishment of a neuroscience graduate degree at GSU will further enhance our ability to attract talented under-represented minority and women undergraduates into our program rather than to other out of state universities that have already established interdepartmental neuroscience graduate programs, as well as improve mentoring and networking by linking them together in a single program. In this way, establishment of a unified neuroscience M.S./Ph.D.program will have a dual role in enhancing the recruitment of under-represented minorities into GSU as graduate students, while also improving the training of science majors at the undergraduate level.

14. Degree inscription

Indicate the degree inscription which will be placed on the student's diploma upon her/his completion of this program of study. Be sure to include the CIP code for the program.

The degrees given will be M.S. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience, CIP code 30.2401Neuroscience. A program that focuses on the interdisciplinary scientific study of

the molecular, structural, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of the brain and nervous system. It includes instruction in molecular and cellular neuroscience, brain science, anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system, molecular and biochemical bases of information processing, behavioral neuroscience, biology of neuropsychiatric disorders, and applications to the clinical sciences and biomedical engineering.

15. Fiscal and Enrollment Impact, and Estimated Budget .

Complete the following pages to indicate the expected EFT and head count student enrollment, estimated expenditures, and projected revenues for the first three years of the program. Include both the redirection of existing resources and anticipated or requested new resources. Institutional commitment of funds should be consistent with the centrality and level of priority that are assigned to the program in the

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proposal. Second and third-year estimates should be in constant dollars--do not allow for inflationary adjustments or anticipated pay increases. Include a budget narrative that is descriptive of significant line items and the specific redirection of resources envisioned.

Budget narrativeThe Budget is derived almost entirely from a redirection of existing resources. No new resources are required to start the Program. In what follows, we explain the significant line items and how we will redirect resources to fund the proposed Ph.D. program. We provide an explanation for each section.

I. Enrollment projectionsA. Student Majors: Our projections of 5 M.S. and 40 Ph.D. students migrating from existing programs and 5 students entering GSU as M.S. students in the 1st year are based on data from Fall semester enrollments in the Biology and Psychology neuroscience-related concentrations during the last 3 years. In all cases, the number of M.S. degrees will be tightly linked to the number of Ph.D. students as the M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience will require Ph.D. students to earn their M.S. degree during their Program of Study.

Calculations for future years include estimated completion dates for the M.S. of 3 years and the Ph.D. of 5 years, and a gradual shift of incoming students away from those recruited from other programs (primarily Biology, Psychology, Physics) at GSU to those recruited from outside the University. By the end of year 3, we anticipate having 65 Neuroscience graduate students that will be mentored by 14 core Neuroscience Institute faculty and 41 associate faculty. Based on current faculty-to-student ratios in neuroscience laboratories at GSU, we anticipate an average of 3 students per core faculty member with the balance of students being mentored by associate faculty.

B. Credit Hours: Each student will take at least 36 credit hours per year; however, those fully supported by assistantships in the department will register for at least 18 hours fall and spring semester and at least 15 hours summer semester (total = at least 51 credit hours per year). Fifty fully-supported students in the first year will generate 2550 graduate credit hours, 52 students in the second year will generate 2652 graduate hours, and 65 students in the third year will generate 3315 graduate hours. Students may accumulate more than 90 credit hours in their programs (the minimum amount of credit hours required to complete the degree) because it is common for a student to take more research hours than the minimum requirement. Accordingly, a four to six year time-to-degree time frame for full time students is reasonable.

C. Degrees Awarded: It is anticipated that some students will complete the M.S./Ph.D. program before the end of the third year. Most of our students at the inception of the Program will come from existing doctoral programs (primarily Biology and Psychology) and some will have completed most of their Program of Study in their previous department before transferring to the M.S./Ph.D. in Neuroscience.

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FY 10 FY 11 FY 121st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year

I. ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS (indicate basis for projections in narrative) A. Student majors (Note that students will earn an M.S. prior to their Ph.D.degree.) 1. Shifted from other programs

Ph.D. 45 23 10

2. New to institution Ph.D. 5 29 55

Total Majors Ph.D 50 52 65

B. Course sections satisfying program requirements 1. Previously existing 48 48 48

2. New 0 0 0 Total Program Course Sections1 48 48 48

C. Credit Hours generated by those courses 1. Existing enrollments 2430 1242 5402. New enrollments 270 1566 2970Total Credit Hours 2700 2808 3510

D. Degrees awarded M.S.2 16 17 22Ph.D.3 10 12 14

(yr 2) (yr 3) (yr 4)

1 Many courses will be taught by associate or affiliate faculty. Teaching loads will be unaffected.2 Non-terminal degree. Assumes 3 yrs to degree.3 Assumes 5 yrs to degree

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FY10 FY10 FY11 FY11 FY12 FY12II. Costs EFT Dollars EFT Dollars EFT Dollars

A. Personnel--reassigned or existing positions1. Faculty 14 $1,324,615 14 $1,324,615 13 $1,324,615 2. Part-time Fac. 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 3. Grad. Assist. 40 $880,000 40 $880,000 40 $880,000 4. Administrators 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 5. Support staff 1 $50,000 1 $50,000 1 $50,000 6. Fringe benefits 15 $368,122 15 $368,122 14 $368,122 7. Other personnel costs $0 $0 $0

TOTAL EXISTING PERSONNEL COSTS $2,622,737 $2,622,737 $2,622,737

B. Personnel--new positions1. Faculty4 2 $170,000 2 $170,000 2 $170,000 2. Part-time Fac. 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 3. Grad. Asst. 5 0 $0 5 $110,000 10 $220,000 4. Administrators 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 5. Support staff 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 6. Fringe benefits $45,526 $45,526 $45,526 7. Other personnel costs $0 $0 $0

TOTAL NEW PERSONNEL COSTS $215,526 $325,526 $435,526

C. Start-up Costs (one-time expenses)1. Library / learning resources $0 $0 $0 2. Equipment $0 $0 $0 3. Other $0 $0 $0

TOTAL ONE-TIME COSTS $0 $0 $0

E. Operating Costs (recurring costs--base budget)1. Supplies / Expenses $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 2. Travel $0 $0 $0 3. Equipment $0 $0 $0 4. Library / learning resources $0 $0 $0 5. Other $0 $0 $0

TOTAL RECURRING COSTS $5,000 $5,000 $5,000

GRAND TOTAL COSTS $2,843,263 $2,953,263 $3,063,263

4 Although technically new, the university has committed funds to these positions and they are currently under recruitment.5 The Brains & Behavior Area of Focus budget, which will be migrated to the newly-formed Neuroscience Institute, has uncommitted graduate assistant funds in it and these funds will form the base for the additional graduate students.

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III. REVENUE SOURCESA. Source of Funds

1. Reallocation of existing funds $2,549,930 $2,623,263 $2,696,596 2. New student workload $0 $0 $0 3. New tuition $0 $0 $0 4. Federal grants $293,333 $330,000 $366,667 5. Other grants $0 $0 $0 6. Student fees $0 $0 $0 7. Other $0 $0 $0 Subtotal $2,843,263 $2,953,263 $3,063,263

New state allocation requested (Notes 1 & 2) $0 $0 $0

GRAND TOTAL REVENUES $2,843,263 $2,953,263 $3,063,263

B. Nature of funds1. Base budget $2,549,930 $2,623,263 $2,696,596 2. One-time funds $0 $0 $0

GRAND TOTAL REVENUES $2,843,263 $2,953,263 $3,063,263

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APPENDICES

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APPENDIX IStudent Survey

SURVEY RESULTS

1. What department are you currently a student in?

Response Total

Biology 24

Chemistry 1

Computer Information Systems 1

Computer Science 4

Mathematics and Statistics 1

Philosophy 2

Physics and Astronomy 4

Psychology 14

Other (please specify) 0

Total Respondents 51/51

2. Some of my research interests lie within the field of Neuroscience:

Response Total Biol & Psych Students

Strongly Agree 35 32

Agree 13 6

Neutral 2 0

Disagree 1 0

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Total Respondents 51/51 38/38

3. I have completed Neuroscience-related coursework while in graduate school.

Response Total Biol & Psych Students

Strongly Agree 33 32

Agree 8 5

Neutral 3 0

Disagree 7 1

Total Respondents 51/51 38/38

4. A degree in Neuroscience would accurately reflect my graduate training.

Response Total Biol & Psych Students

Strongly Agree 26 24

Agree 10 8

Neutral 7 2

Disagree 8 4

Total Respondents 51/51 38/38

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5. I would have applied for a graduate degree in Neuroscience had it been offered by Georgia State University.

Response Total Biol & Psych Students

Strongly Agree 25 24

Agree 7 5

Neutral 9 4

Disagree 10 5

Total Respondents 51/51 38/38

6. A degree in Neuroscience would prepare me to pursue my career goals.

Response Total Biol & Psych Students

Strongly Agree 23 22

Agree 16 10

Neutral 9 4

Disagree 3 2

Total Respondents 51/51 38/38

7. I would prefer to earn my degree in Neuroscience

Response Total Biol & Psych Students

Strongly Agree 19 18

Agree 11 9

Neutral 13 8

Disagree 8 3

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Total Respondents 51/51 38/38

8. Do you have a faculty member from another department at Georgia State University on your dissertation or advisory committee?

Response Total

Yes 10

No 20

I haven't formed a committee yet. 21

Total Respondents 51/51

9. Do you have a faculty member from another university in Atlanta on your dissertation or advisory committee?

Response Total

Yes 14

No 16

I haven't formed a committee yet. 21

Total Respondents 51/51

10. As a graduate student have you taken a course related to Neuroscience in another department at Georgia State University?

Response Total

Yes 20

No 31

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Total Respondents 51/51

11. As a graduate student have you taken a course related to Neuroscience at another university in Atlanta?

Response Total

Yes 11

No 40

Total Respondents 51/51

12. How would a Neuroscience degree at Georgia State University be beneficial?

Total Respondents 24/51

Answers:

1. I believe Georgia State University Neuroscience program is competitive with any other university in USA. But as a physics graduate student it would be better to have more bridge courses (6000) so that non Neuroscience majors can also follow Neuroscience 8000 courses more easily.

2. Having a defined degree in Neuroscience may attract more students with the same goals. This would allow for better communication within a tight community. As it is currently set-up at Georgia State University with only a degree in Biology allowed, the interests of the students seem far too dispersed making it difficult to form collaborations.

3. A Neuroscience degree will reflect better my knowledge and my specialty. It will be more specific than a degree in Biology, which is too general in my opinion.

4. The degree itself wouldn't be particularly important for me considering that my interests are largely clinical, however I believe that having a department with a strong Neuroscience program allows clinical students broaden their experiences.

5. A Neuroscience degree would reflect both my personal interests as well as my career goals. Given the strong emphasis and growth in the Neurosciences with regard to public interest, scientific interest, and funding, a specialized degree would reflect my focus furthering my ability to work within these sectors.

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6. I think a Neuroscience degree at Georgia State University would allow students following their graduate work to appeal more to institutions that are looking for candidates with specific requirements. I think also students looking for a Neuroscience-specific program would apply to Georgia State University when otherwise they would not have because of the absence of such a program.

7. The bio dept already has a neuro degree

8. As I am from Physics, I find it difficult to answer this question.

9. my training is in Neuroscience, not biology, so I would rather say I'm getting my Ph.D. in Neuroscience than saying a Ph.D. in Biology with emphasis in Neurobiology and Behavior.

10. would allow students who wish to specialize in that field to do that...instead of having to specialize in a round-about way

11. It would generate faculty and coursework that would be relevant to my career goals, and attract more students that have interdisciplinary interests, in between psychology and biology

12. In terms of having the Neuroscience program separate from the rest of biology, it would more reflect my graduate training as compared to a degree that vaguely states "Arts & Science".

13. I guess I don't see a big difference between Neuroscience and behavioral Neuroscience.

14. It would accurately reflect the work that is being done in our labs and the coursework that we are taking. More specificity in our awarded degrees would be beneficial once we are looking for jobs as well.

15. A Neuroscience degree would most likely minimize the amount of coursework I take that is not directly related to Neuroscience, i.e., ethics in psychology and history of psychology. Additionally, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience would be more reflective of the training I received during graduate school for any future employers/collaborators. Finally, this degree program could bring together students with very similar interests into a single, unified program, rather than those individuals who are interested in Neuroscience being a marginal group within departments with diverse interests.

16. It would make it easier for the Neuro and behavior graduate students to seek a job in the Neuroscience field.

17. A Neuroscience degree would be beneficial because their degree would show that they focused on Neuroscience during their graduate career. This would mean that a student has a specific knowledge and understanding of the Neuroscience field.

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18. I think having a Neuroscience degree at GSU could potentially benefit the institution by making more explicit the school's commitment to and offerings in Neuroscience, thereby allowing GSU to attract more Neuroscience-focused graduate students.

19. It would better fit students who now are split between Biology and Psychology and may be a "draw" for potential applicants.

20. Would add classes that are more focused on important fundamentals of Neuroscience. Specifically... Neuron membrane potentials, channels and essential biophysics. How gene expression leads to changes in the nervous system. More focused classes on brain areas and function.

21. It would more accurately portray my graduate work. While I doubt that a Ph.D. in biology would hinder my career as compared to a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, all of my course work and research is 100% Neuroscience related. It seems somewhat foolish to not get a degree in what I am actually doing. On a similar note, I think a Neuroscience degree/department would increase the profile of the great Neuroscience faculty we have at GSU which should benefit the university as a whole.

22. It would reflect our field of research more directed and specifically.

23. Well for people interested particularly in Neuroscience, a focused training and orientation towards the aspects of Neuroscience would have been particularly better. As is quite obvious nowadays, Neuroscience has emerged as an independent discipline, which includes elements from Biology, Physics, Math, Statistics, Computation, Psychology & Chemistry. So in my opinion a solid and rigorous graduate level training in Neuroscience along with the specific tools would have been particularly beneficial for the students who are genuinely interested in Neuroscience regardless of the background s/he is coming from. Neuroscience is truly an interdisciplinary subject, and so people from any discipline who really want to pursue it can come be trained, get benefit and make some important contributions for the subject. So if a degree program in NS was opened in GSU and different groups are able to get trained I hope that will really benefit NS research as a whole and also make GSU prominent in one of the core areas of research in this century.

24. I think a Neuroscience degree at GSU is a great idea. As a psychology student, I find that my course requirements are tailored preferentially to the other psychology concentrations (clinical, developmental, community, etc.). As a result, I have to spend time and effort on courses that are not particularly relevant to my academic pursuits, and take courses through other departments to supplement. I think a Neuroscience degree would solve some of these problems.

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13. Do you have any other comments with regard to having a Neuroscience degree program at GSU?

Total Respondents 17/51

Answers

1. I think this would also attract new faculty looking for a more defined community and curriculum to teach.

2. I am strongly in favor for a degree in Neuroscience at GSU.

3. From my perspective as a CLN student, I like the idea of having the ability to work in different settings (e.g. wet labs) and with students and faculty from the Neuroscience field.

4. I'm split on this topic. On the one hand, I think a higher degree of specialization would be beneficial. On the other hand, I do think a degree in Biology gives students the opportunity and appeal of being educated more broadly about the field (however it's possible that some see this as a disadvantage). I don't think I've missed out at any opportunities at this point because I'm in a Biology program and not a Neuroscience-specific degree program, but I think the positives of having this program could outweigh the negatives.

5. I have enjoyed it

6. None

7. Please establish a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience

8. No

9. I strongly support it.

10. Neuroscience program would attract lot more graduate students into GSU

11. I would hope that developing a Neuroscience degree program would not mean excluding any of the interdisciplinary involvement of students and faculty that is already occurring.

12. I worry about the impact it would have on biology and psychology. Similarly, would Neuroscience grad students still be taking Psychology and Biology courses, or would they have special "Neuroscience" courses? Overall, however, I feel the pros would outweigh the cons (especially in the long term).

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13. I believe a Neuroscience degree program would bring in students (and research) whose role would be to bridge some of the segregation between the sciences.

14. I think having a Neuroscience degree program would heavily benefit Neuroscience at GSU in general. It could bring more attention to the great research being done at GSU by pulling some of the great work out of the biology grouping and into a class of its own. By the same token, I do not think it would hinder the biology department in any way. GSU is a strong school for collaborations, and the Neuroscience and biology departments would be closely bound. I only see benefits in having degree programs specific to the work being done.

15. I would extremely appreciate for such specialization..

16. Well since this questionnaire is being submitted by me, I hope that something really happens and may help us in tackling some challenging problems of Neuroscience.

17. Should a Neuroscience degree-granting program be implemented, I hope that students currently enrolled in other programs will be allowed to transfer into it.

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APPENDIX II

Course descriptions

BIOL 6074 DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 4.0Developmental Biology. Prerequisites: Biol 3840 and 3900, or equivalents. Four lecture hours a week. An introduction to developmental biology emphasizing cellular, genetic, and molecular aspects and mechanisms of animal development.

BIOL 6094 DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY 4.0Developmental Neurobiology. Prerequisite: Biol 3800 or equivalent. Four lecture hours per week. Introduction to the development of the nervous system. Covers the field of developmental neurobiology from neural induction to the modification of neuronal connections in the adult nervous system and uses a variety of model organisms to demonstrate the rules by which nervous systems develop.

BIOL 6180/PHYS 6180 NEUROBIOLOGY LABORATORY 4.0Neurobiology Laboratory. Prerequisites: Biol 4102, or equivalent, and consent of instructor. Two lecture and six laboratory hours a week. Laboratory techniques in neuroscience, including intra- and extracellular electrophysiology, computational methods, neuroanatomy, immunocytochemistry, and neuroethology.

BIOL 6240 ENDOCRINOLOGY 4.0Endocrinology. Prerequisite: Chem 6600 or equivalent. Four lecture hours a week. Basic biochemistry and physiology of the endocrine system, including synthesis and secretion of steroid and protein hormones, mechanisms of hormone action, and endocrinology of reproduction.

BIOL 6241/PSYC 6630 HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR 4.0Hormones and Behavior. Prerequisite: Biol 3840 or equivalent. Four lecture hours per week. Interaction of nervous and endocrine systems in the control of animal behavior, including humans, with emphasis on the mechanisms that adapt behavior to the changing physical and social environments.

BIOL 6242 CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS 4.0Circadian Rhythms. Functional and physiological aspects of biological timekeeping, with special emphasis on circadian timing. Significant student participation is expected with required essential and timely reading assignments.

BIOL 6246 ADVANCED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY 4.0Advanced Human Physiology. Prerequisites: Biol 2240 or Biol 3240, and Biol 3800 with grades of C or higher, or equivalents. The circulatory, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal physiological systems will be emphasized.

BIOL 6248 CELL PHYSIOLOGY 4.0

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Cell Physiology. Prerequisites: Biol 3840, 3880, 3900, and Chem 3410, or equivalents. Chem 4600 is recommended. Three lecture and three laboratory hours a week. Mechanism of cell and organ function at the molecular level.

BIOL 6500 HUMAN GENETICS 4.0Human Genetics. Prerequisite: Biol 3900 or equivalent. Four lecture hours a week. Principles of human heredity, with emphasis on the molecular basis of heredity, detection and treatment of genetic diseases, and genetic counseling.

BIOL 6696 LAB: MOLECULAR BIOL TECHNIQUES 4.0Laboratory in Molecular Biological Techniques. Prerequisite: Biol 3900 or equivalent. Chem 4600 recommended. One lecture and six laboratory hours a week. Chem 4600 recommended. Isolation and characterization of nucleic acids and proteins. Topics include molecular cloning, isolation, characterization and sequence analysis of chromosomal and plasmid DNA, PCR mediated gene amplication and protein purification.

BIOL 6744/MATH6544 BIOSTATISTICS 3.0Biostatistics. Prerequisites: Math 2211 and Biol 2108K, or equivalents. Three lecture hours a week. Principles and methods of statistics as applied to biology and medicine.

BIOL 6801/PSYC 6801 SURVIVAL SKILLS IN ACADEMIA 3.0Survival Skills in Academia. Guidance and direction for graduate students on how to accomplish many of the day-to-day tasks encountered by researchers and instructors throughout their careers in academia. Topics covered include how to write and publish scientific papers, grantspersonship, scientific ethics, posters and oral presentations, mentoring, and job interviewing.

BIOL 6900 DIR LAB STUDY 2.0Directed Laboratory Study. Co-requisite: Biol 8800, 8999, 9999, or equivalent. One lecture hour and one discussion hour per week. Student learning of scientific communication skills, experimental strategies and procedures through laboratory group meetings and individual discussion with faculty laboratory director.

BIOL 8010/PSYC 8616 NEUROBIOLOGY I: CELLULAR 4.0Neurobiology I: Cellular Neurobiology. Prerequisite: Biol 4102 or Biol 6102 with grade of B or higher, or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Four lecture hours a week. The unique cellular and molecular properties of neurons and how these properties enable neurons to perform their computational tasks. Topics include neuronal excitability, synaptic communication, and neural development.

BIOL 8020/PSYC 8617 NEUROBIOLOGY II: INTEGRATIVE 4.0Neurobiology II: Integrative Neurobiology. Prerequisite: Biol 8010 with grade of B or higher, or equivalent, or consent of the instructor. Four lecture hours a week. How neurons are organized into neural systems that control behavior. Topics include functional anatomy of sensory systems, sensorimotor integration, central pattern

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generators, motor and control systems, neuromodulation, neuroethology, and the neural basis of learning and cognition.

BIOL 8040/PSYC 8615 FUNCTIONAL HUMAN NEUROANATOMY 3.0Functional Human Neuroanatomy. Prerequisite: Biol 3840 or Psyc 8610, or consent of the instructor. In-depth study of the neuroanatomy and function of the human central nervous system. Considers neuroanatomical techniques used to study the brain, neuroanatomical basis for the control of sensory and motor systems, as well as cortical, autonomic nervous system, and limbic system anatomy and function. Both normal brain anatomy and pathologies are covered.

BIOL 8065/PSYC 8640 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 3.0Psychopharmacology. Prerequisite: Psyc 8610, or consent of the instructor. Biological bases of psychopharmacology, including the locus of action for psychoactive substances and the mechanisms by which these substances modify neural activity and cause a change in mood and behavior. Covers neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and pharmacology of classes of psychoactive drugs used to treat mental disorders, as well as those commonly abused that may or may not have therapeutic uses.

BIOL 8070/PSYC 8618 ADV. BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 3.0Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience. Prerequisites: Psyc 8616 and Psyc 8617, or Biol 8010 and Biol 8020, or consent of instructor. Advanced analysis of functional neural systems involved in the regulation of behavior, emphasizing interactions between limbic, hypothalamic, and cortical brain systems. Topics include: genetic determinants of behavior, behavioral plasticity: learning and memory, reproductive behavior, sleep and biological rhythms, drinking and eating, emotion, aggression, stress, language and cognition, behavioral disorders (thought, mood, stress, and anxiety), and drug abuse.

BIOL 8110 CONCEPTS IN NEUROBIOLOGY 2.0Concepts in Neurobiology. Prerequisite: consent of the instructor. Two lecture hours a week. Lectures and discussions dealing with contemporary topics in neurobiology.

BIOL 8220 ADV MOLECULAR CELL BIOL 4.0Advanced Molecular Cell Biology. Prerequisites: Biol 3800, 3900, and Chem 4600, or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Four lecture hours a week. Current concepts in cell biology. The structure and function of the various cellular components and processes will be examined on a molecular, cellular and multicellular level.

BIOL 8550 INTRO TO GRADUATE BIOL STUDIES 1.0Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology. One lecture hour a week. Analysis, discussion, and review of basic skills, techniques, requirements for compliance in biology, organizational requirements, and ethics in biology.

BIOL 8620 EUKARYOTIC MOLECULAR GENETICS 4.0Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics. Prerequisites: Biol 8610 or consent of the instructor; Chem 4600 or equivalent. Four lecture hours a week. Principles of cell biology as

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relevant to eukaryotic molecular genetics, and chromosome structure and gene regulation. Advanced topics include gene manipulation in higher plants and animals, gene therapy, and genome sequencing. BIOL 8700 BIOLOGY SEMINAR 1.0Biology Seminar. (No more than one hour a term.) Current research topics in biology.

BIOL 8800 RESEARCH 1.0 to 25.0Research. Repeatable course.

BIOL 8888 NON-THESIS MASTER'S RESEARCH 4.0Non-Thesis Master's Research Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Investigation, review, and critical evaluation of topics in biological science.

BIOL 8910 TOPICS IN BIOLOGY 3.0Topics in Biology. May be repeated if topics vary.

BIOL 8950 TOPS IN BEHAVIOR & NEUROBIOLOGY 1.0Topics in Behavior and Neurobiology. May be repeated if topics vary.

BIOL 8960 TOPICS: CELL PHYSIOLOGY&BIOCHEM 1.0Topics in Cell Physiology and Biochemistry. May be repeated if topics vary.

BIOL 8970 TOPICS IN MOLECULAR BIOL SCIENCE 1.0Topics in Molecular Biological Sciences. (Same as Chem 8970.) May be repeated if topics vary.

CHEM 6610 BIOCHEMISTRY II 3.0Biochemistry II. Prerequisite: Chem 3410 with grade or B or higher. Three lecture hours a week. Introduction to biochemical phenomena: proteins, enzymes, vitamins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, DNA, RNA, and metabolism.

MATH 8515 - DYNAMICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEUROSCIENCE 3.0Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience. Prerequisite: Math 4010/6010, Math 4275/6275, or Phys 4180/6180 with grade of C or higher. This course deals with computational and mathematical neuroscience with the emphasis on models of neurons and neural networks described in terms of dynamical systems, time continuous and discrete. Topics include biophysics and dynamics of single and coupled neurons, bifurcations and transitions between various types of neuronal activities; modeling of synapses, dendrites and axons; locomotion and small networks; neural coding in single cells and at the population level; dynamics of large networks, including spike computing with population codes; networks learning and behavioral changes.

PHIL  6130 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 3.0Philosophy of Science: Prerequisite: One 2000 or 3000-level philosophy course, or consent of instructor. Varieties of scientific explanation; hypothesis formation and

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confirmation; paradigms, laws, and theories; the status of unobservable entities; holism and reductionism; science and values; nature and scope of scientific progress; limits of scientific explanation.

PHIL 6330 PHILOSOPHY OF MINDPhilosophy of Mind: Prerequisite: One 2000 or 3000-level philosophy course, or consent of instructor. Topics such as theories of mind; the connection between mental and physical states; the relation between mind, language, and the world; and artificial intelligence.

PHIL 8130 SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 3.0Seminar in Philosophy of Science: Includes such topics as the logic of hypothesis construction, testability, criteria of confirmation, physical laws and their role in scientific explanation, the nature of scientific theories, scientific realism and instrumentalism, the completability of science, the social sciences, scientism, and the difference between philosophy and science.

PHIL 8330 SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 3.0Seminar in Philosophy of Mind: Examination of issues in philosophy of mind. Topics may include: dualism, behaviorism, identify theories, functionalism, eliminative materialism, mental content, mental causation, consciousness, qualia, subjectivity.

PSYC 6116 PRIMATE BEHAVIOR 3.0Primate Behavior: Field and Laboratory. Prerequisite: Biol 3840 or Psyc 4110 or consent of the instructor. Two lecture and two laboratory hours a week. Nonhuman and human primate origins of cognition, language, mythology, rituals, tool use, nonverbal expressions, symbolism, sexuality, and aggression.

PSYC 6130 SENSATION AND PERCEPTION 3.0Sensation and Perception. Experimental analysis of sensory and perceptual processes at both a physiological and a psychophysical level. The five primary sensory systems will be covered: vision, audition, touch, taste, and smell.

PSYC 6140 INTRO TO PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 4.0Introduction to Psychophysiology. Three lecture and two laboratory hours a week. Laboratory course in the use of physiological techniques in understanding psychological phenomena. Includes applications of methodologies such as EMG, EEG, ERP, and MRI. Demonstrates how these measures inform scientists about the workings of the brain and peripheral nervous system in producing thinking and behavior.

PSYC 7560 PSYC OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR 3.0Psychology of Animal Behavior. Prerequisite: Psyc 1101. Psychological, genetic, physiological, and ecological bases of animal behavior. Basic adaptive mechanisms and their importance for understanding human behavior.

PSYC 8010 RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY 3.0

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Research Methods in Psychology. Types of research design including experimental designs, quasi-experimental designs, single-case designs, and case studies; related research issues including aspects of philosophy of science, measurement, reliability, internal and external validity, and artifacts.

PSYC 8410 PSY RESEARCH STATISTICS I 3.0Psychological Research Statistics I. Prerequisite: Psyc 3010, or equivalent. Statistical analysis of psychological data with an emphasis on the logic of basic analytic techniques. Includes discussion of data screening, hypothesis testing, bivariate measures of association, and simple between- and within-subjects analysis of variance.

PSYC 8420 PSY RESEARCH STATISTICS II 3.0Psychological Research Statistics II. Prerequisite: Psyc 8410. Statistical analysis of psychological data with an emphasis on multiple and logistic regression and their interpretation. Statistical considerations when planning research such as power analysis are also discussed.

PSYC 8430 PSY RESEARCH STATISTICS III 3.0Psychological Research Statistics III. Prerequisite: Psyc 8420. Advanced topics in the statistical analysis of psychological data including various forms of factor analysis, psychometric methods and theories, structural equation modeling and its use in theory construction, and multivariate analysis of variance.

PSYC 8620 INTRO TO CLINICAL NEUROPSYCH 3.0Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology. Prerequisite: Psyc 8610 or Psyc 8618, or consent of instructor. Topics include laterality, handedness, cerebral dominance, basic neuroanatomy, aphasia, neglect, amnesic syndromes, agnosia, alexia, split brain research, and recovery of function.

PSYC 8630 DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 3.0Developmental Neuropsychology. Prerequisite: Psyc 8620, or consent of instructor. Development of the central nervous system and brain; their relationship to behavioral development; and common CNS disorders in children.

PSYC 8640 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 3.0Psychopharmacology. Prerequisite: Psyc 8610, or consent of the instructor. (Same as Biol 8065.) Biological bases of psychopharmacology, including the locus of action for psychoactive substances and the mechanisms by which these substances modify neural activity and cause a change in mood and behavior. Covers neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and pharmacology of classes of psychoactive drugs used to treat mental disorders, as well as those commonly abused that may or may not have therapeutic uses.

PSYC 8910 TOPICS IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 3.0Topics in Neuropsychology: Theories, Methods, and Interventions. Prerequisite: Psyc 8620 with grade of B or higher. Intensive study of the relevant basic and applied

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literature relevant to a specific topic in neuropsychology, such as language, memory, reading, or executive function.

PSYC 8956 TOPICS BEHAV NEURO 1.0Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated if topics vary.

PSYC 8999 MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH 1.0 to 9.0Master's Thesis Research.

PSYC 9140 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 3.0Neuropsychological Assessment. Prerequisite: Psyc 8620, or consent of instructor. Standardized batteries and additional neuropsychological tests for both standard and bedside testing. Actual test administration included.

PSYC 9900 SEMINAR IN PSYCHOLOGY 1.0 to 3.0

Seminar in Psychology. Topics presented by special request.

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APPENDIX IIIA

BIOLOGY LEARNING OUTCOMES

Standard 1:  Scientific Inquiry

      Students will be able to:

1.1              Ask scientific questions and construct reasonable hypotheses

1.2              Design and conduct investigations about a variety of biological problems

1.3              Perform laboratory skills and procedures

1.3a.    Use basic equipment in laboratory courses

1.3b.    Use computers for data analysis, literature searches and retrieval of data from reliable databases

            1.4       Understand and analyze results (hypothetical or actual)

            1.5       Formulate and defend alternative explanations and models on the basis of evidence

             1.6      Solve problems addressing biological questions

Standard 2:  Communication

      Students will be able to:     

      2.1       Communicate effectively in oral and written forms

      2.2       Read and demonstrate an understanding of scientific literature for content

      2.3       Critique and analyze claims of others in a scientific context

      2.4       Demonstrate an understanding of scientific terminology

      2.5       Work effectively in group situations

Standard 3:  History, Nature and Impact of Biology

      Students will be able to:

            3.1       Discuss historical changes in biological theories over time

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            3.2       Analyze how the political, social, economic and cultural influences exert an impact on biological concepts

Standard 4:  Content in Biology

      Students will be able to:

            4.1       Apply knowledge from other scientific disciplines to the understanding of fundamental biological principles

            4.2       Demonstrate knowledge of the following general principles of biology, including their applications and relationships  

                        4.2a     Molecular processes

                        4.2b     Cell structure and function

                        4.2c     Reproduction and heredity

                        4.2d     Evolution and diversity

                        4.2e     Organismal form and function

                        4.2f      Interdependence of organisms and their environment

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APPENDIX IIIB

PSYCHOLOGY LEARNING OUTCOMES

Goal 1 - Theory and Content:  Develop expertise with major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in the field of Psychology, the program area, and the research specialty area.

 Representative Skills 1:

1. Uses psychological concepts fluently to explain and predict behavior; evaluates the validity of concepts as explanation; generates new concepts.

2. Exploits discrepancy between intuitive findings and research as opportunity to explore new ideas.

3. Generates original theoretical explanations; assumes responsibility for criticizing and improving theory.

 Assessment 1:

Field of Psychology

1. Performance in Psych 8500, History of Psychology.

2. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

 

Program Area:

1. Performance in required & elective courses in program area. 

2. General Exam – Written; scored by committee of faculty.

3. General Exam – Oral Defense; conducted by committee of faculty.

4. Ratings and written evaluations by program faculty during yearly review.

5. Ratings and written evaluations by practicum supervisors completed each semester.

 

Research Special Area:

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1. Masters Thesis - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

2. Masters Thesis – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

3. Dissertation - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

4. Dissertation – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

5. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

 

Goal 2 – Research Methods: Understand and apply research methods including research design, data analysis, and interpretation.

 

Representative Skills 2:

1.      Be competent in a variety of research techniques relevant to area of specialization (e.g., observation, action-research, survey methods).

2.      Strives to produce optimal research and measurement strategies for reducing challenges to validity of conclusions.

3.      Interprets behavior at appropriate level of complexity that reflects contextual factors.

4.      Establishes a research focus that identifies and builds on primary interests in behavior.

5.      Uses statistical reasoning routinely for evaluating research, develops fair and appropriate applications of statistics and other analytical methods that are consistent with data.

6.      Implements and demands high standards for adherence to ethical standards and to research methods to minimize complications of bias and confounds.

 

Assessment 2:

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1. Performance in Psych 8410-8420, Psychological Research Statistics I & II.

2. Performance in methods courses required by program area.

3. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

4. General Exam – Written; scored by committee of faculty.

5. General Exam – Oral Defense; conducted by committee of faculty.

6. Masters Thesis - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

7. Masters Thesis – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

8. Dissertation - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

9. Dissertation – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

 

 Goal 3 – Application: Apply psychological principles in professional activities.

 

Representative Skills 3:

1.      Develops unique applications of theory and research methods.

2.      Evaluates relevant content from broader range of available resources; reflects how context influences actions, shows refined and flexible use of published research.

3.      Uses psychological concepts fluently to explain and predict behavior.

4.      Creates compelling arguments with attention to subtle meaning of content; anticipates and defends against criticism, adapts arguments for wide range of audiences.

5.      Engages in ethical professional behavior.

 

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Assessment 3:

1. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

2. Course evaluations and teaching portfolios

3. Faculty evaluations of teaching. 

4. Supervisor evaluations of practicum performance.

  

Goal 4 – Communication and Collaboration Skills: Communicates and works in groups effectively.

 

Representative Skills 4:

1.      Creates compelling arguments with attention to subtle meaning of content; anticipates and defends against criticism; adapts arguments for wide range of audiences.

2.      Uses APA format expertly with minimal errors; demonstrates sophisticated conventional oral and written expression.

3.      Independently completes sophisticated group projects that require collaboration over time.

4.      Systematically plans project completion strategy, including back-up plans to overcome likely obstacles.

5.      Convenes colleagues to improve quality of projects and programs.

6.      Conscientiously seeks expression of broad opinions and productive conflict resolution.

7.      Actively promotes and enjoys group creativity.

 

Assessment 4:

            1. Yearly student report of conference presentations and publications.

2. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

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3. General Exam – Written; scored by committee of faculty.

4. General Exam – Oral Defense; conducted by committee of faculty.

5. Masters Thesis - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

6. Masters Thesis – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

7. Dissertation - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

8. Dissertation – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

9. Course evaluations and teaching portfolios. 

10. Faculty evaluations of teaching

11. Supervisor evaluations of practicum performance.

 

 Goal 5 – Critical Thinking Skills: Respect and use critical and creative thinking, skeptical inquiry, and the scientific approach.

 

Representative Skills 5:

1.      Practices scientific method and accepts its limitations.

2.      Acknowledges and guards against bias or subjective influences.

3.      Seeks the most precise explanation.

4.      Uses skepticism consistently as an evaluative tool.

5.      Enjoys complexity during search for clarifying behavioral explanations.

 

Assessment 5:

1. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

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2. General Exam – Written; scored by committee of faculty.

3. General Exam – Oral Defense; conducted by committee of faculty.

4. Masters Thesis - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

5. Masters Thesis – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

6. Dissertation - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

7. Dissertation – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

8. Course evaluations and teaching portfolios

9. Faculty evaluations of teaching. 

10. Supervisor evaluations of practicum performance.

  

Goal 6 – Personal Development: Shows insight into one’s own and other’s behavior and mental processes and applies effective strategies for self-management and self-improvement.

 

Representative Skills 6:

1.      Uses self assessments to establish goals.

2.      Formulates back-up plans to anticipate and overcome obstacles.

 

Assessment 6:

            1. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

2. Course evaluations and teaching portfolios

3. Faculty evaluations of teaching. 

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4. Supervisor evaluations of practicum performance.

 

 Goal 7 – Information and Technology Literacy: Acquire skills in accessing and disseminating information with the use of computer technology.

 

Assessment 7:

1. Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

2. Masters Thesis - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

3. Masters Thesis – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

4. Dissertation - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

5. Dissertation – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

 

 Goal 8 – Values in Psychology: Weigh evidence, tolerate ambiguity, act ethically, and reflect other values underpinning psychology.

 

Representative Skills 8:

1.      Monitors ethical practices in area of specialization.

2.      Routinely evaluates research, practice, and teaching from an ethical standpoint as an ongoing professional responsibility.

3.      Advocates for the best ethical practices to protect the public and improve the discipline.

 

Assessment 8:

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1.      Performance in Psyc 8490, Scientific and Professional Ethics in Psychology.

2.      Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

3.      General Exam – Written; scored by committee of faculty.

4.      General Exam – Oral Defense; conducted by committee of faculty.

5.      Masters Thesis - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

6.      Masters Thesis – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

7.      Dissertation - Proposal; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

8.      Dissertation – Final Document; evaluated by faculty committee and defended orally in committee meeting.

9.      Course evaluations and teaching portfolios

10.  Faculty evaluations of teaching. 

11.  Supervisor evaluations of practicum performance.

  

Goal 9 – Sociocultural and International Awareness

 

Assessment 9:

1.      Performance in Psyc 8050 or 8060, Issues of Human Diversity in Psychology.

2.      Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review, especially relevant to experiences in applied research, intervention, and consultation with special populations.

3.      Performance in required and elective courses with emphasis on socio-demographic, cross-cultural, and contextual influences on human behavior.

4.      General Exam – Written; scored by committee of faculty.

5.      General Exam – Oral Defense; conducted by committee of faculty.

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6.      Supervisor evaluations of practicum performance in settings that provide experience with diverse American or global population groups.

 Goal 10 – Career Planning and Development: Emerge from graduate school with credentials and plans for career path.

 

Representative Skills 10:

1.      Attends and participates in conferences relevant to area of specialization.

2.      Collaborates on publications relevant to area of specialization.

3.      Gain teaching experience and credentials through GLA and GTA responsibilities.

4.      Gain research experience and credential through GRA activities.

 

Assessment 10:

1.      Presentations at regional, national, international conferences. 

2.      Number of publications in peer reviewed journals, invited chapters.

3.      Course evaluations and teaching portfolios.

4.      Faculty evaluations of teaching

5.      Ratings and written evaluations by departmental faculty during yearly review.

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APPENDIX IV

Program Faculty

For each faculty member, give the following data.

Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned

Current workload for typical semester, including specific courses usually taught; explain how workload will be impacted with the addition of proposed program

Scholarship and publication record for past five years

Professional activity

Expected responsibilities in this program

Note that in the data provided below, the course numbers for teaching of undergraduate and graduate students within each lab in research methods and relevant literature are not included in the teaching load (#2). Faculty with large research labs spend more time training/teaching their own graduate students and less time in the typical classroom setting.

Core Faculty1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;

Elliott Albers, Regents’ Professor, Biology and Psychology

Education:University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska B.A. 1974

Psychology

Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana M.S. 1978Psychology

Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Ph.D. 1979Psychology

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Post-doc 1979Physiology

Worcester Fdtn. For Experimental Biology Post-doc 1981Neurobiology

2. Teaching load 1 course/yr:

Seminar

Teaching release due to administrative load as Director of CBN

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3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

1. Gamble, K.L., Novak, C.M., Paul, K.N., and Albers, H.E. Tetrodotoxin blocks the circadian effects of NMDA during the day but not at night. NeuroReport, 14:641-644, 2003.

2. Paul, K.N., Fukuhara, C.,Tosini, G., Albers, H.E. Transduction of light in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: evidence for two different neurochemical cascades regulating the levels of Per1 mRNA and pineal melatonin. Neuroscience, 119:137-144, 2003.

3. Caldwell, H.K., Albers, H.E. Short-photoperiod exposure reduces vasopressin (V1a) receptor binding but not arginine-vasopressin-induced flank making in male Syrian hamsters. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 15:971-977, 2003.

4. Novak CM, Albers HE. Novel phase-shifting effects of GABAA receptor activation in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of a diurnal rodent. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 285:R820-R825, 2004.

5. Caldwell, H.K., Albers, H.E. Photoperiodic regulation of vasopressin receptor binding in female Syrian hamsters. Brain Research, 1002:136-141, 2004.

6. Paul KN, Gamble KL, Fukuhara C, Novak CM, Tosini G, Albers HE. Tetrodotoxin administration in the suprachiasmatic nucleus prevents NMDA-induced reductions in pineal melatonin without influencing Per1 and Per2 mRNA levels. Eur J Neurosci, 19:2808-2814, 2004.

7. Novak CM, Albers HE. Circadian phase alteration by GABA and light differs in diurnal and nocturnal rodents during the day. Behav Neurosci, 118:498-504, 2004.

8. Gamble KL, Novak CM, Albers HE. Neuropeptide Y and N-methyl-D-aspartic acid interact within the suprachiasmatic nuclei to alter circadian phase. Neuroscience, 126:559-565, 2004.

9. Novak CM, Ehlen JC, Huhman KL, Albers HE. GABA(B) receptor activation in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of diurnal and nocturnal rodents. Brain Research Bulletin, 63:531-5, 2004.

10. Caldwell, HK, Albers HE. Effect of photoperiod on vasopressin-induced aggression in Syrian hamsters. Horm Behav, 46:444-9, 2004.

11. Gamble KL, Ehlen JC, Albers HE. Circadian control during the day and night: Role of neuropeptide Y Y5 receptors in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. Brain Research Bulletin, 65:513-9, 2005.

12. Cooper MA, Karom M, Huhman KL, Albers HE. Repeated agonistic encounters in hamsters modulate AVP V1a receptor binding. Horm Behav, 48(5):545-54, 2005

13. Paul KN, Fukuhara C, Karom M, Tosini G, Albers HE. AMPA/kainate receptor antagonist DNQX blocks the acute increase of Per2 mRNA levels in most but not all areas of the SCN. Molecular Brain Research, 2005.

14. Ehlen JC, Albers HE, Breyer ED. MEKC-LIF of gamma-amino butyric acid in microdialysate: systematic optimization of the separation conditions by factorial analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 147(1):36-47, 2005.

15. Albers HE, Dean A, Karom MC, Smith D, Huhman KL. Role of V1a vasopressin receptors in the control of aggression in Syrian hamsters. Brain Research Bulletin, 1073-1074:425-30, 2006.

16. Gamble KL, Paul KN, Karom MC, Tosini G, Albers HE. Paradoxical effects of NPY in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. Eur J Neurosci, 23(9): 2488-94, 2006.

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17. Ehlen JC, Novak CM, Karom MC, Gamble KL, Paul KN, Albers HE. GABAA receptor activation suppresses Period 1 mRNA and Period 2 mRNA in the suprachiasmatic nucleus during the mid-subjective day. Eur J Neurosci, 23(12): 3328-36, 2006.

18. Powell KR, Albers HE. Center for Behavioral Neuroscience: a prototype multi-institutional collaborative research center. J Biomed Discov Collab, 2006.

19. Schulz KM, Menard TA, Smith DA, Albers HE, Sisk CL. Testicular hormone exposure during adolescence organizes flank-marking behavior and vasopressin receptor binding in the lateral septum. Horm Behav, 50(3): 477-83, 2006.Haak LL, Albers HE, Mintz EM. Modulation of photic response by the metabotropic glumate receptor agonist t-ACPD. Brain Research Bulletin, 71(1-3): 97-100, 2006Novak CM, Ehlen JC, Paul KN, Fukuhara C, Albers HE. Light and GABA(A) receptor activation alter period mRNA levels in the SCN of diurnal Nile grass rats. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24(10): 2843-52, 2006

20.[22.] Novak CM, Ehlen JC, Albers HE. Photic and nonphotic inputs to the diurnal circadian clock. Biological Rhythms Research, In Press.

21.[23.] Demas, GE, Cooper, MA, Albers, HE, Soma, KK. Novel mechanisms underlying neuroendocrine regulation of aggression: A synthesis of rodent, avian and primate studies. Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology, In Press.

22.[24.] Caldwell HK, Smith DA, Albers HE. Photoperiodic mechanisms controlling scent marking: interactions of vasopressin and gonadal steroids. Eur J Neurosci, 2008

23.[25.] Ehlen JC, Novak CM, Karom MC, Gamble KL, Albers HE. Interactions of GABA A receptor activation and light on period mRNA expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. J Biol Rhythms, 23(1): 16-25, 2008.

24.[26.] Wang LM, Schroeder A, Loh D, Smith D, Lin K, Han JH, Michel S, Hummer DL, Ehlen JC, Albers HE, Colwell CS. Role for the NR2B Subunit of the NMDA Receptor in Mediating Light Input to the Circadian System. Eur J Neurosci, In Press.

4.      Professional activity;2006 Mentor of the Year, Center for Biomedical and Behavioral Research,

Spelman College2005 - Editorial Board, Endocrinology2004 - NSF-HBCU-UP Advisory Committee, Morehouse College2003 - RIMI External Advisory Board, Spelman College2000 - Editorial Board, Hormones and Behavior2000 - Board of Scientific Advisors, Tulane University Neuroscience Center,

Tulane University2000 – 2004 External Advisory Board, Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, University

of Alaska-Fairbanks

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earnedLaura L. CarruthAssistant ProfessorPostdoctoral research fellow, 1998-2002, University of California at Los AngelesPhD, 1998, University of Colorado at BoulderBA, 1990, University of Colorado at Boulder

2. Current workload for typical semester

One course/semesterCourses typically taught: Principles of Biology II (BIOL 2108), Animal Biology (BIOL 3840/7840). Also have taught: Collaborative Internships in Biology (4915/6915), Concepts in Neurobiology (BIOL 8110)

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five yearsGrants and awards:“Coactivators and the Development of Avian Song Control Nuclei” National Science Foundation

three year award, 9/1/07-8/31/10, ($298,079).2007 Neuroscientist-Teacher Partner Award from the Society for Neuroscience's Public

Education and Communication Committee, received with teacher partner Sally Murphy (Riverwood High School, Fulton County, GA).

“The Role of Genetic Sex and Prolactin in Organizing Sleep Responses to Stress” PI, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) Venture Grant ($29,900) awarded June 2007.

Award: Made a National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences by the National Academies of Science, Feb. 2006.

“Why They Do What They Do at the Zoo: Animal Behavior and the Brain” open to teachers across the state of Georgia, PI, Georgia Board of Regents Improving Teacher Quality Grant” ($19,154) awarded May 2005.

“The Role for p68, a Sex Steroid Cofactor, in Brain Sexual Differentiation”, PI, Research Initiation Grantfrom Georgia State University ($8,500) awarded June 2004.

“Why They Do What They Do at the Zoo: Animal Behavior and the Brain”, PI, Georgia Board of Regents Improving Teacher Quality Grant” ($31,358) awarded May 2004.

“Taking the Genomic Revolution into the High School Classroom”, PI, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) Venture Grant ($19,000) awarded Dec. 2003.

“The Function of c-fos in Sexual Behavior”, Co-PI, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) Venture Grant; Reproduction Collaboratory ($30,000) awarded July 2002.

“Instrumentation for the Molecular Analysis of Sex Differences in Psychomotor Stimulant Effects in Adult Rats.” Co-PI. Georgia State Research Equipment Award. May 2003. $26,218.

“Estrogen and Male Mating” Co-PI, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) Venture Grant; Reproduction Collaboratory ($30,000) awarded Dec. 2002.

Publications since arriving at GSU in 2002:

Duncan, KA and LL Carruth. 2007. Sexually Dimorphic Expression of L7/SPA, an estrogen receptor coactivator, in the developing zebra finch brain. Develop. Neurobiol. 67(14): 1852-1866.

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Demetrikopolous, MK, J Pecore, JD Rose, and L Carruth. 2006. Build a Brain Project: Students Design and Model the Brain of an Imaginary Animal. Science Scope, Summer 2006: 28-31.

Frantz, KJ, RL DeHaan, MK Demetrikopolous, and LL Carruth. 2006. Routes to Research for Novice Undergraduate Neuroscientists. Cell Biology Education 5(2): 175-187.

Zardetto-Smith, A, K Mu, and LL Carruth and KJ Frantz. 2006 Brains Rule!: A Model Program for Developing Professional Stewardship Among Neuroscientists. Cell Biology Education. 5(2): 158-166.

Demetrikopoulos, MK, D Parlier, HK Caldwell, JD Rose, KJ Frantz, and L Carruth. 2004. Developing Flexible Professional Development Opportunities to Meet Diverse Teacher Needs. Science Scope, 27(5): 16-19.

Carruth, LL, I Reisert, and AP Arnold. 2002. Sexual Differentiation of the brain in vitro: direct effects of sex chromosome genes. Nature Neuroscience, 5: 933-934.

4. Professional activity; My lab examines the hormonal and genetic factors that lead to sex differences in development of the songbird brain. Currently we are examining co-regulatory proteins, such as coactivators and corepressors, and the role they play in regulating how neurons respond to circulating steroid levels. The songbird is an excellent model for understanding how steroid hormones influence brain development and induce sex differences observed in adulthood. I am also a science educator and have two science education research programs. One is on K-12 teacher professional development and the use of extended contact workshops to enhance the science background and skills of K-12 teachers in Georgia and the other is on the use of informal science education opportunities to stimulate middle school aged students to get and stay excited about science. I run a week-long workshop on Animal Behavior and the Brain for K-12 teachers every summer as well as a week-long hands-on “Brain Camp for Kids” summer science camp every year.

5. Expected responsibilities in this program; To continue participating in professional development, instruction and service. I will continue to conduct research in my field, train postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergrad students in research areas, teach courses for undergraduate and/or graduate students, and serve on various committees to support the institute, college and university.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earnedBradley C. CookeAcademic Positions and EducationRank: Assistant ProfessorDiscipline: NeuroscienceEducation

2004 Course in Ion Channel Physiology, The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2001 Ph.D. Biopsychology, University of California, Berkeley

1997 M.A. Biopsychology, University of California, Berkeley

1995 B.A. Cognitive Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Academic Appointments

2003-present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of NeurobiologyNorthwestern University

2001-2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Cell and Molecular BiologyONPRC, Oregon Health Sciences University

1996-2001 Graduate Research Assistnatant, University of California, Berkeley

1995-1996 IRTA Fellow, Laboratory of Comparative EthologyN.I.A.A., N.I.H.

1994 Research assistant, Laboratory of Cognitive Neurology,University of Pennsylvania

2. Workload New faculty (08/08 start). Anticipate 2-4 courses/year, including Physiological

Psychology

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years

Extramural Grants:2004-2005 1 F32 MH073335-01 ‘Sexual differentiation of the medial amygdala’.

Individual Postdoctoral National Research Service Award

2003-2004 T32 HD07068 Institutional Postdoctoral Training Program in Reproductive Biology, Northwestern University

2001-2003 T32 DK07680 Institutional Postdoctoral Training Program in Neuroendocrinology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR

1998-1999 Elizabeth Roboz Einstein fellowship for the study of Neuroscience.University of California, Berkeley, CA

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1997-1998 National Science Foundation traineeship for the study of spatial cognition. University of California, Berkeley, CA

1996-1997 Intrramural Research Training Award, N.I.A.A., N.I.H., Poolesville, MD

Publications:Review Articles, Book Chapters, Symposium Introductions

Cooke B.M. & Woolley C.S. The effects of gonadal steroids on the morphology of the adult brain: A life history perspective. Hormones, Brain, and Behavior. 2007 2nd Ed. Editor-in-Chief: Pfaff, D.W. Cooke B.M. Steroid - dependent plasticity in the medial nucleus of the amygdala. Neuroscience. 2006 138(3):997-1005.Cooke, B.M. & Woolley C.S. Gonadal hormone modulation of dendrites in the mammalian CNS. Journal of Neurobiology 2005 July; 64(1): 34 – 46.Cooke B.M. Sometimes more is not better: Making babies in the modern world. Journal of Sex Research 2004. 41(1): 113- 114. Breedlove S.M., Cooke B.M., Jordan C.L. The orthodox view of brain sexual differentiation. Brain Behavior and Evolution 1999. 54(1): 8-14.Cooke, B.M., C. Hegstrom, L. Villeneuve, and S.M. Breedlove. Sexual differentiation of the mammalian brain: Principles and mechanisms. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 1998. 19: p. 323-362

Articles

LeDoux, V.A., May, R.M., Cooke, B.M. et al. A role for NPY in estrogen regulation of hippocampus-dependent seizures. Neuron (accepted pending revisions)Cooke B.M., Jordan C.L., and Breedlove, S.M. Short photoperiods delay pubertal development of the medial amygdala in the Siberian hamster, P. sungorus. Hormones and Behavior (Cover Art) 2007 52(3): 283-288Cooke B.M., Stokas, M., and Woolley C.S. Sex differences and laterality in the prepubertal medial amygdala. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 2007 501: 904-915Cooke B.M. & Woolley C.S. Sexually dimorphic synaptic organization of the medial amygdala. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2005 Nov 16;25(46):10759-10767.Cooke B.M. & Simerly R.B., Ontogeny of bidirectional connections between the medial nucleus of the amygdala and the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis. Journal of Comparative Neurology 2005 489: 42-58.Cooke B.M., Breedlove S.M., Jordan C.L., Both estrogen receptors and androgen receptors contribute to testosterone-induced changes in the morphology of the medial amygdala and sexual arousal in male rats. Hormones and Behavior 2003 43(2): 336-46.Cooke B.M., Hegstrom C.D., Breedlove S.M., Photoperiod-dependent response to androgen in the medial amygdala of the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus. Journal of Biological Rhythms 2002 April; 17(2): 147-54.

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Brown W.M., Finn C.J., Cooke B.M., Breedlove S.M. Differences in finger length ratios between self-identified "butch" and "femme" lesbians. Archives of Sex Behavior 2002 Feb; 31(1): 123-7.Cooke B.M., Hegstrom C.D., Keen A, Breedlove S.M. Photoperiod and social cues influence the medial amygdala but not the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the Siberian hamster. Neuroscience Letters 2001 Oct 12; 312(1): 9-12.Cooke B.M., Chowanadisai W., Breedlove S.M. Post-weaning social isolation of male rats reduces the volume of the medial amygdala and leads to deficits in adult sexual behavior. Behavioural Brain Research 2000 Dec 20; 117(1-2): 107-13.Williams T.J., Pepitone M.E., Christensen S.E., Cooke B.M., et al.Huberman A.D., Breedlove N.J., Breedlove T.J., Jordan C.L., Breedlove S.M. Finger-length ratios and sexual orientation. Nature 2000 Mar 30; 404(6777): 455-6.Cooke B.M., Tabibnia G., Breedlove S.M. A brain sexual dimorphism controlled by adult circulating androgens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U S A 1999 Jun 22; 96(13): 7538-40.Tabibnia G., Cooke B.M., Breedlove S.M. Sex difference and laterality in the volume of mouse dentate gyrus granule cell layer. Brain Research 1999 May 8;827(1-2):41-5.

4. Professional Activities

Public Education Committee, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, 2008-presentAnnual Symposium for Reproductive Science, Northwestern University, 2005Society for Neuroscience, 1996-presentSociety for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, 1996-presentInstitutional Animal Care and Use Committee, University of California, Berkeley, 1996-2001

ReviewerArchives of Neurology, Archives of Sex Behavior, Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, European Journal of Neuroscience, Hormones and Behavior, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Physiology and Behavior

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earnedCharles D. DerbyAcademic Positions and EducationRank: Professor and Associate DeanDiscipline: NeuroscienceEducation:

B.S. in Biology, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1976 Ph.D. in Biology, Boston University 1982

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Florida, 1982-1984Academic Appointments: 1984-1990 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University 1990-1995 Associate Professor, Dept. Biology, Georgia State University 1995-present Professor, Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University

2. Workload

Current workload:Associate Dean: 50%Research: 30%Teaching: 20%:

Biol 8110 Concepts in Neurobiology & Behavior Biol 6900, 8800, 9999 Graduate Research Biol 4910 Undergraduate Research

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years

Extramural Grants:2006-2009 National Science Foundation: “Sensory Mechanisms of Chemical

Defenses” (PI, Derby) (NSF IBN-0614685 (1st year, $ $98,260; 2nd year, $100,456; 3rd year, $102,595.

2007-2008 Naval Surface Warfare Center – Panama City: “Identification of Molecules that Inhibit Chewing by Blue Crabs” (PI, Derby): Total Costs: $96,292 ($66,641 direct + $29,655 indirect)

2002-2008 National Institutes of Health: (Derby, PI; co-investigators: P.C. Tai and T.S. McClintock): “Olfactory Development: Cell Proliferation and Maturation” NIDCD DC00312. Total 5-Year Amount: $1,481,500 ($1,137,500 direct + $346,500 indirect)

2003-2006 National Science Foundation: “Mechanisms of Chemical Defenses” (PI, Derby) (NSF IBN-0324435 (first year, $ 98,150)

2002-2004: National Fish & Wildlife Foundation: “Evaluation of Marine Reserves as Sanctuaries for Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus)”: (co-P,I with T. Matthews).Total 2-year Award to GSU: $34,000 ($34,000 direct).

2003-2005 National Marine Fisheries Service/MARFIN: “The Use of Lipofuscin for Aging Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus)”; (co-PI, with Thomas Matthews). Current Year Total Award to: $32,890 ($23,000 direct + $9,890 indirect). Total 2-year Award to GSU: $65,780 ($46,000 direct + $19,780).

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2000-2004 National Science Foundation: “Functional Organization of a Continuously Growing Compound Nose” (PI, Derby) (NSF IBN 0077474). Total Award: $309,929.

Publications:Review Articles, Book Chapters, Symposium IntroductionsDerby, C.D. and P.W. Sorensen. 2008. Neural processing, perception, and behavioral

responses to natural chemical stimuli by fish and crustaceans. J. Chem. Ecol. (in press).

Caprio, J. and C.D. Derby. 2008. Aquatic animal models in the study of chemoreception. In The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, Six-Volume Set (eds. A.I. Basbaum, A. Maneko, G.M. Shepherd, and G. Westheimer.) Vol. 4, Olfaction & Taste (eds. S. Firestein and G.K. Beauchamp). Academic Press, San Diego. Pp. 97-134.

Derby, C.D. 2007. Escape by inking and secreting: marine molluscs avoid predators through a rich array of chemicals and mechanisms. Biol. Bull. 213: 274-289.

Zimmer, R.K. and C.D. Derby. 2007. Biological Bulletin Virtual Symposium: Neuroecology of chemical defenses. Biol. Bull. 213: 205-207..

Derby, C.D. 2007. Why have neurogenesis in adult olfactory systems? The Presidential Symposium at the 2006 AChemS Conference. Chem. Senses 32: 361-363.

McClintock, T.S., B.W. Ache, and C.D. Derby. 2006. Lobster olfactory genomics. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 940-947.

McClintock, T. S. and C.D. Derby. 2006 Shelling out for genomics: a report on the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2006 Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida. Genome Biology 7: 312.

ArticlesMatthews, T.R., K.E. Maxwell, R.D. Bertelsen, and C.D. Derby. 2008. Use of

neurolipofuscin to determine population structure and growth rates of the Caribbean spiny lobster Paunulirus argus in Florida, USA. New Zealand J. Mar. Freshwater Res. (in press).

Maxwell, K.E., T.R. Matthews, R.D. Bertelsen, and C.D. Derby. 2008. Using age to evaluate reproduction in Caribbean spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus, in the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas, USA New Zealand J. Mar. Freshwater Res. (in press)

Kamio, M., M. Reidenbach, and C.D. Derby. To paddle or not: determinants and consequences of courtship display by male blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. J. Exp. Biol. (in press)

Horner, A.J., M. Schmidt, D.H. Edwards, and C.D. Derby. 2008. Role of the olfactory pathway in agonistic behavior of crayfish Procambarus clarkii. Invert. Neurosci. 8: 11-18.

Horner, A.J., M.J. Weissburg, and C.D. Derby. 2008. The olfactory pathway mediates sheltering behavior of Caribbean spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus, to conspecific urine signals. J. Comp. Physiol. A 194: 243-253.

Shabani, S., S. Yaldiz, L. Vu, and C.D. Derby. 2007. Acidity enhances the effectiveness of active chemical defensive secretions of sea hares, Aplysia californica, against spiny lobsters, Panulirus interruptus. J. Comp. Physiol. A 193: 1195-1204.

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Kicklighter, C.E., M.W. Germann, M. Kamio, and C.D. Derby. 2007. Molecular identification of alarm cues in the defensive secretions of the sea hare Aplysia californica. Anim. Behav. 74: 1481-1492.

Steullet, P., D.H. Edwards, and C.D. Derby. 2007. An electric sense in crayfish? Biol. Bull. 213: 16-20.

Maxwell, K.E., T.R. Matthews, M.R.J. Sheehy, R.D. Bertelsen, C.D. Derby. 2007. Neurolipofuscin is a measure of age in the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, in Florida. Biol. Bull. 213: 55-66.

Derby, C.D., C.E. Kicklighter, P.M. Johnson, and X. Zhang. 2007. Chemical composition of inks of diverse marine molluscs suggests convergent chemical defenses. J. Chem. Ecol. 33: 1105-1113.

Song, C.-K., L.M. Johnstone, M. Schmidt, C.D. Derby, and D.H. Edwards. 2007. Social status influences neurogenesis in the brain of juvenile crayfish. J. Exp. Biol. 210: 1311-1324.

Horner, A.J., S.P. Nickles, M.J. Weissburg, and C.D. Derby. 2006. Source and specificity of chemical cues mediating shelter preference of Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus). Biol. Bull. 211: 128-139.

Schmidt, M., H. Chien, T. Tadesse, M.E. Johns, and C.D. Derby. 2006. Rosette-type tegumental glands associated with aesthetasc sensilla in the olfactory organ of the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. Cell Tissue Res. 325: 369-395.

Kicklighter, C.E. and C.D. Derby. 2006. Multiple components in ink of the sea hare Aplysia californica are aversive to the sea anemone Anthopleura sola. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 334: 256-268.

Stepanyan, R, K. Day, J. Urban, D.H. Hardin, R.S. Shetty, C.D. Derby, B.W. Ache, and T.S. McClintock. 2006. Gene expression and specificity in the mature zone of the lobster olfactory organ. Physiological Genomics 25: 224-233.

Johnson, P.M., C.E. Kicklighter, M. Schmidt, M. Kamio, H. Yang, D. Elkin, W.C. Michel, P.C. Tai, and C.D. Derby. 2006. Packaging of chemicals in the defensive secretory glands of the sea hare Aplysia californica. J. Exp. Biol. 209: 78-88.

Yang, H., P.M. Johnson, K.-C. Ko, M. Kamio, M.W. Germann, P.C. Tai, and C.D. Derby. 2005. Cloning, characterization, and expression of escapin, a broadly antimicrobial FAD-containing L-amino acid oxidase from ink of the sea hare Aplysia californica. J. Exp. Biol. 208: 3609-3622.

Kicklighter, C.E., S. Shabani, P.M. Johnson, and C.D. Derby. 2005. Sea hares use novel antipredatory chemical defenses. Current Biology 15: 549-554.

Schmidt, M. and C.D. Derby. 2005. Non-olfactory chemoreceptors in asymmetric setae activate antennular grooming behavior in the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. J. Exp. Biol. 208: 233-248.

Garm, A., S. Shabani, J.T. Høeg, and C.D. Derby. 2005. Chemosensory neurons in the mouthparts of the spiny lobsters Panulirus argus and P. interruptus (Crustacea: Decapoda). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 314: 175-186.

Garm, A., J.T. Høeg, and C.D. Derby. 2004. Mechanosensory neurons with bend- and osmo-sensitivity in mouthpart setae from the spiny lobster Panulirus argus. Biol. Bull. 207: 195-208.

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Horner, A.J, M.J. Weissburg, and C.D. Derby. 2004. Dual chemosensory pathways can mediate orientation of spiny lobsters to distant food odors. J. Exp. Biol. 207: 3785-3796.

Johns, M.E., P.C. Tai, and C.D. Derby. 2004. Serine proteases in the lobster olfactory organ: their functional expression along a developmental axis, and the contribution of a CUB-serine protease. J. Neurobiol. 61: 377-391.

Harrison, P.J.H., H.S. Cate, and C.D. Derby. 2004. Localized ablation of olfactory receptor neurons induces both localized regeneration and widespread replacement of neurons in spiny lobsters. J. Comp. Neurol. 471: 72-84.

Stoss, T.D., M. Nickell, D. Hardin, C.D. Derby, and T.S. McClintock. 2004. Inducible transcript expressed by reactive epithelial cells at sites of olfactory sensory neuron propliferation. J. Neurobiol. 58: 355-368.

Derby, C.D., J.K. Fortier, P.J.H. Harrison, and H.S. Cate. 2003. The peripheral and central olfactory pathway of the Caribbean stomatopod crustacean Neogonodactylus oerstedii. Arthropod Structure & Development 32: 175-188.

Harrison, P.J.H., H.S. Cate, P. Steullet, and C.D. Derby. 2003. Amputation-induced activity of progenitor cells leads to rapid regeneration of olfactory tissue in lobsters. J. Neurobiol. 55: 97-114.

Derby, C.D., H.S. Cate, P. Steullet, and P.J.H. Harrison.2003. Comparison of turnover in the olfactory organ of early juvenile stage and adult Caribbean spiny lobsters. Arthropod Structure & Development 31: 297-311.

Steullet, P., D.R. Krützfeldt, G. Hamidani, T. Flavus, V. Ngo, and C.D. Derby. 2002. Dual parallel antennular chemosensory pathways mediate odor-associative learning and odor discrimination in the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus. J. Exp. Biol. 205: 851-867.

Cate, H.S. and C.D. Derby. 2002. Hooded sensilla homologues: structural variations of a widely distributed bimodal chemo-mechanosensillum. J. Comp. Neurol. 444: 345-357.

Patent: “Escapin protein, a broadly antimicrobial compound from ink of the sea hare Aplysia californica, and uses thereof.” Patent No. US 7,329,517. Issued Feb. 12, 2008. (Application No. 11/100,328, filed on April 6, 2005, and Provisional application No. 60/561,115, filed on April 9, 2004).

4. Professional ActivitiesAssociate Dean of Natural & Computational Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences

University Faculty Senate

Member of the Advisory Board of Arthropod Structure & Development

Associate Editor of The Biological Bulletin

Member of NIH CDRC Study Section (Oct 2007)

Member of the NSF Panel: IOS/BIO Neural Systems Cluster, Activation Panel, Oct. 2007

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Chair and Organizer of Symposium on “Neuroecology of Chemoreception”, at the 2008 International Symposium on Olfaction & Taste, July 21-26, 2008, San Francisco, CA

President-Elect, President, Past President, and Senior Advisor of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (2004-2007)

Program Chair of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (2003)

Organizing Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (2001-2007)

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earnedDonald H. Edwards, Regents' Professor of Biology and Physics

Education:Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B. S. Elect. Eng. (1970)Yale University, Ph.D. Biology (Neurobiology), (1976)Stanford University, Postdoc, neurobiology, 1976-79Univ. California at Davis, Postdoc, neurobiology, 1979-81

2.  Teaching workload 2 courses/yrBio 8010/Psyc 8616 Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceBio 4180/6180 Neurobiology Laboratory

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Primary Reports: 2002-present1.  Herberholz, J., Antonsen, B.L. and Edwards, D.H. (2002)  A lateral excitatory network in the escape circuit of crayfish. J. Neurosci. 22: 9078-9085.2.  Antonsen, B. and Edwards, D.H. (2003) Differential dye-coupling reveals the lateral giant escape circuit in crayfish. J. Comp. Neurol. 466: 1-13.3.  Herberholz, J., Sen, M.M., and Edwards, D.H. (2003) Parallel changes in agonistic and non-agonistic behaviors during dominance hierarchy formation in crayfish.  J. Comp. Physiol. A. 189: 321-325.4.  Sosa, M.A., Spitzer, N., Edwards, D.H., and Baro, D.J.  (2004) A crustacean serotonin receptor: Cloning and distribution in the thoracic ganglia of crayfish and freshwater prawn.  J. Comp. Neurol. 473 (4): 526-537.5.  Herberholz, J., Sen, M.M. and Edwards, D.H. (2004) Escape behavior and escape circuit activation in juvenile crayfish during prey-predator interactions. J. Exp. Biol. 207 (11): 1855-1863.6.  Herberholz J, Mims CJ, Zhang X, Hu X, Edwards DH (2004) Anatomy of a live invertebrate revealed by manganese-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging. J Exp Biol 207: 4543-4550.7.  Spitzer N, Antonsen BL, Edwards DH (2005) Immunocytochemical mapping and quantification of expression of a putative type 1 serotonin receptor in the crayfish nervous system. J Comp Neurol 484: 261-282.8.  Antonsen BL, Herberholz J, Edwards DH (2005) The retrograde spread of synaptic potentials and recruitment of presynaptic inputs. J. Neurosci. 25: 3086-3094.9.  Yong Li   Belkasim, S.   Yi Pan   Edwards, D.   Antonsen, B. (2005) 3D Reconstruction Using Image Contour Data Structure 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.  Pp. 3292-3295. 10. Song, C.-K., Herberholz, J. and Edwards, D.H. (2006) The effects of social experience on the behavioural response to unexpected touch in crayfish. J. Exp. Biol. 209: 1355-1363.11. Issa, F.A., and Edwards, D.H. (2006) Ritualized submission and the reduction of aggression in an invertebrate.  Current Biology 16: 2217-2221.12. Song, C.-K., Johnstone, L.M., Schmidt, M., Derby, C.D., Edwards, D.H. (2007) Social domination increases neuronal survival in the brain of juvenile crayfish

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Procambarus clarkii. J. Exp. Biol. 210: 311-324.13. Herberholz, J., McCurdy, C., and Edwards, D.H. (2007) Direct benefits of social dominance in juvenile crayfish.  Biol. Bull. 213: 21-27.14. Steullet, P., Edwards, D.H. and Derby, C.D. (2007) An electric sense in crayfish? Biol. Bull. 213: 16-20.15. Antonsen, B.L. and Edwards, D.H. (2007) Mechanisms of serotonergic facilitation of a command neuron.  J. Neurophysiol. 98:3494-3504.16. Spitzer, N., Edwards, D.H., and Baro, D.J. (2008) Conservation of structure, signaling and pharmacology between two serotonin receptor subtypes from decapod crustaceans, Panulirus interruptus and Procambarus clarkii. J Exp Biol 211:92-105.17. Horner AJ, Schmidt M, Edwards DH, Derby CD (2007) Role of the olfactory pathway in agonistic behavior of crayfish, Procambarus clarkii. Invert Neurosci. Published online Nov. 21, 2007.

Chapters and Reviews1.  Krasne,  F.B. and Edwards, D.H. (2002)  Crayfish Escape Behavior: Lessons Learned, in Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology, Editor: K. Wiese,  Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 3-22. 2.  Krasne, F.B. and Edwards, D.H. (2002) Modulation of the crayfish escape reflex – Physiology and Neuroethology.   Integ. Comp. Biol. 42: 705-715.3.  Edwards, D.H., Yeh, S.-R., Musolf, B.E., Antonsen, B.L. and Krasne, F.B.  (2002) Metamodulation of the crayfish escape circuit.  Brain Behav Evol 60: 360-369 4.  Edwards, D.H., Issa, F.A. and Herberholz, J.  (2003)  The neural basis of dominance hierarchy formation in crayfish.  Micros. Res. Tech. 60: 369-3765.  Edwards D.H., Herberholz, J. (2006) Crustacean Models of Aggression. In: Biology of Aggression (Nelson RJ, ed), pp 38-61. Oxford: Oxford University Press.6.  Edwards, D.H. and Spitzer, N. (2006) Social dominance and serotonin receptor genes in crayfish.  Current Topics in Developmental Biology, 74: 177-199. 7.  Edwards, D.H. (2008) Critical thinking in Biology, in Critical Thinking in College, 2nd Edition, George W. Rainbolt and Sandra L. Dwyer, eds., pp. 372-375, Thomson Custom Solutions, Mason, OH.

4.  Professional activity; 1991     Visiting Fellow, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews1992 - 93        Director, Program in Computational Neuroscience, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.1995 -   Director, Center for Neural Communication and Computation, Georgia State University.1996-        Co-director, Georgia Center for Neural Communication and Computation(with Dr. Steve DeWeerth)1996     Visiting Fellow, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews1997     Summer Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory2000         Professor of Physics, Georgia State University2000-2004    Director, Aggression Collaboratory, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience2001-2002    Chair, Neurobiology Division, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

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2003-2005    Membership Chair, International Society for Neuroethology            2004-             Director, Brains & Behavior Program2006         Regents' Professor

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Kyle Frantz, Associate Professor, Biology

Education:University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden University of Florida, Gainesville, FL The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

B.A. M.S. N/APh.D. Post-Doc

1988-91 1992-95 1995-96 1996-98

1999-2002

Psychology Psychobiology Physiology&Pharmacology Psychobiology Neuropsychopharmacology

2. Teaching Load 3 courses/yr:Fundamentals of Biology IIIntroduction to Neurobiology & BehaviorGrad Seminars: Brain Mechanisms of Reward & ReinforcmentNeuroscience Expo Internship in Biology

3. Scholarship and Publication Record (since 2002)

Ongoing Research Support 7/2005-7/2009 Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Venture Grant, $30,000 over 4 years “Retention in Research of Women and Minorities” Funds 4-year follow-up analysis of maintained interest and participation in science by participants in 2005 summer research experience program. Role: Principal Investigator

Laboratory Research Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals Frantz, K. J., Hansson, K. J., Stouffer, D. G., Parsons, L. H. (2002) 5-HT6 receptor

antagonism potentiates the behavioral and neurochemical effects of amphetamine but not cocaine. Neuropharmacology, 42: 170-180.

Frantz, K. J., Harte, M., Ungerstedt, U. and O'Connor, W.T. (2002) A dual probe characterization of dialysate amino acid levels in the medial prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area of the awake freely moving rat. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 119: 109-119.

Smith, A., Watson, C.J., Frantz, K.J., Eppler, F., Kennedy, R.T., Peris, J. (2004) Differential increase in taurine levels by low-dose ethanol in the dorsal and ventral striatum revealed by microdialysis with on-line capillary electrophoresis. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 28(7): 1028-38.

Frantz, K. J., O’Dell, L. E. & Parsons, L. H. (2006) Behavioral and neurochemical responses to cocaine in periadolescent and adult rats. Neuropsychopharmacology. Adv OnLine Pub June 21: 1-13.

Shahbazi, M., Moffett, A., Williams, B., Frantz, K.J. (2007) Age-and Sex-Dependent Amphetamine Self-Administration Rats. Psychopharmacology. OnLine Pub October 6.

Proceedings, Publications & Invited ChaptersFrantz, K.J. (2004) The Human HPLC column: minds-on neuroscience for the next

generation. Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, 1021: 323, 371-375.

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Kirstein, C., White, A., Frantz, K.J. (2004) Introduction to Short Papers. Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, 1021: 323.

Frantz, K.J., Koob, G.F. (2005) The Neurobiology of Addiction. In Coombs, R.H. (Ed.) Addiction Counseling Review. Lawrence Earlbaum Associated, Inc. Mahwah, NJ.

Krebs, D.L., Frantz, K.J., Parent, M.B. (2007) In vivo microdialysis: a method for sampling extracellular fluid in discrete brain regions. In Lajtha, A. (Ed.) Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology, Baker, G., Dunn, S., Holt, A. (Eds.) Practical Neurochemistry (Methods) Vol. 18. Plenum Publishing Corporation, NY, pp. 221-256.

Science Education Research Publications Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Demetrikopoulos, M.K., Parlier, D., Caldwell, H.K., Rose, J.D., Frantz, K.J., Carruth, L.

(2004) Developing Flexible Professional Development Opportunities to Meet Diverse Teacher Needs. Science Scope 27(5):16-19.

Frantz, K.J., DeHaan, R.L., Demetrikopoulos, M.K., Carruth, L.L. (2006) Routes to Research for Novice Undergraduate Neuroscientists. Cell Biology Education – Life Sciences Education, 5: 175-187.

Zardetto-Smith, A.M., Mu, K., Carruth, L.L., Frantz, K.J. (2006) Brains Rule!: A Model Program for Developing Professional Stewardship Among Neuroscientists. Cell Biology Education – Life Sciences Education, 5: 158-166.

Frantz, K.J. (2007) The Human HPLC column: minds-on neuroscience for the next generation. The Science Teacher 74(1): 33-39.

Pecore, J., Demetrikopoulos, M.K., Frantz, K.J. (2007) Student-centered deliberations of ethical care and use of animals. American Biology Teacher 69(7): 416-421.

4. Professional ActivityHonors and Awards 1990 National Science Foundation and Penn State University Summer Research Fellowship 1991 Graduated with Honors (University of Pennsylvania) 1992-96 Grinter Fellowship 1993 Grass Foundation Travel Grant 1993-98 The Center for Neurobiological Sciences Traineeships 1994 The Levitt Award for Outstanding Graduate Study in Psychobiology 1994&96 Graduate Student Council and Coll Liberal Arts & Sci Travel Grants 1996 European Behavioural Pharmacology Society Student Bursary 1997 International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Student Travel Bursary 1997 AccuScan Travel Fellowship 2000 The Scripps Research Institute Society of Fellows Travel Award 2000 The Serotonin Club Travel Award 2001 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director’s Travel Award 2007 Georgia State University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award 2007 Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Science Educator Award

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Kim Huhman, Professor, Psychology

Education:Duke University, Durham, N.C. B.S. 1982University of Georgia, Athens, GA Ph.D. 1988Walter Reed Army Inst. of Res. Washington, DC postdoc 1988-1990Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA postdoc 1990-1995

2. Teaching Load 1 course/yr:Psychopharmacology

3. Scholarship and Publications for the past five years: Ongoing Research Support:NIH RO1 MS62044 07/01/2000 – 06/30/2012 Neurobiology of Social BehaviorRole: PI

PublicationsHuhman, K. L.; Solomon, M. B.; Janicki, M.; Harmon, A. C.; Lin, S. M.; Israel, J. E. Jasnow, A. M. Conditioned defeat in male and female Syrian hamsters. Hormones and Behavior, 44, 293-299, 2003.Jasnow, A. M.; Cooper, M. A.; Huhman, K. L. N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in the amygdala are necessary for the acquisition and expression of conditioned defeat. Neuroscience, 123, 625-634, 2004.Jasnow, A. M.; Davis, M.; Huhman, K. L. Involvement of central amygdalar and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis corticotropin-releasing factor in behavioral responses to social defeat. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 1052-1061, 2004.Novak, C. M.; Ehlen, C.; Huhman, K. L.; Albers, H. E. GABAB receptor activation in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of diurnal and nocturnal rodents. Brain Research Bulletin, 63, 531-535, 2004.Faruzzi, A. N.; Solomon, M. B.; Demas, G. E.; Huhman, K. L. Gonadal hormones modulate the display of submissive behavior in socially defeated female Syrian hamsters. Hormones and Behavior, 47, 569-575, 2005.Cooper, M. A.; Huhman, K. L. CRF type-2 receptors in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis modulate conditioned defeat. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119: 1043-1051, 2005.Jasnow, A. M.; Shi, C.; Israel, J. E.; Davis, M.; Huhman, K. L. Memory of social defeat is facilitated by cAMP response element-binding protein overexpression in the amygdala. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119:1125-1130, 2005.Cooper, M. A.; Karom, M.; Huhman, K. L.; Albers, H. E. Repeated agonistic encounters in hamsters modulate AVP V1a receptor binding. Hormones and Behavior, 48:545-551, 2005.Foster, M. T.; Solomon, M. B.; Huhman, K. L.; Bartness, T. J. Social defeat increases food intake, body mass and adiposity in Syrian hamsters. American Journal of

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Physiology - Regulatory, Comparative and Integrative Physiology, 290: 1284-1294, 2006.Albers, H. E.; Dean, A.; Karom, M.; Smith, D.; Huhman, K. L. Role of V1a vasopressin receptors in the control of aggression in Syrian hamsters. Hormones and Behavior, 1073-1074: 425-430, 2006.Huhman, K. L. Social conflict models: Can they inform us about human psychopathology? Hormones and Behavior, 50, 640-646, 2006.Solomon, M. B.; Foster, M. T.; Bartness, T. J.; Huhman, K. L. Social Defeat and Footshock Increase Body Mass and Adiposity in Male Syrian Hamsters. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Comparative and Integrative Physiology, 292, R283-290, 2007.Solomon, M. B.; Huhman, K. L. Agonistic behavior in previously defeated and non-defeated female hamsters over the estrous cycle. Hormones and Behavior, 52, 211-219, 2007.Cooper, M. A.; Huhman, K. L. Corticotropin-releasing factor receptors in the dorsal raphe nucleus modulate social behavior in Syrian hamsters. Psychopharmacology, 194, 297-307, 2007.Markham, C. M.; Huhman, K. L. Is the medial amygdala part of the neural circuitry modulating conditioned defeat in Syrian hamsters? Learning and Memory, 15, 6-12, 2008.

4. Professional Activity:Other Experience 1998-2003 Chair, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA2004- Aggression Collaboratory Head; Center for Behavioral Neuroscience1997- Center for Brain Sciences and Health, Executive Committee, Georgia State University2004-2007 University Senate Member, Georgia State UniversityHonors1987- Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology)1988- Phi Kappa Phi (National Honor Society)1988 Herbert Zimmer Research Award, University of Georgia1988-1990 Recipient of National Research Council Resident Research Associateship, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

1998 Outstanding Educator Award, Georgia Psychological Association

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Paul Katz, Professor, Biology

Education:Northwestern University BA, MS 1979Cornell University Ph.D. 1988Brandeis University Postdoc 1988Univ Texas Med School Postdoc 1992

2.  Teaching load: 2 courses/yr:Biol 4102/6102 Fundamentals of Neurobiology Biol 8020 Integrative Neurobiology

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years; Peer-reviewed papers:1)  S. Clemens, R.J. Calin-Jageman, A. Sakurai, and P.S. Katz (2007) Altering cAMP levels within a central pattern generator modifies or disrupts rhythmic motor output. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 193(12):1265-71. PMID: 179720822)  A. Sakurai, R.J. Calin-Jageman, and P.S. Katz (2007) The potentiation phase of spike timing-dependent neuromodulation by a serotonergic interneuron involves an increase in the fraction of transmitter release. Journal of Neurophysiology. 98(4):1975-87. PMID: 17686912Reviewed by Faculty of 1000 http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1096014 3)  R. Calin-Jageman, M. Tunstall, B. Mensh,P.S. Katz, W. N. Frost (2007) Parameter space analysis suggests multi-site plasticity contributes to motor pattern initiation in Tritonia. Journal of Neurophysiology 98(4):2382-98. PMID: 176524174)  E.S. Hill and P.S. Katz (2007) The role of membrane potential in calcium signaling during rhythmic bursting in Tritonia swim interneurons. Journal of Neurophysiology, 97(3): 2204-2214 PMID: 172298215)  E.S. Hill and P.S. Katz (2007) The role of membrane potential in calcium signaling during rhythmic bursting in Tritonia swim interneurons. Journal of Neurophysiology, 97(3): 2204-2214.6)  R.J. Calin-Jageman, A. Dhawan, H. Yang, H.-C. Wang, H. Tian, P. Phoungphol, C. Frederick, J. Balasooriya, Y. Chen, S.K. Prasad, R. Sunderraman, Y. Zhu, and P.S. Katz (2007) Development of NeuronBank: A Federation of Customizable Knowledge Bases of Neuronal Circuitry,  Proceedings of the Ist IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools - IEEE Services Computing Workshops (SOBDAT/SCW 2007).  July 13,  Salt Lake City, Utah.7)  R.J. Calin-Jageman, C. Xie, Y. Pan, A. Vandenberg & P.S. Katz (2007) NEURONgrid: A toolkit for generating parameter-space maps using NEURON in a grid environment. In LNCS Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, v. 4463. I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky (Eds.), pp. 182–191.8)  P.S. Katz (2007) Evolution and Development of Neural Circuits in Invertebrates. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 17(1): 59-64.  PMID: 17174546

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9)  J.M. Newcomb and P.S. Katz (2007) Homologues of serotonergic central pattern generator neurons in related nudibranch molluscs with divergent behaviors. J. Comp. Physiol. A.  193(4): 425-443. PMID: 17180703   reviewed by Faculty of 1000 Biology  http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1081940 10) W.B.Kristan and P. Katz (2006) Form and function in systems neuroscience. Current Biology. 16(19): R828-R831.11) J.M. Newcomb, D.J. Fickbohm, and P.S. Katz (2006) Comparative mapping of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons in the central nervous systems of nudibranch molluscs.  J. Comparative Neurology, 499(3): 484-505.12) R.J. Calin-Jageman and P.S. Katz (2006) A distributed computing tool for generating neural simulation databases. Neural Computation.  18(12):2923-713) P.S. Katz (2006) Comparative Neurophysiology: An Electric Convergence in Fish [Dispatch]. Current Biology 16(9): R327-R330.14) A. Sakurai, N.R. Darghouth, R.J. Butera, and P.S. Katz (2006) Serotonergic enhancement of a 4-AP-sensitive current mediates the synaptic depression phase of spike-timing dependent neuromodulation. Journal of Neuroscience. 26: 2010 - 202115) H. Tian, R. Sunderraman, R. Calin-Jageman, H. Yang, Y. Zhu, and P.S. Katz (2006) NeuroQL: A Domain-Specific Query Language for Neuroscience Data, Current Trends in Database Technology – EDBT 2006, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. v. 4254: pp 613-63416) H. Tian, Y. Wang, H. Yang, R. Sunderraman, P.S. Katz and Y. Zhu, (2005) “A novel neuron data model with domain specific query language”, Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sep. 1-4, 2005, Shanghai, China.17) J. A. Pamplin, Y. Zhu, P.S. Katz, R. Sunderraman (2005) A 3D User Interface for Visualizing Neuron Location in Invertebrate Ganglia, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, Lect. Notes in Computer Science, 3515: 347 – 350.18) D.J. Fickbohm, N. Spitzer, P.S. Katz (2005) Pharmacological manipulation of serotonin levels in the nervous system of the opisthobranch mollusc Tritonia diomedea. Biol. Bulletin  209: 67-74.19) P.S. Katz, A. Sakurai, S. Clemens, D. Davis  (2004) The Cycle Period of a Network Oscillator is Independent of Membrane Potential and Spiking Activity in Individual Central Pattern Generator Neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 92(3):1904-17.20) C.P. Lynn-Bullock, K. Welshhans, S.L. Pallas, P.S. Katz (2004) The effect of oral 5-HTP administration on 5-HTP and 5-HT immunoreactivity in monaminergic brain regions of rats. J.Chemical Neuroanatomy. 27(2):129-138.21) Sakurai, A. and P.S. Katz (2003) Spike Timing-Dependent Serotonergic Neuromodulation of Synaptic Strength Intrinsic to a Central Pattern Generator Circuit. Journal of Neuroscience. 23: 10745-10755.Review by Faculty of 1000 http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1016612/ 22) P.S. Katz (2003) Synaptic gating: The potential to open closed doors. [Dispatch] Current Biology 13: R554 - R556.23) S. Clemens and P.S. Katz (2003) G protein signaling in a neuronal network is necessary for rhythmic motor pattern production.  Journal of Neurophysiology 89: 762-772

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Book Chapters:1)  P.S. Katz (2007)  Unanswered questions, Chapter 37- Information Flow and the Neuron Biology: in The Dynamic Science, Authors: Russell, Wolfe, Hertz & Starr, Publisher: Thomson Higher Education: Brooks/Cole.2)  P.S. Katz and S.L. Hooper (2007) Invertebrate Central Pattern Generators.  In “Invertebrate Neuroscience” G.North and R. Greenspan (eds), Cold Spring Harbor Press, Chapter 11. pp 251-280.3)  P.S. Katz and R. Calin-Jageman (2007) Neuromodulation.  In “New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience”  Elsevier, in press.4)  P.S. Katz and J.M. Newcomb (2007) A Tale of Two CPGs: Phylogenetically polymorphic networks.  In “Evolution of Nervous systems”, Volume 1.  JH Kaas (ed), Academic Press, Oxford, UK.  pp 367-374 (Manuscript available upon request)5)  H. Tian, R. Sunderraman, R. Calin-Jageman, H. Yang, Y. Zhu, and P.S. Katz (2006) NeuroQL: A Domain-Specific Query Language for Neuroscience Data, Current Trends in Database Technology – EDBT 2006, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. v. 4254: pp 613-634.

4.  Professional activity; 2007 – 2012:    Co-director, Neural Systems and Behavior Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA2007 – 2010 President-elect of the International Society for Neuroethology2007 – 2009 President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience 2004 – present: Director, Center for Neuromics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (formerly the  Center for Neural Communication and Computation).

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Anne Z. Murphy, Associate Professor

Education:University of Cincinnati        BS      1985    PsychologyUniversity of Colorado        MS      1987    Behavioral GeneticsUniversity of Cincinnati     Ph.D.   1992    Behavioral Neurosci.University of Maryland  Postdoctoral Associate  1995    Neurobiology

2.  Teaching workload 2.5 courses/yrIntro Anatomy & Physiology Brains & Behavior Scholars Course Biobehavioral Statistics

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Ongoing Research Support

1 RO1 DA16272-01 (AZ Murphy, Ph.D.)6/1/02-5/31/07

NIH/NIDASex differences in Opioid SensitivityThe major goal of this project is determine the effects of gonadal steroids on somatic pain and hyperalgesia and to determine the effects of gonadal steroids on opioid receptor function.Role: PI

1 P50 AR49555 (Greenspan, J., PI) 09/20/02-08/31/07NIH/NIAMSDSCOR on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women’s Health The major goals of this project are to characterize sex differences and the role of gonadal hormones in opioid analgesia of visceral pain.Role: co-PI

Publications (last 5 years)(20)    Ji, Y., Murphy, A.Z. and R.J. Traub. Estrogen modulates the visceromotor reflex and responses of spinal dorsal horn neurons to colorectal stimulation in the rat. J. Neurosci. 23 (2003) 3908-3915.(21) Hoffman, G.E., Moore, N., Fiskum, G., and A.Z. Murphy.  Ovarian steroid modulation of seizure severity and hippocampal neuronal damage induced by kainic acid administration. Experimental Neurol. 182 (2003) 124-134.(22)      Lim, M.M., Murphy, A.Z., and Young, L.J.  Ventral striatopallidal oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptors in the monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster). J. Comp. Neurol. 468 (2004) 555-570.(23)        Cushing, B.S., Murphy, A.Z., Le, W.W., Hoffman, G.E. The making of a monogamous male: The role of steroid receptors. Brain Res. 1016 (2004) 247-54.(24) Young, L.J., Murphy Young, A.Z. and L. Hammock.  Neuroanatomy of the pair

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bond.  J. Comp. Neurol. 493(2005) 51-7.(25)   Robertson, C.L., Puskar, A., Hoffman, G.E., Murphy, A.Z., Saraswati, M., and Fiskum, G.  Physiologic progesterone reduces mitochondrial dysfunction and hippocampal cell death after traumatic brain injury in female rats.  Experimental Neurology 197 (2006) 235-43.(26)      Loyd, D. and A.Z. Murphy Sex differences in the anatomical and functional organization of the midbrain periaqueductal gray-rostral ventromedial medullary pathway: A potential circuit mediating the sexually dimorphic actions of morphine.  J. Comp. Neurol. 496 (2006) 723-38.(27)   Marson L. and A.Z. Murphy. Identification of neural circuits involved in female sexual response: a dual virus and anterograde tracing study. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 291(2006) R419-28.(28)     Wang, X., R.J. Traub and A.Z. Murphy  Systemic morphine produces a greater degree of analgesia in male versus female rats in a model of persistent pain. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 291(2006):R300-6.(29)  Ji, Y., A.Z. Murphy, and R.J. Traub. Sex Differences in Morphine Induced Analgesia of Visceral Pain are Surpspinally and Peripherally Mediated. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 291(2006) R307-14.(30)  Salierno J.D., Snyder N.S., Murphy A.Z., Poli M., Hall S., Baden D., Kane A.S.  Harmful algal bloom toxins alter c-Fos protein expression in the brain of killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus.  Aquat Toxicol. 78 (2006) 350-7.(31)        Cutler, S.M., VanLandingham, J.W., Murphy, A.Z., and D.G. Stein.  Slow-release and injected progesterone treatments enhance acute recovery after traumatic brain injury. Pharmacology, Biochem. & Behavior 84 (2006) 420-8.(32) Ji, Y., A.Z. Murphy, and R.J. Traub. Estrogen modulation of morphine analgesia of visceral pain in female rats is supraspinally and peripherally mediated.  J. Pain, 8 (2007) 494-502.(33)      Loyd, D.R., Morgan, M.M. and Murphy, A.Z.  Morphine preferentially activates the Periaqueductal Gray - Rostral Ventromedial Medullary pathway in the male rat. Neuroscience, 147 (2007) 456-68.(34)     LaPrairie, J. and Murphy, A.Z.  Long-term consequences of neonatal pain are exacerbated in female rats.  Pain, 132 (2007) S120-9.(35)    Greenspan, J.D., Craft, R.M., LeResche, L., Arendt-Nielsen, L., Berkley, K.J., Fillingim, R.B., Gold, M.S.,  Holdcroft, A., Lautenbacher, S., Mayer, E.A., Mogil, J.S., Murphy, A.Z., Traub, R.J., the Consensus Working Group of the Sex, Gender, and Pain SIG of the IASP. Studying sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia: A consensus report. Pain, 132 (2007) S26-S45.(36)   Nomandin, J. and Murphy, A.Z. Nucleus Paragigantocellularis Afferents in Male and Female Rats: Organization, Gonadal Steroid Sensitivity, and Activation During Sexual Behavior. J. Comparative Neurology, in press.(37)   Loyd, D.R., Morgan, M.M. and Murphy, A.Z.  Sexually Dimorphic Activation of the Periaqueductal Gray - Rostral Ventromedial Medullary Circuit during the Development of Morphine Tolerance in the Rat. European J. Neuroscience (in press).

4.  Professional activityHonors:

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Allen Award for Outstanding Psychology Student (1985)Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Highest Honors in Psychology (1985)NIH Post-Doctoral Training Fellow (1992-1993)NIH-HLB Individual Research Service Award (1993-1995)NSF POWRE Award (1997-1999)

Study sections:National Institute of Health:

Ad Hoc Member, IFCN-4, Special Emphasis Study Section (2003, 2004)Ad-Hoc Member, BRLE Study section, Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes IRGReviewer, ZDE1 study section, Review of Centers for Oral Research – Pain, NIDCRReviewer, NIDA-NIH Cutting Edge Basic Research AwardsAd Hoc Member, IFCN-D Endocrinology and Neurobiology of SleepAd-Hoc Member, ZRG1/RUSD, UKGD, NIDK

National Science Foundation, Neuroendocrinology Division, 2003- 2006

Professional society committees:2005-2006 President, Atlanta Chapter Society for Neuroscience2005-present Member, Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee2005-present Treasurer, special interest group on Sex, Gender and Pain, International

Association for the Study of Pain2006-present Executive Committee, Organization for Studies on Sex Differences2006-present Committee on Elections, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Sarah L. Pallas, Professor, Biology

Education:B.S. 1977 Biology (Zoology) University of MinnesotaM.S. 1980 Zoology (Neurobiology) Iowa State UniversityPh.D. 1987 Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell UniversityPostdoc 1988-92 Brain & Cognitive Sci M.I.T.

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:BIOL 2108 Fundamentals of Biology IIBIOL 4094/6094 Developmental NeurobiologyBIOL 8020/PSYC 8617 Integrative Neurobiology

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;FundingCurrent AwardsCompetitive renewal, Research grant IBN-0451018, “Role of early sensory experience

in parcellation of sensory cortex”, $512,463 total costs, direct costs $355,426, indirect costs $157,037, National Science Foundation, 3/1/05 – 2/28/09. P.I.: S.L. Pallas.

Previous AwardsResearch Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Supplement IOS-0736036 to IOS-

0451018, to sponsor Lori Eidson. $5997 total costs, $4150 direct costs, $1847 indirect costs, National Science Foundation, 6/1/07 8/31/07.  P.I.:  S.L. Pallas.

Molecular Biology of Disease Summer Undergraduate Research Support, $5000. 6/07-8/07.  P.I.:  S.L. Pallas.

Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Equipment grant, $9417.00. February, 2007. P.I.: S.L. Pallas.

Brains and Behavior Program seed grant “Modeling circuits for stimulus velocity tuning in the superior colliculus”, total and direct costs $26,343, Provost’s Office, GSU, 10/7/05-10/6/06. Co-PIs: Pallas, Prasad, Shilnikov.

Research Supplement Award, “Circuit- and cellular-level mechanisms underlying recovery from sensory deprivation and early brain trauma”, total and direct costs $37,462, Dept. of Biology, GSU, 5/15/05.

Research grant, “Role of early sensory experience in parcellation of sensory cortex”, $269,995 total costs, $194,862 direct costs, $75,133 indirect costs, IBN-007811, National Science Foundation, 9/15/00- 8/31/05. P.I.: S.L. Pallas.

R01 Research grant , “Developmental plasticity of visual response properties”, $668,625 total costs, $475,000 direct costs, $193,625 indirect costs, EY/MH12696-01A1, National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute, 05/01/00 - 4/30/05. P.I.: S.L. Pallas.

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Research support grant, “ Cross-modal plasticity in the auditory cortex of deaf ferrets”. $10,000 total costs, $6873 direct, $3127 indirect costs, # GSU: DLN29. National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation, 1/03– 1/04. P.I. Khaleel A. Razak.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLESRazak, K.A., S.L. Pallas (2007) Inhibitory plasticity facilitates recovery of stimulus

velocity tuning in the superior colliculus after chronic NMDA receptor blockade. J. Neurosci. 27(27): 7275-7283.

Carrasco, M.M., S.L. Pallas (2006) Early visual experience prevents but cannot reverse deprivation-induced loss of refinement in adulthood. Visual Neuroscience 23(6):845-852.

Razak, K. A., S.L. Pallas (2006) Dark rearing reveals the mechanism underlying stimulus size tuning of superior colliculus neurons. Visual Neuroscience, 23(5): 741-748.

Carson, J.P., T. Ju, H.-C. Lu, C. Thaller, M. Xu, S.L. Pallas, M.C. Crair, J. Warren, W. Chiu, G. Eichele (2005) A digital atlas to characterize the mouse brain transcriptome. PLOS Computational Biology, 1(4):e41 URL: http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request =getdocument&doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010041

Razak, K. A., S.L. Pallas (2005) Neural mechanisms of stimulus velocity tuning in the superior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol 94(5):3573-3589.

Carrasco, M.M., K.A. Razak, S.L. Pallas (2005) Visual experience is necessary for maintenance but not development of refined retinotopic maps in superior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol. 94: 1962-1970.

Lynn-Bullock, C.P., K. Welshans, S.L. Pallas, P.S. Katz (2004) The effects of oral 5-HTP administration on 5-HTP and 5-HT immunoreactivity in monoaminergic brain regions of rats. J. Chem. Neuroanat, 27:129-138.

Razak, K.A., L. Huang, S.L. Pallas (2003) NMDA receptor blockade in the superior colliculus increases receptive field size without altering velocity and size tuning. J. Neurophysiol. 90: 110-119.

BOOKSPallas, S.L. (editor) Developmental plasticity of inhibitory circuitry. Springer-

Verlag, New York.

INVITED REVIEWSKral, A. and S.L. Pallas (accepted) Development of the auditory forebrain. In J.A.

Winer and C.E. Schreiner (eds.) The Auditory Cortex. Springer, New York.Pallas, S.L. (2007) Compensatory innervation in development and evolution. In J.

Kaas (ed.), Evolution of Nervous Systems, Vol 1, G.F. Striedter and J.L.R. Rubenstein (eds.): Theories, Development, and Invertebrates, pp 153-168. Academic Press, Oxford.

Pallas, S.L., P. Wenner, C. Gonzalez-Islas, M. Fagiolini, K. Razak, G. Kim, D. Sanes, and B. Roerig (2006) Developmental plasticity of inhibitory circuitry. J. Neurosci. 26 (41): 10358-10361.

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Pallas, S.L., M. Xu, and K.A. Razak (2006) Influence of thalamocortical activity on sensory cortical development and plasticity. In: R. Erzurumlu, W. Guido, Z. Molnar, (eds.) Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex, pp 120-137. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York.

Pallas, S.L. (2005) Pre- and postnatal sensory experience shapes functional architecture in the brain. Chapter 1 in B. Hopkins & S.P. Johnson (Eds.): Prenatal Development of Postnatal Functions. Advances in Infancy Research Volume 14. Praeger, Westport, CT, pp. 1-30.

4. Professional activityHonors2003 Satellite Symposium speaker, Soc. Neurosciences Meeting2004 Evolution Education Award Nominee, NABT2004 Advisory Panel, NSF, Integrative Biol. & Neuroscience2005 Evolution Education Award Recipient, NABT2006 Chair, Society for Neuroscience Minisymposium

Committees and peer reviewPanel member, Animal Sensation and Movement, IBN, NSF IBRO Animals in Research Committee

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Marise Parent, Associate Professor, Psychology

Education:BA: Concordia University, Psychology, 1989PhD: University of California, Irvine, Neurobiology, 1993Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Virginia, Neuroscience, 1996

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr PSYC 2050 Introduction to Drugs and Behavior PSYC 8610 Behavioral NeuroscienceI have a 2 courseload reduction due to my duties as Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology

3. Scholarship and Publication

Funding:

Principal Investigator, “The effects of a high fructose diet on brain and behavior. CDC/GSU Seed Grant Award for Social and Behavioral Science Research, 2007-2008, $59,964 (direct costs).

Co-investigator, “A multidisciplinary approach to learning,” Georgia State University Research Program Enhancement, 2005 – 2011, $150,000 (direct costs)

Principal Investigator, “The effects of a high fructose diet on hippocampal-dependent memory”. Georgia State University Brains and Behavior Program, 2007, $30,365 (direct costs).

Principal Investigator, “Neurochemical and behavioral effects of hyperglycemia,” NINDS-NIDDK-JDF (RO1 NS41173-02), 2000-2005, $650,000 (direct costs).

Principal Investigator, “The pathological effects of a high fructose diet on body weight and memory”. Georgia State University Brains and Behavior Program, 2005-2006, $30,000 (direct costs).

Publications (last five years):

1. Crowder, N.A., Lehmann, H. Parent, M.B., & Wylie, D.R.W. (2003). The accessory optic system contributes to spatio-temporal tuning of motion-selective pretectal neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90(2): 1140-51. Epub Dec 2002.

2. Degroot, A. Kornecook, T. Quirion, R., De Bow, S., & Parent, M.B. (2003). Glucose increases hippocampal acetylcholine upon activation of septal GABA receptors. Brain Research, 979, 71-77.

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3. Lehman, H., Treit, D., & Parent, M.B. (2003). Spared anterograde memory for shock-probe fear conditioning after inactivation of the amygdala. Learning and Memory, 10, 261-269.

4. Shah, A.A., & Parent, M.B. (2003). Septal infusions of glucose or pyruvate, but not fructose, produce avoidance deficits when coinfused with the GABA agonist muscimol. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 79, 243-251.

5. Shah, A.A., & Parent, M.B. (2004). Septal infusions of glucose or pyruvate with muscimol impair spontaneous alternation. Brain Research, 996, 246-250.

6. Parent, M.B. & Baxter, M.G. (2004). Septo-hippocampal acetylcholine: Involved in but not necessary for learning and memory? Learning and Memory, 11: 9-20.

7. Krebs, D.L. & Parent, M.B. (2005). The enhancing effects of hippocampal infusions of glucose are not restricted to spatial working memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 83, 168-172.

8. Krebs, D.L. & Parent, M.B. (2005). Hippocampal infusions of the glycolytic metabolite pyruvate reverse the memory-impairing effects of septal GABA receptor activation. European Journal of Pharmacology, 520, 91-99.

9. Erickson, E.J, Watts, K. & Parent, M. B. (2006). Septal infusions of glucose with a GABA-B agonist impair memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 85, 66-70.

10. Gore, J.B., Krebs, D.L., & Parent, M. B. (2006). Changes in blood glucose and salivary cortisol are not necessary for arousal to enhance memory in young or older adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31, 589-600.

11. Spetch, M.L. & Parent, M.B. (2006). Age and sex differences in children’s spatial search strategies. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13(5), 807-812.

12. Krebs-Kraft, D.L, Wheeler, M.G, & Parent M.B. (2007). The memory-impairing effects of septal GABA receptor activation involve GABAergic septo-hippocampal projection neurons. Learning and Memory, 14(12), 833-41.

13. Krebs-Kraft, D.L & Parent M.B. (2008). Hippocampal infusions of glucose reverse memory deficits produced by co-infusions of a GABA receptor agonist. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 89(2), 142-152.

14. Cisse, R.S. Krebs-Kraft, D.L & Parent M.B. (in press). Septal infusions of the hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel (HCN-channel) blocker ZD7288impair spontaneous alternation but not inhibitory avoidance. Behavioral Neuroscience.

4. Professional Activities:

2003 – 2006: Chair, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

2007- present: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Aras Petrulis, Associate Professor, Psychology

Education:BS: Arizona State University, Psychology, 1991PhD: Cornell University, Psychology, 1998Postdoctoral Fellow: Boston University, Psychology, 2002

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr PSYC 2050 Introduction to Drugs and Behavior PSYC 4110 Physiological Psychology PSYC 4560 Psychology of Animal Behavior PSYC 8618 Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience

3. Scholarship and Publication

Funding:

1995 - 1997: National Institute of Health Pre-doctoral National Research Service Award1998 - 2001: National Institute of Health Post-doctoral National Research Service

Award2003-2005: Principal Investigator: “The function of c-fos in sexual behavior”. Venture

grant awarded by the NSF Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (IBN-9876754). $30,000.

2005-2009: Principal Investigator: “The neurobiology of social attraction and preference”. Grant awarded by NIMH (RO1 MH072930). $1,200,000.

2005-2006: Principal Investigator: “Neuroanatomy of Sexual Solicitation: Vaginal Marking in Female Golden Hamsters”. Seed grant awarded by the

Brains and Behavior Initiative, GSU. $26,300.

Publications (last five years):

Petrulis, A. & Eichenbaum, H. (2003) Olfactory memory. In R. L. Doty (Ed.), Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation: Second Edition. (pp. 409-438). New York: Marcel Dekker.

Petrulis, A. & Eichenbaum, H. (2003) The perirhinal-entorhinal cortex, but not the hippocampus, is critical for expression of individual recognition in the context of the Coolidge effect. Neuroscience, 122, 599-607.

Petrulis, A., Weidner, M. & Johnston, R. E. (2004) Recognition of competitors by male golden hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, 81, 629-638.

Petrulis, A., Alvarez, P. & Eichenbaum, H. (2005) Neural correlates of social odor recognition and the representation of individual-distinctive social odors within entorhinal cortex and ventral subiculum. Neuroscience, 130, 259-274.

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Petrulis, A. (2005) The neurobiology of odor-based sexual preference: the case of the Golden hamster. In R. T. Mason, M. P. LeMaster & D. Muller-Schwarze (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 10 (pp. 291-299). New York: Springer.

Maras, P. & Petrulis, A. (2006) Chemosensory and steroid-responsive regions of the medial amygdala regulate distinct aspects of opposite-sex odor preference in male Syrian hamsters. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 3541-3552.

Eidson, L., Maras, P., Epperson, E. & Petrulis, A. (2007) Female hamster preference for odors is not regulated by circulating gonadal hormones. Physiology and Behavior, 91, 134-141.

Maras, P. & Petrulis, A. (2007) The role of early olfactory experience in the development of adult odor preferences in rodents. In J. Hurst, R.J. Beynon, S.C. Roberts & T. Wyatt (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11, (pp. 251-260). New York: Springer.

Been, L. & Petrulis, A. (2007) The neurobiology of sexual solicitation: vaginal marking in female Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). In J. Hurst, R.J. Beynon, S.C. Roberts & T. Wyatt (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11, (pp. 231-239). New York: Springer.

Maras, P. & Petrulis, A. (2008) Olfactory experience and the development of odor preference and vaginal marking in female Syrian hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, in press.

Maras, P. & Petrulis, A. The role of the posteromedial cortical amygdala in generating sexual odor preference and copulatory behavior in male Syrian hamsters. submitted.

4. Professional Activities:2006-present Chair, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Andrey Shilnikov, Associate Professor, Mathematics (dynamical systems and mathematical neuroscience)

Education:Ph.D., Differential Equations incl. Mathematical Physics, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1990. Postdoc  Cambridge University, UK, 1994-1995 and UC Berkeley, 1993-94.

2.  Teaching load 4 courses/yr:ODESPDESCalculusLinear Algebra1000 level Math

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Channell P., Cymbalyuk G. and Shilnikov A. L., Origin of bursting through homoclinic

spike adding in a neuron model, Phys. Rev. Letters98, 134101, 2007; doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.134101 [pdf] [gzip.ps]. Virtual Journal of Biological Physics, 3(7), 2007.

Channell P., Cymbalyuk, G. and Shilnikov, A. L., Applications of the Poincare mapping technique to analysis of neuronal dynamics, Neurocomputing, 70 (10-12), 2007; doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2006.10.091

Shilnikov L.P. and Shilnikov A.,  Shilnikov Bifurcation,  Scholarpedia, 2007, 2(8):1891.Shilnikov A.L. and Turaev D., Blue Sky Catastrophe, Scholarpedia, 2006, 2(8):1889. Shilnikov, A. L. and Cymbalyuk, G., Transition between tonic-spiking and bursting in a

neuron model via the blue-sky catastrophe, Phys Review Letters, 94, 048101 (2005) and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, February issue, 2005

Cymbalyuk, G. and Shilnikov, A. L. Co-existent tonic spiking modes in a leech neuron model, Journal of Computational Neuroscience 18 (3), 255-263, 2005

Shilnikov, A.L., Shilnikov, L.P. And Turaev, D.V. Blue sky catastrophe in singularly perturbed systems, AMS Moscow Mathematical Journal, 5(1), 205-218, 2005

Shilnikov, A. L., Calabrese R. and Cymbalyuk, G. How a neuron model can demonstrate coexistence of tonic spiking and bursting? Neurocomputing, 65-66, 869-875, 2005

Mira, C. and Shilnikov, A.L., Slow and fast dynamics generated by non-invertible plane maps, Bifurcations and Chaos 15(11), 2005

Shilnikov, A. L., Calabrese R. and Cymbalyuk, G. Mechanism of bi-stability: tonic spiking and bursting in a neuron model, Phys Review E 71(1), 205, 2005

Shilnikov, A. L. and Cymbalyuk, G. Homoclinic saddle-node orbit bifurcations en a V.3 route between tonic spiking and bursting in neuron models, Regular & Chaotic Dynamics 9 (3), 281-297, 2004

Shilnikov, A. L., Shilnikov, L.P. and Turaev, D.V. Mathematical aspects of classical synchronization theory. Tutorial. Bifurcations and Chaos 14(7), 2143-2160, 2004

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Shilnikov, A.L. and Rulkov, N.F. Subthreshold oscillations in a map-based neuron model, Physics Letters A 328, 177-184, 2004

Shilnikov, A.L. and Rulkov, N.F. Origin of chaos in a two-dimensional map modeling spiking-bursting neural activity, Bifurcations and Chaos 13(11), 2003

4.  Professional activity;

Faculty of Center for Nonlinear Science at GaTech

Reviewer and referee for Nonlinearity, Phys Rev Letters, Physica D, Phys Rev E, J Comp Neuroscience, Bifurcations and Chaos, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, Complexity IEEE J Circuits and Systems, SIAM J Applied Mathematics, SIAM J Dynamical Systems and all other major journals in the fields.

A co-organizer of a workshop Origin and rhythmogenesis of bursting, GSU Atlanta, 2006, April 6-8.A co-organizer of a symposium Complex dynamics of systems with multiple time scales at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Salk Lake City, Utah, May 22-26, 2005•A co-organizer of a symposium The Geometry of Spiking and Bursting at 2004 SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences. Portland, Oregon, July 11-14, 2004• A co-organizer omini-symposium Bursting in Mappings at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 27-31, 2003

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Walter Wilczynski, Professor, Psychology

Education:Lehigh University, BS/BA Psychology and BiologyUniversity of Michigan, PhD NeuroscienceCornell University, Postdoc, Neurobiology & Behavior

2. Current workload for typical semester:Workload per semester is 50% administration (Co-director, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience), 30% Research, 20% Teaching:Psyc 4110 (Physiological Psychology)

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Current funding:2003-2007 NIMH Research Grant (2-R01 MH/DC57066): “Acoustic communication

and hormone control”; $884,000 total costs; currently in no cost extension

2008-2012 National Science Foundation (0751573):”The interaction of social experience and hormone changes in modifying aggression” (renewal); $560,000 total costs

Two postdocs and one graduate student in my lab currently have individual NIH funded NRSA fellowships.

Publications last 5 years:Wilczynski, W. (2008) Evolution, of the Brain: in Amphibians. In: A. B. Butler, ed.

Encyclopedia Reference of Neuroscience. Springer, in press.Lynch, K.S., and W. Wilczynski (2008) Reproductive hormones modify reception of

species-typical communication signals in a female anuran. Brain Behav. Evol., 71:143–150.

Wilczynski, W., and H. Endepols (2007) Central auditory pathways in anuran amphibians: The anatomical basis of hearing and sound communication. In: A. N. Popper, A. S. Feng and P. N. Narins, eds. Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. Springer-Verlag, pp. 221-249.

Hoke, K.L., M. J. Ryan, and W. Wilczynski (2007) Functional coupling between substantia nigra and basal ganglia homologs in amphibians. Behav. Neurosci., 121:1393-1399.

Almli, L.M., and W. Wilczynski (2007) Regional distribution and migration of proliferating cell populations in the adult brain of Hyla cinerea (Anura, Amphibia). Brain Res., 1159:112 – 118.

Chu, J., and W. Wilczynski (2007) Apomorphine effects on frog locomotor behavior. Physiol. Behav., 91: 71-76.

Hoke, K.L., M. J. Ryan, and W. Wilczynski (2007) Integration of sensory and motor processing underlying social behaviour in túngara frogs. Proc. Royal Soc. Lond., 274: 641–649.

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Yang, E.-J., and W. Wilczynski (2007) Social experience organizes parallel networks in sensory and limbic forebrain. J. Develop. Neurobiol., 67: 285–303.

Lynch, K.S., and W. Wilczynski (2006) Social regulation of plasma estrogen concentration in a female anuran. Horm. Behav., 50: 101-106.

Farrell, W. J., and W. Wilczynski (2006) Aggressive experience alters place preference in green anole lizards (Anolis carolinensis). Anim. Behav., 71: 1155-1164.

Lynch, K. S., D. Crews, M. J. Ryan and W. Wilczynski (2006) Hormonal state influences aspects of female mate choice in the túngara frog (Physalaemus pustulosus). Horm. Behav., 49: 450-457.

Wilczynski, W., K. S. Lynch, E. L. O’Bryant (2005) Current research in amphibians: Studies integrating endocrinology, behavior, and neurobiology. Horm. Behav., 48: 440-450.

Hoke, K.L., M. J. Ryan, W. Wilczynski (2005) Social cues shift functional connectivity in the hypothalamus. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 102: 10712-10717.

Singletary, K.G., Y. Delville, W. J. Farrell, W. Wilczynski (2005) Distribution of orexin/hypocretin immunoreactivity in the nervous system of the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea. Brain Res., 1041: 231– 236.

Lynch, K. S., and W. Wilczynski (2005) Gonadal steroid fluctuations in a tropically breeding female anuran. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol., 143: 51-56.

Witte, K., H. E. Harris, M.J. Ryan, and W. Wilczynski (2005) How cricket frog females deal with a noisy world: evidence for environmental selection on tuning. Behav. Ecol., 16:571–579.

4. Professional activity; Co-Director for Research and Academic Programs, Center for Behavioral

Neuroscience Chair, Animal Resources Committee (Georgia State University) Member, Psychology Dept. Executive Committee (Georgia State University) Editor-in-Chief, Brain, Behavior and Evolution Editorial Board member, Journal of Zoology

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Associate Faculty

1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Marina Arav, Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Education:1990 - B.S., Applied Mathematics, Simferopol State University, Ukraine 1995 - M.S., Applied Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology2000 - Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology2000 - Postdoc, Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.2002 - Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin – Madison

2.  Teaching load 4 courses/yr:Math 8200 Advanced Matrix AnalysisMath 8210 Topics in Applied Matrix Analysis

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years:Internal and External Funding:2004 Technology Fee Grant Program at Georgia State University, Mobile Classroom for Teaching Mathematics and Statistics, with Drs. Vidakovic (PI), Miller, Patterson, Shilnikov and Smirnova, November 15, 2004 – November 14, 2005, $105,045.2005 Travel to The 2005 International Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, funding of The Center for Mathematical Sciences, Technion, Israel, January 3–7 , 2005, $400.2005 NSF–AWM Travel Grant for Women Researchers, for travel to The 2005

International Haifa Matrix Theory Conference in January 3–7, 2005, $500. 2005 European Science Foundation Grant, for travel expenses at the conference: Personalized Medicine Europe: Health, Genes & Society Tel–Aviv University, Tel–Aviv, Israel, June 19–21, 2005, $500.2006 Research Initiation Grant, Georgia State University, “The Human Olfactory Recognition using Boolean Matrix Factorization”, July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007, $10,000.2006 NSF–AWM Mentoring Travel Grant for Women Researchers, “The Human

Olfactory Recognition using Boolean Matrix Factorization”, March 1, 2006 – February 28, 2007, $3,500.2006 DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science), research visit grant, March 2–13, 2006, $1,500.2006 Brains & Behavior Program Fellowship for my graduate studnet, Georgia State

University, “3-D Reconstruction of Neuron Images”, July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007, $11,000.

2007 Brains & Behavior Program Seed Grant, Georgia State University, “Tunable 3 Dimensional Neuron Reconstruction from 2 Dimensional Contours”, with S. Belkasim (PI), B. Antonsen, January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2007, $29,440. 2007 Graduate student support from the above Brains & Behavior Seed Grant,

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Georgia State University, “Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Algorithms Applied to Neuron Images”, January 1, 2007 – June 30, 2007, $3,000.2007 Brains & Behavior Program Fellowship for my graduate student, Georgia State

University, “3-D Reconstruction of Neuron Images”, July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008, $11,000.

Publication record for past five years:

M. Arav, Application Techniques of the Recursive Inverse Eigenvalue Problem Solution Algorithm, Ideas, Projects and Technologies, ECI-S, 3, 2-8, 2004.

T. I. Seidman, H. Schneider, M. Arav, Comparison Theorems Using General Cones for Norms of Iteration Matrices, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 399, 169-186, 2005.

M. Arav, F. Hall, S. Koyuncu, Z. Li, and B. Rao, Rational Realizations of the Minimum Rank of a Sign Pattern Matrix, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 409, 111-125, 2005.

K. Hayashi, M. Arav, Bayesian Factor Analysis when Only a Sample Covariance Matrix is Available, Educational and Psychological Measurement, 66, 272-284, 2006.

M. Arav, S. Reich, A. J. Zaslavski, A Note on the Minimization of Convex Functions, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 32, 65-70, 2006.

M. Arav, F. E. Castillo Santos, S. Reich and A. J. Zaslavski, A Note on Asymptotic Contractions, Fixed Point Theory and Applications, Volume 2007, Article ID 39465, 1-6, 2007.

M. Arav, S. Reich and A. J. Zaslavski, Uniform Convergence of Iterates for a Class of Asymptotic Contractions, Fixed Point Theory, Volume 8, No. 1, 3-9, 2007.

M. Arav, J. Bevis, F. J. Hall, Inherited LU-Factorizations of Matrices, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 427, 26-41, 2007.

M. Arav, Contour Approximation of Data and the Harmonic Mean, to appear in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, Volume 11, no 1, 2008.

M. Arav, F. J. Hall, Z. Li , A Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality for Triples of Vectors, to appear in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, Volume 11, no 1, 2008.

M. Arav, F. J. Hall, Z. Li, and B. Rao, Rational Solutions of Certain Matrix Equations, submitted to Linear Algebra and Its Applications, under revision.

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M. Arav, F. J. Hall, Z. Li, Assefa Merid and Yubin Gao, Sign Patterns that Require Almost Unique Rank, submitted to Linear Algebra and Its Applications.

4.  Professional activity:Honors, awards and recognition:

1999 “Distinguished Teaching Assistant” award, Technion, Israel.

2001 Visiting Researcher, Technion, Israel, summer 2001.

2002 Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, summer 2002.

2006 Visiting Researcher, DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science), NJ, March 2-13, 2006.

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned:Deborah J. Baro, Associate Professor, Biology  Education:B.S.                 1980                Biology                                                 University of IllinoisPh.D.               1989                Biology (Moleccular Genetics)          University of IllinoisPostdoc            1989-92           Neurobiology & Behavior                   Cornell University 2. Teaching load: 2 courses/yrBIOL 4800/6800                     Principles of Cell Biology BIOL 8220                              Advanced Cell Biology  3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years

FundingCurrent Awards2007-2012       NIH/NIDA: R01DA024039, ($1,625,625 total costs; 1,125,000direct costs; 500,625, indirect costs), Mechanisms underlying opposing neuronal responses to brief vs. prolonged dopamine  PI: DJ Baro           Awards Completed in the last 5 years2006-2007       NSF: IOS-0733403                 ($5,000 total)               PI: DJ BaroDynamic Neural Networks Conference, San Diego, CA; November 2, 2007 2000-2006       NIH/NIGMS: GM08224         ($742,000 total)           PI: DJ Baro      Different Phosphorylation States of A-channels in Pyloric Cells2000-2004       NIH/NINDS: RO1 NS38770  ($942,791 total)           PI: DJ BaroMechanisms Underlying IA diversity PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLESSoto I, Marie B, Baro DJ, Blanco RE (2003) FGF-2 modulates expression and distribution of GAP-43 in frog retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve injury. J Neurosci Res. 73(4):507-17 Clark MC, Dever TE, Dever JJ, Xu P, Rehder V, Sosa MA and Baro DJ (2004) Arthropod 5-HT2 receptors: A neurohormonal receptor in Decapod crustaceans that displays agonist independent activity resulting from an evolutionary alteration of the DRY motif. Journal of Neuroscience 24: 3421–3435. Sosa MA, Spitzer N, Edwards DE, and Baro DJ (2004) A crustacean serotonin receptor: Cloning and distribution in the thoracic ganglia of crayfish and freshwater prawn.  Journal of Comparative Neurology 473: 526-537. Clark MC and Baro DJ (2006) Cloning and characterization of crustacean type one dopamine receptors: D1aPan and D1bPan. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology-Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 143:294-301.

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 Cui D, Dougherty KJ, Machacek DW, Sawchuk M, Hochman S, and Baro DJ (2006) Divergence between motoneurons: Gene expression profiling provides a molecular characterization of functionally discrete somatic and autonomic motoneurons. Physiological Genomics. Physiological Genomics, 24: 276-28 Clark MC and Baro DJ (2007) Arthropod D2 receptors positively couple with cAMP through the Gi/o protein family. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology-Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 146: 9-19. Brito MN, Brito NA, Baro DJ, Song CK, and Bartness TJ (2007) Differential activation of the sympathetic innervation of adipose tissues by melanocortin receptor stimulation. Endocrinology 148: 5339-47. Clark MC, Khan R and Baro DJ (2007) Crustacean dopamine receptors: localization and G protein coupling in the Stomatogastric Ganglion (STG). J. Neurochem, 104:1006-19.  Spitzer N, Edwards DH and Baro DJ (2007) Conservation of structure, signaling and pharmacology between two sertotonin receptor subtypes from decapod crustaceans: Panulirus interruptus and Procambarus clarkii. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211: 92-105.  Spitzer N, Zhang H, Cymbalyuk G, Edwards DH, and Baro DJ (2008) Variable components of the pyloric network 5-HT response system generate unpredictable changes in cycle frequency in response to the same modulatory challenge. in revision for the Journal of Neurophysiology.  4. Professional activity:Society Memberships1989-present    Society for Neuroscience2003-present    Society for Dynamic Neural Networks: The Stomatogastric System2007                American Physiological SocietySociety Offices2002-2004             Council Member, Atlanta Society for Neuroscience2006-2008             Treasurer, Society for Dynamic Neural Networks: The Stomatogastric                              System

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;

Timothy J Bartness, Regents’ Professor, Biology

Education:

B.A. Luther College, Decorah, IA (1975)M.A. Drake University, Des Moines, IA (1977)Ph.D. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (1982)Postdoc ??

2. Teaching Load 2 courses/yrBIOL 8040/PSYC 8615 Functional Human NeuroanatomyBIOL 8110 Energy Metabolism and BehaviorBIOL 6801/PSYC 6801 Survival Skills in Academia

3. Scholarship and PublicationsGRANTSCURRENTLY FUNDED-FEDERAL (last 5 years)National Institutes of Health Research Grant R01 DK35254-24 "Photoperiodic Control of

Obesity," 08/01/04-07/31/09, $1,057,500 (total direct costs).National Institutes of Health Supplement to R01 DK35254 to Promote Diversity in

Health-Related Research for Dr. Cheryl Vaughan, postdoctoral), 07/01/06-06/90/09, $167,684 (total direct costs).

National Institutes of Health Research Grant R01 DK078358-01 “Peptidergic Control of Appetitive Ingestive Behaviors”, 03/15/07-03/14/11 $820,000.

National Science Foundation via Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, “Neurovirus Development”,Co-PI with Lynn W. Enquist, Princeton University, 06/01/03-05/31/08, $454,035 ($256,930 total direct costs to GSU).

CURRENTLY FUNDED-NON-FEDERAL (last 5 years)Georgia State University: Faculty Mentoring Grant to Meera Penumetcha, “Dietary

Oxidized Fatty Acids: A Role in Weight Regulation?” 06/01/06-07/01/07 $11,000 ($0 total direct costs to TJB).

Georgia State University Brains and Behavior Program, “The pathological effects of a high fructose diet on body weight and memory.” Marise Parent PI; 05/31/06-06/30/07, $30,365 (direct costs; $7,675 to TJB).

PREVIOUSLY FUNDED-FEDERAL (last 5 years)National Science Foundation via Center for Behavioral Neuroscience PI with Co-PIs

Ruth Harris (University of Georgia) and Andrew Clancy (Georgia State University) “Do gonadal fat lipid levels control reproductive status and behavior?”, 01/01/03 $30,000 total direct costs to GSU).

National Science Foundation via Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Co-PI with Andrew Clancy (PI, GSU) and Larry Young (Emory) “The role of estrogen sensitive neurons in the medial amygdala on male rat sexual behavior” 09/01/02-08/30/03 $30,000 total direct costs to GSU).

Sponsor National Institutes of Health Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minority Graduate Research Assistants -- Supplement to Research Grant R01

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DK35254 "Photoperiodic Control of Obesity" Michelle T. Foster 09/01/01-07/31/04 $63,000 (total direct costs).

National Science Foundation IBN 9876495 "Foraging Effort and Changes in Externally- and Internally-Stored Energy" 09/01/02-8/31/05 $297, 612 (total costs).

Sponsor National Institutes of Health Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minority Graduate Research Assistants -- Supplement to Research Grant R01 DK35254 "Photoperiodic Control of Obesity" Michelle T. Foster 08/01/04-07/31/05 $26,000 (total direct costs).

National Institutes of Health Research Grant RO1 DK21397-28 Co-PI with Harvey J. Grill (PI, University of Pennsylvania), Ruth Harris (Co-PI, University of Georgia) “Brainstem Control of White Adipose Tissue Lipid Mobilization and Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis”, 09/01/04-08/31/05, $274,958 ($56,310 total direct costs to GSU).

National Science Foundation via Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Mark Wilson (PI; Yerkes Regional Primate Ctr) Co-PIs with Ruth Harris (University of Georgia) and Donna Toufexis (Emory University), “Social Stress and Comfort Foods in Non-Human Primates”, 08/18/05-08/17/06, $29,769 direct costs ($0 to GSU).

PUBLICATIONS (last five years)123 before 2003 (42 publications from 2003-present)124. Day, D. E. and Bartness, T. J. Food deprivation increases postfast foraging and

food hoarding, but not intake dependent on foraging effort. Physiology and Behavior, 78:655-668, 2003.

125. Williams, D. L., Bowers, R. R., Bartness, T. J., Kaplan, J.M. and Grill, H. J. Brainstem melanocortin 3/4 receptor stimulation increases uncoupling protein gene expression in brown fat. Endocrinology, 144: 4692-4697, 2003. *Editorial Focus Article

126. Demas, G. E., Bartness, T. J., Nelson, R. J., and Drazen, D. L. Photoperiod modulates the effects of norepinephrine on lymphocyte proliferation in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus). American Journal of Physiology, 285: R873-R879, 2003.

127. Bartness, T. J. and Day, D. E. Food hoarding: a quintessential anticipatory appetitive behavior. In: S. Fluharty and H. Grill (Eds.), Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology, San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press, Vol. 18: 69-100, 2003.

128. Day, D. E. and Bartness, T. J., AgRP stimulates food hoarding but not food intake by Siberian hamsters, American Journal of Physiology, 286: R38-45, 2004. *Editorial focus article.

129. Lacy, E. L. and Bartness, T. J. Autologous fat transplants influence compensatory white adipose tissue mass increases after lipectomy. American Journal of Physiology, 286: R61-R20, 2004. *Editorial focus article

130. Shi, H., Bowers, R. R., Bartness, T. J. Norepinephrine turnover in brown and white adipose tissue after partial lipectomy. Physiology and Behavior, 81:535-542, 2004.

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131. Bowers, R.R., Festuccia, W. T. L., Song, C. K., Shi, H. Migliorini, R. H. and Bartness, T. J. Sympathetic innervation of white adipose tissue and its regulation of fat cell number. American Journal of Physiology, 286:R1167-75, 2004.

132. Rooks, C., Bennet, T. Bartness, T. J. and Harris, R. B. S. Compensation for an increase in body fat caused by donor transplants into mice. American Journal of Physiology, 286:R1149-55, 2004.

133. Bartness, T. J. and Demas, G. E. Comparative studies of food intake: Lessons from non-traditionally studied species. In: E. M. Stricker and S. C. Woods (Eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology: Food and Fluid Intake, New York: Kluwer Academic Press/Plenum, pp. 421-465, 2004.

134. Hausman, D. B., Bartness, T. J., DiGirolamo, M., Fine, J. B., Plunkett, S. and Martin, R. J. Proliferative activity of adipose tissue conditioned media correlates with fat cell size in animal models of obesity. Adipocytes, 1:25-33, 2005.

135. Keen-Rhinehart, E. and Bartness, T. J. Peripheral ghrelin injections stimulate food intake, foraging and food hoarding in Siberian hamsters. American Journal of Physiology, 288(3):R716-R722, 2005.

136. Shi, H., Song, C. K., Giordano, A, Cinti, S. and Bartness, T. J. Sensory or sympathetic white adipose tissue denervation differentially affects depot growth and cellularity. American Journal of Physiology, 288: R1028 - R1037, 2005.

137. Bowers, R. R., Gettys, T. W., Prpic, V., Harris, R. B. S. and Bartness, T. J. Short photoperiod exposure increases adipocyte sensitivity to noradrenergic stimulation in Siberian hamsters. American Journal of Physiology, 288:R1354-R1360, 2005.

138. Day, D. E., Keen-Rhinehart, E. and Bartness, T. J. Role of NPY and its receptor subtypes in foraging, food hoarding and food intake by Siberian hamsters American Journal of Physiology, 289:R29-R36, 2005.

139. Rooks, C. R., Penn, D. M., Kelso, E., Mitchell, T. D., Bowers, R. R., Bartness, T. J., Harris, R. B. S., Sympathetic denervation does not prevent a reduction in fat pad size of rats or mice treated with peripherally administered leptin. American Journal of Physiology, 289:R92-R102, 2005.

140. Lacy, E. L. and Bartness, T. J. The effects of white adipose tissue grafts on total body fat and cellularity are dependent on graft type and location. American Journal of Physiology, 289:R380-R388, 2005. *Editorial Focus Article

141. Shi, H. and Bartness, T. J. White adipose tissue sensory nerve denervation mimics lipectomy-induced compensatory increases in adiposity. American Journal of Physiology, 289:R514-R520, 2005.

142. Song, C. K., Jackson, R. M., Harris, R. B. S., Richard, D. and Bartness, T. J. Melanocortin-4 receptor mRNA is expressed in sympathetic nervous system outflow neurons to white adipose tissue. 289:R1467-R1476. American Journal of Physiology, 2005. *Editorial Focus Article

143. Bartness, T. J., Song, C. K., Shi, H., Bowers, R. R. and Foster, M. T. Brain-adipose tissue cross talk Proc. Nutr. Soc. (London) 64:53-64, 2005.

144. Song, C. K., Enquist, L.W. and Bartness, T. J. New developments in viral tracings of neural circuits. Virus Research, 111:235-249, 2005.

145. Bartness, T. J., and Song, C. K. Innervation of Brown Adipose Tissue and Its Role in Thermogenesis. Canadian Journal of Diabetes 29:420-428, 2005.

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146. Harris, R. B. S., Kelso, E. W., Flatt, W. P., Bartness, T. J. and Grill, H. J. Energy expenditure and body composition of chronically maintained decerebrate rats in fed and fasted conditions. Endocrinology, 147:1365-1376, 2006.

147. Foster, M. T., Solomon, M. B., Huhman, K. L. and Bartness, T. J. Social defeat increases food intake, body mass and adiposity in Syrian hamsters. American Journal of Physiology, 290:1284-1293, 2006.

148. Giordano, A, Song, C.K., Bowers, R.R., Ehlen, J.C., Frontini, A., Cinti, S. and Bartness, T.J. White adipose tissue lacks significant vagal innervation and immunohistochemical evidence of parasympathetic innervation. American Journal of Physiology, 291:R1243-R1255, 2006. *Editorial Focus Article

149. Foster, M. T. and Bartness, T. J. Sympathetic but not sensory denervation stimulates white adipocyte proliferation. American Journal of Physiology, 291(6):R1630-R1637, 2006.

150. Solomon, M. B., Foster, M. T., Bartness, T. J. and Huhman, K. L. Social defeat and foot shock increases body and lipid mass in male Syrian hamsters. American Journal of Physiology, 292:R283-290, 2007.

151. Keen-Rhinehart and Bartness, T. J. NPY Y1 receptor is involved in ghrelin- and fasting-induced increases in foraging, food hoarding, and food intake. American Journal of Physiology, 292:R1728-R1737, 2007.

152. Huddleston, G. G., Song, C. K., Paisley, J. C, Bartness, T. J. and Clancy, A. N. Gonadal steroid receptors colocalize with central nervous system neurons projecting to the rat prostate gland.American Journal of Physiology, 292:R2196-2050, 2007.

153. Harris, R. B. S., Bartness, T. J. and Grill, H. J. Leptin responsiveness in chronically decerebrate rats. Endocrinology, 148:4623-4633, 2007.

154. Keen-Rhinehart, E. and Bartness, T. J. MTII attenuates ghrelin- and food deprivation-induced increases in food hoarding and food intake. Hormones and Behavior, 52:612-20, 2007.

155. Brito, M. N., Brito, N. A., Baro, D. J., Song, C. K., and Bartness, T. J. Differential activation of the sympathetic innervation of adipose tissues by melanocortin receptor stimulation, Endocrinology, 148:5339-47, 2007.

156. Bartness, T. J. and Song, C. K. Brain-adipose tissue neural crosstalk. Physiology and Behavior, 91:343-351, 2007.

157. Giordano, A, Song, C.K., Bowers, R.R., Ehlen, J.C., Frontini, A., Cinti, S. and Bartness, T.J. Replay to Kreier and Buijs: No Sympathy for the Claim of Parasympathetic Innervation of White Adipose Tissue. American Journal of Physiology, 293: R550-R552, 2007.

158. Bartness, T. J. and Song, C. K. Sympathetic and sensory innervation of white adipose tissue. Journal of Lipid Research, 48: 1655-1672, 2007.

159. Collins, S., Migliorini, R. H. and Bartness, T. J. Mechanisms controlling adipose tissue metabolism by the sympathetic nervous system: anatomical and molecular aspects. In: Sibley, D. (Ed), Handbook of Contemporary Neuropharmacology, New York, John Wiley, Volume 3, pp 785-814, 2007.

160. Goldman, B. D., Song, C. K. and Bartness, T. J. Seasonal Rhythms: Seasonal hormonal changes and behavior. In: Squire, L. Albright, T. Bloom, F., Gage, F. and Spitzer, N. (Eds), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, in press.

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161. Takahashi, N., Li, F., Hua, K., Deng, J., Wang, C. H., Bowers, R. R., Bartness, T. J., Kim, H. S. and Harp, J. B. Increased energy expenditure, dietary fat wasting and resistance to diet-induced obesity in mice lacking rennin, Cell Metabolism, in press.

162. Dailey, M. E. and Bartness, T. J. Fat pad-specific effects of lipectomy on foraging, food hoarding and food intake. American Journal of Physiology, in press.

163. Leitner, C. and Bartness, T. J. Food deprivation-Induced changes in body fat mobilization after neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment, American Journal of Physiology, in press.

164. Festuccia, W. T., Oztezcan, S., Laplante, M., Berthiaume, M., Michel, C., Dohgu, S., Denis, R. G., Brito, M. N., Brito, N. A., Miller, D. S., Banks, W. A., Bartness, T. J., Richard, D. and Deshaies, Y. PPARγ-mediated positive energy balance in the rat is associated with reduced sympathetic drive to adipose tissues and thyroid status. Endocrinology, in press.

165. Brito, M. N., Brito and Bartness, T. J. Differential sympathetic drive to adipose tissues after food deprivation, cold exposure or glucoprivation. American Journal of Physiology, in press.

4. Professional activity last 5 yearsAwards and Honors Regular Panel Member: National Institutes of Health, Neuroendocrinology,

Neuroimmunology and Behavior, 2002-2006Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State

University, 2006Alfred Nobel Lecturer, Goteborg, Sweden, 2006Regents’ Professor of Biology, Georgia State University, 2007

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Alfons Baumstark, Professor and Chair, Chemistry

EducationPh.D. in Chemistry, 1974, Harvard University

2. Teaching load 1 courses/yr:Course release for service (Chair, Department of Chemistry)

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

"N-Oxidation of 2-Substituted Pyridines and Quinolines by Dimethyldioxirane: Kinetics and Steric Effects," W.R. Winkeljohn, P. Leggett-Robinso, M.R. Peets, L. Strekowski, P.C. Vasquez and A.L. Baumstark, Heterocyclic Commun. 2007, in press

"Epoxidation of Substituted cis/trans-1,2-Dialkylalkenes by Dimethyldioxirane: Activation Parameters," B.S. Crow, W.R. Winkeljohn, A. Navarro-Eisensterin, E. Michelena-Baez, P.J. Franklin, P.C. Vasquez and A.L. Baumstark, E. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 20, 4642.

"Synthesis of 3,3,4,4,5-Pentasubstituted-5-Vinyl-4,5-Dihydro-3H-Pyrazoles:  Route to Vinylcyclopropanes," K.K. Towns, P.C. Vasquez, G.D. Kennedy and A.L. Baumstark, Heterocyclic Commun. 2006, 12, 337.

"17O NMR Spectroscopy of Heterocycles:  Substituent Effects in 3,5-Diarylisoxazoles and 3,5-Diarylisoxazolines," T. Yuzuri, S. Chandrasekaran, P.C. Vasquez and A.L. Baumstark, Heterocyclic Commun. 2006, 12, 7.

"Thermolysis of trans-3-Chloro-4,4,5-Trimethyl-3,5-Diphenyl-4,5-Dihydro-3H-Pyrazole," N. Desalegn, P.C. Vasquez, P.J. Franklin, G.D. Kennedy and A.L. Baumstark, Heterocyclic Commun. 2005 11, 375.

"Chiral Discrimination in Binding of Enantiomers of 2-(Aminoalkoxy)-substituted 4-(2-Thienyl)pyrimidines and 4,6-bis(2-Thienyl)pyrimidines with Duplex DNA," L. Strekowski , M.T. Cegla, V. Honkan, H. Buczak, W.R. Winkeljohn, A.L. Baumstark, and W.D. Wilson, Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2005, 11, 2720.

"Oxidation of Substituted Pyridines by Dimethyldioxirane: Kinetics and Solvent Effects," W.R. Winkeljohn, P.C. Vasquez, L. Strekowski and A.L. Baumstark, Tetrahedron Lett., 2004, 45, 8295.

"Epoxidation of Geraniol and Model Systems by Dimethyldioxirane: Kinetics," A.L.Baumstark, P.J. Franklin, P.C. Vasquez and B.S. Crow, Molecules, 2004, 117, 117.

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4. Professional activity

Junior Faculty Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, GSU, 1982

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1981-86)

Golden Key National Honor Society, GSU Distinguished Research Award (1987-88)

Advances in Oxygenated Processes, Alfons L. Baumstark, Series Editor, JAI Press Inc. Greenwich, Connecticut; 1988 - 1996.

Editorial Board - Heterocyclic Communications, 2003-present.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Saeid O. Belkasim, Associate Professor, Computer Science

EducationUniversity of AlFateh B.Sc.       1976 Electrical EngineeringMcGill University M.ENG  1985 Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Windsor Ph.D. 1990 Electrical and Computer Engineering.

2.Teaching load 3 courses/yr:Undergraduate Courses:      

•Computer Architecture                                    •Digital Image Processing                                 •Principles of computer programming II            •Data Structures                                                 

Graduate Courses:•Advanced Digital Image Processing                  

3. Scholarship and publication record (last five years)Publications 1   Yong Li, Xiujuan Chen, Saeid Belkasim and Yi Pan, “High Performance Bio-image Database Retrieval using MPI,” accepted by International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.(2007)

2   Saeid Belkasim, E. Hassan, T. Obeidi, “ Explicit invariance of Cartesian Zernike moments”, pattern recognition letters, Volume 28, Number 15, November, 2007, pp. 1969-1980

3   Saeid Belkasim, Gordana Derado, Rizi Aznita, Eric Gilbert and Heather O’Connell, “Multi resolution border segmentation for measuring spatial heterogeneity of mixed population biofilm bacteria”, Journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 32, Issue 1, pp. 11-16, January, 2008

4   S. Mneina and S. Belkasim, “Digital Transmit and Receive Linear Phase Matched Filters’, International Journal of Signal Processing, Volume 88, Issue 3, pp. 437-768, March 2008.

5   S. O. Belkasim, Xiangu Hong, and O. Basir, “Content-based image retrieval using Discrete Wavelet Transform”, Journal of Pattern Recognition and ArtificialIntelligence, Volume 18 Number 1, February 2004.

6   S. Belkasim, A. Ghazal, and O. A. Basir, “Phase-based optimal image thresholding”, Digital Signal Processing, volume 13, issue 4, pp. 636 - 655, October, 2003.

7   Yong Li, Xiujuan Chen, Xuezheng Fu, and Saeid Belkasim, “Multi-Level Discrete Cosine Transform for Content-Based Image Retrieval by Support Vector Machines,” ,

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Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.

8   Yong Li, Xiujuan Chen, Saeid Belkasim and Yi Pan, “Parallel Contour Matching and 3D Partial Retrieval in Bio-image Database,” , Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications.

9   A. El-Ghazal, O. Basir and S. Belkasim, “A Consensus-based Fusion Algorithm in Shape-based Image Retrieval”, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Fusion ( 2007)  

10  A. El-Ghazal, O. Basir and S. Belkasim, “A New Shape Signature for Fourier Descriptors”, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing , San Antonio, Texas

11  A. El-Ghazal, O. Basir and S. Belkasim, “Shape-Based Image Retrieval using Pair-wise Candidate Co-ranking”, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR2007)   2007

12  Xuezheng Fu, Yong. Li, Robert. Harrison, Saeid. Belkasim, “Content-based Image Retrieval Using Gabor-Zernike Features,” Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), vol. 2, pp. 417 - 420,  2006  

13  Yong Li, Saeid Belkasim and Xiujuan Chen, “Fuzzy Contour Matching for 3D Reconstruction and Retrieval,” FUZZY-IEEE of World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 1287-1291, 2006

14  Saeid Belkasim, Yong Li , and  Xiujuan Chen, “Partial 3D Component Retrieval from 2D Image Slices Using Contour Structure,” International Congress of Imaging Science, pp. 325-328, 2006.

15  Yong Li, Saeid Belkasim, Xiujuan Chen and Xuezheng Fu, “Image Segmentation Using Phase Congruency,” International Congress of Imaging Science, pp. 661-664, 2006.

16  Somasheker Akkaladevi, Ajay K Katangur, Saeid Belkasim, And Yi Pan, “Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Decision Fusion Of Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Annealing Algorithm” – Second International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain (ICNN&B), Beijing, China, 13-15 October 2005, Beijing, CHINA

17  Bryson R. Payne, Saeid O.Belkasim, G. Scott Owen, Michael C.Weeks, Ying Zhu, “Accelerated 2D Image Processing on GPUs.”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3515/2005 ,  Springer-Verlag GmbH pp. 256-264, May 2005.

18  Ying Zhu and Saeid Belkasim, “A 3D Reconstruction Algorithm Based on 3D Deformable Atlas”, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of The IEEE international conference on information technology and applications ICITA, Jul 4- 7 , Sydney,

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Australia, 2005.19  Saeid Belkasim, Pooja Bhatia, Wissam Ramlawi, Somasheker Akkaladevi, and Erdogan Dogdu, “Strip and Line Discrete Cosine Transforms for Blocking Artifact Reduction”, accepted for publication in the proceeding of  the 2005 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2005), Cincinati, Ohio, August 7-10, 2005.20  Y. Li, S. Belkasim , Y. Pan , D. Edwards and B. Antonsen, "3D Reconstruction Using Image Contour Data Structure", the Proceedings of IEEE-EMBC, p.3292, September 2005, Shanghai, China

21  Saeid Belkasim, Yong Li, Erdogan Dogdu, Xiangu Hong, Rizi Aznita and Zhiyi Li , “Contented-Based Image Retrieval in Biological Databases”Book: Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence, Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 17-19, 2004, Editor: Ali Okatan, pp: 512-515, ISBN: 975-98458-1-4

22  S. Prasad, V. Madisetti, S. Navathe, R. Sunderraman, E. Dogdu, A. Bourgeois, M. Weeks, A. Zelikovsky, Y. Zhang, Y. Pan, S. Belkasim, etal, “A Middleware Testbed for Collaborative Applications over Small Heterogeneous Devices and Data Stores”, proceedings of ACM/IFIP/USENIX, Fifth International Middleware Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 18- 22, 2004.pp. 352-371

23  S. Belkasim, E. Hassan and T.Obeidi, “Radial Zernike Moment Invariants”, The proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT’04), Wuhan, China, 14-16 September 2004. pp. 790-795

24  Somasheker Akkaladevi, Ajay K Katangur, Saeid Belkasim and Yi Pan, “Protein Secondary Structure Prediction using Neural Networks and Simulated Annealing Algorithm”, accepted for publication on the proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, California, USA, September 1-5, 2004.

25  Saeid Belkasim∗, Gordana Derado, Eric Gilbert and Heather O’Connell, “The effectiveness of multi resolution image segmentation for measuring spatial heterogeneity in mixed population biofilms”,  proceedings of the 47th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, July 25-28, 2004, pp. III-41 –III-44, Hiroshima, Japan.

26  Saeid belkasim, Jian Gu, Akrem Ghazal, Otman Basir, “The optimum automatic thresholding using the phase of Zernike moments”, accepted for publication on the proceedings of the 47th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, July 25-28, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan

27  Saeid Belkasim, Jian Gu, Gordana Derado, Eric Gilbert and Heather O’Connell, “Multi resolution image segmentation for quantifying spatial heterogeneity in mixed

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population biofilms”, proceedings of The 2004 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS '04), pp. 197-203, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 21 - 24, 2004.

28  Saeid Belkasim*, and Gordana Derado ,”Zigzag Line Discrete Cosine Transform for blocking artifact removal”, Proceedings of the IEEE 46th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, Dec 26-29, 2003.

29  Bo Jin,  S. O. Belkasim and   Erdogan Dogdu, " Web Image Transcoding and A Proxy-Based Solution for Small Devices”, Proceedings of the IEEE 46th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, Dec 26-29, 2003.

30  S. K. Prasad, M. Weeks, Y. Zhang, A. Zelikovsky, S. Belkasim, R. Sunderraman, and V. Madisetti, "Toward an Easy Programming Environment for Implementing Mobile Applications: A Fleet Application Case Study using SyD Middleware," IEEE International Workship on Web Based Systems and Applications (WEBSA), in conjunction with the 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2003), Dallas, Texas, November 3 - 6, 2003, pages 696-701.

4.  PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Referee and reviewer for the following journals:•IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II, Analog and Digital Signal Processing.   •IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence   •Journal of the Franklin Institute   •Pattern Recognition Journal    •Pattern Recognition Letters•IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.   •The International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering

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1. Name, rank, department, disciplineIgor Belykh, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics (Computational Neuroscience, Applied Mathematics)

Education:Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1999. Post Doc., Computational Neuroscience and Applied Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland, 2001-2003. 2. Teaching load: 4 courses/yrMathematical BiologyDifferential Equations.Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience (proposed)

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years :

Journal papers:I. Belykh and A. Shilnikov, “David vs. Goliath: When weak inhibition synchronizes

strongly desynchronizing networks of bursting neurons” (submitted to Physical Review Letters).

A. Shilnikov, R. Gordon, and I. Belykh, “Polyrhythmic Synchronization in Bursting Network Motifs (submitted to Chaos).

I. Belykh,  M. Hasler, and V. Belykh, "When symmetrization guarantees synchronization in directed networks," Int. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, V. 17, no. 10, pp. 3387-3395 (2007).

I. Belykh, V. Belykh, and M. Hasler, "Generalized connection graph method for synchronization in asymmetrical networks", Physica D, V. 224, pp. 42–51 (2006).

I. Belykh,  V. Belykh, and M. Hasler, "Synchronization in asymmetrically coupled networks with node balance," Chaos, V. 16, 015102 1-9 (2006) .

I. Belykh, E. de Lange, and M. Hasler, "Synchronization of bursting neurons: what matters in the network topology",  Physical Review Letters,  V. 94, 188101 (2005) and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, May 15 issue, 2005.

M. Hasler and I. Belykh, "Blinking long-range connections increase the functionality of locally connected networks," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals (Oxford University Press), V. E88-A, N 10, pp. 2647-2655 (2005). 

I. Belykh, M. Hasler, M. Lauret, and H. Nijmeijer, "Synchronization and graph topology",  Int. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos,  Vol. 15, No 11, pp. 3423–3433 (2005).

V. Belykh, I. Belykh, and  E. Mosekilde, "The hyperbolic Plykin attractor can exist in neuron models",  Int. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos,  Vol. 15, No 11, pp. 3567–3578 (2005).    

I. Belykh,  V. Belykh, and M. Hasler,  " Blinking model and synchronization in small-world networks with a time-varying coupling", Physica D,  V. 195/1-2, pp 188-206 (2004). 

V. Belykh,  I. Belykh, and M. Hasler,  "Connection graph stability method for synchronized coupled chaotic systems",  Physica D,  V. 195/1-2, pp. 159-187 (2004).

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I. Belykh, V. Belykh,  K. Nevidin, and M. Hasler, " Persistent clusters in lattices of coupled nonidentical chaotic systems",  Chaos, V. 13,  pp. 165-178 (2003).

V. Belykh, I. Belykh, and M. Hasler, "Small-world networks: dynamical models and synchronization",  Journal of  Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, V. 11, N  3, pp 67-76, 2003.

V. Belykh, I. Belykh, M. Hasler, and  K. Nevidin "Cluster synchronization in three-dimensional lattices of diffusively coupled oscillators",  Int. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2003, V.13, pp. 755-779  (2003).   

4. Professional activity :

Editorship: Associate Editor of Int. Journal “Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete & Impulsive Systems. Series B: Applications and Algorithms”.

Organization leadership: Co-organizer of Applied Dynamical Systems and Math. Neuroscience seminar in the

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, GSU.Co-organizer of the minisymposium “Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks” at

the 2007 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems,   Snowbird, USA, May 28-June 1, 2007.

Co-organizer of the Int. Workshop “Origin and Regulation of Bursting Activity in Neurons”, Atlanta, USA, 2006.

Co-organizer of the Int. Workshop “Nonlinear Dynamics Everywhere”, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 25-26, 2005.

Co-organizer of the minisymposium "Synchrony in Neural Networks" at the SIAM conference on the Life Sciences, Portland, USA, 2004.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Sarah Brosnan, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Education:Baylor University B.A. 1998 Biology Emory University Ph.D. 2004 Population Biol., Ecol, EvolEmory University Postdoc 2004-07 AnthropologyMD Anderson Cancer Ctr Postdoc 2004-07 Comparative Medicine

2. Teaching Load 2 courses/yr:Psychology of Animal Behavior (PSYCH 4560)Research Methods in Psychology (PSYCH 3030)

3. Scholarship and PublicationsGrants & awards2004 FIRST Postdoctoral Fellowship, Emory University 2003 Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Emory University 2007 Morton Deutsch Award for the best paper of the year published in Social

Justice Research in 20062007-2010 NSF grant “Understanding of strategic economic interactions through

cross-species analysis” with co-PIs Bart Wilson and Michael Beran (SES 0729244, $515,447 in total costs)

Peer Reviewed PublicationsBrosnan, Sarah F., Grady, Mark, Lambeth, Susan P., Schapiro, Steven J., and Beran,

Michael J. (2008) Chimpanzee Autarky. PLoS ONE 3(1): e1518. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001518.

Vonk, Jennifer, Brosnan, Sarah, Silk, Joan B., Henrich, Joseph, Schapiro, Steven, Richardson, Amanda, Lambeth, Susan P., Povinelli, Daniel J. (in press) Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members. Animal Behavior.

Brosnan, Sarah. F., Jones, Owen D., Lambeth, Susan P., Mareno, Mary Catherine, Richardson, Amanda S., and Schapiro, Steven J. (2007) Endowment effects in chimpanzees. Current Biology 17 (19): 1-4.

Van Wolkenten, Megan, Brosnan, Sarah F., and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2007) Inequity responses of monkeys modified by effort. PNAS 104: 18854-18859.

Brosnan, Sarah F. (2006) Nonhuman species’ reactions to inequity and their implications for fairness. Journal of Social Justice 19: 153-185.

Brosnan, Sarah F., Freeman, Cassie, and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2006) Equitable behavior, not reward distributions, affect capuchin monkey’s (Cebus apella) reactions in a cooperative task. American Journal of Primatology 68: 713-724.

Silk, Joan B., Brosnan, Sarah F., Vonk, Jennifer, Henrich, Joseph, Povinelli, Daniel, Richardson, Lambeth, Susan, Amanda, Mascaro, Jenny, and Schapiro, Steven. (2005) Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members. Nature 437: 1357-1359.

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Brosnan, Sarah F. and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2005) A simple response to barter in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Primates 46: 173-182.

Brosnan, Sarah F., Schiff, Hillary C., and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2005) Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) reactions to inequity during experimental exchange. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 1560: 253-258.

Brosnan, Sarah F. and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2004) A concept of value during experimental exchange in brown capuchin monkeys. Folia Primatologica 75: 317-330.

Brosnan, Sarah F. and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2004) Socially learned preferences for differentially rewarded tokens in the brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).  Journal of Comparative Psychology 118 (2): 133-139.

Brosnan, Sarah F. and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2003) Monkeys reject unequal pay. Nature 425: 297-299.

Brosnan, Sarah F., Dugatkin, Lee A., and Early, Ryan L. (2003) Observational learning and predator inspection in guppies, (Poecilia reticulata). Ethology 109: 823-834.

Brosnan, Sarah F. and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2003) Regulation of vocalizations by chimpanzees finding food in the presence or absence of an audience. Evolution of Communication 4 (2): 211-224.

Brosnan, Sarah F. and de Waal, Frans B. M. (2002). Variations on tit-for-tat: Proximate mechanisms of cooperation and reciprocity. Human Nature 13 (1): 129-152.

Chapters Brosnan, Sarah F. (2008) Fairness and other-regarding preferences in non-human

primates In Moral Markets: The critical role of values in the economy (ed. Paul J. Zak). Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. Preprint available on SSRN at http://ssrn.com/abstract=928966

Brosnan, Sarah F. (in press) The evolution of inequity. (ed. Daniel Houser and Kevin McCabe) in Advances in Health Economics series. Elsevier.

Brosnan, Sarah F. (in press). Inequity responses in nonhumn primates (ed. Paul Glimcher, Ernst Fehr, Colin Camerer, Russ Poldrack) in Neuroeconomics. Elsevier.

Brosnan, Sarah F. (in press) Prosocial behavior in chimpanzees. (ed. Elizabeth Lonsdorf, Steven Ross, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa) in The Chimpanzee Mind. University of Chicago Press.

de Waal, Frans B. M. and Brosnan, Sarah F. (2006) Simple and complex social reciprocity in monkeys and apes. In Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution (ed. Peter Kappeler & Carel van Schaik). Springer Press.

Brosnan, Sarah F. (2004) A sense of fairness in monkeys. In The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (ed. Marc Bekoff). Greenwood Press.

4. Professional ActivityEditorial Board2006 – present PLoS ONE (a journal of the Public Library of Science)

Ad Hoc RefereeActa Zoologica Sinica, American Journal of Primatology, Animal Behaviour, Animal

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Rob Clewley, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Education:University of Cambridge, UK -- MA (Cantab) 1995/2000University of Bath, UK -- MSc 1998University of Bristol, UK -- PhD 2000Boston University -- postdoc 2001-2004Cornell University -- postdoc 2004-2007

2. Teaching load 5 courses/yr:Pre-Calculus (1000 level)Partial Differential Equations (4000/6000 level) Applied Dynamical Systems (8000 level)

3.      Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Grants

FY09 Research Initiation Grant, GSU: Computational Methods for Data-driven Modeling in Neuroscience Co-PIs: R. Clewley, D.E. Edwards, P.S. Katz

Publications:R. H. Clewley, J. M. Guckenheimer, F. J. Valero-Cuevas, Estimating effective

degrees of freedom in motor systems, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 55(2), 430-442, 2008.

R. H. Clewley, J. M. Guckenheimer, F. J. Valero-Cuevas, Estimating degrees of freedom in motor systems, arxiv:q-bio.QM/0610058, October 2006. Extended version of the IEEE TBME publication.

R. Clewley, H. G. Rotstein, N. Kopell, A Computational Tool for the Reduction of Nonlinear ODE Systems possessing Multiple Scales, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 4(3), 732-759, 2005.

T. Netoff, R. Clewley, S. Arno, T. Keck, J. White, Epilepsy in Small World Networks, The Journal of Neuroscience, 24(37):8075 - 8083, 2004.

R. Clewley, Dominant Scale Analysis for Automatic Reduction of High-Dimensional ODE Systems, ICCS Proceedings 2004.

Patents:Patents held in USA and China with members of Tomo Software, Inc., forinvention of Artificial Intelligence algorithms for mobile anddistributed application gaming software involving social networks(PCT/US2005/036874).

Software:Developer of PyDSTool dynamical systems toolbox, an open-sourcepackage for simulation and analysis of dynamical systems models.

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4.      Professional activity;

Member of editorial board for the Journal of Biological Systems.

Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (alsoMathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems SIGs)

Co-organizer of Spineless Neuroscience Forum at Georgia State University.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earnedGennady Cymbalyuk, Assistant Professor, Physics

EducationMoscow State University M.S., 1989 PhysicsMoscow State University Ph.D. 1996 PhysicsEmory University Postdoc Biology

2. Teaching Load 3 courses/yr:Phys 2212 Introductory Physics Phys 3850/7850 Statistical and Thermal Physics

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years; Channell P, Cymbalyuk G, Shilnikov A (2007) Origin of bursting through

homoclinic spike adding in a neuron model. Phys Review Letters 98 (13): Art. No. 134101.

Olypher, A.V., Cymbalyuk, G., Calabrese, R.L. (2006) Hybrid Systems Analysis of the Control of Burst Duration by Low-Voltage-Activated Calcium Current in Leech Heart Interneurons. J Neurophysiol. 96: 2857-2867.

Weerasekara, A.B., Matsik, S.G., Cymbalyuk, G.S., and Perera A.G.U. (2006) Grouping behavior of inter-pulse time intervals for triggered pulses in an AlGaAs/InGaAs multilayer structure  Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 215: 159-165.

Shilnikov, A. L., Calabrese R. and Cymbaluyk, G. (2005) Mechanism of bi-stability: tonic spiking and bursting in a neuron model. Phys Review E 71, 056214, 1-9.

Cymbaluyk, G. & Shilnikov, A.L. (2005) Coexistence of tonic spiking oscillations in a leech neuron model, J. Computational Neuroscience 18(3):255-263.

Shilnikov, A. L. and Cymbaluyk, G. (2005) Transition between tonic-spiking and bursting in a neuron model via the blue-sky catastrophe, Phys Review Letters 94(4):048101, 1-4.

Cymbalyuk, G., Calabrese R. and Shilnikov, A. L., (2005) How a neuron model can demonstrate co-existence of tonic spiking and bursting? Neurocomputing 65-66: 869-875.

Bondarenko, V.E., Cymbalyuk, G.S., Patel, G., DeWeerth, S.P., Calabrese, R.L. (2004) Bifurcation of a synchronous oscillations into torus in a system of two reciprocally inhibitory silicon neurons: Experimental observation and modeling, Chaos, 14(4): 995-1003.

Shilnikov, A. L. and Cymbalyuk, G. (2004) Homoclinic saddle-node orbit bifurcations en a route between tonic spiking and bursting in neuron models, Invited paper, Regular & Chaotic Dynamics, 9(3): 281-297.

Sorensen, M., DeWeerth, S., Cymbalyuk, G., Calabrese, R.L. (2004) Using a hybrid neural system to reveal regulation of neuronal network activity by an intrinsic current. J Neurosci. 24(23):5427-5438.

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Wenning A, Cymbalyuk GS, Calabrese RL. (2004) Heartbeat Control in Leeches: I. Constriction Pattern and Neural Modulation of Blood Pressure in Intact Animals. J Neurophysiol. 91(1): 382-396.

Simoni M, Sorensen M, Cymbalyuk G, Calabrese R, DeWeerth S (2004) A multiconductance silicon neuron with biologically matched dynamics IEEE Trans on Biomed Eng 51 (2): 342-354.

Bondarenko, V.E., Cymbalyuk, G.S., Patel, G., DeWeerth, S.P., Calabrese, R.L. (2003) A bifurcation of a synchronous oscillations into a torus in a system of two mutually inhibitory aVLSI neurons: experimental observation  Neurocomputing 52-4: 691-698.

4. Professional activity; Conferences organized:

Local organizing committee of SENN 2006, 2008.Origin and Regulation of Bursting Activity in Neurons April 6-7, 2006 (Organizers: R. Calabrese (Emory), G. Cymbalyuk and A. Shilnikov (GSU)) April 7, 2008 Computational Neuroscience Workshop, GSU (Organizers:

G. Cymbalyuk, I. Belykh and A. Shilnikov (GSU)) Focus Session: Artificial Neurons, APS meeting, March 10-14, 2008, New

Orleans, Louisiana

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Mukesh Dhamala, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy

EducationTribhuvan University, Nepal MS (1994), BS (1990)University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ph. D. (2000), MS (1999)

2. Teaching load: 2 courses/yrPrinciples of Physics 1112

3. Scholarship and Publications:-M. Dhamala, G. Rangarajan, and M. Ding, ``Analyzing Information Flow inBrain Networks with Nonparametric Granger Causality,'' NeuroImage (inpress, 2008).-M. Dhamala, G. Rangarajan, and M. Ding, ``Estimating Granger Causalityfrom Fourier and Wavelet Transforms of Time Series Data,'' PhysicalReview Letters  100 , 018701 1-4 (2008).- M. Dhamala, C. G. Assisi, V. K. Jirsa, F. L. Steinberg, and J. A. S.Kelso, ``Multisensory integration for timing engages different brainnetworks,''  NeuroImage 34, 764 - 773 (2007).-M. Dhamala, V. K. Jirsa, and M. Ding, ``Enhancement of neural synchronyby time delay,'' Physical Review Letters  92, 074104 1-4 (2004).-M. Dhamala, V. K. Jirsa, and M. Ding, ``Transitions to synchrony incoupled bursting neurons,'' Physical Review Letters  92 , 028101 1-4(2004).-M. Dhamala, G. Pagnoni, K. Wiesenfeld, C. F. Zink, M. Martin, and G. S.Berns ``Neural correlates of the complexity of rhythmic finger-tapping,'', NeuroImage 20, 918 - 926 ( 2003).-C. F. Zink, G. Pagnoni, M. Martin, M. Dhamala, and G. S. Berns, ``Humanstriatal response to salient non-rewarding stimuli," J. Neuroscience23 , 8092 - 8097 ( 2003).

4. Professional Activity:Physics Colloquium, Flordia Atlantic University, FL, Feb 2008.Physics Colloquim,  University of Sydney, Sydney, Feb 2008.DIMACS Workshop on Data Mining, Systems Analysis, and Optimization in

Neuroscience, UF,Gainesville, FL, Feb, 2007.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Richard Dix, Professor, Biology

EducationPh.D. Baylor College of Medicine, 1978

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

Grant Support:

Principal Investigator, NIH-NEI RO1 EY010568, "Pathogenesis of CMV Retinitis" 09/05-08/10

Co-Principal Investigator, NIH-NEI RO1 EY/AI013318, "Immune responses in macular degeneration" 04/05-03/10

Publications:Buckner AE, Dix RD (2006) Nicotine treatment alters NF-kB expression in human cytomegalovirus-infected ARPE-19 cells. Current Eye Research 31: 191-198

Miller DM, Legra J, Dubovy S, Suner I, Sedmak DD, Dix RD, Cousins SW (2004) The association of prior cytomegalovirus infection with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. American Journal of Ophthalmology 138: 323-328

Dix RD, Cousins SW (2004) AIDS-related CMV retinitis: Lessons from the laboratory. Current Eye Research 29: 91-101

Dix RD, Podack, ER, Cousins SW (2003) Murine cytomegalovirus retinitis during retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency (MAIDS) in mice: Interleukin-2 immunotherapy correlates with increased intraocular levels of perforin mRNA. Antiviral Research 59: 111-119

Dix RD, Podack ER, Cousins SW (2003) Loss of the perforin cytotoxic pathway predisposes mice to experimental cytomegalovirus retinitis. Journal of Virology 77: 3402-3408

4. Professional activity

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Markus Germann, Professor, Chemistry

Education

B.S. 1982 Technikum Winterthur, Switzerland ChemistryPh.D. 1989 University of Calgary, Canada Nucleic Acid Biochem.Postdoc.1990 University of Calgary, Canada Physical Biochemistry

2. Teaching load 5 courses/yr:

Chem 4110/6110

Chem 4111

Chem  4160

Chem 4450/6450

Chem 8450 

3. Scholarship and PublicationsFunding ExternalNIH 1RO1 CA76011-01 NMR Structures and Functional Analysis of Oncogene  Products TCL-1 and MTCP-1 (M. Germann P.I.). Annual direct $148,466.  01/01/98-3/31/03

NIH 1RO1AI/GM47459-01 NMR Structure and Activity of Zinc Fingers specific for  HIV RRE RNA. (M. Germann P.I.).Annual direct $175,000. 01/01/01-12/31/06

NIH 2S06/GM08136-26-5 Charge Transport through DNA (S. Smirnov, P.I. (NMSU, M. Germann Contractor). Annual direct $172,123 (subcontract $30,000). 6/1/01-5/31/04

NIH S06 GM08136-33S1, “Charge Transport through DNA”(S. Smirnov, P.I. (NMSU)  M. Germann ContactorPeriod: 6/1/05-5/31/08.

 “Modulation of DNA Structure and Repair by DNA lesions ”Principal Investigator: Markus W. Germann, Ph.D.Distinguished Cancer Scientist: Georgia Cancer Coalition (2001-2009)

 “Southeastern Collaboratory for High-Field Biomolecular NMR”(J. Prestegard, P.I. UGA, M. Germann, regional co coordinator)  07/01/02-6/30/07

Funding InternalGSU Research Program Enhancement Grant,   "Drug Design and Synthesis" (P.I.: L. Strekowski, M.Germann, Co-investigator). Amount $80,000.  7/1/02-6/30/03

GSU Research Program Enhancement Grant,   "Drug Design and Synthesis" (P.I.: L.

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Strekowski, M.Germann, Co-investigator). Amount  $80,000. 7/1/03-6/30/04

GSU Brains and Behavior “Structure-functional Relationship of K+ Channels: De Novo Modeling and Experimentation” (Jiang, Prasad &  Germann, Co-investigator, No funds requested for MWG). 1/1/07-12/31/07

GSU Brains and Behavior “Molecular Elucidation of Alarm Cues in Sea Hare Secretions”  (Charles Darby & Markus Germann, Co-investigator). Total award: $30,000.   1/1/07-12/31/07. 

•GSU Brains and Behavior  “Search for 5-HT7 Receptor Liglands with potential antidepressant  activity” (Lucjan Strekowski & Markus Germann Co-investigator). Total award: $25,832.   1/1/06-12/31/07

Publications last 5 years:Harris, T., Shahidullah, M, Graber, A. R., Germann, M. W. &  

Covarubias, M. Molecular Features of an Alcohol Binding Site in a  Neuronal Potassium channel. Biochemistry (2003), 42, 11243-11252.

Aramini, J. M., Cleaver, S. H., Pon, R. T., Cunningham, R. P. &  Germann, M.W.  Solution Structure of a DNA Duplex Containing an a- Anomeric Adenosine:  Insights into Substrate Recognition by  Endonuclease IV. (2004), J. Mol. Biol. (2004), 338, 77-91.

Vlassiouk, I., Krasnoslobodtsev, A, Smirnov, S. & Germann, M.W.  "Direct" Detection and Separation of DNA Using Nanoporous Alumina  Filters. (2004) Langmuir, 20 (23), 9913-9915.

Covarrubias, M., Bhattacharji, A., Harris, T., Kaplan, B. and  Germann, M. W. "Alcohol and Anesthetic Action at the Gateof a Voltage- Dependent K+ Channel".  (2005) ICS 1283 Mechanisms of Anesthesia  Conference, MAC-2005. International Congress Series, Elsevier.

Salon, J., Chen, G., Portilla, Y., Germann, M.W. & Huang, Z.   Synthesis of a 2’-Se-uridine Phosphoramidite and Its Incorporation  into Oligonucleotides for Structural Study.  Organic Letters (2005),  7, 5645-5648.

Fan, F., Germann, M. W. and Gadda, G. "Probing the Chemical Mechanism  for Aldehyde Oxidation by Choline Oxidase with Substrate Analogs"  Biochemistry (2006), 45, 1979-1986.

Yang, H., Johnson, P. M., Ko, K-C., Kamio,  M., Germann, M.W., Derby,  C. D., & Tai, P. C. "Escapin, a stable and broadly antimicrobial FAD- containing L-amino acid oxidase from ink of the sea hare Aplysia  californica, can be functionally expressed in bacteria". Biochemistry  (2006), 45, 1979-1986.

Covarrubias, M., Bhattacharji, A., Harris, T., Kaplan, B. and  Germann, M.W.: "The structural determinants of alcohol-anesthetic  action in the activation gate of a voltage-gated K+ channel".  Molecular Pharmacology (2006), 70, 1542-1545.

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Mishra, S. M., Shelley, C. M., Darby, M. K. and Germann, M.W.  "Solution structures and characterization   of HIV RRE IIB RNA  targeting  zinc  finger proteins". Biopolymers (2006), 83, 352-364.

Voehler, M. Collier, G., Young, J.K., Stone, M.P. & Germann, M.W.:  "Performance Of Cryogenic Probes As A Function Of Ionic Strength And  Sample Tube Geometry". J.  Mag. Res. (2006), 183, 102-109.

Germann, M.W. Turner, T. & Allison, S.: "Translational Diffusion  Constants of the Amino Acids:  Measurement by NMR and Their Use in  Modeling the Transport of Peptides". Journal of Physical Chemistry  (2007), 111, 8, 1452-1455.

Kicklighter, C. E., Germann, M. W., Kamio, M. & Derby, C. D:   “Molecular Identification of Alarm Cues in the Defensive Secretions  if the Sea Hare Aplysis california”.  Animal Behavior (2007), 74,  1481-1492.

Moskau, D., Kovacs, H., Kümmerle, R., Colson, K., Collier, G. &  Germann, M.W.: "New CryoProbe Models for Diverse Analytical  Challenges". SpinReport, (2007), 157, 35-43.

Di Lullo, G., Reigle, K. L., Turner, K. R. Last, J. A., Birk, D. E.,  Funderburgh, J. L., Elrod, E., Germann, M.W., Surber, C., Sanderson,  R. D. and San Antonio, J. D. "Non-Enzymatic Glycation of Type I  Collagen Dimininishes Collagen-Proteoglycan Binding and Weakens Cell  Adhesion".  Journal of Cellular Biochemistry (2008).

4. Professional activity:

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Kathryn Betty Grant, Associate Professor, Chemistry

Education

New York University B.A. 1980 Latin American Lit.SUNY at Purchase (N.Y.) B.S. 1989 ChemistryColumbia University Ph.D. 1994 ChemistryCalifornia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral 1994-1997 Chemistry

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:

CHEM 4210/CHEM 6210: Inorganic Chemistry

BIOL 8637/CHEM 8370: Nucleic Acids Structure and Function

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years:

Journal Articles Published and/or Submitted, (2003 – 2007)

Wilson, B., Fernández, M.-J., Lorente, A.,* & Grant, K.B.* “Syntheses and DNA Photocleavage by Mono- and Bis-phenothiazinium-piperazinexylene Intercalators.” (2008) Tetrahedron, 64, 3429-3436 [submitted in 2007].

Kassai, M., & Grant, K.B.* “Tuning Zr(IV)-Assisted Peptide Hydrolysis at Near-Neutral pH.” (2008) Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 11, 521-525 [submitted in 2007].

Cepeda, S.S., & Grant, K.B.* “Hydrolysis of Insulin Chain B Using Zirconium(IV) at Neutral pH.” (2008) New Journal of Chemistry, 32, 388 - 391 [submitted in 2007].

Fernández, M.-J., Wilson, B., Palacios, M., Rodrigo, M.M., Grant, K.B.,* & Lorente, A.* “Copper-Activated DNA Photocleavage by a Pyridine-Linked Bis-Acridine Intercalator.” (2007) Bioconjugate Chemistry, 18, 121-129 [submitted in 2006].

Grant, K.B.* & Kassai, M. “Major Advances in the Hydrolysis of Peptides and Proteins by Metal Ions and Complexes.” (2006) Current Organic Chemistry (invited review), 10, 1035-1049 [submitted in 2005].

Gude, L., Fernández, M.-J., Grant, K.B.,* & Lorente, A.* “Syntheses and Copper(II)-Dependent DNA Photocleavage by Acridine and Anthracene 1,10-Phenanthroline Conjugate Systems.” (2005) Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 3, 1856-1862 [submitted in 2005].

Wilson, B., Gude, L., Fernández, M.-J., Lorente, A.,* & Grant, K.B.* “Tunable DNA Photocleavage by an Imidazole-Acridine Conjugate.” (2005) Inorganic Chemistry, 44, 6159-6173 [submitted in 2004].

Kassai, M., Ravi, R.G., Shealy, S.J., & Grant, K.B.* “Unprecedented Acceleration of Zirconium(IV)-Assisted Peptide Hydrolysis at Neutral pH.” (2004) Inorganic Chemistry 43, 6130-6132 [submitted in 2004].

Espinosa, J.-F., Fernández, M.-J., Grant, K.B.,* Gude, L., Rodrigo, M.-M., & Lorente, A.* “Synthesis, DNA Intercalation and Europium(III)-triggered DNA Photocleavage

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by a Bis-Proflavine Succinamide Conjugate.” (2004) Tetrahedron Letters 45, 4017-4020 [submitted in 2004].

De Silva, V., Woznichak, M.M., Burns, K.L., Grant, K.B., & May, S.W.* “Selenium Redox Cycling in the Protective Effects of Organoselenides against Oxidant-Induced DNA Damage.” (2004) Journal of the American Chemical Society 126, 2409-2413 [submitted in 2003].

Wilson, B., Lubin, I.M., & Grant, K.B.* “Allele-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Genotyping of a Normal Variation in Human Color Vision.” (2003) Journal of Chemical Education 80, 1289-1291 [submitted in 2002].

4. Professional activity:

Research Support, (2003-2007)

National Agencies

NSF Award (9/07-8/10) $390,000 (total costs)

ZIRCONIUM-ASSISTED HYDROLYSIS OF PEPTIDES, PROTEINS, AND LIPIDS, (K.B. GRANT P.I.).

NSF CAREER Award (2/00-1/06) $349,500 (total costs)

CAREER: A Combinatorial Approach to the Discovery of New Metal Complexes for Peptide Cleavage, (K.B. Grant P.I.).

Georgia State University

Advancement of Women Faculty Mentoring Grant (7/07-6/08) $6,000 (direct costs)

ZIRCONIUM-ASSISTED HYDROLYSIS OF DISEASE-RELATED PHOSPHOLIPIDS, (K.B. GRANT CO-P.I., D.W. DIXON CO-P.I.).

Research Program Enhancement Grant (7/98- present) ~$104,000 (annual direct costs)

DRUG DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS, (L. STREKOWSKI P.I., UP TO 9 CO-AUTHORS INCLUDING K.B. GRANT).

Research Equipment Award (5/06-6/06) $30,000 (direct costs)

MICROARRAY ANALYSIS OF BIOMOLECULES AND DISEASES, (Z. HUANG P.I., 3 CO-AUTHORS INCLUDING K.B. GRANT).

Brains and Behavior Seed Grant (11/04-6/06) $25,414 (direct costs)

THE PHARMACOGENETICS OF TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION, (K.B. GRANT P.I., S. DATTA CO-AUTHOR).

Research Equipment Award (9/04-6/05) $50,000 (direct costs)

Capillary Electrophoresis: An Increasingly Important Tool in Biotechnology Research, (E.D. Breyer P.I., 4 co-authors including K.B. Grant).

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Matthew Grober, Associate Professor, Biology

Education1981:  B.S., Marine Biology, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)1988:  Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)1988-1992: Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell 

University

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:

Animal Biology

Evolution

Hormones and Behavior

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years:

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2006-2010       National Science Foundation (NSF) # IOB0548567, Neuroendocrinology

($492,470)2006-2007       Brains and Behavior Seed Grant co-PI ($30,000)2005-2006       Brains and Behavior Seed Grant ($28,000)2004-2005       Brains and Behavior Seed Grant ($35,000)2002-2004       NIH-AREA grant, Co-PI ($100,000)2003-2004       CBN Venture Grant; Affiliation Collaboratory ($28,000)2003-2004       CBN Venture Grant; Aggression Collaboratory ($25,000)2002-2003       CBN Venture Grant; Affiliation Collaboratory ($30,000)2002-2003       CBN Venture Grant; Aggression Collaboratory ($30,000)

PUBLICATIONSRodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober M.S. (2007) Social status determines sexual phenotype

in the bi-directional sex changing bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli) Journal of Fish Biology 70:1660-1668.

Earley, R.L., J.T. Edwards, O. Aseem, K.Felton, L.S. Blumer, M. Karom and M. S. Grober (2006) Social interactions tune aggression and stress responsiveness in a territorial cichlid fish (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus). Physiology and Behavior, 88: 353 – 363.

Scaggiante, M., M.S. Grober, V. Lorenzi and M.B. Rasotto (2006) Variability of GnRH secretion in two goby species with socially controlled alternative male mating tactics. Hormones and Behavior 50:107-117.

Rodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober M.S. (2006) Elevated 11- ketotestosterone during paternal behavior in the Bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli). Hormones and Behavior 49: 610-614.

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Lorenzi, V., R.L. Earley, and M.S. Grober (2006) Preventing behavioural interactions with a male facilitates sex change in female bluebanded gobies Lythrypnus dalli. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:715-722.

Grober M.S., E.W. Rodgers, H.N. Denman, and A.V.M. Canario. (2005) The interaction of social and steroidal influences in regulating transitons between adult sexual phenotypes.Hormones and Behavior 48: 104-104.

Rodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober MS  (2005) 11-ketotestosterone and paternal behavior; Friends or foes? Hormones and Behavior 48: 122-122.

Black, M.P., J. Balthazart, M. Baillien and M.S. Grober. (2005)Socially induced and rapid increases in aggression are inversely related to brain aromatase activity in a sex-changing fish, Lythrypnus dalli. P Roy Soc Lond B Bio 272: 2435-2440.

Black, M.P., T.B Moore, A.V.M. Canario, D. Ford, R.H. Reavis and M.S. Grober. (2005) Reproduction in context: Field-testing a lab model of socially controlled sex change in Lythrypnus dalli, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 318: 127–143.

Schuett, G.W., D.L. Hardy, H.W. Grene, R.L.Earley,M.S. Grober, E.A. Van Kirk, and W.J. Murdoch. (2005) Sympatric species of rattlesnakes with contrasting mating systems show differences in seasonal patterns of plasma sex steroids. Animal Behavior 70: 257-266.

Drilling, C., and M.S. Grober. (2005) An initial description of alternative male reproductive tactics in the bluebanded goby, Lythrypnus dalli. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72: 361–372.

Rodgers, E.W., S. Drane, and M.S. Grober. (2005) Sex reversal in pairs of Lythrypnus dalli: behavioral and morphological changes. Biological Bulletin: 208 120-126.

Scaggiante, M., M. S. Grober, V. Lorenzi and M.B. Rasotto (2004). Changes along the male reproductive axis in response to social context in a gonochoristic gobiid, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Teleostei, Gobiidae) with alternative mating tactics.  Hormones and Behavior 46:607-617.

Schuett, G.W., M.S. Grober, E.A. Van Kirk, and W.J. Murdoch (2004). Long-term sperm storage and plasma steroid profile of pregnancy in a Western Diamond-backed rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).  Herp. Review 35: 328-333.

Stokes, E.A., W. Lonergan, L.P. Weber, D.M. Janz, A.A. Poznanski, G.C. Balch, C.D. Metcalfe and M.S. Grober (2004) Decreased apoptosis in the forebrain of adult male medaka (Oryzias latipes) after aqueous exposure to ethinylestradiol. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C. 138:163-167.

Earley, R., L. Blumer and M.S. Grober. (2004) The gall of subordination: changes in gall bladder function associated with social stress. P Roy Soc Lond B Bio 271: 7-13.

Black, M., R. Reavis and M.S. Grober. (2004) Sex differences in behavior and isotocin in a sex-changing vertebrate. Neuroreport 1:185-189.

Carneiro, L.A., R.F. Oliveira, A.V.M Canário and M.S. Grober. (2003) The effect of arginine vasotocin on courtship behaviour in a blenniid fish with alternative reproductive tactics. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry28: 241–243, 2003.

M.P. Black and M.S. Grober (2003). Group sex, sex change and parasitic males: Sexual strategies among the fishes and their neurobiological correlates.  Ann. Rev. Sex Res. 14: 160-184.

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Miranda, J.A., R.F. Oliveira, L.A. Carneiro, R.S. Santos, and M.S. Grober (2003) Neurochemical Correlates of Male Polymorphism and Alternative Reproductive Tactics in the Azorean Rock-Pool Blenny, Parablennius parvicornis.  Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 132: 183-189.

Perry, A.N. and M.S. Grober (2003) A Model for Social Control of Sex Change: Interactions of behavior, neuropeptides, glucocorticoids and sex steroids. Hormones and Behavior 43: 31-38.

4. Professional activity:

2003-2006: Director, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Scholars Program1997-2005: Associate Editor, Acta EthologicaMember, Science and Technology Committee, Zoo Atlanta's Board of Directors (2007-)Conservation Board Member, Georgia Aquarium (since 2005)Advisory Board, Acta Ethologica (since 2005)Advisory Board Member, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (Since 2003) External Advisor to the Eco-ethology unit in the Institute for Applied Psychology,

Lisbon, Portugal (since 1996)

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Julia Hilliard, Professor, Biology and Director, Viral Immunology Center

EducationPh.D. Baylor College of Medicine, 1975

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

Perelygina, Ludmila., Patursheva, Irina, Hombaiah, Soumya., Zurkhulen, Holley, Wildes, Martin J., Patrushev, Nikolai., Hilliard, Julia . Production of Herpes B Virus Recombinant Glycoprotiens and Evaluation of Their Diagnostic Potential. J. Clinical Mbio 43 (2) in press, 2005

Archin, N.M., Van Den Boom, L, Perelygina, L, Hilliard, J.M. [sic], Atherton, S.S. Delayed Spread and Reduction in Virus Titer after Anterior Chamber Inoculation of a Recombinant of HSV-1 Expressing IL-16. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 44: 3066-1076, 2003.

Perelygina L, Zhu L, Zurkuhlen H, Mills R, Borodovsky M, Hilliard JK. Complete sequence and comparative analysis of the genome of Herpes B Virus (/Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1)/ from a Rhesus Monkey. J. Virology. 77(11): 6167-6177, 2003.

Perelygina L, Patrusheva I, Manes N, Wildes MJ, Krug P, and Hilliard JK. 2003. Quantitative real-time PCR for detection of monkey B virus ( Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 ) in clinical samples. J Virol Methods. 109(2): 245-251.

Katz, D., Wei, S., Wildes, M., Hilliard, JK. Automation of serological diagnosis for herpes B virus infections using robot-assisted integrated workstations. J Assoc Lab Automat. 7(6):108-113, 2002.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Chun Jiang, Professor, Biology

EducationPh.D. Chinese Academy of Science, 1988

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

Wu, J., Cui, N., Piao, H., Wang, Y., Xu, H., Mao, J. and Jiang, C. (2002) Allosteric modulation of the mouse Kir6.2 channel by intracellular H+ and ATP. Journal of Physiology , 543, 495-405.

Mao, J., Li, L., McManus, M., Wu, J., Cui, N. and Jiang, C. (2002) Molecular determinants for activation of g-protein coupled inward rectifier K+ (GIRK) channels by extracellular acidosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, 46166–46171 .

Wu, J., Xu, H., Yang, Z., Wang, Y., Mao, J. and Jiang, C. (2002) Protons activate homomeric Kir6.2 channels by selective suppression of the long and intermediate closures. Journal of Membrane Biology , 190, 105-116 .

Jiang, C., Qu, Z. and Xu, H. (2002) Gating of inward rectifier K+ channels by proton-mediated interactions of internal protein domains. Trend in Cardiovascular Medicine , 12, 5-13.

Mao, J., Wu, J., Chen, F., Wang, X. and Jiang, C. (2003) Inhibition of G-protein coupled inward rectifying K+ channels by intracellular acidosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry , 278, 7091-7098.

Cui, N., Wu, J., Xu, H., Wang, R., Rojas, A., Piao, H., Mao, J., Abdulkadir, L., Li, L. and Jiang, C. (2003) A threonine residues (Thr71) plays a critical role in the gating Kir6.2 channel by intracellular ATP and pH. Journal of Membrane Biology , 192, 111-122.

Wang, X., Wu, J., Li, L., Chen, F., Wang, R. and Jiang, C. (2003) Hypercapnic acidosis activates KATP channels in vascular smooth muscles. Circulation Research, 92, 1225- 1232.

Li, L., Wu, J. and Jiang, C. (2003) Differential expression of Kir6.1 and SUR2B mRNAs in vasculatures of various tissues in rats. Journal of Membrane Biology, 196, 61-69.

Wu, J., Piao, H., Rojas, A., Wang, R., Cui, N., Shi, Y., Chen, F. and Jiang, C. (2004) Critical protein domains and amino acid residues for gating the Kir6.2 channel by intracellular ATP. Journal of Cellular Physiology, 198, 73-81 .

Mao, J., Wang, X., Chen, F., Wang, R., Rojas, A., Shi, Y., Piao, H. and Jiang, C. (2004) Molecular basis for the inhibition of G-protein coupled inward rectifier K+ channels by

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protein kinase C. Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences of the USA , 101, 1087- 1092 .

Wu, J., Xu, H., Shen W. and Jiang, C. (2004) Expression and coexpression CO2-sensitive Kir channels in brainstem neurons of rats. Journal of Membrane Biology , 197, 179 - 191 .

Li, L., Rojas, R., Wu, J. and Jiang C. (2004) Disruption of glucose sensing and insulin secretion by ribozyme Kir6.2-gene targeting in insulin-secreting cell line. Endocrinology , 145, 4408-4414.

Jiang, C., Rojas, A., Wang, R. and Wang, X. (2005) CO2 central chemosensitivity: Why are there so many sensing molecules? Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 145, 115- 126.

Li, L., Shi, Y., Wang, X., Weiwei, Shi and Jiang, C. (2005) Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in KATP channels: Muscular impact on Type-2 diabetes. Diabetes, 54, 1592-1597.

Wang, R., Su, J., Wang, X., Piao, H., Zhang X., Adams C., Cui, N. and Jiang, C. (2005) Subunit stoichiometry of the Kir1.1 channel in proton-dependent gating. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280, 13433-13441.

Wang, R., Rojas, A., Wu, J., Piao, H., Adams C. Y., Xu, H., Shi, Y. and Jiang, C. (2005) Determinant role of membrane helices in gating of intracellular ligand-gated ion channels. Journal of Membrane Biology , 204, 1-10.

Cui, N., Li, L., Wang, X., Shi, Y., Shi, W. and Jiang, C. (2006) Elimination of allosteric modulation of myocardial KATP channels by ATP and protons in two Kir6.2 polymorphisms found in sudden cardiac death. Physiological Genomics. 25, 105-15.

Su, J. and Jiang, C. (2006) Multicellular recordings of cultured brainstem neurons in microelectrode arrays. Cell and Tissue Research, 326: 25-33 .

Wang, R., Su, J., Cui, N., Zhang X., Piao, H. and Jiang, C. (2006) Kir6.2 channel gating by intracellular protons: from ligand binding to channel gating. Journal of Membrane Biology , 213(3): 155-64.

Lin, B-R., Gierasch, L. M., Jiang, C. and Tai, P. C. (2006) Electrophysiological Studies in Xenopus Oocytes for the Opening of Escherichia coli SecA-dependent Protein-conducting Channels, Journal of Membrane Biology , 214(1-2): 103-13.

Rojas, A., Wu, J., Wang, R. and Jiang, C. (2007) Gating of the ATP-sensitive K+ Channel by a Pore-lining Phenylalanine Residue. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Biomembranes. 1768: 39-51 .

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Su, J., Yang, L., Rojas, A., Shi, Y., Zhang, X. and Jiang, C. (2007) High CO2 chemosensitivity versus wide sensing spectrum: A paradoxical problem and its likely solution in brainstem neurons. Journal of Physiology, 578(Pt 3): 831-41 .

Wang, R., Zhang X., Cui, N., Wu, J., Piao, H., Wang X., Su. J. and Jiang, C. (2007) Subunit-stoichiometric evidence for Kir6.2 channel gating, ATP binding and binding-gating coupling. Molecular Pharmacology, 71(6): 1646-56.

Shi, W., Cui, N., Shi, Y., Zhang, X., Yang Y. and Jiang, C. (2007) Arginine vasopressin inhibits Kir6.1/SUR2B channel and constricts the mesenteric artery via V1a receptor and protein kinase C, Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 293(1): R191-9 .

Jiang C, Su J, Rojas A. (2007) Central CO2 chemoreception: How can it be done without the perfect receptors? Physiology News, 68, 23-25.

Shi, Y., Wu, Q., Cui, N., Shi, W., Yang, Y, Zhang, X., Rojas, A., Ha, B.T. and Jiang, C. (2007) PKA phosphorylation on SUR2B subunit underscores vascular KATP channel activation by β adrenergic receptors. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 293(3): R1205-1214.

Rojas, A., Cui, N., Yang, L., Su, J., Muhumuza, J. P. and Jiang, C. (2007) Protein kinase C dependent inhibition of the heteromeric Kir4.1-Kir5.1 channel. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Biomembranes , 1768(9): 2030-2042 .

Rojas, A., Su, J., Yang, L., Lee, M., Cui, N. Zhang, X., Fountain, D. and Jiang, C. (2008) Modulation of the heteromeric Kir4.1-Kir5.1 channel by multiple neurotransmitters via Gαq-coupled receptors. Journal of Cellular Physiology, 214(1):84-95.

Yang, Y., Shi, Y., Guo, S., Zhang, S., Cui, N., Shi, W., Zhu, D. and Jiang, C. PKA-dependent activation of the vascular smooth muscle isoform of KATP channels by vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and its effect on relaxation of the mesenteric resistance artery. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Biomembranes , in press.

Yang, L., Su, J., Zhang, X. and Jiang, C. Hypercapnia modulates synaptic transmission of cultured brainstem neurons in multi-electrode arrays. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, in press.

Shi, Y., Cui, N., Shi, W. and Jiang, C. A short motif in Kir6.1 consisting of 4 phosphorylation sites underlies the vascular KATP channel inhibition by protein kinase C. Journal of Biological Chemistry, in press.

Shi, Y., Chen, X., Wu, Z., Shi, W., Yang, Y., Cui, N., Jiang, C. and Harrison, R. W. PKA Phosphorylation Produces Interdomain Movement in SUR2B Leading to Activation of the Vascular KATP Channel. Journal of Biological Chemistry, in press.

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Tricia Zawacki King, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Education:1992  B.A., Cum Laude, Major: Psychology; Minor: Spanish, Providence College2000   Ph.D. Psychology, University of Florida (Clinical Neuropsychology)1999-2000   Intern, Clinical Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology Internship Training Consortium, Brown University Medical School 2000-2002  Postdoctoral NRSA F32 Fellow, Clinical Neuropsychology, Brown University Medical School

2.  Current workload for typical semester, including specific courses usually taught; explain how workload will be impacted with the addition of proposed program; [Presumably it would not change, at least initially-SP]

Graduate courses:Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology Psyc 8620 (Fall every other year)Assessment I Psyc 8020Assessment II PSYC 8030     Clinical Supervision of Assessment, Intervention, Apprentice, Supervision, and Advanced Evaluation PSYC 9950 Series: 9950C/9950E/9950A/9950M

Undergraduate courses:Abnormal Psych Psyc 3140 and Honors "add on"

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;  2002-present:Grants:Funding 2002-now:American Cancer Society, Research Scholar Grant  #RSGPB 07-170-01-CPPBChildhood Brain Tumor Survivors: Predictors of Adult Functional Outcomes.King (PI) 7/1/07-6/30/11      $780,000 (680,000 direct, 100,000 indirect)

NSF, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Equipment Grant for MRI Compatible Corrective Lenses SystemKing (Co-I), McClure & Robins (Co-Is), Awarded June 2007

NSF, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Equipment Grant for Mock MRI Scanner.King (Co-I), McClure & Robins (Co-Is), Awarded January 2007

Georgia State University, Research Program Enhancement, Student supportPhysiological correlates of human behaviorKing (PI), 2007

Georgia State University, Brains and Behavior Seed GrantNeurophysiological mechanisms underlying emotion perception in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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King (Co-PI), Robins (Co-PI) 2005-2006

Georgia State University Advancement of Women Faculty Mentoring GrantCognitive Trajectories of Children Diagnosed with Brain Tumors, Faculty Mentor: Robin MorrisKing (PI) 2005

Georgia State University Research Initiation Grant, Office of the Vice President for ResearchAdult Outcomes of Childhood Brain Tumor SurvivorsKing (PI) 2004-2005

Emory University Neuroimaging Pilot Grant, Biomedical Imaging Technology Center, School of MedicineKing (PI) 2004-2005

Georgia State University Faculty Mentoring Grant, Office of the Vice President for ResearchCognitive Trajectories of Children with Focal Brain LesionsKing (PI) 2003-2004; Faculty Mentor: Bruce Crosson, Ph.D., ABPP (Cn) of University of Florida.  

NIH LRP Clinical Researcher Award; King (PI) 2003-2005

Functional MRI research grant, Ittleson Foundation Flexible Fund for Brain Research Brown University Brain Sciences MRF Program and MRI Facility This functional MRI study was designed to examine the neural substrates of emotional regulation in healthy non-neurological participants as well as individuals who have undergone temporal lobectomy. King (PI) 2001-2002

Research Support B4Z-US-LYAV  Eli Lilly   Owens (PI)                             2001-2002Sleep and Cognitive/Neuropsychological Function in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Before and During Treatment with Tomoxetine Hydrochloride (LY139603) and Stimulants.Double blind study investigating the effects of pharmacological treatments on neuropsychological function, ADHD symptoms, and sleep efficiency.  Role:  Paid Consultant

F32 NS 41845-01 Zawacki (PI)                            7/1/2000-8/15/2002NRSA from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke & National Institute of Mental Health, NIH The major goal of this project was to study emotional processing and emotional memory of individuals’ status post temporal lobectomy using psychophysiological, behavioral, and neuropsychological measures. Role: PI   

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Publications:Adams, C.D., Streisand, R., & Zawacki, T.  (2002).  Living with a Chronic Illness: A measure of social activities and competence for children and adolescence.  Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 27, 593-605.

Cohen, R.A., Paul, R.H., Ott, B.R., Moser, D.J., Zawacki, T.M., Stone, W., Gordon, N. (2002).  The relationship of subcortical MRI hyperintensities and brain volume on cognitive function in vascular dementia.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 743-752.

Zawacki, T.M., Grace, J., Friedman, J.H., & Sudarsky, L.  (2002).   Executive and Emotional Dysfunction in Machado-Joseph Disease.  Movement Disorders, 17, 1004-1010.

Zawacki, T.M., Grace, J., Paul, R., Moser, D.J., Ott, B.R., Gordon, N., Cohen, R.A. (2002).  Behavioral problems as predictors of functional abilities of Vascular Dementia patients. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 14, 296-302.

King, T.Z., Fennell, E., Bauer, R., Crosson, B., Dede, D., Riley, J.L., Robinson, M.E., Uthman, B., Gilmore, R., & Roper, S.N.  (2002).  MMPI-2 Profiles of Patients with Intractable Epilepsy.  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 17, 583-593.

Paul, R., Cohen, R., Moser, D., Zawacki, T., Ott, B.R., Gordon, N., & Stone, W. (2002). The Global Deterioration Scale: Relationships to neuropsychological performance and activities of daily living in patients with vascular dementia.  Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 15 (1), 50-54.

Paul, R.H., Cohen, R.A., Ott, B.R., Zawacki, T.M., Moser, D.J., & Gordon, N.  (2002). The serial position effect in mild and moderately severe vascular dementia.  Journal of International Neuropsychology Society, 8, 584-587.

Boyle, P.A., Paul, R., Moser, D., Zawacki, T., Gordon, N., & Cohen, R.  (2003). Cognitive and Neurologic Predictors of Functional Impairment in Vascular Dementia. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11, 103-106.

Cohen, R.A., Brumm, V., Zawacki, T., Paul, R., & Rosenbaum, A.  (2003).  Impulsivity and verbal deficits associated with domestic violence.  Journal of International Neuropsychology Society 9 (5), 760-770.

Paul, R.H., Cohen, R.A., Moser, D.J., Browndyke, J.N., Davis, K., Gordon, N., Sweet, L., Lawrence, J.J., Zawacki, T.  (2003).  Sensitivity of the dementia rating scale in vascular dementia: Comparison between two sets of criteria to define cognitive impairment. Cerebrovascular Disease, 15 (1-2),116-20.

King, T.Z., Fennell, E., Williams, L., Algina, J., Boggs, S., Crosson, B., & Leonard, C.

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(2004).  Verbal memory abilities of children with brain tumors.  Child Neuropsychology, 10, 76-88.

Micklewright, J., King, T., Morris, R., & Morris, M.  (2007). Attention and memory in children with brain tumors.  Child Neuropsychology, 13(6), 522-527.   

Micklewright, J.L., King, T., Morris, R.D., & Krawiecki, N. (in press). Quantifying Pediatric Neuro-oncology Risk Factors:  Development of the Neurological Predictor Scale.  Journal of Child Neurology.

Papazoglou, A., King, T., Morris, R, Morris, M. & Krawiecki, N. (in press). Attention Mediates Radiation’s Impact on Daily Living Skills in Children Treated for Brain Tumors.  Pediatric Blood & Cancer.

Papazoglou, A., King, T., Morris, R, & Krawiecki, N. (in press). Cognitive predictors of adaptive functioning vary according to pediatric brain tumor location.  Developmental Neuropsychology.

Papazoglou, A., King, T., Morris, R., & Krawiecki, N. (in press). Parent report of attention problems predicts later adaptive functioning in children with brain tumors. Child Neuropsychology.

4.  Professional activity;APA, Division 40 Program Committee American Psychological Association, Clinical Neuropsychology GSU & Georgia Technology Institute Imaging Facility Operations Committee, GSU representative Georgia State University Activities:    Associate Chair, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurosciences (NBN) Program Committee               (2005 to present), Member (2002-present)        Coordinated curriculum changes in CLG and NBN, for integrated CLN curriculum (2003-2007)    Clinical Psychology (CLG) Program Committee (2002 to present)    Clinical Psychology (CLG, CLC, and Clinical NBN) Admissions Committee (2002 to present)    Clinical Psychology General Exam Committee (2002 to present)    Search Committee for Quantitative Urban Health Position (2005-2007)    Search Committee for Clinical Psychology Positions (2004)    Search Committee for Clinical Neuropsychology 2 Positions (2003)    Search Committee for Visiting Lecturer Positions (2003 1FTE, 2004 7FTEs)    Course Supervisor, Aging (PSY4610) (2003 to present)    Course Supervisor, Abnormal Psychology (PSY3140) (2007 to present)    Assessment Practica Supervision and Maymester Committee (2005-2007)    Assessment 8020-8030 Sequence Curriculum Committee (2005-2007)    Clinical Competency Committee (2006 to 2007)

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Jacqueline Laures-Gore, Associate Professor, Communication Disorders Program, Educational Psychology and Special Education.

Education:University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. 2001 Communicative DisordersUniversity of Missouri-Columbia M.H.S.1991 Communicative Disorders Iowa State University B.S. 1989 Speech Communication

2. Teaching Load 4 courses/yr: Motor Speech DisordersAdult Language DisordersIntroduction to Language Disorders

3. Scholarship and publications

Published/In Press – Peer Reviewed Journals (by year):Laures-Gore, J., Hamilton, A., & Matheny, K. (2007). Coping resources, perceived

stress, and life experiences in individuals with aphasia. Journal of Medical Speech Language Pathology, 15, 4, 423-431.

Laures-Gore, J., Heim, C., & Hsu, Y.S. (2007). Assessing cortisol reactivity to a linguistic task as a marker of stress in individuals with left hemisphere stroke and aphasia. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research,50,2, 493-507.

Laures-Gore, J.S., Contado-Henson, J., Weismer, G., & Rambow, M. (2006). Two cases of foreign accent syndrome: An acoustic-phonetic description. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 20, 10, 781-790.

Gorham-Rowan, M. & Laures-Gore, J.S. (2006). Acoustic and perceptual correlates of the aging voice. Journal of Communication Disorder, 39, 171-184. Laures, J. S. (2005). Reaction time and accuracy in individuals with aphasia during auditory vigilance tasks. Brain and Language, 95(2), 353-357. Rosenbek, J. & Laures, J.S. (2004). Wrinkled Feet…. Botox Anyone? Aphasiology, 18(11), 1043-1067. Invited Paper. Laures, J.S. & Shisler, R. (2004). Complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of adult neurogenic communication disorders: A review. Disability and Rehabilitation, 26(6), 315-325. Laures, J.S., Odell, K. & Coe, C. (2003). Arousal and auditory vigilance in individuals with aphasia during a linguistic and nonlinguistic task. Aphasiology, 17(12), 1133-1152. Laures, J. S. & Bunton, K. (2003). Perceptual effects of a flattened fundamental frequency at the sentence level under different listening conditions. Journal of Communication Disorders, 36, 449-464.

GRANTS

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Laures, J.S. (2005-2008). Hypercortisolemia and aphasia. National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. ($150, 000; Principal Investigator).Laures, J.S. (2003-2004). Hypercortisolemia and aphasia. Research Initiation Grant, Georgia State University. ($10,000; Principal Investigator).Greenberg, D., Morris, R., Fredrick, L., Rodrigo, V., & Laures-Gore, J. (2002-2007). Research on reading instruction for low literate adults. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. ($2,960,627; Co-Investigator).Laures, J.S. (2002-2003). Stress and aphasia. Faculty Mentoring Grant, Georgia State University. ($11,000; Principal Investigator).Laures, J.S. & Gorham-Rowan, M. (2002). Development of speech and voice sciences laboratory. Research Instrumentation Grant, Georgia State University. $23,350.Laures, J.S. (2001). The neuroendocrine stress response associated with linguistic demands in individuals with aphasia. College of Education Proposal Development Grant, Georgia State University. ($900; Principal Investigator).Laures, J.S. (2000). Energetic subsystems in aphasia: Arousal in individuals with aphasia during a linguistic and nonlinguistic vigilance task. Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ($600; Principal Investigator).

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Matthew Grober, Associate Professor, Biology

Education

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:Evolution Hormones and Behavior

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years:FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2006-2010       National Science Foundation (NSF) # IOB0548567, Neuroendocrinology ($492,470)2006-2007       Brains and Behavior Seed Grant co-PI ($30,000)2005-2006       Brains and Behavior Seed Grant ($28,000)2004-2005       Brains and Behavior Seed Grant ($35,000)2002-2004       NIH-AREA grant, Co-PI ($100,000)2003-2004       CBN Venture Grant; Affiliation Collaboratory ($28,000)2003-2004       CBN Venture Grant; Aggression Collaboratory ($25,000)2002-2003       CBN Venture Grant; Affiliation Collaboratory ($30,000)2002-2003       CBN Venture Grant; Aggression Collaboratory ($30,000)

PUBLICATIONSGrober M.S and E.W. Rodgers. (2008) The Evolution of Hermaphroditism. Journal of Theoretical Biology 251: 190-192.

Lorenzi, V., R. L. Earley, D. R. Pepper and M. S. Grober. (2008) Diurnal patterns and sex differences in cortisol, 11-ketotestosterone, testosterone, and estradiol in the bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli). Gen. Comp. Endocrinol., 155: 438-446.

Huddleston, G.G, J.C. Paisley, S. Graham, M.S. Grober and A.N. Clancy. (2007) Implants of estradiol conjugated to bovine serum albumin in the male rat medial preoptic area promote copulatory behavior. Neuroendocrinlogy 86: 249-259.

Rodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober M.S. (2007) Social status determines sexual phenotype in the bi-directional sex changing bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli) Journal of Fish Biology 70:1660–1668.

Earley, R.L., J.T. Edwards*, O. Aseem, K.Felton, L.S. Blumer, M. Karom and M. S. Grober (2006) Social interactions tune aggression and stress responsiveness in a territorial cichlid fish (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus). Physiology and Behavior, 88: 353 – 363.

Scaggiante, M., M.S. Grober, V. Lorenzi and M.B. Rasotto (2006) Variability of GnRH secretion in two goby species with socially controlled alternative male mating tactics. Hormones and Behavior 50:107-117.

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Rodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober M.S. (2006) Elevated 11- ketotestosterone during paternal behavior in the Bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli). Hormones and Behavior 49: 610-614.

Lorenzi, V., R.L. Earley, and M.S. Grober (2006) Preventing behavioural interactions with a male facilitates sex change in female bluebanded gobies Lythrypnus dalli. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:715-722.

Grober M.S., E.W. Rodgers, H.N. Denman, and A.V.M. Canario. (2005) The interaction of social and steroidal influences in regulating transitions between adult sexual phenotypes. Hormones and Behavior 48: 104-104.

Rodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober MS  (2005) 11-ketotestosterone and paternal behavior; Friends or foes? Hormones and Behavior 48: 122-122.

Black, M.P., J. Balthazart, M. Baillien and M.S. Grober. (2005)Socially induced and rapid increases in aggression are inversely related to brain aromatase activity in a sex-changing fish, Lythrypnus dalli. P Roy Soc Lond B Bio 272: 2435-2440.

Black, M.P., T.B Moore, A.V.M. Canario, D. Ford, R.H. Reavis and M.S. Grober. (2005) Reproduction in context: Field-testing a lab model of socially controlled sex change in Lythrypnus dalli, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 318: 127–143.

Schuett, G.W., D.L. Hardy, H.W. Grene, R.L.Earley,M.S. Grober, E.A. Van Kirk, and W.J. Murdoch. (2005) Sympatric species of rattlesnakes with contrasting mating systems show differences in seasonal patterns of plasma sex steroids. Animal Behavior 70: 257-266.

Drilling, C., and M.S. Grober. (2005) An initial description of alternative male reproductive tactics in the bluebanded goby, Lythrypnus dalli. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72: 361–372.

Rodgers, E.W., S. Drane, and M.S. Grober. (2005) Sex reversal in pairs of Lythrypnus dalli: behavioral and morphological changes. Biological Bulletin: 208 120-126.

Scaggiante, M., M. S. Grober, V. Lorenzi and M.B. Rasotto (2004). Changes along the male reproductive axis in response to social context in a gonochoristic gobiid, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Teleostei, Gobiidae) with alternative mating tactics. Hormones and Behavior 46:607-617.

Schuett, G.W., M.S. Grober, E.A. Van Kirk, and W.J. Murdoch (2004). Long-term sperm storage and plasma steroid profile of pregnancy in a Western Diamond-backed rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).  Herp. Review 35: 328-333.

Stokes, E.A., W. Lonergan, L.P. Weber, D.M. Janz, A.A. Poznanski, G.C. Balch, C.D.

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Metcalfe and M.S. Grober (2004) Decreased apoptosis in the forebrain of adult male medaka (Oryzias latipes) after aqueous exposure to ethinylestradiol. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C. 138:163-167.

Earley, R., L. Blumer and M.S. Grober. (2004) The gall of subordination: changes in gall bladder function associated with social stress. P Roy Soc Lond B Bio 271: 7-13.

Black, M., R. Reavis and M.S. Grober. (2004) Sex differences in behavior and isotocin in a sex-changing vertebrate. Neuroreport 1:185-189

Carneiro, L.A., R.F. Oliveira, A.V.M Canário and M.S. Grober. (2003) The effect of arginine vasotocin on courtship behaviour in a blenniid fish with alternative reproductive tactics. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 28: 241–243, 2003.

M.P. Black and M.S. Grober (2003). Group sex, sex change and parasitic males: Sexual strategies among the fishes and their neurobiological correlates.  Ann. Rev. Sex Res. 14: 160-184.

Miranda, J.A., R.F. Oliveira, L.A. Carneiro, R.S. Santos, and M.S. Grober (2003) Neurochemical Correlates of Male Polymorphism and Alternative Reproductive Tactics in the Azorean Rock-Pool Blenny, Parablennius parvicornis.  Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 132: 183-189.

Perry, A.N. and M.S. Grober (2003) A Model for Social Control of Sex Change: Interactions of behavior, neuropeptides, glucocorticoids and sex steroids. Hormones and Behavior 43: 31-38.

4. Professional activity:2007- Awards Committee Member, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology 2003-2006: Director, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Scholars Program1997-2005: Associate Editor, Acta EthologicaMember, Science and Technology Committee, Zoo Atlanta's Board of Directors (2007-)Conservation Board Member, Georgia Aquarium (since 2005)Advisory Board, Acta Ethologica (since 2005)Advisory Board Member, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (Since 2003) External Advisor to the Eco-ethology unit in the Institute for Applied Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal (since 1996)

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Mary K. Morris, Associate Professor, Psychology

EducationCornell University BA 1979 PsychologyUniversity of Florida MA 1984 Clinical PsychologyUniversity of Florida PhD 1986 Clinical Psychology

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:PSYC 8020PSYC 8030Administrative course reduction as Director, Regents Center for Learning DisordersNot expected to change

3. Publications (last five years)Kullgren, K., Morris, R.D., Morris, M.K., Krawiecki, N. (2003). Risk factors associated with long-term social and behavioral problems among children with brain tumors. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 21(1), 73-87.Wimberly, L., Reed, N., & Morris, M. (2004). Post-secondary students with learning disabilities: Barriers to accessing education-based information technology. Information Technology and Disabilities, 10, 1-37.Kullgren, K., Morris, M.K., Bachanas, P.J., & Jones, J. (2004). Prediction of cognitive, adaptive, and behavioral functioning in pre-school and school-aged children with HIV. Children’s Health Care, 33 (4), 241-256.Mennemeier, M.S., Morris, M., & Heilman, K.M. (2004). Just thinking about targets can aggravate neglect on cancellation tests. Neurocase, 10(1), 29-38.Cirino, P.T., Israelian, M.K., Morris, M.K., & Morris, R.D. (2005). Evaluation of the double-deficit hypothesis in college students referred for learning difficulties. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(1), 29-44.Cirino, P.T., Morris, M.K., & Morris, R.D. (2007). Semantic, executive and visuospatial abilities in mathematical reasoning of referred college students. Assessment, 14(1), 94-104.Micklewright, J.L., King, T.Z., Morris, R.D., & Morris, M.K. (in press). Attention and memory in children with brain tumors. Child Neuropsychology.Papazoglou, A., King, T.Z., Morris, R.D., & Morris, M.K. (in press). Attention mediates radiation’s impact on daily living skills in children treated for brain tumors. Pediatric Blood and Cancer.

4. Professional ActivitiesDirector, Regents Center for Learning Disorders at Georgia State University

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Robert D. Morris (Robin), Regent’s Professor, Psychology, and Vice-President for Research

EducationB.A. Emory University, 1975, Highest Honors (Psychology)M.S. Trinity University, 1978, (Clinical Psychology)Ph.D. University of Florida, 1982, (Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology)

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:8620 Clinical Neurpsychology8630 Developmental Neuropsychology9140 Neuropsychology Assesment8910 Advanced Topics in NeuropsychologyFreshman Honors SeminarAdministrative course reduction as Vice-President for ResearchNot expected to change

3. Scholarship and Publications (last five years)External Funding

Principal Investigator, “Multiple Component Remediation for Struggling Middle School Readers”, (Appx. $652,116, Y1-Y4, total award $2,882,630). IES/USDOE, R324G060005, (2006-2010).

Investigator, “Improved Reading Outcomes for Children with MR in K-3.”, U.S. DOE/IES H324K040007 (2005-2009) (R. Sevcik, Principal Investigator, $557,778 annually).

Investigator, project “Adolescent Literacy: Classification, Mechanisms, Outcome”, (Appx.$305,100, Y1-Y5). NICHD/NIH P01 HD046171 (2003-2008). (Shaywitz, Principal Investigator, Yale).

Investigator, "Research on Reading Instruction for Low Literate Adults", NICHD/NIH HD043801 (2002-2008). (D. Greenberg, Principal Investigator, $2,300,000).

Investigator, “Testing the Effectiveness, Sustainability and Scalability of an Individualized Reading Program for African-American, Latino and Euro-American Inner City Children”, (Appx. $672,221, Y1-Y4), IERI, joint NSF/NICHD/.DOE program REC-0115676, (2001-2005) (B. Labov, Principal Investigator; $2,892,851)

Principal Investigator, project “Neuroimaging in the evaluation of reading disability interventions” (Appx. $833,527, Y1-Y5), NICHD/NIH P50 HD25802, (2001-2006) (Sally Shaywitz, Principal Investigator, Yale Center Grant, $7,500,000) (2001 - 2006).

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Investigator, “The Relationship between Hypercortisolemia and Aphasia”, NIH/NICHD R03 DC006177 (2005-2007) (J. Laures, Principal Investigator, $100,000).

Principal Investigator, “Treatment of Developmental Reading Disabilities”, NICHD, HD 30970, (1996 - 2007), $2,364,494; (2001-2007), $6,282,923. Minority Supplement, HD 30970-0351, (1998-2001), $80,254.

Co-Principal Investigator, “Development of Fluent & Automatic Reading: Precursors to Learning” (Appx. $1,322,938, Y1-Y5), IERI, joint NSF/NICHD/DOE program, R01 HD40746, (2000 - 2005), (S. Stahl, Ph.D., original Principal Investigator, current P. Schwanenflugl U. Ga; $4,342,600).

Publications:

1. Shaywitz, S.E., Morris, R. & Shaywitz, B.A. (2008). The education of dyslexic children from childhood to young adulthood. Annual Review of Psychology, 59: 451-75.

2. Wise, J.C., Sevcik, R.A., Lovett, M.W., Wolf, M. Morris, R. (2007). The relationship among receptive and expressive vocabulary, pre-reading skills, word identification skills, and reading comprehension by children with reading disabilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 1093-1109.

3. Wise, J.C., Sevcik, R.A., Lovett, M.W., Wolf, M., & Morris, R. (2007). The growth of phonological awareness by children with reading disabilities: A result of semantic knowledge or knowledge of grapheme/phoneme correspondences? Scientific Studies of Reading, 11(2), 151-164.

4. Brenneman, M.H., Morris, R. D., & Israelian, M. (2007). Language preference and its relationship with reading skills in English and Spanish. Psychology in the Schools, 44(2), 171-181.

5. Kuhn, M.R., Schwanenflugel, P.J., Morris, R.D., Morrow, L.M., Bradley, B.A., Meisinger, E., Woo, D., & Stahl, S.A. (2006). Teaching children to become fluent and automatic readers. Journal of Literacy Research, 38, 357-387.

6. Morris, R., Pae, H. K., Arrington, C. & Sevcik, R. (2006). The assessment challenge of Native American educational researchers. J. of American Indian Education, 45(3), 77-91.

7. Schwanenflugel, P.J., Meisinger, E., Wisenbaker, J.M., Kuhn, M.R., Strauss, G.P., & Morris, R.D. (2006). Becoming a fluent and automatic reader in the early elementary school years. Reading Research Quarterly, 41, 496-522.

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8. Katzir., T., Kim, Y., Wolf, M., O’Brien, B., Kennedy, B., Lovett, M. & Morris, R. (2006). Reading fluency: The whole is more than the parts. Annals of Dyslexia, 56(1), 51-82.

9. Montgomery, C.R., Morris, R.D., Sevcik, R.A., & Clarkson, M.G. (2005). Auditory backward masking deficits in children with reading disabilities. Brain & Language, 95, 450-456.

10. Fletcher, J.M., Francis, D.J., Morris, R.D., & Lyon, G.R. (2005). Evidence-Based Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Children and Adolescents. J. of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34(3), 506-522.

11. Pae, H. P., Wise, J.C., Cirino, P.T., Sevcik, R.A., Lovett, M.W., Wolf, M. & Morris, R. (2005). The Woodcock Reading Master Test: Impact of Normative Changes. Assessment, 12(3), 347-357.

12. Cirino, P.T., Israelian, M.K., Morris, M.K. & Morris, R.D. (2005). Evaluation of the Double-Deficit Hypothesis in College Students Referred for Learning Disabilities. J. of Learning Disabilities, 38(1), 29-44.

13. Rashid, F.L., Morris, R.D. & Sevick R.A. (2005). Relationship Between Home Literacy Environment and Reading Achievement in Children with Reading Disabilities. J. of Learning Disabilities, 38(1), 2-11.

14. Wagner, R.K, Francis, D.J. & Morris, R.D. (2005). Identifying English Language

Learners with Learning Disabilities: Key Challenges and Possible Approaches. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 20(1), 6-15.

15. Ledesma, H.M.L. & Morris, R.D. (2005). Patterns of Language Preference Among Bilingual (Filipino-English) Boys. The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 8(1) 1-19.

16. Pae, H.K., Sevcik, R.A. & Morris, R. (2004). Cross-language links between English & Korean in second language reading acquisition. J. of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 2(1), 68-79.

17. Morris, R. & Sevcik, R. (2003). Reading Development: Models and Processes. Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Vol. 2(1), 3-5.

18. Wolf, M. Goldberg, A., Cirino, P., Gidney, C., Morris, R. & Lovett, M. (2003). The unique and combined contribution of naming speed and phonological processes in reading disability: A test of the Double-Deficit hypothesis. Reading and Writing (Special issue on Timing in Dyslexia).

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19. Kullgren, K.A., Morris, R.D., Morris, M.K. & Krawiecki, N. (2003). Risk factors associated with long-term social and behavioral problems among children with brain tumors. J. Psychosocial Oncology, 21(1), 73-83.

20. Barrett, D.H., Morris, R.D., Jackson, W.G., & Michalek, J.E. (2003). Serum dioxin and psychological functioning in Air Force Veterans of the Vietnam War. Military Medicine, Vol. 168(2), 153-159.

4. Professional Activities

Editorial Boards:

Assessment, Consulting Editor (1993 - 1999), Developmental Neuropsychology, Editorial Board (1993 - 1996); Child Neuropsychology, Consulting Editor, (1994 - 2002); Neuropsychology, Consulting Editor (1991 - 1996); Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Consulting Editor, (1984 - 1991); Neuropsychology Review, Editorial Board (1988 - 1992);

Ad hoc Reviewer: American Journal of Diseases of Children, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Child Development, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Brain and Language, Journal of Augmentative Communication, Brain and Cognition, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmocology, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews.

Board of Directors:

Board of Directors, Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. (1998-2003; Chair, 2004- ).

Board of Directors, Central Child Development Center (1993 - 1997 [Chair, 1995 - 1997])

Atlanta Area Alzheimer's and Related Disease Chapter (1983 - 1985)

Federal Advisory Boards:

Member, National Child Health and Human Development Advisory Council, NICHD/NIH (2006 - ).

Presidential Appointee, Advisory Board, National Institute for Literacy (2002 - 2004);

Vice Chair; Chair, Budget Subcommittee; Member Program Subcommittee.

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Member, Technical Working Group, McREL(Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning)(2006- ).

Member, Georgia Research Alliance Scientific Strategy Group (2006 - ).

Member, Life Sciences Technical Advisory Group, Commission for a New Georgia (2005).

Member, Arthur’s World Advisory Committee, Imagine IT: The Children’s Museum of Atlanta (2005-2006).

Member, Stakeholder’s Committee, Services for Exceptional Children, Fulton County Schools, (2004 - ).

Member, International Dyslexia Association Consensus Definition Group (2002).

Member, Georgia Reading Leadership Team, Georgia Department of Education (2002 -2003).

Member, Georgia Reading and Literacy Partnership, Georgia Department of Education (1999 -2002).

Member, Learning Disabilities Association Scientific Committee (1991 - 1992).

Research Committee, Division of Learning Disabilities, Council for Exceptional Children (1992 - 1994).

Member, Central Counseling Center Advisory Board (1996 - 1997).

Member, Clinical Research Advisory Committee, Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center (1996 - 2000). Member, Advisory Council, Ga. Evaluation Project for Students with Disabilities (1999 -2000).

Member, Walden Preschool Community Advisory Board (1991 - 1998).

Member, Developmental Disabilities/Mental Retardation Subcommittee of the Board Planning Committee,

Scottish Rite Children's Hospital (1989).

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, September, 1987; April, 1990

Centers for Disease Control, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study, July, 1991

Member, John Hopkins National Search for Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities, December, 1991.

Federal Review Bodies & Grant Review Study Sections:

Reviewer, Even Start Classroom Literacy Interventions and Outcomes (CLIO) Study, Westat & U.S. Department of Education (2002- ).

Member, External Review Panel, NIP Anthrax Long-term Health Effects Followup Study, Centers for Disease Control, May, 2002.

Tier 2 Reviewer, Early Childhood Education Professional Development Grants, U.S. Department of Education, 2001.

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Member, NICHD/NIH Special Emphasis Grant Review Study Section on the Development of English

Literacy in Spanish-Speaking Children, Washington, D.C., April 19-20, 2000.

Member, Safety and Occupational Health Study Section, NIOSH, CDC, (1988 - 1989).

Epidemiology Study Section, NIH, February, 1990

Behavioral Medicine Study Section, NIH, February, 1986

Chair, Special Review Committee, NINDS, NIH, 1986

Professional Organization Service:

Program Committee, International Neuropsychological Society, (1996-1997, 1993 -1994, 1984 - 1986).

Delegate, Association for Doctoral Education in Clinical Neuropsychology (1999-2003).

University and System Service

University Senate (1989 - ); Senate Research Committee (1990 - , Chair 1992 - 1994); University Senate Budget Committee (1990 – 2002, 2004- ); Planning and Development Committee (2004- ); Information Technology Strategy Group (2006 - ); Collabtech Advisory Committee (2005 - , Co-Chair, 2005 - ); University Strategic Planning Committee (1989 - 1993); New Chair Development Advisory Group (2000 - 2001); Strategic Plan Writing Subcommittee (1989 - 1992); Fiscal Advisory Committee to the President (1994 – 1995; 2005 - ); Senate Executive Committee (1995 - 1997); Chairs Council, College of Arts & Sciences (1995 - 2001); University Web Advisory Committee (2001 - 2003); Chair, University Web Page and Home Page Strategy/Planning Subcommittee (2003- ); Web Instructional Strategic Planning Committee (2001); Enrollment Management Strategic Planning Committee (2001); Steering Committee for Faculty Leadership and Professional Development of Women (2001- 2003); Member, Search Committee for Director, Institute for Public Health; Board of Regents Advisory Committee on Learning Disorders (1991 - 2000); Literacy Associate, University System Reading Consortium (2000-2002); Board of Regents Reading Endorsement, and Joint Teaching of Reading Committees (1998 - 1999); Consultant, State of Georgia 2000 Reading Excellence Act Application (1999 - 2002).

Public Service

Georgia Policy Makers Institute, Atlanta, GA, 9/23/97; Higher Education Committee, Senate of the State of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, 5/15/91; United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Washington, D.C., 7/14/88; Veterans Administration Advisory Committee, Washington, D.C., 5/25/88; United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Washington, D.C., 5/11/88; Expert Testimony to: Agent Orange Working Group, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., 5/10/88.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Eddy Nahmias, Associate Professor, Philosophy

EducaitonBA, Emory University (1992)PhD, Philosophy, Duke University (2001)

2. Teaching Load 3 courses/yr Phil 2010 Intro to PhilosophyPhil 4000/6000MA seminar Phil 4330Philosophy of Mind class.

3. Scholarship and PublicationsPUBLICATIONS

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Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Selections from Philosophy and Psychology. Co-edited with Thomas Nadelhoffer and Shaun Nichols. Blackwell Press, forthcoming. “The Psychology of Free Will.” Forthcoming in Oxford Handbook on Philosophy of Psychology, ed. by J. Prinz (Oxford University Press).“Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Mechanism: Experiments on Folk Intuitions.” (with D. Justin Coates and Trevor Kvaran). Midwest Studies in Philosophy 31: 214-242, 2007. “The Past and Future of Experimental Philosophy.” (with Thomas Nadelhoffer). Philosophical Explorations 10(2): 123-149, 2007. “Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?” (with Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, & Jason Turner). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73(1): 28-53, 2006. Reprinted in Experimental Philosophy, ed. by S. Nichols and J. Knobe (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).“Close Calls and the Confident Agent: Free Will, Deliberation, and Alternative Possibilities.” Philosophical Studies 131(3): 627-667, 2006.“Autonomous Agency and Social Psychology.” In Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection, ed. by M. Marraffa, M. Caro, and F. Ferretti (Springer, 2007), 169-185.“Are the Folk Agent Causationists?” (with Jason Turner). Mind and Language 21(5): 597-609, 2006.“Folk Fears about Freedom and Responsibility: Determinism vs. Reductionism.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 6(1-2): 215-237, 2006.“The Problem of Pain.” In New Essays on the Nature of Pain and the Methodology of its Study, ed. by M. Aydede (MIT Press, 2005), 307-314. “Agency, Authorship, and Illusion.” Consciousness and Cognition 14(4): 771-785, December 2005.“Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility.” (with Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, & Jason Turner). Philosophical Psychology 18(5): 561-584, October 2005.“Review of Freedom and Determinism.” Notre Dame Philosophical Review, June 2005.“Some Practical Suggestions for Teaching Small Philosophy Classes.” Teaching Philosophy 28(1): 59-65, March 2005.“The Phenomenology of Free Will.” (with Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Jason Turner). Journal of Consciousness Studies 11(7-8): 162-179, July/August 2004. Reprinted in

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Trusting the Subject, Vol. 2., ed. by A. Jack and A. Roepstorff (Imprint Academic, 2004), 162-179. “When Consciousness Matters: A Critical Review of Daniel Wegner’s The Illusion of Conscious Will.” Philosophical Psychology 15(4): 527-541, December 2002.“Verbal Reports on the Contents of Consciousness: Reconsidering Introspectionist Methodology.” Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness, 8(21), October 2002.“Is Human Intelligence an Adaptation? Cautionary Observations from the Philosophy of Biology.”(with Owen Flanagan & Valerie Hardcastle). In The Evolution of Intelligence, ed. by R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001), 199-222.“Darwin’s Continuum and the Building Blocks of Deception.” (with Güven Güzeldere & Rob Deaner). In The Cognitive Animal, ed. by C. Allen, M. Bekoff, and G. Burghardt (MIT Press, 2001), 353-362.

4.  Professional activity;AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPSResearch Initiation Grant (RIG): “Defending Free Will from the Sciences of the Mind” (2007)Brains & Behavior Seed Grant, Co-PI on a $30,000 grant to initiate research project: “Neurobiological, Emotional, and Cognitive Components of Social Anxiety: Behavioral and fMRI Studies” (2005-2006)Superior Honors Teaching Award, for best teacher in the FSU Honors Program (2002-2003)First-Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Research Grant, FSU (2002)W. Bernard Peach Instructor, Duke University Teaching Fellowship (2000-2001)James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University (1995-1999)Kenan Ethics Program, Graduate Student Colloquium Award, Duke University (2000-2001)APA Travel Grant, Eastern Division (2000)SSPP Travel Grant (2001)AAPT Teaching Seminar for Graduate Students, APA Travel Grant (2000)Bobby Jones Scholarship, St. Andrews University (1992-1993)Means Scholarship (full tuition), Emory University (1988-92)National Merit Scholarship (1988-92)Georgia Governor’s Scholar (1988-92)Phi Beta Kappa, Emory University (initiated 1990)NEH Younger Scholars Grant (1991)

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1. Name, rank, discipline Michael J. Owren, Associate Professor, Psychology

EducationReed College: B.A. PsychologyIndiana University: Ph.D. Experimental Psychology

2. Teaching load 4 courses/yr:Psyc 1100 Natural Science Aspects of PsychologyPsyc 4100 Cognitive PsychologyPsyc 9900: Special Topics in Cognition

3. PUBLICATIONSBachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2008). Emotion in speech. L. R. Squire (Ed.), New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, (pp. XX-XX). Elsevier Science, Oxford, UK. (in press, expected Oct 2008)Makagon, M. M., Funayama, E. S., & Owren, M. J. (2008). An acoustic analysis of laughter produced by congenitally deaf and normally hearing college student. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. (in press)Owren, M. J. (2008). GSU Praat Tools: Scripts for modifying and analyzing sounds using Praat acoustics software. Behavior Research Methods. (in press)Owren, M. J., & Goldstein, M. H. (2008). The babbling-scaffold hypothesis: Subcortical primate-like circuitry helps teach the human cortex how to talk. In D. K. Oller, & U. Griebel (Eds.), Evolution of communicative flexibility: Complexity, creativity, and adaptability in human and animal communication (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, vol. 5; pp. 418-474). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (in press, expected June 2008)Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2008). Vocal expressions of emotion. Lewis, M., Haviland-Jones, J. M., & Barrett, L. F. (Eds.), The handbook of emotion, 3rd Edition, (pp. XX-XX). New York: Guilford. (in press, expected Apr 2008)Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2007). Emotion-related vocal acoustics: Cue-configuration, dimensional, and affect-induction perspectives. In K. Izdebski (Ed.), Emotions in the human voice (pp. 87-99). San Diego: Plural Publishing.Owren, M. J., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2007). Measuring emotion-related vocal acoustics. In J. Coan, & J. Allen (Eds.), Handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment (pp. 239-266; Oxford University Press Series in Affective Science). Oxford: Oxford University Press.Owren, M. J., Berkowitz, M., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2007). Listeners judge talker sex more efficiently from male than from female vowels. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 930-941.

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Patel, E. R., & Owren, M. J. (2007). Acoustic and behavioral analyses of gecker distress vocalizations in young rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 575-585.Riede, T. R., & Arcadi, A., & Owren, M. J. (2007). Nonlinear acoustics in the pant-hoot vocalizations of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), II: Vocalizing at the edge. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 1758-1767.Owren, M. J., & Cardillo, G. C. (2006). The relative roles of vowels and consonants in discriminating talker identity versus word meaning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 1727-1739.Owren, M. J., Rendall, D., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2005). Conscious and unconscious emotion in nonlinguistic vocal communication. L. F. Barrett, P. Niedenthal, & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Emotion and Consciousness (pp. 185-204). New York: Guilford Publications.Riede, T. R., Mitchell, B., Tokuda, I., & Owren, M. J. (2005). Characterizing noise in nonhuman vocalizations: Acoustic analysis and human perception of dog and coyote barks. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 514-522.Riede, T. R., & Owren, M. J., Clark Arcadi, A. (2004). Nonlinear acoustics in the pant-hoot vocalizations of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Frequency jumps, subharmonics, biphonation, and deterministic chaos. American Journal of Primatology, 64, 277-291.Rendall, D., Owren, M. J., Weerts, E., & Hienz, R. D. (2004). Sex differences in the acoustic structure of vowel-like grunt vocalizations in baboons and their perceptual discrimination by baboon listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 411-421.Nicastro, N., & Owren, M. J. (2003). Classification of domestic cat (Felis catus) vocalizations by naïve and experienced human listeners. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 44-52.Owren, M. J., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2003). Reconsidering the evolution of nonlinguistic communication: The case of laughter. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 27, 183-200.Owren, M. J., & Rendall, D. (2003). Salience of caller identity in rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) coo and screams: Perceptual experiments with human listeners. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 380-390.Owren, M. J., Rendall, D., & Bachorowski, J.-A. (2003). Nonlinguistic vocal communication. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate psychology (pp. 353-394). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J. (2003). The sounds of emotion: Production and perception of affect-related vocal acoustics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 244-265.Dale, R., Richardson, D. C., & Owren, M. J. (2003). Pumping for gestural origins: The well may be rather dry. Commentary on “From mouth to hand: Gesture, speech, and the evolution of right-

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handedness,” by M. C. Corballis. Behavioural & Brain Sciences, 26, 218-219.Owren, M. J. (2003). Vocal production and perception in nonhuman primates provide clues about early hominids and speech evolution. ATR Symposium HIS Series, 1, 1-19.

4. Professional ActivityProfessional journal editorial boardsEmotion Review, 2007 to presentJournal of Comparative Psychology, 2005 to presentPsychological Science, 2003 to 2006

Review panelsOffice of Naval Research, National Oceanographic Partnership Program, grant review panel. Mar 2007NIH/NCCR Site Review Panel, Brain, Mind, and Behavior Unit of the California National Primate Research Center, University of California. Davis, CA, Sept 2004Office of Naval Research Marine Mammal Science and Technology Program, Environmental Consequences of Underwater Sound (ECOUS) Symposium. San Antonio, TX, May 2003

Other professional servicePresident, Emotion Research Group, 2007-2008Treasurer, Emotion Research Group, 2006-2007“Rapporteur,” Dr. Laurence Henry’s “Habilitation Dirigere Recherche” committee, Institute of Evolution, Ethology, and Ecology, University of Rennes, Rennes, France, 2006.Symposium organizer, “Emotion expression in nonhuman primates.” International Society for Research in Emotion meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2006.Session moderator, American Society of Primatology meeting, Portland, OR, 2005 Session moderator, American Society of Primatology meeting, Calgary, Alberta, 2003

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned;Yi Pan, Chair and Professor, Computer Science

EducationPh.D. in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, August 1991.M.S. in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1988.M.E. in Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1984.B.E. in Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1982

2.  Teaching load 1 course/yrTheoretical Foundations of Computer Sci.High Performance Computational Biology

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;X. Wang, P. Fan and Y. Pan, "A More Realistic Thinning Scheme for Call Admission Control in Multimedia Wireless Networks" IEEE Transactions on Computers, accepted.L. Tan, L. Jin, and Y. Pan, "Efficient Placement of Web Proxies for Hierarchical Reliable Multicast," Computer Communications, to appear.Wei-Hung Lin, Shi-Jinn Horng, Tzong-Wann Kao, Pingzhi Fan, Cheng-Ling Lee, and Yi Pan, "Efficient Watermarking Method Based on Significant Difference of Wavelet Coefficient Quantization," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, to appear.Stephen Pellicer, Guihai Chen, Keith C.C. Chan, and Yi Pan, "Distributed Sequence Alignment Applications for the Public Computing Architecture," IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, to appear.Xian Wang, Pingzhi Fan, Jie Li, and Yi Pan, ``Modeling and Cost Analysis of Movement-Based Location Management for PCS Networks with HLR/VLR Architecture and General Location Area and Cell Residence Time Distributions,'' IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, Vol.56, No.X, pp.1-26, accepted, to appear in 2008.Yong Li, Xiujuan Chen, Saeid Belkasim, and Yi Pan, ``High Performance Bi-Image Database Retrieval Using MPI,'' International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2008.Chao Xie, Guihai Chen, Art Vandenberg, and Yi Pan, "Analysis of Hybrid P2P Overlay Network Topology," Computer Communications , to appear.Peter Loh, Say Huan Long, and Yi Pan, "Performance Evaluation of Efficient and Reliable Routing Protocols for Fixed-Power Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, to appear.Muhammad Qadeer Sharif, Pingzhi Fan, and Pan Yi, ``On Average Waiting Time in Shared Dynamic Spectrum Allocation,'' Journal of Applied Sciences, vol. 7 no. 19, pp. 2891-2895, Sept. 2007.P. Loh, W.J. Hsu, and Yi Pan, ``Reliable and Efficient Communications in Sensor Networks,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 67, No. 8, pp. 922-934, 2007.

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W. Zhong, G. Altun, X. Tian, R. Harrison1, P. C. Tai, and Yi Pan, "Parallel Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Schemes using Pthread and OpenMP over Hyper-Threading Technology," The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 41, No. 1, July 2007, pp. 1-16.Hae-Jin Hu, Jeanetta Holley, Jieyue He, Robert W. Harrison, Hsiuchin Yang, Phang C. Tai and Yi Pan, "To Be or Not to Be: Predicting Soluble SecAs as Membrane Proteins," IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 168-179.A. K. Katangur, S. Akkaladevi, and Yi Pan, ``Analyzing the Performance of Optical Multistage Interconnection Networks with Limited Crosstalk,'' The Journal of Cluster Computing, Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 241-250.A. Du, X. Hu and Y. Pan, "Prediction of the disulfide bridges in proteins using SVM," International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007, pp. 223 - 233.Y. Dai, Y. Pan, and X.K. Zou, "A Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Grid Service Reliability," IEEE Transactions on Computers, May 2007, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 681-691.J. Fan, X. Lin, Yi Pan, and X. Jia, "Optimal Fault-Tolerant Embedding of Paths in Twisted Cubes," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 67, No. 2, Feb. 2007, pp. 205-214.J. Xia, P. Fan, M. Q. Sharif, and Yi Pan, "Shared Dynamic Spectrum Allocation For Multiple Radio Systems," Chinese Journal of Electronics, Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2007, pp. 305-310.W. Zhong, J. He, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, and Y. Pan, "Clustering Support Vector Machines for Protein Local Structure Prediction," Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 32, No. 2, February 2007, pp. 518-526.Yang Xiao, Chaitanya Bandela, Xiaojiang Du, Yi Pan, and Edilbert Kamal Dass, ``Security mechanisms, attacks and security enhancements for the IEEE 802.11 WLANs,'' International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Vol. 1, No. 3/4, pp. 276-288, 2006.L. Qin, Y. Chen, Y. Pan, and L. Chen, ``A Novel Approach to Phylogenetic Tree Construction using Stochastic Optimization and Clustering,'' BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 7(Suppl 4):S24, Dec. 2006.Ling Qin, Yi Pan, Ling Chen, and Yixin Chen, ``An improved ant colony algorithm with diversified solutions based on the immune strategy,'' BMC Bioinformatics , Vol. 7(Suppl 4):S3, Dec. 2006.X. Jin, Y. Zhang, Y. Pan, and Y. Zhou, "ZSBT: A Novel Algorithm for Tracing DOS Attackers in MANETS," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2006, Article ID 96157, pp. 1-9, 2006.H. Tian, A. Katangur, J. Zhong, and Y. Pan, ``A Novel Multistage Network Architecture with Multicast and Broadcast Capability,'' The Journal of Supercomputing , Vol. 35, No. 3, March 2006, pp. 277 - 300.J. He, H. Hu, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, and Yi Pan, ``Rule Generation for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction with Support Vector Machines and Decision Tree,'' IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 46-53.

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J. He, H. Hu, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, and Yi Pan, "Transmembrane Segments Prediction and Understanding using Support Vector Machine and Decision Tree," Expert Systems with Applications, Special Issue on Intelligent Bioinformatics Systems, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 64-72.X. Fu and A. G. Bourgeois, P. Fan, and Yi Pan, ``Using a genetic algorithm approach to solve the dynamic channel-assignment problem'', International Journal of Mobile Communications, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2006, pp. 333-353.Yang Xiao, Kin K. Leung, Yi Pan, Xiaojiang Du, ``Architecture, mobility management, and quality of service for integrated 3G and WLAN networks,'' Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 7, Nov. 2005, pp. 805-823.V. Kolli, H. Liu, J. He, M. Pan, and Yi Pan, "Calculating Genomic Distances in Parallel Using OpenMP," Transactions on Computational Systems Biology 2, pp. 113-123, 2005.Wei Zhong, Gulsah Altun, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan, "Improved K-means Clustering Algorithm for Exploring Local Protein Sequence Motifs Representing Common Structural Property," IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Vol. 4, No. 3, Sept. 2005, pp. 255-265.Ajay K Katangur, Somasheker Akkaladevi, Yi Pan, Martin D. Fraser, ``Routing in Optical Multistage Networks with Limited Crosstalk using Ant Colony Optimization,'' International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 301-320, 2005.P. Loh, W. Hsu and Y. Pan, "The Exchanged Hypercube," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 866-874, September 2005.M. Guo and Y. Pan, "Improving Communication Scheduling for Array Redistribution," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 65, pp. 553-563, 2005.Y. Xiao and Y. Pan, ``Differentiation, QoS guarantee, and Optimization for Real-time Traffic over One-hop Ad Hoc Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 538-549, June 2005.C. Ni, H. Liu, A. G. Bourgeois, and Y. Pan, ``An Enhanced Approach to Determine Connected Dominating Sets for Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,'' International Journal of Mobile Communications, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2005, pp. 287-302.A. G. Bourgeois, Y. Pan, and S. K. Prasad, ``Constant Time Fault Tolerant Algorithms for a Linear Array with a Reconfigurable Pipelined Bus System,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 65, No. 3, March 2005, pp. 374-381.J. Li, Yi Pan, and Y. Xiao, "Performance Study of Multiple Route Dynamic Source Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Special Issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, Vol. 65, pp. 169-177, 2005.

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Y. Xiao, H. Li, C. L. P. Chen, B. Wang, and Y. Pan, "Proportional Degradation Services in Wireless/Mobile Adaptive Multimedia Networks," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, pp. 219-243, 2005.H. Hu, Yi Pan, R. Harrison, and P. C. Tai, "Improved Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Support Vector Machine with a New Encoding Scheme and an Advanced Tertiary Classifier" IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Vol. 3, No. 4, Dec. 2004, pp. 265- 271.L. Chen, Y. Pan, and X. Xu, "Scalable and Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Euclidean Distance Transform on the LARPBS Model," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 15, No. 11, Nov. 2004, pp. 975-982.Y. Xiao, H. Li, Y. Pan, K. Wu, and J. Li, "On Optimizing Energy Consumption for Mobile Handsets," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 53, No. 6, Nov. 2004.L. Chen, Y. Pan, Y. Chen, and X. Xu, ``An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Euclidean Distance Transform,'' The Computer Journal , Vol. 47, No. 6, 2004, pp. 694-700.Y. Xiao, Y. Pan, and J. Li, "Design and Analysis of Location Management for 3G Cellular Networks" IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 339-349, April 2004.L. Chen and H. Chen, Y. Pan, and Y. Chen, "A Fast Efficient Parallel Hough Transform Algorithm on LARPBS," The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 29, pp. 185-195, 2004.Yi Pan, Constantinos S. Ierotheou, Majeed M. Hayat, "Parallel Gain-Bandwidth Characteristics Calculations for Thin Avalanche Photodiodes on an SGI Origin 2000 Supercomputer," Concurrency and Computation: Practices an Experience, Vol. 16, pp. 1207-1225, July 2004.Ajay K Katangur, Yi Pan, Martin D. Fraser, ''Simulated Annealing Routing and Wavelength Lower Bound Estimation on WDM Optical Multistage Networks,'' Special Issue on Advances in Optical Components and Subsystems for WDM Communications of Journal of Optical Engineering , Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 1080-1091, May 2004.Y. Luo, Y. Pan, J. Li, Y. Xiao, and X. Lin, "A simulation study of overflow replacement policies for location management in mobile networks," International Journal of Mobile Communications, Vol. 2, No.2 pp. 103-127, 2004.

4.  Professional activity;

Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief for two journals, a series editor for 3 book series, and an editorial board member for 15 journals including 5 IEEE Transactions. He has organized over 20 international conferences and workshops and has also served as a program committee member for many major international conferences.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; A. G. Unil Perera, Professor, Physics,

Education:Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, April, 1987M.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1983B.S. (Physics - First Class Honors), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1981

2. Teaching load 3 courses/yr:Senior Undergraduate Classical Mechanics (4600 &7600)Teaching Physics for Graduate Students ( Phys 6300 )Graduate Solid State Physics (Phys 8510)Undergraduate Solid State Physics ( Phys 6910)Modern Physics LaboratoryAstronomy Laboratory

3. Scholarship and publications:ACTIVE RESEARCH CONTRACTS & GRANT SUPPORT EXTERNAL

NDP Optronics LLC - “Polarization agile dual band infrared sensors” 09/15/07-03/31/08, $31,302 (President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, Project Director: V. Apalkov, a subcontract from the STTR Phase I grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from the U.S. Air Force).National Science Foundation (NSF) “Investigation of a Novel Quantum Dot Tunnel Detector for the Terahertz Range “, 09/01/06-08/31/09, $270,000 (PI: Pallab Bhattacharya –Univ. Michigan, A. G. U. Perera Co- PI).National Science Foundation (NSF) - ECS 0553051 “Nanostructure based Terahertz Detector Development”, 04/01/06 - 03/31/09, $240,000+$45,000 (PI).NDP Optronics LLC - “UV-IR Dual Band Detectors” 4/01/06-3/31/08, $167,302 (President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co PI: Nikolaus Dietz, a subcontract from the SBIR Phase II grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from the U.S. Air Force, $750,000, 04/01/06-03/31/08).National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, OISE - 0543257, “ QWIP 2006: International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 10/01/05 - 09/30/08, $54,000 + $3,000 (PI).Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Innovation Fund, GRA. IC07.C, “UV-IR Dual Band Detector Development”, 07/01/06 - 06/30/08, $100,000 (PI).

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Georgia-State University Chancellor's Initiative Fund, “Research in Interactions of Radiation with Matter”, 07/01/05 - , $87,000 per year converted to permanent funding (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs: Xiaochun He, S. Manson, W. H. Nelson, M. Stockman, and N. Dietz).

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National Science Foundation (NSF) “Development of Far-Infrared Difference Spectroscopy for Studies of Biological Pigment-Protein Complexes,” 07/01/04 - 12/31/07, $231,438 (PI: Gary Hastings, A. G. U. Perera   Co- PI).NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory – 1279663, “ QWIP 2006: International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 12/1/05 - 12/31/07, $20,000 (PI).U.S. Air Force, FA9550-05-1-0493, “International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Photo- detectors- 2006”, 09/30/05 - 09/29/06, $16,000 (PI).National Science Foundation (NSF ) “International Co-operative Research on Dye-Sensitized Structures”, 9/1/03-8/31/07, $39,900+$2,775(PI).EPIR Technologies “ International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 03/01/06 - 11/30/07, $10,000 (PI).U.S. Army, W911NF-05-1-0336  “International Conference on Quantum Well Infrared Phtodetectors- 2006”, 6/01/05 - 08/31/06, $10,000 (PI). NDP Optronics LLC, “UV-1R Dual Band Detectors”, 4/15/05-1/15/06, $16,950 ((President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, a subcontract from the SBIR Phase I grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from the U.S. Air Force, $99,000, 4/15/05-4/14/06)).NSF “Research Experience for undergraduates (REU)”, supplement, 05/01/04-08/31/06, $8,000 (PI).National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, INT 03 - 0322355, “US-Sri Lanka Cooperative Research: Study of dye-sensitized semiconductor nanostructure”, 09/01/03 - 08/31/05, $39,900 + $5,000 (PI).National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, ECS 01 - 40343, “Novel Heterojunction IR detectors”, 9/1/02-8/31/05, $225,000 + $50,000 (PI).NSF “Research Experience for undergraduates (REU)”, supplement, 12/1/02-08/31/05, $28,000 (PI).NSF “Research Experience for Teachers (RET)”, supplement, 04/1/04-08/31/05, $12,000 (PI). NDP Optronics LLC, ``Novel FIR Detectors with response up to 300 microns”, 01/16/04-07/19/04, $9,960 (President NDP & GSU PI: A. G. U. Perera, a subcontract from the SBIR Phase I grant awarded to NDP Optronics LLC from NASA, $69,000,1/16/04-7/19/04). US Army Battelle Scientific Service Program and NDP Optronics LLC, “Heterojunction infrared detector for 8- 20 µm range” Contract # DAAD19-02-D-0001, 8/8/02 - 07/08/03, $11,780 (PI).

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Georgia-State University Research Equipment Grant, “Magnetic Field Effects on Semiconductors leading to Novel Infrared and Spintronic Devices”, 5/1/06 – 6/30/06 ,

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$30,000 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs V. Aplakov, N. Dietz, B. Thoms and Xiaochun He).Georgia-State University Chancellor's Initiative Fund, “Research in Interactions of Radiation with Matter”, 7/1/04 - 6/30/05, $87,000 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs Xiaochun He, S. Manson, W. H. Nelson, M. Stockman, and N. Dietz).Seed grant from Brains & Behavior –Neuroscience program, “Artificial Neural Networks with Silicon Circuits- Simulation and Parallel Computing”, 9/04-8/05, $16500 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs Yi Pan and Melody Moore).Seed grant from Brains & Behavior –Neuroscience program, “Terahertz response on Cells”, 9/04-8/05, $30,000 (PI: Vince Rehder, Co-PIs Nikolaus Dietz and A. G. U. Perera).Georgia-State University Chancellor's Initiative Fund, “Research in Interactions of Radiation with Matter”, 7/1/02 - 6/30/05, $162,000 (PI: A. G. U. Perera, Co-PIs Xiaochun He, S. Manson, W. H. Nelson, and N. Dietz).

PATENTS“High Operating Temperature Split-Off Band Infrared Detectors”, Provisional Patent, (A. G. U. Perera) U. S. Patent Pending, Application Number 00412509“UV-IR Dual Band detectors”, ( A. G. U. Perera and S. G. Matsik) Provisional Patent application filed, Application number 60/729,163. “Heterojunction Far Infrared Detector”, (A. G. U. Perera, and S. G. Matsik) U. S. Patent #7,253,432 issued on August 7, 2007.INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS“Devices: Terahertz Detection Devices” (A. G. U. Perera) “Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology”, Edited by Pallab Bhattacharya, to be published, 2008.“Quantum Dot Structures for Multi-Band Infrared and Terahertz Radiation Detection” (G. Ariyawansa and A. G. U. Perera) “Handbook of Self Assembled Semiconductor Nanostructures Novel Devices in Photonics and Electronics”, edited by M. Henini, Elsevier Limited, 2008.“Quantum Structures for Far Infrared Detection”, (A. G. U. Perera and S. G. Matsik) invited chapter for “Intersubband Infrared Photodetectors” edited by Victor Ryzhii, World Scientific, Singapore, ISBN 981-238-308-5, 2003.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES“Sensitization of TiO2 and ZnO nanocrystalline films with acriflavine”, (M.K.I. Senevirathne, P.K.D.D.P. Pitigala, V. Sivakumar, P.V.V. Jayaweera, A.G.U. Perera and K. Tennakone), Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, (In Press 2008).“Semiconductor Terahertz Detectors and Absorption Enhancement Using Plasmons”, (A. G. U. Perera, G. Ariyawansa, P. V. V. Jayaweera, S. G. Matsik, M. Buchanan and H. C. Liu), Microelectronics Journal, (In Press 2008).

“A Multi-Color Quantum Dot Intersublevel Detector with Photoresponse in the Terahertz Range”, (G. Huang, J. Yang and P. Bhattacharya, G. Ariyawansa and A. G. U. Perera), Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 011117, (2008).

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“Optical properties of n-doped Ga1-xMnxN epitaxial layers grown by MOCVD in mid and far (5-50 m) IR range”, (A. weerasekera, Z. G. Hu, N. Dietz, A. Asghar, M. H. Kane, M. Strassburg, I. T. Ferguson and A. G. U. Perera), J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B. 26, 52, (2008).“Why Gratzel’s cell works so well”, (P.V.V. Jayaweera, A.G.U. Perera, and K. Tennakone), Inorganica Chimica Acta, 361, 707, (2008).“Wavelength and Polarization Selective Multi-Band Tunneling Quantum Dot Detectors”, (A. G. U. Perera, G. Ariyawansa, V. M. Apalkov, S. G. Matsik, X. H. Su, S. Chakrabarti, and P. Bhattacharya), Opto-Electronics Review, 15, 223, (2007). “Displacement currents in semiconductor quantum dots embedded dielectric media: A method for room temperature photon detection”, (P. V. V. Jayaweera, A. G. U. Perera, and K. Tennakone), Appl. Phys. Lett. 91(5), 063114, (2007).“Dual-band Pixelless Upconversion Imaging Devices”, (L. K. Wu, H. L. Hao, W. Z. Shen, G. Ariyawansa, A. G. U. Perera, and S. G. Matsik), Optics Letters, 32, 2366, (2007).“Carrier concentration and surface electron accumulation in indium nitride layers grown by high pressure chemical vapor deposition”, (R. P. Bhatta, B. D. Thoms, A. Weerasekera, A. G. U. Perera, M. Alevli, and N. Dietz). JVST 25(4), 967, (2007).“Infrared optical anisotropy of diluted magnetic Ga1-x MnxN/c –sapphire epilayers with a GaN buffer layer by metaloorganic chemical vapor deposition.” (Z. G. Hu, A. B. Weerasekara, N. Dietz A. G. U. Perera, M. Strassburg, M. H. Kane, A. Asghar and I. T. Ferguson), Phys. Rev. B. 75 205320, (2007).“n-type GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure detector with a 3.2 threshold frequency” (A. B. Weerasekara, M. B. M. Rinzan, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera, M. Buchanan, H. C. Liu, G. von Winckel, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna, Optics Letters,32, 1335, (2007)“GaSb homojunctions for Far-IR (THz) Detection” (P. V. V. Jayaweera, S. G. Matsik, and A. G. U. Perera, Y. Paltiel, Ariel Sher and Arie Raizman, H. Luo, and H. C. Liu), Applied Physics Letters, 90, 111109 , (2007) “Effects of a p–n junction on heterojunction far infrared detectors“, (S. G. Matsik, M. B. M. Rinzan, A.G. U. Perera, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish and H.C. Liu), Infrared Physics & Technology, 50, 274-278 (2007).“ Quantum mechanical effects in internal photoemission THz detectors ”  (M. B. Rinzan, S. Matsik and A. G. U. Perera) Infrared Physics & Technology, 50, 199-205 (2007).“ Performance improvements of ultraviolet/infrared dual-band detectors”  (A. G. U. Perera, G. Ariyawansa, M. B. M. Rinzan, M. Stevens, M. Alevli, N. Dietz, S. G. Matsik, A. Asghar, I. T. Ferguson, H. Luo et al.) Infrared Physics & Technology, 50, 142-148 (2007).“Multi-color tunneling quantum dot infrared photodetectors operating at room temperature” (G. Ariyawansa, A. G. U. Perera, X. H. Su, S. Chakrabarti and P. Bhattacharya) Infrared Physics & Technology, 50, 156, (2007).“ 1/f Noise in dye-sensitized solar cells and NIR photon detectors”  (P. V. V. Jayaweera, P. K. D. D. P. Pitigala, M. K. I. Seneviratne, A. G. U. Perera and K. Tennakone) Infrared Physics & Technology, 50, 270, (2007).

“ Si doped GaAs/AlGaAs terahertz detector and phonon effect on the responsivity” (A. B. Weerasekara, M. B. M. Rinzan, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera, M. Buchanan, H. C.

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Liu, G. von Winckel, A. Stintz and S. Krishna) Infrared Physics & Technology, 50, 194-198 (2007).“ Spin split-off transition based IR detectors operating at high temperatures”  (P. V. V. Jayaweera, S.G. Matsik, K. Tennakone, A. G. U. Perera, H.C. Liu and S. Krishna ) Infrared Physics & Technology, 50, 279, (2007).“Quantum structures for multiband photon detection“ (A. G. U. Perera) Opto-Electronics Review 14(2),103, (2006). “High Operating Temperature Split-off Band Infrared Detectors “ (A. G. U. Perera, S. G. Matsik, P. V. V. Jayaweera, K. Tennakone, H. C. Liu, M. Buchanan G. Von Winckel, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna) Applied Physics Letters, 89 131118 (2006).“ Characterization of InN layers grown by high-pressure chemical vapor deposition “ (M. Alevli, G. Durkaya, W. Fenwick, A. Weerasekara, V. Woods, I. Ferguson, U. Perera and N. Dietz) Applied Physics Letters, 89, 112119 (2006).“GaN/AlGaN heterojunction infrared detector responding in 8-14 µm and 20-70 µm ranges” (G. Ariyawansa, M. B. M. Rinzan, M. Strassburg, N. Dietz , A. G. U. Perera, S. G. Matsik, A. Asghar, I. T. Ferguson, H. Luo, and H. C. Liu) Applied Physics Letters, 89, 141122 (2006).“GaN/AlGaN ultraviolet/infrared dual-band detector“ (G. Ariyawansa, M. B. M. Rinzan, M. Alevli, M. Strassburg, N. Dietz , A. G. U. Perera, S. G. Matsik, A. Asghar, I. T. Ferguson, H. Luo, A. Bezinger, and H. C. Liu)  Applied Physics Letters, 89, 091113, (2006).“Characteristics of a Si dual-band detector responding in both near- and far-infrared regions“ (G. Ariyawansa, M. B. M. Rinzan, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera, G. Hastings, H. C. Liu, M. Buchanan, G. I. Sproule, V. I. Gavrilenko, and V. P. Kuznetsov) Applied Physics Letters, 89, 061112 (2006).“Optical studies of MOCVD-grown GaN-based ferromagnetic semiconductor epilayers and devices,” (M. H. Kane, M. Strassburg, W. E. Fenwick, A. Asghar, J. Senawiratne, D. Azamat, Z. Hu, E. Malguth, S. Graham, U. Perera, W. Gehlhoff, A. Hoffmann, N. Dietz, C. J. Summers, I. T. Ferguson), Physica Status Solidi (c) 3(6) pp. 2237-2240 (2006).“Terahertz detection with tunneling quantum dot intersublevel photodetector“ (X.H. Su, J. Yang, P. Bhattacharya, G. Ariyawansa, and A.G. U. Perera) Applied Physics Letters, 89, 031117 (2006).“Grouping behavior of inter-pulse time intervals for triggered pulses in an AlGaAs/InGaAs multilayer structure” (A. B. Weerasekara, S. G. Matsik, G. S. Cymbalyuk, and A. G. U. Perera), Physica D, 215, 159-165 (2006). “Longitudinal–optical phonon hole plasmon coupled modes in heavily doped p-type GaSb:Zn epitaxial films” (Z. G. Hu, M. B. M. Rinzan, A. G. U. Perera, M. Zhu, Y. Paltiel, A. Raizman, and A. Sher), Eur. Phys. J. B., 50, 403-410, (2006). “Lattice Vibrations in Hexagonal Ga1-xMnxN Epitaxial Films on c-Plane Sapphire Substrates by Infrared Reflectance Spectra” (Z. G. Hu, M.Strassburg, A. Weerasekara, N. Dietz. A. G. U. Perera, M. H. Kane, A. Asghar, and I.T. Ferguson), Applied Physics Letters, 88, 061914 (2006).“Composition dependence of the infrared dielectric function in Si- doped hexagonal AlxGa1-xN films on c-plane sapphire substrates” (Z. G. Hu, M.Strassburg, N. Dietz. A. G. U. Perera, A. Asghar, I.T. Ferguson) , PHYSICAL REVIEW B 72, 245326 (2005.)

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“Terahertz absorption in AlGaAs films and detection using heterojunctions“ (M. B. M. Rinzan,  A. G. U. Perera, S. G. Matsik, H. C. Liu, M. Buchanan, G. Von Winckel, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna) Infrared Physics & Technology., 47, 188–194, (2005). “1/f noise and dye-sensitized solar cells” (P. V. V. Jayaweera, P. K. D. D. P. Pitigala, A. G. U. Perera and K. Tennakone), Semicond. Sci. Technol., 20, L40–L42, (2005).“High Performance mid-infrared quantum dot infrared photodetectors” (S. Chakrabarti, A. D Stiff-Roberts, X Su, P. Bhattacharya, G. Ariyawansa, and A. G. U. Perera), J. Phys D. Appl. Phys., 38, 2135-2141, (2005).“A Resonant Tunneling Quantum-Dot Infrared Photodetector” (Xiaohua Su, Subhananda Chakrabarti, Pallab Bhattacharya, G. Ariyawansa, and A. G. U. Perera), IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 41(7), 974-979, (2005).“Zn-Doped GaSb Epitaxial Film Absorption Coefficients at Terahertz Frequencies and Detector Applications” (Z. G. Hu, A. G. U. Perera, Y. Paltiel, A. Raizman, & A. Sher), Journal of Applied Physics, 98, 023511, (2005). “Characteristics of a Tunneling Quantum-dot Infrared Photodetector Operating at Room Temperature“ (P. Bhattacharya, X. H. Su, S. Chakrabarti,  G. Ariyawansa,  and  A. G. U. Perera), Applied Physics Letters, 86, 191106, (2005). “Near- and Far-Infrared p-GaAs Dual Band Detector“ (G. Ariyawansa, M.B.M. Rinzan, D. G. Esaev, S. G. Matsik, G. Hastings, A. G. U. Perera, H. C. Liu, B. N. Zvonkov, and V. I. Gavrilenko), Applied Physics Letters, 86, 143510, (2005). “Optical characterizations of heavily doped p-type AlxGa1-xAs and GaAs epitaxial films at terahertz frequencies” (Z. G. Hu, M. B. M. Rinzan, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera, G. Von Winckel, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna), Journal of Applied Physics, 97 (8), 093529, (2005).“AlGaAs emitter/GaAs barrier Terahertz detector with a 2.3 THz threshold,” (M. B. M. Rinzan, A. G. U. Perera, S. G. Matsik, H. C. Liu, Z. Wasilewski and M. Buchanan), Applied Physics Letters, 86, 071112, (2005). “Effect of doped substrate on GaAs/AlGaAs interfacila workfunction IR detector response through cavity effect”,(S. G. Matsik, M. B. M. Rinzan, D. G. Esaev, A. G. U. Perera, G. Von Winckel, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna), IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 52 (3), 413-418, (2005). “Effect of Well Width on Three Color Quantum Dot-in-a-Well Infrared Detectors”, (G. Ariyawansa, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera, S. Krishna, S. Raghavan, G. von Winckel, and A. Stintz), Photonics Tech. Letts., 17, 1064-1066, (2005).“Characteristics of a Multi-Color InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector” (S. Chakrabarti, X. H. Su, P. Bhattacharya, G. Ariyawansa and A. G. U. Perera), Photonics Tech. Letts., 17, 178-180, (2005).“Dye-sensitized near-infrared room-temperature photovoltaic photon detectors”, (P. V. V. Jayaweera, A. G. U. Perera, M. K. I. Senevirathna, P. K. D. D. P. Pitigala, and K. Tennakone), Applied Physics Letters, 85, 5754-5756, (2004).“Free carrier absorption in Be –doped epitaxial AlGaAs thin Films”, (M. B. M. Rinzan, D. G. Esaev, A. G. U. Perera, S. G. Matsik, G. Von Winckel, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna), Applied Physics Letters, 85, 5236-5238, (2004). “Design and optimization of GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction infrared detectors”, (D. G. Esaev, M. B. M. Rinzan, S. G. Matsik, and A. G. U. Perera), Journal of Applied Physics, 96, 4588-4597, (2004).

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“Construction of a photovoltaic device by deposition of thin films of the conducting polymer polythio- cyanogen “ , (V. P. S. Perera, P. V. V. Jayaweera, P.K.D. D. P.  Pitigala, P. K. M. Bandaranayake, G. Hastings, A. G. U. Perera, K. Tennakone), Synthetic Metals, 143, 283-287, (2004).“20   micron cutoff heterojunction interfacial work function internal photoemission detectors“, ( S. G. Matsik, M. B. M. Rinzan, D. G. Esaev, A. G. U. Perera, H. C. Liu and M. Buchanan), Applied Physics letters , 84, 3435-3437, (2004).“High performance single emitter homojunction interfacial workfunction far infrared detectors”, (D. G. Easev, M. B. M. Rinzan, S. G. Matsik, V. Gavrilenko, B. Zvonkov, A. G. U. Perera, H. C. Liu, M. Buchanana, A. Belyanin),  Journal of Applied Physics, 95, 512-519 (2004).“Three-color (λp1~3.8     µm, λ p2~8.5     µm, and λ p3~23.2     µm) InAs/InGaAs quantum-dots- in-a-well detector“, (G. Ariyawansa, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera, S. Krishna, S. Raghavan, G. von Winckel, and A. Stintz), Applied Physics Letters, 83, 2745-2747 (2003). “Quantum structures for FIR Detection”, (A. G. U. Perera and S. G. Matsik), International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 12, 821-872, (2003).“The Effects of Light-Heavy Hole Transitions on the Cutoff Wavelengths of Far Infrared Detectors”( A. G. U. Perera, S. G. Matsik, M. B. M. Rinzan, A. Weerasekara, M. Alevli, H. C. Liu, M. Buchanan, B. Zvonkov and V. Gavrilenko.), Infrared Physic & Technology, 44, 347-353, (2003). “Resonant Cavity Enhancemnet in GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction Terahertz Detectors” ( D. G. Easev, S. G. Matsik, M. B. M. Rinzan, A. G. U. Perera, H. C. Liu, and M. Buchanan), J. Appl. Phys, 93, 1879-1883, (2003). “Cutoff Tailorability of Heterojunction Terahertz Detectors”, ( S. G. Matsik, M. B. M. Rinzan, A. G. U. Perera, H. C. Liu, Z. R. Wasilewski, and M. Buchanan), Applied Physics Letters, 82, 139-141, (2003).

4. Professional activityPROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Fellow: American Physical Society (APS)

Fellow: American Physical Society, South Eastern Section (SESAPS)

Member: Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS

General Chair, QWIP 2006 (International Workshop on Quantum Well Infrared Photo-detectors), June 18-24, 2006, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Session Chair –

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Focus Session: Y36: Artificial Neurons,APS March Meeting, New Orleans,Mar 14 2008 (Accepted)   Session IV-3 (Application of Thin Films), 28th September 2007, 6th International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, Shanghai, China. Session III: Nitrides-epitaxy, ICSSC -5 & PCCG-8 Conference, May 20-24, 2007, Zakopane, Poland.Session 9: Quantum Sensing and Nano Photonics Devices: Detectors and Focal Plane Arrays III, SPIE, San Jose, CA, 24 Jan 2007.Session WedB4: Novel Devices and components (Nano and Quantum devices, Photonic crystals): IRMMW-THz2006, Shanghai, China, Sept 18-22, 2006Session R17: APS March meeting, March 13–17, 2006; Baltimore, MDSession (Novel Directions): QWIP 2004 workshop, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, August 8-13, 2004. Editor- “Proceedings of the Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors – 2006”, Elsevier, Infrared Physics & Technology, 50 ii-iii ISSN: 1350-4495 (2007)Volume Co-Editor - Academic Press “Handbook of Thin Film Devices, Vol 2, Semiconductor Optical and Electro-Optical Devices”, ISBN: 0-12-559760-7, 2000.Volume Co-Editor - Academic Press “Thin Films: Frontiers of Thin Film Technology”, Vol 28, ISBN 0-12-533028-6, 2000.

PROPOSAL REVIEW PANELS – EXTERNAL Panel Member: Nanoscale Exploratory Research Teams (NER) for the Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems (ANN) solicitation, Evaluated 40 proposals from various Universities, NSF, Feb 22-23, 2007Panel Member : Sensor and Sensor Network SST Panel, within the ECS division, NSF, evaluated 26 proposals from various Universities, May 19-20, 2005Panel Member : SBIR/STTR Phase I, Terahertz Detectors Panel, NSF, evaluated 7 proposals from various small business and University partnerships, September 7, 2004Panel Member: Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies Program (EPDT) within the ECS Division, Evaluated 20 proposals from various Universities, NSF, June 9-10, 2003

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES

International Advisory Committee, WRA-LDSD (Workshop on Recent Advances of Low Dimensional Structures and Devices), to be held in April 7-9, 2008, Nottingham, UK.

General and Program Committee Chair QWIP 2006 (International Workshop on Quantum Well infrared Photodetectors), June 18-24, 2006, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

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Treasurer& Member International Advisory Committee, QWIP 2004 (International Workshop on Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors), August 2-5, 2004, the Canadian Rockies.

International Program Committee, SPIE Conference on “ Quantum Sensing, Evolution and Revolution from Past to Future” Jan 27-30, 2003, San Jose, CA.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Gengsheng (Jeff) Qin, Associate Professor, Math & Statistics

EducationB.S. in Mathematics, 1983, Lanzhou University, China, Diploma in French, 1985, Sichuan Institute of Foreign Language, China, M.S. in Statistics, 1992, Sichuan University, China, Ph.D. in Statistics, 1999, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong KongPostdoctoral Fellow in Statistics, 1999-2000, University of Victoria, Canada, Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics, January 2001-July 2001, Indiana University School of Medicine

2. Teaching load 4 courses/yr:BiostatisticsSurvival AnalysisApplied Nonparametric MethodsStatistical TheorySample SurveysMathematical StatisticsElementary Statistics

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Funding:PI. Empirical Likelihood Based Statistical Methods for Diagnostic Systems. NSF DMS 0603913. $79,9352006 PI (NIH subcontract). Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine. $9,165. (PI. Andrew Zhou, University of Washington, Seattle. R01 EB005829-01A2. $685,691)2005-2007 Advisor of a B&B fellow. Brain & Behavior Program. GSU. $22,000 PI. Empirical likelihood Based Interval Estimation for ROC Curves. GSU Research Initiation Program. $8,5002005 IMS travel grant. The Joint Statistical Meeting of CSPS/IMS, Beijing, China, July 9-12, 2005

2003 Full travel and accommodation support from NIH grant R01 AHRQ/NIH, Regression Analysis of Health Care Costs, 09/30/2002 – 09/30/2006, $476,000 (PI: Andrew Zhou, University of Washington, Seattle)

1996-1998 PI. Some Problems in Censored Regression Models. Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China. $33,000.

Co-PI. The Theory of Estimation for Non-parametric Distribution and Applied Software. Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publications:Qin, G.S. and Tsao, M. (2002). Empirical likelihood ratio confidence interval for the trimmed mean. Communication in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 31:2197-2208

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Qin, G.S. and Tsao, M. (2003). Empirical likelihood inference for median regression models of censored survival data. J Multi Anal, 85:416-430Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2003). Edgeworth expansion in censored linear regression model. Ann Inst Stat Math, 55:597-617Zhou, X.H., Tsao, M., and Qin, G.S. (2004). New intervals for the difference between two independent binomial proportions. J Statist Plan Infer 123, 97-115Hermers, R., Jing, B.-Y., Qin, G.S. and Zhou, W. (2004). Saddlepoint approximations to the trimmed mean. Bernoulli 10, 465-501Qin, G.S., Tsao, M., and Hsu, Y.-S. (2004). Empirical likelihood ratio confidence interval for the Winsorized mean. Advances and Applications in Statistics 4, 167-180.Zhou, X.H. and Qin, G.S. (2005). A new confidence interval for the difference between two binomial proportions of paired data. J Statist Plan Infer 128, 527-542.Zhou, X.H. and Qin, G.S. (2005). Improved confidence intervals for the sensitivity at a fixed level of specificity of a continuous-scale diagnostic test. Statistics in Medicine 24, 465-477.Qin, G.S., Tsao, M. (2005). Empirical likelihood based inference for the derivative of the nonparametric regression function. Bernoulli 11, 715-735.Qin, G.S., and Zhou, X.H. (2006). Empirical likelihood inference for the area under the ROC curve. Biometrics 62, 613-622.Zhao, Y.C., and Qin, G.S. (2006). Inference for the mean residual life function via empirical likelihood. Communication in Statistics, Theory and Methods 35, 1025-1036.Zhou, X.H., Qin, G.S., Lin, H.Z. and Li, G. (2006). Inferences in censored cost regression models with empirical likelihood. Statistica Sinica 16, 1213-1232.Qin, G.S., Hsu, Y.-S., and Zhou, X.H. (2006). New confidence intervals for the difference between two sensitivities at a fixed level of specificity. Statistics in Medicine 25, 3487-3502.Zhou, X.H., Qin, G.S., and Maciejewski, M.L. (2006). Estimating the VA inpatient care cost using a semi-parametric heteroscedastic two-part model. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 6, 69-80.Zhou, X.H. and Qin, G.S. (2007). A supplement to “A New Confidence Interval for the Difference Between Two Binomial Proportions of Paired Data". J Statist Plan Infer 137, 357-358.Qin, G.S. and Zhao, Y.C. (2007). Empirical likelihood inference for the mean residual life under random censorship. Statistics & Probability Letter 77, 549-557.Zhao, Y.C. and Qin, G.S. (2007). Simultaneous confidence band for a linear functional of cumulative hazard function via empirical likelihood. Communication in Statistics, Theory and Methods 36, 313-327.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Vincent Rehder, Professor, Biology (Developmental Neurobiology)

EducationFree University Berlin, Germany  B.S.             1978                     BiologyFree University Berlin, Germany  M.S.             1982                     ZoologyFree University Berlin, Germany  Ph.D.            1987                     ZoologyColorado State University       Postdoc          1988-1993                  Neurobiology

2. Teaching load 3-4 courses/yr:Biol 4094/6094 Developmental NeuroscienceBiol 4102/6102 Fundamentals of NeurobiologyBiol 8010 Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceBiol 8110Biol 8550 Introduction to Graduate Studies3-4 classroom courses/year

3. Scholarship and publicationsExtramural funding:2004-2008       NSF (Developmental Neuroscience)  #0343096 "Nitric oxide as an inter- and intracellular messenger in growth cones". $125,000/year  (total cost)2003-2004       NIH (NINDS) R29 NS33697-05S1, (PI, Rehder), 'Second messenger regulation of growth cone filopodia'. $30,000 (total cost); no cost extension1996-2002       NIH (NINDS) First Award (R29 NS33697), (PI, Rehder),'Second messenger regulation of growth cone filopodia'. Awarded 7-96; Total costs: $558,241.

Intramural funding:2004 Faculty Support Program Award FY04; $25,000; Title: "Second Messenger Regulation Of Growth Cone Filopodia".  (July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004)2005            Brains and Behavior seed grant: Rehder (P.I.), Dietz and Unil Perera (Co-P.I.s). Title: "Assessment of the effect of terahertz radiation on brain development and brain function." Total amount awarded: $30,000.2005            Brains and Behavior seed grant: Jenny Yang (P.I.), Vincent Rehder (Co P.I.) Title: "Development of Ca2+ Sensors to Monitor Ca2+ Signaling in Mitochondria of Neurons." Total amount awarded: $23,650.2005            Brains and Behavior seed grant: Michael Weeks (P.I.), Vincent Rehder (Co P.I.);Title: "Neurite Measurement Using Wavelet Image Processing." Total amount awarded: $15,000.2005 GSU Research Program Enhancement FY 06. Project title: Neurobiology and Behavior.  Dr. Don Edward (PI), Drs. Albers, Bartness, Carruth, Derby, Frantz, Grober, Murphy, Pallas, Rehder, Walthall (Co-PIs.). Total amount awarded: $132,0002006 Brains and Behavior seed grant: Jenny Yang (P.I.), Vincent Rehder (Co P.I.) Title: Development of Ca2+ Sensors to Monitor Ca2+ Signaling in Mitochondria of Neurons. Total amount awarded: $23,650. (11/05-10/06)2007            Brains and Behavior seed grant: Vincent Rehder (P.I.), Deborah Baro (Co P.I.) Title: Development of molecular biological tools to study the role of nitric oxide

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(NO) on growth cone motility. Total amount awarded: $20,543. (1/07-11/07) Publications 2003-present:Tornieri K, Rehder V. (2007) Nitric oxide release from a single cell affects filopodial motility on growth cones of neighboring neurons. Dev. Neurobiol. 67:1932-1943

Zou J, Hofer A, Lurtz M, Gadda G, Ellis A, Chen N, Huang Y, Holder A, Ye Y,  Louis C, Welshhans K, Rehder V, Yang J (2007) "Developing sensors for real time measurement of high Ca2+ concentrations". Biochemistry 46:12275-12288

Welshhans K, Rehder V.  (2007) Nitric oxide regulates growth cone filopodial dynamics via ryanodine receptor-mediated calcium release. Eur J Neurosci 26:1537-1547

Brannock E, Weeks M., Rehder V. (2006) Detecting filopodia with wavelets (ISCAS Meeting, May 21-24, Kos, Greece) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 4046 - 4049

Tornieri K, Welshhans K, Geddis MS Rehder V. (2006) The phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase pathway controls neurite outgrowth and growth cone motility. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 63:173-192

Welshhans K, Rehder V. (2005) Local application of nitric oxide regulates the length of growth cone filopodia via the sGC/PKG pathway. Eur J Neurosci 22:3006-3016

Zou J, Ye Y, Welshhans K, Lurtz M, Ellis AL, Louis C, Rehder V, Yang JJ. (2005) Expression and optical properties of green fluorescent protein expressed in different cellular environments. J Biotechnol. 119:368-378

Clark MC, Dever TE, Dever JJ, Xu P, Rehder V, Sosa MA, Baro DJ. (2004) Arthropod 5-HT2 receptors: A neurohormonal receptor in Decapod crustaceans that displays agonist independent activity resulting from an evolutionary alteration of the DRY motif. J. Neurosci. 24:3421-3435

Trimm K, Rehder V. (2004) Nitric oxide acts as a slow-down and search signal in developing neurites. Eur. J Neurosci. 19:809-818

Geddis M, Giesecke A, and Rehder V (2004) PLA2 and secondary metabolites of arachidonic acid control filopodial behavior in neuronal growth cones. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 57:53-67

Geddis M, Rehder V. (2003a) The phosphorylation state of neuronal processes determines growth cone formation after neuronal injury. J Neurosci Res. 74:210-220

Geddis, M, Rehder V. (2003b) Initial stages of neuronal regeneration in Helisoma trivolvis are dependent on PLA2 activity. J. Neurobiol. 54:555-565

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Diana L. Robins, Assistant Professor, Psychology EducationBA Oberlin College, Psychology 1996MA University of Connecticut, Clinical PsychologyPhD University of Connecticut, Clinical Psychology-NeuropsychologyPostdoctoral Yale University School of Medicine, Neuropsychology

2. Teaching load 4 courses/yr PSYC 9140 Neuropsychological Assessment PSYC 8630 Developmental Neuropsychology PSYC 9950 Assessment Practicum/Specialized Skills Praticum PSYC3140 Abnormal Psychology

3. Scholarship and Publication GRANT HISTORY: ACTIVE 4/08-3/13 National Institute of Child Health and Development, “The development of joint attention after infancy” Lauren B. Adamson, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., Investigator. Total costs: $1,806,2501/08-12/08 Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Venture Grant “The relationship between empathy and the neural mechanisms of emotion perception in autism spectrum disorders and typical individuals”. Diana L. Robins, Ph.D. and Tricia Z. King, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigators. Total costs: $30,00010/07-9/09 CDC/GSU Seed Grant Awards in the Social & Behavioral Sciences

“Determining the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in young children”. Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., GSU Principal Investigator

Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, M.D., CDC Principal InvestigatorTotal Costs: $59,998

9/07-8/08 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development “The development of joint attention after infancy”, Lauren B. Adamson, Ph.D., Principal Investigator. Total Costs: $360,0007/05-6/08 National Alliance for Autism Research/Autism Speaks “Perception of Emotional Cues from Facial Expression and Affective Prosody using fMRI”. Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., Principal Investigator. Total costs: $119,779GRANT HISTORY: COMPLETED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

8/02-7/07 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) “Early detection of pervasive developmental disorders” Deborah A. Fein, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., Co-Investigator. Total costs: approx. $2,000,0007/01-6/07 Maternal and Child Health Bureau “Early Detection of Autism: Comparison of Three Screening Instruments”. Deborah A. Fein, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., Co-Investigator. Total costs: approx. $894,000

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9/05-6/07 Brains & Behavior, Georgia State University, “Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying emotion perception in autism spectrum disorders” Diana L. Robins, Ph.D. & Tricia Z. King, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigators. Total costs: $30,0007/05-6/06 Georgia State University, Faculty Mentoring Grant, “Perception of emotional cues from facial expression and affective prosody using fMRI”

Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Robin Morris, Ph.D., Mentor. Total costs: $10,0002/04-6/04 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) “Training Program in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders”. James Leckman, M.D., Principal Investigator, Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow7/03-6/04 Yale University School of Medicine, James Hudson Brown–Alexander B. Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Medical Sciences

“Cross-Modal Emotion Perception in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders”, Diana L. Robins, Ph.D., Principal Investigator. Total costs: $37,2128/02-6/03 National Alliance for Autism Research , Marie Bristol-Power Postdoctoral Fellow. Total costs: $40,000. Robert T. Schultz, Ph.D., Faculty Mentor7/00-6/04 National Alliance for Autism Research “Early Detection of Pervasive Developmental Disorders”. Deborah A. Fein, Ph.D. Principal InvestigatorDiana L. Robins, M.A., Co-Investigator. Total costs: $70,000

Honors: 1/08 Nominated for the College of Arts and Sciences’ Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Georgia State University 12/07 Nominated for the Faculty Award for University Undergraduate Research, Georgia State University Research Conference7/07-9/09 National Institute of Health Loan Repayment Program, Role: PI5/00-6/01 NIMH/NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship, Deborah A. Fein, Ph.D., Faculty MentorPEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Schmertz, S. K., Anderson, P. L., Robins, D. L. (under revision). The relation between self-report mindfulness and performance on tasks of sustained attention. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.Allen, R., Decker, S. Robins, D.L., et al. (in press). Neuropsychology of autism and response to treatment models. Psychology in the Schools.Wiggins, L.D. & Robins, D.L. (in press). Excluding the ADI-R behavioral domain improves diagnostic agreement in toddlers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Available Online First 9/19/07.Kleinman, J.M., Robins, D.L., Ventola, P.E., Pandey, J., Boorstein, H.C., Esser, E.L., Wilson, L.B., Rosenthal, M.A., Sutera, S., Verbalis, A.D., Marshia, G., Barton, M. Hodgson, S., Green, J., Dumont-Mathieu, T., Volkmar, F., Chawarska, K., Klin, A., & Fein, D. (in press). The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers: A follow-up study investigating the early detection of autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Available Online First 9/20/07.Kleinman, J.M., Ventola, P.E., Pandey, J., Verbalis, A.D., Barton, M., Hodgson, S., Green, J., Dumont-Mathieu, T., Robins, D.L., & Fein, D. (in press). Diagnostic stability

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in very young children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Available Online First 10/9/07.Kamio, Y., Robins, D., Kelley, E., Swainson, B., & Fein, D. (2007). Atypical lexical/semantic processing in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders without early language delay. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37 (6), 1116-1122.Ventola, P., Kleinman, J., Pandey, J., Wilson, L., Esser, E., Boorstein, H., Dumont-Mathieu, T., Marshia, G., Robins, D., Barton, M., Hodgson, S., Green, J., Volkmar, F., Chawarska, K., Babitz, T., & Fein, D. (2007). Differentiating between autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities in children who failed a screening instrument for ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37 (3), 425-436. Wiggins, L.D., Bakeman, R., Adamson, L.B., & Robins, D.L. (2007). The Utility of the Social Communication Questionnaire in Screening for Autism in Children Referred for Early Intervention. Focus on Autism and Developmental Disorders, 22 (1), 33-38.Sutera, S., Pandey, J., Esser, E.L., Rosenthal, M.A., Wilson, L.B., Barton, M., Green, J., Hodgson, S., Robins, D.L., Dumont-Mathieu, T., & Fein, D. (2007) Predictors of optimal outcome in toddlers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38 (1), 98-107.Ventola, P., Kleinman, J., Pandey, P., Barton, M., Allen, S., Green, J., Robins, D., & Fein, D. (2006). Agreement among four diagnostic instruments for autism spectrum disorders in toddlers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36 (7), 839-847.Robins, D.L. & Dumont-Mathieu, T. (2006). The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT): A review of current findings and future directions. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 27 (Supplement 2), S111-S119.Seignourel, P.J., Robins, D.L., Larson, M., Demery, J.A., Cole, M. & Perlstein, W.M. (2005). Cognitive control in closed head injury: Context maintenance dysfunction or prepotent response inhibition deficit? Neuropsychology, 19 (5), 578-590.Robins, D., Fein, D., Barton, M., Green, J. (2001). The Modified-Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT): An initial investigation in the early detection of autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31 (2), 131-144. Robins, D., Fein, D., & Barton, M. (2001). Reply to Charman et al.’s commentary on the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31 (2), 149-151.Buchsbaum, M.S., Hollander, E., Haznedar, M.M., Tang, C., Spiegel-Cohen, J., Wei, T.C., Solimando, A., Buchsbaum, B.R., Robins, D., Bienstock, C., Cartwright, C., & Mosovich, S. (2001). Effect of fluoxetine on regional cerebral metabolism in autistic spectrum disorders: a pilot study. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 4 (2), 119-125.Liss, M., Fein, D., Bullard, S., Robins, D., & Waterhouse, L. (2000). Cognitive estimation in individuals with Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 30 (6) 613-618. EDITED BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS Schultz, R.T. & Robins, D.L. (2005). Neuroimaging findings in autism spectrum conditions. In F. Volkmar, A. Klin, & R. Paul (Eds), Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders (3rd Edition). New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. pp.515-533.

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Snyder, P.J., Nussbaum, P.D., & Robins, D.L. Eds. (2005). Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment, Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: APA Books, Inc.Robins, D.L. (2004). entries for M-CHAT, amygdala, and face recognition. In J.T. Neisworth & P.S. Wolfe (Eds), The Autism Encyclopedia: 500+ Entries for Parents and Professionals. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co.Green, L., Joy, S., Robins, D., Brooklier, K., Waterhouse, L., & Fein, D. (2003). Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. In Neuropsychiatry, Second Edition. Eds. Randolph Schiffer, Stephen Rao, & Barry Fogel. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 503-551.Fein, D., Robins, D., & Liss, M. (2001). Autism. In Behavioral Interventions for Young Children with Autism, Second Edition, Ed. C. Maurice, G. Green & S. Luce. Austin, TX: ProEd Press. Barton, M. & Robins, D. (1999). Regulatory Disorders. In C. H. Zeanah (Editor) Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Second Edition, New York: Guilford Press.

4. Professional ActivityJournal Editorial Board Member- Focus on Autism and Other Developmental DisabilitiesJournal Editorial Board Member- Neuropsychology

GRANT REVIEW PANELS 2007 Department of Defense, Autism Spectrum Disorders Research Program2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cooperative Agreement for Enhancing Public Heath Practice Related to Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and Cooperative Agreement for a National Research and Training Organization for People with Developmental and Other Disabilities Panels2006 Autism Speaks

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Andrea Scarantino, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Education1994     B.S. Bocconi University (Italy), Economics, Department of Economics1997     M.S. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Philosophy of  the Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method2000    Ph.D. Università Cattolica of Milan (Italy), Economics, Department of Economics2005    Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science2005    M.S. University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy, PhilosophyDepartment

2. Teaching load 4 courses/yr:MetaphysicsLogic, Philosophy of mindPhilosophy of science

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years

*Shell games, information, and counterfactuals* (Forthcoming), Australasian Journal of Philosophy*Emotions in the Wild: The Situated Perspective on Emotion* (with Paul Griffiths) in Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition (eds. Murat Aydede and Philip Robbins), Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming)Review of Thinking About Feeling (ed. Robert Solomon) and Emotion, Evolution and Rationality (eds. Dylan Evans and Pierre Cuse), Mind (2006), 115: 812-820Review of Passionate Engines by Craig DeLancey, Philosophy of Science (2004), 71, pp. 227-230 *Affordances Explained*, Philosophy of Science (2003), 70, pp. 949-961

4. Professional activity; (honors, etc)2006    Richard M. Griffith Memorial Junior Award in philosophy for the paper *Emotions as Umotions*, awarded yearly by the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology to the best paper presented at the conference by a philosopher who received his or her PhD no more than five years prior to the date of the annual meeting

2004    Michael R. Bennett Prize in Philosophy, Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh, for the paper *Did Dretske Learn the Right Lesson from Shannon*s Theory of Information?*

2004    Graduate Student Travel Stipend, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, for the paper *Blindfright and the Cognitivist*s Dilemma* to be presented at the 2005 conference in Chicago

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2002    Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, for the paper *A deeper problem for Dretske*s theory of informational content* presented at the annual 2002 conference in Edmonton

2001    Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh

2000    Student Paper Award from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, best graduate student paper submitted at the annual 2000 conference in Salt Lake City, for the paper *The Interplay Between Science and Values in the Allocation of Cadaveric Kidneys*

1997    Andrea Mannu Prize, London School of Economics, best Master Thesis submitted in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method in the academic year 1996-97, for *What is an Action? When is an Action Altruistic?*

1994    Fondazione Lanza Prize for the dissertation *Rational Fools*

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Dr. Alexandra Smirnova, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics

EducationUral State University, Russia              B.Sc.             1990         MathematicsInstitute of Mathematics, RAS, Russia  M.Sc.    1995    Computational MathematicsKansas State University, KS, US            Ph.D.        2000    Mathematics

2. Teaching load 5 courses/yr:Mathematical BiologyDifferential EquationsVector CalculusNumerical Analysis

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years; Current Funding:[2008] GSU Scholarly Support Grant, Budget: $15,000.

Past Funding:[2007] PI on GSU Brains & Behavior Seed Grant ‘Modeling and Simulations for Noninvasive Brain Imaging Using Near Infrared Light’ (CO-PI: V.Apalkov). Budget: $29,908.[2006-2007] GSU Research Initiation Grant, Budget: $10,000.[2007] AIM/NSF Travel Grant to attend Workshop ‘High-Order Methods for Computational Wave Propagation and Scattering’, Palo Alto, California, September 10-14, 2007. Budget: $2,000.[2007] NSF Travel Grant to attend International Conference ‘Applied Inverse Problems: Theoretical and Computational Aspects’, June 25-29 (2007). Vancouver, BC, Canada.  Budget: $1,000.[2006] AWM/NSF Travel Grant to attend International Conference 'Tikhonov and Contemporary Mathematics, Moscow, Russia, June 19-25, 2006, Budget: $1,500.[2002-2005] PI on NSF Grant 'Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of dynamical systems method for solving linear and nonlinear ill-posed problems', DMS Computational Mathematics, Budget: $72,300.[2005] GSU AofW Faculty Scholarship Mentoring Grant Pilot Project 'Numerical Investigation of Inverse Problem in Optical Tomography' (Mentor: GT.Chen). Budget: $6,000.[2004] 'Mobile Classroom for Teaching Mathematics and Statistics'. Tech Fee Grant Program at GSU (joint with D.Vidakovic (PI), M.Arav, V.Miller, N.Patterson, A.Shilnikov). Budget: $105,045.[2003] NSF/IPAM Travel Grant to attend the conference ‘Applied Inverse Problems: Theoretical and Computational Aspects’, May 18-23 (2003), UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, CA. Budget: $1,000.

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A.B.Smirnova, R.A.Renaut, T.Khan, Convergence and Application of a Modified Iteratively Regularized Gauss-Newton Algorithm, Inverse Problems, 23, N4, 1547-1563 (2007).A.B.Bakushinsky, M.Yu.Kokurin, A.B.Smirnova, Regularized Numerical Methods for Ill-Posed Problems. Research Monograph, sample chapters submitted to Springer.R.G.Airapetyan, A.B.Smirnova, On Dynamical Systems Method for Solving Nonlinear Operator Equations, Intern. Journal of Pure and Appl. Math, 36, N1, 63-74 (2007).A.B.Bakushinsky, A.B.Smirnova, Iterative regularization and generalized discrepancy principle for monotone operator equations. Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, 28 (1-2) 13-25 (2007).A.B.Bakushinsky, A.B.Smirnova, A posteriori stopping rule for regularized fixed-point iterations. Journal of Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theory, Methods & Applications, 64, N6, 1255-1261 (2006).A.B.Bakushinsky, A.B.Smirnova, M.A.Skinner, Iteratively Regularized Gradient Method with a Posteriori Stopping Rule for 2D Inverse Gravimetry Problem.  Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, 17, N4, 375-390 (2005).A.B.Bakushinsky, T.Khan, A.B.Smirnova, Inverse Problem in Optical Tomography and its Numerical Investigation by Iteratively Regularized Methods.  Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems, 13, N3-6, 537-551 (2005).A.B.Smirnova, Regularized Quasi-Newton method with continuous inversion of F'+\varepsilon I for monotone ill-posed operator equations. Contemporary Mathematics, 379, 113-124 (2005).A.B.Bakushinsky, A.B.Smirnova, On application of generalized discrepancy principle to iterative methods for nonlinear ill-posed problems. Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, 26, N1, 35-48 (2005).T.Khan, A.B.Smirnova, 1D Inverse Problem in Diffusion Based Optical Tomography Using Iteratively Regularized Gauss-Newton Algorithm. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 161, N1, 149-170 (2005).A.G.Ramm, A.B.Smirnova, On deconvolution problems: numerical aspects. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 176, N2, 445-460 (2005).A.G.Ramm, A.B.Smirnova, Stable Numerical Differentiation: when is it possible? Journal Korean SIAM, 7, N1, 47-61 (2003).A.G.Ramm, A.B.Smirnova, A.Favini, Continuous modified Newton's-type method for nonlinear operator equations. Annali di Matematica, 182, N1, 37-52 (2003).

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Lucjan Strekowski, Professor, Chemistry

EducationM.S. 1967 Polymer Chemistry, Mendeleev Institute of Chemistry, Moscow, USSRPhD 1972 Organic Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chem., Polish Academy SciencesD.Sc. 1976 Bioorganic Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:Advanced Synthesis Chem 6340/4340Introduction to Organic/Biochemistry Chem 1152K;

3. Scholarship and publications:209. L. Strekowski, M. Say, O. Zegrocka, F.A. Tanious, W.D. Wilson, L. Manzel, and D.E. Macfarlane, “Bis-4-aminoquinolines: Novel Triple-Helix DNA Intercalators and Antagonists of Immunostimulatory CpG-Oligodeoxynucleotides,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. 11, 1079-1085 (2003).210. L. Strekowski, M. Say, M. Henary, P. Ruiz, L. Manzel, D.E. Macfarlane, and A. Bojarski, “Synthesis and Activity of Substituted 2-Phenylquinolin-4-amines, Antagonists of Immunostimulatory CpG-oligodeoxynucleotides,” J. Med. Chem. 46, 1242-1249 (2003).211. J.B. Chaires, J. Ren, M. Henary, O. Zegrocka, G.R. Bishop, and L. Strekowski, “Triplex Selective 2-(2-Naphthyl)quinoline Compounds: Origins of Affinity and New Design Principles,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 7272-7283 (2003).212. L. Strekowski, J.C. Mason, H. Lee, R. Gupta, J. Sowell, and G. Patonay, “Synthesis of Water-Soluble Near-Infrared Cyanine Dyes Functionalized with [(Succinimido)oxy]carbonyl Group,” J. Heterocycl. Chem. 40, 913-916 (2003).213. L. Strekowski, J.C. Mason, H. Lee, and G. Patonay, “Synthesis of a Functionalized Cyanine Dye for Covalent Labeling of Biomolecules with a pH-Sensitive Chromophore,” Heterocycl. Commun. 10, 381-382 (2004).214. L. Strekowski, J. Zhang, E. Paliakov, M. Say, M. Henary, and M. Hojjat, “Chemistry of the Anionically Activated Perfluoroalkyl Group in Heterocyclic Synthesis,” in Heterocyclic Chemistry, RBSA Publishers: Jaipur, India, 2004.215. L. Strekowski, J. Zhang, E. Paliakov, and M. Say, “Chemistry of the Anionically Activated Perfluoroalkyl Group in Organic Synthesis,” Recent Res. Devel. Org. Chem. 8, 1-11 (2004).216. L. Strekowski, “Biologically Relevant Heterocyclic Compounds,” Guest Editorial, Molecules 9, 39 (2004).217. G. Patonay, J. Salon, J. Sowell, and L. Strekowski, “Noncovalent Labeling of Biomolecules with Red and Near-Infrared Dyes,” Molecules 9, 40-49 (2004).218. E. Paliakov and L. Strekowski, “Boron Tribromide Mediated Debenzylation of Benzylamino and Benzyloxy Groups,” Tetrahedron Lett. 45, 4093-4095 (2004).219. L. Strekowski, J.C. Mason, H. Lee, M. Say, and G. Patonay, “Water-Soluble pH-Sensitive 2,6-Bis(substituted ethylidene)cyclohexanone/Hydroxy Cyanine Dyes that Absorb in the Visible/Near-Infrared Regions,” J. Heterocycl. Chem. 41, 227-232 (2004).

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220. W.R. Winkeljohn, P.C. Vasquez, L. Strekowski, and A.L. Baumstark, “Oxidation of Substituted Pyridines by Dimethyloxirane: Kinetics and Solvent Effects,” Tetrahedron Lett. 45, 8295-8297 (2004).223. L. Strekowski, J.C. Mason, M. Say, H. Lee, R. Gupta, and M. Hojjat, “Novel Synthetic Route to pH-Sensitive 2,6-Bis(substituted ethylidene)cyclohexanone/Hydroxycyanine Dyes that Absorb in the Visible/Near-Infrared Regions,” Heterocycl. Commun. 11, 129-134 (2005).224. L. Strekowski, M. Hojjat, E. Wolinska, A.N. Parker, E. Paliakov, T. Gorecki, F.A. Tanious, and W.D. Wilson, “New Triple-Helix DNA Stabilizing Agents,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 15, 1097-1100 (2005).225. J. Salon, E. Wolinska, A. Raszkiewicz, G. Patonay, and L. Strekowski, “Synthesis of Benz[e]indolium Heptamethine Cyanines Containing C-Substituents at the Central Portion of the Heptamethine Moiety,” J. Heterocycl. Chem. 42, 959-961 (2005).226. G. Patonay, J. K. Seok, R. Kodagahally, and L. Strekowski, “Spectroscopic Study of a Novel Bis(Heptamethine cyanine) Dye and Its Interaction with Human Serum Albumin,” Appl. Spectrosc. 59, 682-690 (2005).227. Y. Song, C. Xiao, R. Mendelsohn, T. Zheng, L. Strekowski, and B. Michniak, “Investigation of Iminosulfuranes as Novel Transdermal Penetration Enhancers: Enhancement Activity and Cytotoxicity,” Pharm. Res. 22, 1918-1925 (2005).228. M.T. Cegla, J. Potaczek, M. Zylewski, and L. Strekowski, “Novel Rearrangement of 7-(Substituted aminomethyl)-6,7-dihydrooxazolo[2,3-f]purines to 7-(Substituted amino)-7,8-dihydro-6H-[1,3]oxazino[2,3-f]purines,” Tetrahedron Lett. 46, 3561-3563 (2005).229. J. S. Kim, R. Kodagahally, L. Strekowski, and G. Patonay, “A Study of Intramolecular H-complexes of Novel Bis(heptamethine cyanine) Dyes,” Talanta 67, 947-954 (2005).230. D. J. Barrow, Jr., S. Chandrasekaran, H.H. Heerklotz, M.M. Henary, B.B. Michniak, P.M. Nguyen, Y. Song, J.C. Smith, and L. Strekowski, “Mechanistic Studies on Percutaneous Penetration Enhancement by N-(4-Halobenzoyl)-S,S,-dimethyliminosulfuranes,” J. Lipid Res. 46, 2192-2201 (2005).231. L. Strekowski, M.T. Cegla, V. Honkan, H. Buczak, W.R. Winkeljohn, A.L. Baumstark, and W.D. Wilson, “Chiral Discrimination in Binding of Enantiomers of 2-(Aminoalkoxy)-substituted 4-(2-Thienyl)pyrimidines and 4,6-Bis(2-thienyl)pyrimidines with Duplex DNA,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 15, 2720-2723 (2005).235. Y.H.A. Hussein, N.Anderson, T.T. Lian, I. Abdou, L. Strekowski, V.A. Timoshchuk, M.M. Vaghefi, and T.L. Netzel, “Solvent and Linker Influences on AQ.-/dA.+ Charge-Transfer State Energetics and Dynamics in Anthraquinonyl-Linker-Deoxyadenosine Conjugates,” J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 4320-4328 (2006).236. K. Van Aken, L. Strekowski, and L. Patiny, “EcoScale, a Semi-quantitative Tool to Select an Organic Preparation Based on Economical and Ecological Parameters,” Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2:3 (2006).237. M. Say, E. Paliakov, M. Henary, and L. Strekowski, “Synthesis of 2-Phenylquinolin-4-amines Substituted with Diverse Amino and Aminoalkyl Groups,” J. Heterocycl. Chem. 43, 1613-1620 (2006).238. G. Patonay, B. Eckenrode, J.J. Krutak, J. Salon, and L. Strekowski, “Latent Invisible Trace Evidence: Chemical Detection Strategies,” chapter 5 in R.D. Blackledge

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(ed.), Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge: New Methods for Trace Evidence Analysis, Wiley-Interscience, pp. 115-140 (2007).239. E. Paliakov, M. Henary, M. Say, S.E. Patterson, A. Parker, L. Manzel, D. E. Macfarlane, A. J. Bojarski, and L. Strekowski, “Synthesis, Fujita-Ban QSAR Analysis, and CoMFA Studies of Quinoline Antagonists of Immunostimulatory CpG-Oligodeoxynucleotides,” Bioorg. Med. Chem. 15, 324-332 (2007).240. L. Strekowski, H. Lee, J.C. Mason, M. Say, and G. Patonay, “Stability in Solution of Indolium Heptamethine Cyanines and Related pH-Sensitive Systems,” J. Heterocycl. Chem. 44, 475-478 (2007).241. E. Paliakov, M. Henary, M. Say, L. Janda, L. Manzel, and D.E. Macfarlane, “Improved Synthesis of Substituted 2-Aryl-N-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]quinolin-4-amines and Their Activity as Antagonists of Immunostimulatory CpG-Oligodeoxynucleotides,” Heterocycl. Commun. 13, 9-12 (2007).242. W.R. Winkeljohn, P. Legget-Robinson, M.R. Peets, L. Strekowski, P.C. Vasquez, and A.L. Baumstark, “N-Oxidation of 2-Substituted Pyridines and Quinolines by Dimethyldioxirane: Kinetic and Steric Effects,” Heterocycl. Commun. 13, 25-28 (2007).243. L. Strekowski and Beth Wilson, “Noncovalent Interactions with DNA: An Overview,” Mut. Res. 623, 3-13 (2007).244. L. Strekowski, E. Wolinska, and M. Mojzych, “DNA Triple-Helix Stabilizing Agents,” Chapter 9 in M. Lee and L. Strekowski (eds.), Synthetic and Biophysical Studies of DNA Binding Compounds, Transworld Research Network, 2007, pp. 263-278.245. G. Patonay, L. Strekowski, J.S. Kim, and M. Henary, “The Increasing Role of NIR Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Bioanalytical Chemistry,” NIR News 18, 7-9 (2007).247. L. Strekowski and E. Wolinska, “4-Substituted 2-Arylquinolines: Triplex-DNA Selective Compounds and Antagonists of Immunostimulatory DNA Containing CpG Motifs,” a chapter in Selected Methods for Synthesis and Modification of Heterocycles, Vol. 6, InterBioScreen: Moscow, Russia, 2008.249. L. Strekowski, J. Saczewski, and M. Henary, “Polycyclic Systems - Three Heterocyclic Rings Fused (6:5:6),” Chapter 11.18 in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III, Elsevier (in press, 2008).250. L. Strekowski, M. Mojzych, and M. Henary, “Polycyclic Systems – Three Heterocyclic Rings Fused (6:6:6),” Chapter 11.19 in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III, Elsevier (in press, 2008).

4. Professional activity:HONORS AND AWARDS2000-present Editor for North America for Heterocyclic Communications,an international journal of Heterocyclic Chem.1993 Outstanding Faculty Award, College of Arts and Sciences, GSU1977 Award of the Ministry of Science (Poland) 1973 Award of the Polish Chemical Society 1972 Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Professor, Computer Science

Education:B.E. (Honors) Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 1975-1980M.Tech. Computer Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 1980-1982Ph.D. Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, 1982-1988

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:CSc 2510 Theoretical Foundations of Computer ScienceCSc 4370/6370 Web ProgrammingCSc 4340/6340 CompilersCSc 4710/6710 Database SystemsCSc 8710 Deductive Databases and Logic ProgrammingCSc 8711 Databases and the Web

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years; BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERSRajshekhar Sunderraman, Oracle10g Programming: A Primer, Addison-Wesley, 2008 (534 Pages).Yuanchen He, Yuchun Tang, Yanqing Zhang and Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Fuzzy-Granular Methods for Identifying Marker Genes from Microarray Expression Data, Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics, Gary B. Fogel, David Corne, and Yi Pan (eds.), IEEE Press, Pages 99-115, 2008.Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Laboratory Book to Accompany Fundamentals of Database Systems by Elmasri and Navathe, Addison-Wesley 2006, Addison Wesley, June 2006 (127 Pages).Haibin Wang, Florentin Smarandache, Yanqing Zhang and Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Interval Neutrosophic Sets and Logic: Theory and Applications in Computing, Neutrosophic Book Series, no. 5, HEXIS, 2005.Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Oracle9i Programming: A Primer, Addison-Wesley, 2004 (438 Pages).

JOURNALSPraveen Madiraju, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Shamkant Navathe, and Haibin Wang, Semantic Integrity Constraint Checking for Multiple XML Databases, Journal of Database Management, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 17(4), Pages 1-19, 2006.Yuanchen He, Yuchun Tang, Yanqing Zhang and Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Adaptive Fuzzy Association Rule Mining for Effective Decision Support in Biomedical Applications, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., U.K., Vol. 1, No. 1, Pages 3-18, 2006.Haibin Wang, Yanqing Zhang, and Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Extensible Soft Semantic Web Services Agent, Journal of Soft Computing, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 10, No. 11, Pages 1021-1029, 2006.

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Haibin Wang, Florentin Smarandache, Yanqing Zhang, and Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Interval Neutrosophic Logic, Advances in Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Pushpa Publishing House, India, Vol. 1, No. 3, Pages 187-218, 2006.Haibin Wang, Praveen Madiraju, Yanqing Zhang, and Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Interval Neutrosophic Sets, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 3, Num. M05, Pages 1-18, March 2005.Tushar M. Dave, Yanqing Zhang, Scott Owen and Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Intelligent Web Agents for 3-D Virtual Community, International Journal for Infonomics, Issue 1, Pages 38-49, January 2005.

4. Professional activity; Program Chair, International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2008Publication Chair, International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2007Local Arrangements Chair, IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, 2006

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Phang C. Tai, Regent’s Professor and Chair, Biology

EducationPh.D. in Biology, 1969, University of California, Davis

2. Teaching load 1 courses/yr:Course release for service (Chair, Department of Biology)

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

Johnson, P.M., C.E. Kicklighter, M. Schmidt, M. Kamio, H. Yang, D. Elkin, W.C. Michel, P.C. Tai, and C.D. Derby. Packaging of chemicals in the defensive secretory glands of the sea hare Aplysia californica. J. Exp. Biol 209, 78-88 (2006).

Yu, L., H. Yang and P.C. Tai. Expression and purification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa SecA N-terminal domain: stimulation of ATPase activity of the SecAL43p mutant protein. Protein Expression and Purification. In press (2006).

Guo, X., X. Chen, I. T. Weber, R. W. Harrison and P. C. Tai. Molecular basis for differential nucleotide binding of the nucleotide binding domain of ABC-transporter CvaB. Biochemistry 45, 14473-14480 (2006).

He, J., H.J. Hu, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai and Y. Pan. Rule generation of protein secondary structure prediction with support vector machines and decision tree. IEEE Transactions NanoBioscience, In press (2006)

Yu, L., H.S. Yang, Q. Ho and P.C. Tai. Expression, purification and characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa SecA. Protein Expression and Purification 50, 179-184 (2006).

He, J., H.J. Hu, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai and Y. Pan. "Transmembrane segments prediction and understanding using support vector machine and decision tree. Expert System with Application. 30, 64-72 (2006).

He, J., W. Zhong, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, Y. Pan: Clustering Support Vector Machines and Its Application to Local Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction. International Conference on Computational Science (2) 2006: 710-717

Guo, X., R.W. Harrison and P.C. Tai. Nucleotide-dependent dimerization of the c-terminal domain of ABC transporter CvaB in colicin V secretion. J. Bacteriol. 188, 2383-2391 (2006).

Zhong, W., G. Altun, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai and Y. Pan. "Improved K-means Clustering Algorithm for Exploring Local Protein Sequence Motifs Representing Common Structural Property." Transactions on Nanobiosciences 4, 255-265 (2005).

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Hu, H., Y. Pan, R. Harrison, and P.C. Tai, "Improved Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Support Vector Machine with a New Encoding Scheme and an Advanced Tertiary Classifier". IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 3, 265-271. (2005)

Yang, H., P.M. Johnson, K.C. Ko, M. Kamio, M.W. Germann, C.D. Derby and P.C. Tai. Cloning Characterization Expression of Escapin, a Broadly Antimicrobial F'AD-containing L-amino Acid Oxidase from Ink of the Sea hare Aplysia californica. J. Exp. Biology 208, 3609-3622 (2005).

Ewis, H.E. and C.D. Lu. Osmotic shock: A mechanosensitive channel blocker can prevent release of cytoplasmic but not periplasmic proteins. FEMS Letter 253, 295-301 (2004).

Wu, K. and P.C. Tai. Cys32 and His105 are the critical residues of the calcium-dependant cysteine proteolytic activity of cva B, an ATP-binding cassette transporter. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 901-909 (2004).

John, M.E., P. C. Tai and C. D. Derby. Serine proteases in the spiny lobster olfactory organ: their functional expression along a developmental axis, and the contribution of a CUB - serine protease. J. Neurobiology. 61, 377-391 (2004).

Zhong, W., G. Altun, X. Tian, R. Harrison, P. C. Tai, and Y. Pan, "Parallel Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Schemes using Pthread and OpenMP over Hyper-Threading Technology," Journal of Supercomputing, In Press.

Wang, H. W., Y. Chen, H. Yang, X. Chen, M.X. Duan, P.C. Tai and S.F. Sui. Ring-like pore structures of SecA: Implication for bacterial protein-conducting channels. Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 4221-4226 (2003).

Levine, M.Z., P. J. H. Harrison, W. W. Walthall, P. C. Tai and C. D. Derby. A CUB-serine protease in the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster: cloning, cellular localization, and possible function. J. Neurobiology 49, 277-302 (2001).

Triplett, T.L., A.R. Sgrignoli, F.B. Gao, Y.B. Yang, P.C. Tai and L.M. Gierasch. Functional signal peptides bind a soluble N-terminal fragment of SecA and inhibit its ATPase activity. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 19648-19655 (2001).

Lin, B.R., L. M. Gierasch, C. Jiang and P.C. Tai. Electrophysiological studies in Xenopus oocytes for the opening of Escherichia coli SecA-dependent protein-conducing channels. J. Membrane Biology. In press.

Hu, H.J., J. Holley, J. He, R.W. Harrison, H. Yang, Y. Pan and P.C. Tai. To be or not to be: predicting soluble SecAs as membrane proteins. IEEE Transaction Nanoscience. In Press.

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Zhang, Y., C. E. Ballard, S. Zheng, X. Gao, K. C. Ko, H. Yang, G. Grandt, X. Lou, P. C. Tai, C. D. Lu, and B. Wang. Design, synthesis and evaluation of efflux substrate-metal chelator conjugates as potential antimicrobial agents. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. In Press.

4. Professional activity

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1.  Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earnedErin McClure Tone, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Education:B.A. with High Honors in English and German Literature, 1990, EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, Georgia M.A., School Psychology, 1993, Trinity University, San Antonio,Texas   Ph.D., Psychology (Clinical), 2001, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaAPA Approved Clinical Internship, 2001, Grady Health System, Departmentof Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School ofMedicine, Atlanta, GeorgiaPost-doctoral Fellowship, 2001-2005, Section on Development andAffective Neuroscience, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, NationalInstitute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

 

2.  Teaching load 4 courses/yr:

Psyc 8020/8030: Graduate Assessment I andIPsyc 4400: Psychology of the Atypical Child Psyc 9950: Clinical Supervision (Assessment & Therapy)

3.  Scholarship and publication record for past five years;

GRANTS AND EXTERNAL FUNDING

Georgia State University Brains and Behavior Program Seed Grant,*Neurobiological, emotional, & cognitive components of socialanxiety:behavioral & fMRI studies* (PI: E. B. McClure). Funded2005-2006, $27603.00.

Georgia State University Research Initiation Grant,*Social-Evaluative Cue Processing in Social Anxiety:  Behavioral,Eye Movement, and Neural Correlates* (PI: E. B. McClure). Funded2006-2007, $10,000.

Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) Junior Faculty ResearchAward. *Examining correlates of change after CBT for social anxietydisorder: An fMRI study*. (PIs: P. Anderson, E. B. McClure). Funded2007-2008, $25,000.

Georgia State University Faculty Team Grant, *Amygdala activation asa predictor of extinction depth in humans* (PIs: E. B. McClure, P.Anderson). Recommended for funding July, 2008, $13,000.

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PUBLICATIONS-JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED) (2003-2008)

1.      Guyer, A. E., Monk, C. S., McClure-Tone, E. B., Nelson, E. E.,Roberson-Nay, R., Adler, A. D., Fromm, S., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S.,& Ernst, M. (in press). Developmental differences in amygdala responseto fearful facial expressions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

2.      Monk, C.S., Telzer, E.H., Mogg, K., Bradley, B. P., Xiaoqin, M.,McClure-Tone, E.B., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S., (in press). Amygdalaactivation to masked angry faces in children and adolescents withgeneralized anxiety disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry.

3.      Monk, C.S., Klein, R.G., Telzer, E.H., Schroth, E.A., Mannuzza,S., Moulton, J.L., Guardino, M., Masten, C.L., McClure-Tone, E.B.,Fromm, S., Blair, R.J.R., Pine, D.S., Ernst, M. (2008). Amygdala andnucleus accumbens activation to emotional facial expressions inadolescents at risk for major depression. American Journal ofPsychiatry, 165, 90-98.

4.      Masten, C.L., Guyer, A.E., Hodgdon, H.B., McClure, E.B.,Charney, D.S., Ernst, M., Kaufman, J., Pine, D.S., & Monk, C.S. (2008).Recognition of facial emotions among maltreated children with high ratesof Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Child Abuse & Neglect, 32, 139-153.

5.      McClure, E.B., Parrish, J.M., Nelson, E.E., Easter, J., Thorne,J.F., Rilling, J.K., Ernst, M. & Pine, D.S. (2007). Responses toconflict and cooperation in adolescents with anxiety and mood disorders.Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35, 567-577.

6.      Guyer, A.E., McClure, E.B., Adler, A.D., Brotman, M.A., Rich,B.A., Kimes, A.S., Pine, D.S, Ernst, M., & Leibenluft, E. (2007).Specificity of facial expression labeling deficits in childhoodpsychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48,863-871.

7.      Pérez-Edgar, K., Roberson-Nay, R., Hardin, M.G., Poeth, K.,Guyer, A.,  Nelson, E. E., McClure, E. B., Henderson, H., Fox, N. A.,Pine, D.S., & Ernst, M. (2007). Attention Alters Neural Responses toEvocative Faces in Behaviorally Inhibited Adolescents. Neuroimage, 35,1538-1546.

8.      McClure, E.B., Adler, A., Monk, C.S., Cameron, J., Smith, S.,Nelson, E.E., Leibenluft, E., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2007). fMRI andbehavioral predictors of treatment outcome in pediatric GeneralizedAnxiety Disorder. Psychopharmacology, 191, 97-105.

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9.      Dickstein D. P., Nelson E. E., McClure E. B., Grimley M. E.,Knopf L., Brotman M. A., Rich B. A., Pine D. S., Leibenluft E. (2007). Cognitive flexibility in phenotypes of pediatric bipolar disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46,341-355. 

10.     McClure, E.B., Monk, C.S., Nelson, E.E., Parrish, J.M., Adler,A., Blair, R.J.R., Fromm, S.J., Charney, D.S., Leibenluft, E., Ernst,M., & Pine, D.S. (2007). Abnormal attention modulation of fear circuitactivation in pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Archives ofGeneral Psychiatry, 64, 94-106.

11.     Leibenluft, E., Rich, B.A., Vinton, D.T., Nelson, E.E., Fromm,S.J., Berghorst, L.H., Joshi, P., Robb, A., Schachar, R.J., Dickstein,D.P., McClure, E.B., & Pine, D.S. (2007). Neural circuitry engagedduring unsuccessful motor inhibition in pediatric bipolar disorder.American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 52-60.

12.     Roberson-Nay, R., McClure, E.B., Monk, C.S., Nelson, E.E.,Guyer, A.E., Fromm, S.J., Charney, D.S., Leibenluft, E., Blair, J.,Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2006).  Increased amygdala activity duringsuccessful memory encoding in adolescent major depressive disorder: AnfMRI study. Biological Psychiatry, 60, 966-973.

13.     Jazbec, S., Hardin, M.G., Schroth, E., McClure, E.B., Pine,D.S., Ernst, M. (2006). Age-related influence of contingencies on asaccade task. Experimental Brain Research, 174, 754-762.

14.     Rich, B.A., Vinton, D.T., Roberson-Nay, R., Hommer, R.E.,Berghorst, L.H., McClure, E.B., Fromm, S.J., Pine, D.S., Leibenluft, E.(2006). Limbic hyperactivation during processing of neutral facialexpressions in children with bipolar disorder.  Proceedings of theNational Academy of Science, 103, 8900-8905.

15.     Monk, C.S., Nelson, E.E., McClure, E.B., Mogg, K., Bradley,B.P., Leibenluft, E., Blair, R.J.R., Chen, G., Charney, D.S., Ernst, M.,Pine, D.S. (2006). Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation andattention bias in response to angry faces in adolescents withgeneralized anxiety disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163,1091-1097.

16.     Jazbec, S., McClure, E., Hardin, M., Pine, D.S., & Ernst, M.(2005). Cognitive control under contingencies in anxious and depressedadolescents: An antisaccade task. Biological Psychiatry, 58, 632-639.

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17.     McClure, E.B., Treland, J.E., Snow, J., Schmajuk, M., Dickstein,D.P., Towbin, K.E., Charney, D.S., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2005).Social-cognitive and response flexibility deficits in pediatric bipolardisorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 1644-1651.

18.     Easter, J., McClure, E.B., Monk, C.S., Dhanani, M., Hodgdon, H.,Leibenluft, E., Charney, D.S., Pine, D.S., & Ernst, M. (2005). Emotionrecognition deficits in pediatric anxiety disorders: implications foramygdala research. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology,15, 563-570.

19.     Lissek, S., Powers, A. S., McClure, E. B., Phelps, E. A.,Woldehawariat, G., Grillon, C., and Pine, D. S. (2005). Classicalfear-conditioning in the anxiety disorders: A meta-analysis. BehaviourResearch and Therapy, 43, 1391-1424.

20.     McClure, E. B., Treland, J.E., Snow, J., Dickstein, D.P.,Towbin, K.E., Charney, D.S., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2005).Memory and learning deficits in pediatric bipolar disorder. Journal ofthe American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44, 461-469.

21.     Ernst, M., Jazbec, S., McClure, E.B., Monk, C. S., Blair,R.J.R., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D.S. (2005). Amygdala and nucleusaccumbens activation in response to receipt and omission of gains inadults and adolescents. Neuroimage, 25, 1279-1291.

22.     Pine, D. S., Mogg, K., Bradley, B., Montgomery, L. A., Monk, C.,McClure, E., Schweder, A., Ernst, M., Charney, D. S., & Kaufman, J.(2005). Attention bias to threat in maltreated children: Implicationsfor vulnerability to stress-related psychopathology. American Journal ofPsychiatry, 162, 291-296.

23.     Nelson, E.E., Leibenluft, E., McClure, E.B., & Pine, D.S.(2005). The social reorientations of adolescence: A neuroscienceperspective on the process and its relation to psychopathology.Psychological Medicine, 35, 1-12.

24.     Monk, C.S., Nelson, E.E., Woldehawariat, G., Montgomery, L.A.,Zarahn, E., McClure, E.B., Guyer, A.E., Leibenluft, E., Charney, D.S.,Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2004). Experience-dependent plasticity forattention to threat: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence inhumans. Biological Psychiatry, 56, 607-610.

25.     Ernst, M., Nelson, E. E., McClure, E. B., Monk, C. S., Munson,S., Eshel, N., Zarahn, E., Leibenluft, E., Zametkin, A., Towbin, K.,Charney, D., & Pine, D. S. (2004). Choice selection and reward

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anticipation: An fMRI study.  Neuropsychologia, 42, 1585-1597.

26.     McClure, E. B., Monk, C. S., Nelson, E. E., Zarahn, E.,Leibenluft, E., Bilder, R. M., Charney, D. S., Ernst, M., & Pine, D. S.(2004). A developmental examination of gender differences in brainengagement during evaluation of threat. Biological Psychiatry, 55,1047-1055. 

27.     Dickstein D. P., Treland J. E., Snow J, McClure E. B., Mehta M.S., Towbin K. E., Pine D. S., Leibenluft E. (2004). Neuropsychologicalperformance in pediatric bipolar disorder.  Biological Psychiatry, 55,32-39.

28.     Monk, C. S., McClure, E. B., Nelson, E. E., Zarahn, E., Bilder,R. M., Leibenluft, E., Charney, D. S., Ernst, M., & Pine, D. S. (2003).Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotionalfacial expressions.  NeuroImage, 20, 420-428.

29.     Monk, C. S., Grillon, C., Baas, J. M. P., McClure, E. B.,Nelson, E. E.,  Zarahn, E., Charney, D. S., Ernst, M., & Pine, D. S.(2003).  A neuroimaging method for the study of threat in adolescents.Developmental Psychobiology, 43, 359-366.

30.     Nelson, E. E., McClure, E. B., Monk, C. S., Zarahn, E.,Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., & Ernst, M. (2003).  Developmentaldifferences in neuronal engagement during implicit encoding of emotionalfaces: An event-related fMRI study.  Journal of Child Psychology,Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 44, 1015-1024.

31.     McClure, E. B., Pope, K., Hoberman, A. J., Pine, D. S., &Leibenluft, E. (2003). Facial expression recognition in adolescents withmood and anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160,1172-1174.

32.     McClure, E. B., Kubiszyn, T., & Kaslow, N. J. (2003).Evidence-based assessment of childhood mood disorders: Reply to Lee andHunsley. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 34, 113-114.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND NON-PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES (2003-2008)

1.      McClure, E. B., & Pine, D. S. (2007). Social stress, affect, andneural function in adolescence. In D. Romer & E.F. Walker (Eds.),Adolescence and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and PreventionScience. Oxford University Press.

2.      McClure, E. B., & Pine, D. S. (2006). Social anxiety and emotion

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regulation: A model for developmental psychopathology perspectives onanxiety disorders. In D. Cicchetti (Ed.), Developmental Psychopathology,2nd Edition.

3.      Pine, D. S., & McClure, E. B. (2005). Clinical features of theanxiety disorders. In B. J. Sadock & V. A. Sadock (Eds.), Kaplan andSadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Eighth Edition.Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

4.      McClure, E. B., Connell, A. M., Zucker, M., Griffith, J. R., &Kaslow, N. J. (2004).  What psychosocial interventions work fordepressed youth? In E. D. Hibbs & P. S. Jensen (Eds.), Psychosocialtreatments for child and adolescent disorders: Empirically basedstrategies for private practice (Second edition). Washington, D.C.:American Psychological Association.

5.      McClure, E. B., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S. (2004). Sertralineimproves symptoms in children and adolescents with major depressivedisorder. Evidence Based Mental Health, 7, 10.

4.  Professional activity

Editorial Board Member                 Journal of Family Psychology (2008-2010 term)                 Development and Psychopathology (2008-2010 term)                Guest Editor (Forthcoming Special Edition)                 Developmental Neuropsychology

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned W. W. Walthall, Associate Professor, Biology

EducationB. S. 1976 Texas Tech University, M.S. 1978 Boston UniversityPh.D. 1984 State University of New York at AlbanyPostdoctoral fellow Columbia University

2. Teaching load 4 courses/yr:Developmental BiologyCellular and Molecular Neurobiology

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Ge Shan, Kyuhyung Kim, Chris Li and W. W. Walthall  (2005) Convergent genetic programs regulate similarities and differences between related motor neuron classes in Caenorhabditis elegans. Developmental Biology 280 (494-503).

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Gangli Wang, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Education:B.S.             1996 Peking University, P.R. China,          Chemistry,               M.S.             1999 Peking University, P.R. China,          Physical Chemistry,      Ph.D.            2004 Univ North Carolina-Chapel Hill,       Analytical Chemistry,    Postdoc 2004 – 2007 Department of Chemistry, University of Utah             

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:Chem 4871/6871 Electrochemical MethodsChem 4000/6000 Quantitative Analysis

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years;Zhang, B.; Galusha, J.; Shiozawa, P. G.; Wang, G.; Bergren, A. J.; Jones, R.; White, R. J.; Ervin, E. N.; Cauley, C. C. and White, H. S. A Bench-Top Method for Fabricating Glass-sealed Nanodisk Electrodes, Glass Nanopore Electrodes, and Glass Nanopore Membranes of Controlled Size. Anal. Chem. 2007, 79, 4778.Wang, G.; Bohaty, A.; Zharov, I. and White, H. S. Photon-Gated Transport at the Glass Nanopore Electrode J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 13553.Wang, G.; Zhang, B. Wayment, J. R.; Harris, J. M. and White, H. S. Electrostatic-Gated Transport in Chemically Modified Glass Nanopore Electrodes J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 7679.Wang, G.; Guo, R.; Kalyuzhny, G.; Choi, J.-P. and Murray, R. W. NIR Luminescence Intensities Increase Linearly with Proportion of Polar Thiolate Ligands in Protecting Monolayers of Au38 and Au140 Quantum Dots J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 20282.Menard, L. D.; Gao, S.; Xu, H.; Twesten, R. D.; Harper, A. S.; Song, Y.; Wang, G.; Douglas, A. D.; Yang, J. C.; Frenkel, A. I.; Nuzzo, R. G. and Murray, R. W. Sub-Nanometer Au Monolayer Protected Clusters Exhibiting Molecule-Like Electronic Behavior: Quantitative HAADF-STEM and Electrochemical Characterization of Clusters with Precise Atomic Stoichiometry J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 12874.Menard, L. D.; Xu, H.; Gao, S.; Twesten, R. D.; Harper, A. S.; Song, Y.; Wang, G.; Douglas, A. D.; Yang, J. C.; Frenkel, A. I.; Murray, R. W. and Nuzzo, R. G. Metal Core Bonding Motifs of Monodisperse Icosahedral Au13 and Larger Au Monolayer-Protected Clusters As Revealed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 14564.Cheng, P. P. H.; Silvester, D.; Wang, G.; Kalyuzhny, G.; Douglas, A.; Murray, R. W. Dynamic and Static Quenching of Fluorescence by 1-4 nm Diameter Gold Monolayer-Protected Clusters J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 4637.Guo, R.; Song, Y.; Wang, G.; Murray, R. W. Does Core Size Matter in the Kinetics of Ligand Exchanges of Monolayer-Protected Au Clusters? J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 2752.Wang, G.; Huang, T.; Murray, R. W.; Menard, L.; Nuzzo, R. G. Near-IR Luminescence of Monolayer Protected Metal Clusters J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 812.

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Lee, D.; Donkers, R. L.; Wang, G.; Harper, A. S. and Murray, R. W. Electrochemistry and Optical absorbance and luminescence of Molecule-like Au38 Nanoparticles.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 6193.Wang, G. and Murray, R. W. Controlled Assembly of Monolayer-Protected Gold Clusters by Dissolved DNA. Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 95.Zhang, J.; Wang, G.; Shon,Y.-S.; Zhou, O.; Superfine, R. and Murray, R. W. Interactions of Small Molecules and Au Nanoparticles with Solubilized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 3726.Wang, G.; Zhang, J. and Murray, R. W.  DNA binding of an ethidium intercalator attached to a monolayer-protected gold cluster. Anal. Chem. (accelerated article) 2002, 74, 4320.

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1. David A. Washburn, Chair and Professor, Psychology

EducationBA 1986 Covenant College MA 1987 Georgia State UniversityPhD 1991 Georgia State University

2. Teaching Load 2 courses/yr (Currently department chair, and thus not teaching)Cognitive PsychologyLearning Psychology

3. Refereed publications in last 5 years = 29   Books in last 5 years = 2 (one authored, one edited)   Chapters or published abstracts in last 5 years = 11   4 papers in press   Professional presentations in last 5 years = 99   Funding last 5 years:         P01 from NICHD ($2.7 million total costs);         US Army grant ($240k),         FAA grant ($50k)       McDonnell Foundation ($80k)       Internal grants ($180k)

4. Editor, International Journal of Comparative Psychology (2006)   Editorial board, 4 journals (2003-2007)   Grant reviewer, NIMH (BBBP), NSF, FAA   Technical Group program chair, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2004)   APA Committee on Animal Research and Ethics (2005-2007)   President, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2003)   Past-president, Society for Computers in Psychology (2003)   Southeastern Psychological Association Executive Committee, at-large member (2004-2007)

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Irene T. Weber, Professor, Biology and Chemistry

Education:B.A., Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1974M.A., Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1978D. Phil., Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1978

2. Teaching load 2 courses/yr:

Course Bio/Che/CSc 8630, Bioinformatics. Course Bio/Che/CSc 6640, Fundamentals of Bioinformatics.Bio 8800, Biology Research. Bio 9999, Dissertation Research. Bio. 6900, Directed Lab Study Bio 9991, Doctoral Research Proposal

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years; External Funding

R0l GM62920 9/1/00-8/31/08 NIHActivity of Resistant Variants of HIV ProteaseMain Goal: To elucidate the molecular basis for the activities of inhibitor resistant variants of HIV-1 protease by analyzing the structures and activities of variants of HIV-1 protease and evaluating new inhibitors. Role: PI

P20 GM065762 6/1/03-5/31/08NIHPlanning Grant: Georgia State University Biomedical Computing CenterMain goal: To plan for a biomedical center of excellence in research and education at Georgia State University. Role: Co-Investigator

Distinguished Cancer Scientist Award 8/1/02-6/30/08Georgia Cancer CoalitionStructural studies of cancer-related proteinsMain goal: Structural analysis of proteins involved in development or treatment of cancer. Role: PI

1 R03 TW 01001 7/1/99-6/30/06 NIH/Fogarty International Center

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Specificity Studies of HIV and HTLV ProteasesMain Goal: Studying the specificity of HIV and HTLV proteases as an extension of GM62920. Role: PI

Publications

Mahalingam, B., Boross, P., Wang, Y.F., Louis, J.M., Fischer, C., Tozser, J., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Combining mutations in HIV-1 protease to understand mechanisms of resistance. (2002) Proteins 48, 107-116.

Koh, Y., Nakata, H., Maeda, K., Ogata, H., Bilcer, G., Devasamundam, T., Kincaid, J.F., Boross, P., Wang, Y.-F., Tie, Y., Volarath, P., Gaddis, L., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T., Ghosh, A.K., Mitsuya, H. A novel bis-tetrahydrofuranylurethane-containing nonpeptidic protease inhibitor (PI) UIC-94017 (TMC114) potent against multi-PI-resistant HIV in vitro. (2003) Antimicrob. Agent Chemother. 47, 3123-3129.

Petock, J.M., Torshin, I.Y., Weber, I.T., Harrison, R.W. Analysis of Protein Structures Reveals Regions of Rare Backbone Conformation at Functional Sites. (2003) Proteins 53, 872-879.

Tie, Y., Boross, P.I., Wang, Y.-F., Gaddis, L., Hussain, A.K., Leshchenko, S., Ghosh, A.K., Louis, J.M., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. High Resolution Crystal Structures of HIV-1 Protease with a Potent Non-peptide Inhibitor (UIC-94017) Active against Multi-Drug Resistant Clinical Strains. (2004) J. Mol. Biol. 338, 341-352.

Mahalingam, B., Wang, Y.-F., Boross, P.I., Tozser, J., Louis, J.M., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Crystal structures of HIV protease V82A and L90M mutants reveal changes in indinavir binding site. (2004) Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 1516-1524.

Bagossi, P., Kádas, J., Miklóssy, G., Boross, P., Weber, I.T., Tözsér, J. Development of a microtiter plate fluorescent assay for inhibition studies on the HTLV-1 and HIV-1 proteinases. (2004) J. Virol. Methods 119, 87-93.

Daniel R, Myers CB, Kulkosky J, Taganov K, Greger JG, Merkel G, Weber IT, Harrison RW, Skalka AM. Characterization of a naphthalene derivative inhibitor of retroviral integrases. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. (2004) 20, 135-44.

Kádas, J., Weber, I.T., Bagossi, P., Miklóssy, G., Boross, P., Oroszlan, S., Tözsér, J. Narrow substrate specificity and sensitivity towards ligand binding site mutations of human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 protease. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 27148-27157.

Liu, P., Wang, Y.-F., Ewis, H., Abdelal, A., Lu, C.D., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Covalent Reaction Intermediate Revealed in Crystal Structure of the Geobacillus stearothermophilus Carboxylesterase Est30. (2004) J. Mol. Biol. 342, 551-556.

Chen, X., Weber, I.T., Harrison, R.W. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of 14 HIV Protease Mutants in Complexes with Indinavir. (2004) J. Mol. Model. 10, 373-381.

Tie, Y., Boross, P.I., Wang, Y.-F., Gaddis, L., Liu, F., Chen, X., Tozser, J., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Molecular basis for substrate recognition and drug resistance from 1.1-1.6 Å resolution crystal structures of HIV-1 protease mutants with substrate analogs. (2005) FEBS J. 272, 5265-5277.

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Vana, M.L., Boross, P., Weber, I., Colman, D., Barklis, E., Leis, J. Mutations affecting cleavage at the p10-Capsid protease cleavage site block Rous sarcoma virus replication. (2005) Retrovirology 2, 58.

Liu, F., Boross, P.I., Wang, Y.F., Tozser, J., Louis, J.M., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Distinct structural changes in high resolution crystal structures of HIV-1 protease with drug resistant mutations L24I, I50V, and G73S. (2005) J. Mol. Biol. 354, 789-800.

Chen, A., Weber, I.T., Harrison, R.W., Leis, J. Identification of amino acids in HIV-1 and avian sarcoma virus integrase subsites required for specific recognition of the long terminal repeat ends. (2006) J. Biol. Chem. 281, 4173-4182.

Kovalevsky, A.Y., Tie, Y., Liu, F., Boross, P.I., Wang, Y.-W., Leshchenko, S., Ghosh, A.K., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Effectiveness of Nonpeptide Clinical Inhibitor TMC114 on HIV-1 Protease with Highly Drug Resistant Mutations D30N, I50V and L90M. (2006) J. Med. Chem. 49, 1379-1387.

Feher, A., Boross, P., Sperka, T., Miklossy, G., Kadas, J., Bagossi, P., Oroszlan, S., Weber, I.T., Tozser, J. Characterization of the murine leukemia virus protease and its comparison with the human immunodeficiency virus protease. (2006) J. Gen. Virol. 87, 1321-1330.

Liu, F., Kovalevsky, A.Y., Louis, J.M., Boross, P.I., Wang, Y.-F., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Mechanism of Drug Resistance Revealed by the Crystal Structure of the Unliganded HIV-1 Protease with F53L Mutation. (2006) J. Mol. Biol. 358, 1191-1199.

Ghosh, A.K., Sridhar, P.R., Kumaragurubaran, N., Koh, Y., Weber, I.T., Mitsuya, H. Bis-Tetrahydrofuran: A Privileged Ligand for a New Generation of HIV-Protease Inhibitors That Combat Drug-Resistance. (2006) ChemMedChem, (review) 1, 939-950.

Ghosh, A.K., Sridhar, P.R., Leshchenko, S., Hussain, A.K., Li, J., Kovalevsky, A.Y., Walters, D.E., Wedekind, J.E., Tokars, V.L., Das, D., Koh, Y., Maeda, K., Gatanaga, H., Weber, I.T., Mitsuya, H. Structure-Based Design of Novel HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors to Combat Drug Resistance. (2006) J. Med. Chem. 49, 5252-5261.

Kovalevsky, A.Y., Liu, F., Leshchenko, S., Ghosh, A.K., Louis, J.M., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Ultra-high Resolution Crystal Structure of HIV-1 Protease Mutant Reveals Two Binding Sites for Clinical Inhibitor TMC114. (2006) J. Mol. Biol. 363, 161-173.

Volarath, P., Weber, I.T., Harrison, R.W. Structure Based Drug Design for HIV Protease: From Molecular Modeling to Cheminformatics. (2006) Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, (review) in press.

Fang, B., Boross, P.I., Tozser, J., Weber, I.T. Structural Insight into Caspase-3 Selectivity for Substrate Positions P2, P3, and P5 (2006) J. Mol. Biol. 360, 654-666.

Guo, X., Chen, X., Weber, I.T., Harrison, R.W., Tai, P.C. Molecular Basis for Differential Nucleotide Binding of ABC-transporter CvaB. (2006) Biochemistry, 45, 14473-80.

Tie, Y., Kovalevsky, A.Y., Boross, P.I., Wang, Y.-F., Ghosh, A.K., Tozser, J., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Atomic Resolution Crystal Structures of HIV-1 Protease and Mutants V82A and I84V with Saquinavir. (2007) Proteins, 67, 232-242.

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Liu, P., Ewis, H., Lu, C.D., Tai, P.C., Weber, I.T. Crystal Structure of the Geobacillus stearothermophilus Carboxylesterase Est55 and Its Activation of Prodrug CPT-11. (2007) J. Mol. Biol. 367, 212-23.

Louis, J.M., Ishima, R., Torchia, D.A., Weber, I.T. HIV-1 Protease: Structure, Dynamics and Inhibition. In: Advances in Pharmacology, HIV-1: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis: Viral Mechanisms, 2nd edition. ed. Jeang, H.-T., Academic Press, San Diego, CA. (review) (2007), 55, 261-98.

Amano, M., Koh, Y., Das, D., Wang, Y.-F., Boross, P.I., Li, J., Leschenko, S., Weber, I.T., Ghosh, A.K., Mitsuya, H. A Novel Bis-Tetrahydrofuranylurethane-Containing Nonpeptidic Protease Inhibitor (PI) GRL-98065 Potent Against Multi-Pi-Resistant HIV In Vitro. (2007) Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 51, 2143-2155.

Volarath, P., Weber, I.T., Harrison, R.W. Structure Based Drug Design for HIV Protease: From Molecular Modeling to Cheminformatics. (2007) Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 7, 1041-9.

Weber, I.T., Kovalevsky, A.Y., Harrison, R.W. Structures of HIV Protease Guide Inhibitor Design to Overcome Drug Resistance. Frontiers in Drug Design & Discovery, eds., G.W. Caldwell, M.R. D’Andrea, Atta-ur-Rahman, M.I. Choudhary, Bentham Science Publishers, (2007) 3, 45-62.

Tozser, J., Weber, I.T. The protease of human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 is a potential therapeutic target. (2007) Current Pharmaceutical Design, 13, 1285-1294.

Sperka, T., Miklóssy, G., Tie, Y., Bagossi, P., Zahuczky, G., Boross, P., Matúz, K., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T., Tözsér, J. Bovine Leukemia Virus Protease: Comparison with Human T-cell Leukemia Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Proteases. (2007) J. Gen. Virol. 88, 2052-2063.

Wang, Y.-F., Tie, Y., Boross, P.I., Tozser, J., Ghosh, A.K., Harrison, R.W., Weber, I.T. Potent Antiviral Compound Shows Similar Inhibition and Structural Interactions with Drug Resistant Mutants and Wild Type HIV-1 Protease. (2007) J. Med. Chem. 50, 4509-4515.

Liu, P., Ewis, H.E., Huang, Y.-J., Lu, C.-D., Tai, P.C., Weber, I.T. Crystal Structure of the Bacillus subtilis Superoxide Dismutase. (2007) Acta Crystallog. F, 63, 1003-7.

Agniswamy, J., Fang, B., Weber, I.T. Plasticity of S2-S4 Specificity Pockets of Executioner Caspase-7 Revealed by Structural and Kinetic Analysis. (2007) FEBS J. 274, 4752-4765.

Kovalevsky, A.Y., Chumanevich, A.A., Liu, F., Weber, I.T. Caught in the Act: The 1.5 Å Resolution Crystal Structures of the HIV-1 Protease and the I54V Mutant Reveal a Tetrahedral Reaction Intermediate. (2007) Biochemistry, 46, 14854-14864.

Ghosh, A.K., Chapsla, B.D., Weber, I.T., Mitsuya, H. The design of protease inhibitors targeting protein backbone: an effective strategy for combating drug-resistance. (2008) Acc. Chem. Res., 41, 78-86.

Weber, I.T., Fang, B., Agniswamy, J. Caspases: Structure-Guided Design of Drugs to Control Cell Death. (2007) Mini Rev. Med. Chem., in press.

Sayer, J.M., Liu, F., Ishima, R., Weber, I.T., Louis, J.M. Effect of the Active-Site D25N Mutation on the Structure, Stability and Ligand Binding of the Mature HIV-1 Protease. J. Biol. Chem. (2008) in press.

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1974 Gwendoline Crewdson Prize for Natural Sciences, Cambridge University, UK. 2002 Distinguished Cancer Scientist Award, Georgia Cancer Coalition.

Member: American Crystallographic Association; The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Member, Organizing Committee and Session Chair, University System Symposium, Applying Bioinformatics: From Genes to Systems, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, Oct. 2002.

Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology, June 1992.

Organizer (with B.C. Wang), 3rd Annual SER-CAT Symposium: Interesting Structures, Methods & Advances in SER-CAT Facilities, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, March, 2006.

Member, CASP Comparative Modeling Consultancy Group 1996-2004.

Member and Representative for Georgia State University, Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team (SER-CAT) beamline, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 2001-present.

Director, X-ray Crystallography Facility, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, 1994-2000.

Co-Director, Structural Biology Program, Jefferson Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, 1991-1993.

Director, Structural Biology Program, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, 1994-2000.

Director, Structural Biology, Molecular Basis of Disease Program, Georgia State University, 2004-present.

Reviewer, National Institutes of Health, Biophysical Chemistry Feb. 1993, June 1998, AARR3 July 1999, April 2002, Aug. 2003, NOT-AI-02-023 Dec. 2002, AARR-E Apr. 2004, ADDT Nov. 2004, Nov. 2005, ZRG1 AARR-D Nov. 2006, ZRG1 AARR-A Apr. 2007, ZRG1 AARR-H Nov. 2007, Apr. 2008.

Ad Hoc Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Petroleum Research Fund, Frontier Science Research, Georgia Cancer Coalition.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Jenny Jie Yang, Professor, Chemistry

Education:B.S. 1982 Xiangtan UniversityM.S. 1985 Xiangtan UniversityPh.D. 1992 Florida State University Postdoc Oxford UK Research Fellow Yale

2. Teaching load 3 courses/yr:Biochemistry IIProtein structure and functionBioNMRAdvanced Biochemistry Methods

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years; CURRENT ACTIVE EXTERNAL SUPPORTDesign of Protein-Based MRI Contrast Agents with High Relaxivity, National Institutes of Health/NIBIB 1R01EB007268-0108/06/07- 4/30/11. PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang, Co-PI:

Dr. Zhi-ren Liu, $1,380,500 Structural Biology of receptor-mediated extracellular calcium signaling, NIH/GM 1R01GM081749-01. PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang, Co-PI: Dr. Ed. Brown 09/01/07 - 08/31/11, $1,129,044Rational Design and Analysis of Calcium Binding Proteins, National Institute of Health/GM 1RO1GM62999-01, PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang, 07/01/01 – 06/30/08, $1,272,500Identification of Calcium-Binding Sites in Calcium-sensing Receptors, American Heart Association, PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang, 07/01/06 - 06/30/08, $154,000Molecular Imaging of Cancers, ELSA U Pardee Foundation, 06/01/06– 05/31/08. PI: Dr. Jenny J Yang, $75,000 Regulation of Lens Gap Junctions, National Institute of Health/Eye Institute 5R01AI021389. PI: Dr. Charles Louis, Co-PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang. 09/01/04- 08/31/08, $1,250,000 Molecular Biology of Rubella Virus, NIH/NIAID 5R01AI021389, PI: Dr. Teryl K. Frey Co-PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang. Period: 04/01/03 - 03/31/09, $1,150,000Functional role of p68 tyrosine phosphorylation in cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health/NCI, PI: Dr. Zhi-ren Liu, Co-PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang. 07/01/07- 06/30/12, $1,000,000 Molecular MR Imaging by Targeting Cancer Biomarkers National Institutes of Health/NCI 1R21CA120181-01A1. PI: Dr. Zhi-ren Liu, Co-PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang.. 05/01/07- 04/30/09, $275,000.Supplemental Award for Minority Undergraduate Student Research, National Institute of Health/GM, PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang. 03/01/04 – 06/30/08, $114,385.Instrument for Design of Protein-Based MRI Contrast Agents with High Relaxivity, National Institutes of Health/NIBIB 1R01EB007268-01 S1, PI: Dr. Jenny J. Yang, Co-PI: Dr. Zhi-ren Liu, 08/06/07- 4/30/11, $80,000

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CURRENT ACTIVE INTERNAL SUPPORTAnalysis of Neuro-Muscular Control of Locomotion of the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans, GSU Brain and Behavior Research Program , PI: Dr. Gennady Cymbalyuk, Co-PIs: Drs. Walter Bill Walthall and Jenny J. Yang. 01/01/07– 12/31/07, $29, 743.Monitoring Calcium Signaling in Brains and Neurons, GSU Research Program, PI: Dr. Jenny J Yang, Co-PI: Vincent Rehder. 07/01/05– 12/31/07 , $20,000Brains and Behavior Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Awardee: Ms. Nancy Yun Huang, 1/1/07-2/30/2010, Stipend: $22,500/yrMolecular Bases of Diseases Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Awardee: Mr. Ning Chen (Pre-doctoral Fellowship), 5/1/07-4/30/10, Stipend: $22,500/yrMolecular Bases of Diseases Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Awardee: Mr. Yubin Zhou, 151/06-4/30/08, Stipend: $22,500/yr

PUBLICATIONS (51). Jenny J. Yang, Jianhua Yang, Lixia Wei, Wei Yang, Omar Zurkiya, Hui Mao, Fuqian Zhao, Russell Malchow, Shunyi Li, Anna L. Wilkins Mannicia, Shumin Zhao, Jin Zou, Julian Johnson, Xiaoping Hu, Eirk Krogstad, and Zhi-Ren Liu, Rational Design Protein Based MRI Contrast Agents with High Relaxivity Journal of the American Chemical Society (2008), Accepted.(50) Lisa Jones, Wei Yang, Anna L. Wilkins Mannicia, Alice Kearney, Anton P. van der Merwe, and Jenny J. Yang. Rational Design of a novel calcium binding site adjacent to the ligand binding site on CD2 increases its adhesion function. Protein Science (2008). 17: 1-11.(49) Yubin Zhou, Wei Yang, Yiming Ye, Yun Huang , Hsiau-Wei Lee, Monica M. Lurtz, Charles F. Louis, and Jenny J. Yang. Identification of the Calmodulin-Binding Domain of Connexin43. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2007). Sep 27; [Epub ahead of print] 282(48):35005-17. (48) Yubin Zhou, Wei Yang, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Yiming Ye, Yumei Zhou, Suganthi Suppiah, Teryl K. Frey and Jenny J. Yang. Probing the Ca2+-Binding Properties of the Rubella Virus Nonstructural Protease. Journal of Virology (2007) Epub 2007 May 2. Jul;81(14):7517-28. (47). Yun Huang, Yubin Zhou, Wei Yang, Robert Butters, Hsiau-wei Lee, Shunyi Li, Andriana Castiblanco, Edward Brown, and Jenny J. Yang. Identification and dissection of Ca2+-binding sites in the extracellular domain of Ca2+-sensing receptor. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2007). May 3; [Epub ahead of print]. 282(26):19000-10.(46) Yanling Zhang, Minyong Li, Sekar Chandrasekaran, Xingming Gao, Xikui Fang, Hsiau-wei Lee, Kenneth Hardcastle, Jenny Yang, and Binghe Wang. The first boronic acid supramolecular structure that relies on double intermolecular B-N bonds for self-assembly in solid state and in solution. Tetrahedron (2007). 63:3287-92.(45) Jin Zou, Aldebaran M. Hofer, Monica Lurtz, Giovanni Gadda, April L. Ellis, Ning Chen, Yun Huang, Angela Holder, Yiming Ye, Charles Louis, Kristy Welshhans, Vincent Rehder, and Jenny J. Yang. Developing Sensors for Real Time Imaging of High Calcium Concentrations. Biochemistry 2007 Oct 9; [Epub ahead of print]. Oct 30;46(43):12275-88.

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(44). Jenny J. Yang, Roland Pochet, and Arthur S. Nolen. Calcium, diversity and evolution, Meeting report of calcium binding proteins in normal and transformed cells and Diseases, Calcium Binding Protein (2006) 1(3), 170-174.(43). Yuan Liu, Qiao Tong, Yubin Zhou, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Jenny J. Yang, Hans-Jörg Bühring, Yi-Tien Chen, Binh Ha, Celia X.-J. Chen and Ke Zen. Functional Elements on SIRPα IgV Domain Mediate Cell Surface Binding to CD47 Journal of Molecular Biology (2006) 365(3):680-93. Epub 2006 Oct 3.(42) Jenny J. Yang. Calmodulin, the Surprises Continue. Calcium Binding Protein (2006), 1 (2), 65-66.(41). Yubin Zhou, Michael Kirberger, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Gayatri Ayalasomayajula, Wei Yang, and Jenny J.Yang. Prediction of EF-hand calcium binding proteins and Analysis of Bacterial EF-Hand Proteins. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics (2006), 65(3):643-55.(40) Anna Wilkins Maniccia, Wei Yang, Shun-yi Li, Julian A. Johnson and Jenny J. Yang. Using Protein Design to Dissect the Effect of Charge Residues on Metal Binding and Protein Stability. Biochemistry, (2006) 45(18):5848-56.(39) Hai Deng, GT Chen, Wei Yang and Jenny J. Yang. Identifying and Predicting Calcium Binding Sites in Proteins using Graph and Geometry Algorithms. Proteins (2006), 64(1):34-42.Apr 14; [Epub ahead of print].(38). Chunru Lin, Liuqing Yang, Jenny J. Yang, Youliang Huang, and Zhi-Ren Liu, ATPase/Helicase Activities of p68 RNA Helicase are Required for Pre-mRNA Splicing but not for Assembly of the Spliceosome. Molecular and Cellular Biology (2005). 25 (17) 7484-7493.(37) Wei Yang, Anna Wilkins, Shunyi Li, Yiming Ye, and Jenny J Yang. The Effects of Ca2+ Binding on the Dynamic Properties of a Designed Ca2+-binding Protein. Biochemistry (2005), 44, 8267-8273.(36) Jin Zou, Yiming Ye, Kristy Welshhans, Monica Lurtz, April Ellis, Charles Louis, Vincent Rehder and Jenny J. Yang. Expression and Optical Properties of Green Fluorescent Protein Expressed in Different Cellular Environments. Journal of Biotechnology (2005). 119(4):368-78.(35) Yiming Ye, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Wei Yang, and Jenny J. Yang. Calcium and Lanthanide Affinity of the EF-loops from the C-terminal of Calmodulin. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (2005), 99, 1376-1383.(34) Amy R. Carroll, Wei Yang, Yiming Ye, and Jenny Jie Yang. Amyloid Fibril Formation in a Domain of Rat Cell Adhesion Molecule. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics (2006), 44(2):241-50. (33) Yiming Ye, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Wei Yang, Sarah Shealy, and Jenny J. Yang. Probing site-specific metal binding affinity of EF-hand Proteins by Grafting. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2005), 127 (11), 3743-50.(32) Wei Yang, Anna Wilkins, Yiming Ye, Zhi-ren Liu, Shunyi Li, Jeffrey L. Urbauer, Homme W. Hellinga, Alice Kearney, Anton P. van der Merwe and Jenny J. Yang. Design of a Calcium-Binding Protein with Desired Structure in a Cell Adhesion Molecule. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2005), 127 (7), 2085-2093.(31) Liuqing Yang, Jenny Yang, Youliang Huang, and Zhi-Ren Liu, Phosphorylation of p68 RNA helicase regulates RNA binding by the C-terminal domain of the protein. BBRC (2004), 314(2), 622-630.

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(30) Wei Yang, Lisa Jones, Leanne Isley, Yiming Ye, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Anna Wilkins, Zhi-ren Liu, Homme W. Hellinga, Russell Malchow, Mohammed Ghazi and Jenny J. Yang. Rational Design of a Calcium Binding Protein. Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2003), 125(20), 6165-71. (29) Anna Wilkins, Wei Yang, and Jenny J. Yang, Structural Biology of the Cell Adhesion Protein CD2: From Molecular Recognition to Protein Folding and Design. Current Protein and Peptide Science (2003), 4, 367-73.(28) Jenny J. Yang and Wei Yang, Calcium Binding Proteins Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, Bruce King (Eds.) 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2005). (27) Yiming Ye, Sarah J. Shealy, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Ivan Torshin, Robert Harrison, and Jenny J. Yang “A Grafting Approach for Site-Specific Metal Binding Affinity of EF-hand Proteins.” Protein Engineering (2003), 16(6), 429-34.(26) Jenny J. Yang, Amy Gawthrop, and Yiming Ye “Obtaining Site-specific Calcium –binding Affinities of Calmodulin” Protein and Peptide Letter (2003), 10 (4), 331-345.

4. Professional activity; (honors, etc)2005-present Editorial Board Member of Journal of Protein & Peptide Letters (PPL) 2004-present Associate Editor of Journal of Calcium Binding Protein2007-present Panel Grant Reviewer of the Study Session of Biochemistry and Biophysics of Membranes Study Section, National Institute of Health 2005-2007 National Institute of Health/ National Cancer Institute (Study Session of STTR/SBIR)2005-06 National Institute of Health (Study Session of Biophysics-Postdoctoral Fellowship)2002-2007 National Institute of Health (Study Session for Predoctoral Fellowship)2001-2004 National Science Foundation (Panel of MCB)2004-2005 Medical Research Award from NIH, Southeast Research Center for Emerging Diseases and Biodefense (SERCEB)2005-present Panel Grant Reviewer of the Study Session of SBMI Medical Imaging Technologies, National Institute of Health (National Cancer Institute)2005-2006 Panel Grant Reviewer of the Study Session of National Institute of Health for postdoctoral Fellowship of Biophysics and Biochemistry2004 Speaker at the Gordon Conference of Biomineralization2001-2004 Panel Grant Reviewer of National Science Foundation (NSF-MCB)2004 Panel Grant Reviewer of the Study Session of National Institute of Health (SBDD)2003 Honor from McNair Program for outstanding achievement in training minority undergraduate researchers2002-2005 Panel Grant Reviewer of the Study Session of National Institute of Health for Predoctoral Fellowship (F31)2003 Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, Georgia State University 2003 Featuring Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to McNair Minority Undergraduate Research Program

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned Yanqing Zhang, Associate Professor, Computer Science

EducationB.S. Computer Science, Tianjin University, July 1983M.S. Computer Science, Tianjin University, June 1986Ph.D. Computer Science, University of South Florida, August 1997

2. Teaching Load 3 courses/yrCSc 4810/6810 Artificial Intelligence, CSc 8810 Computational IntelligenceCSc 8320 Advanced Operating Systems

3. Scholarship and PublicationsPublications – Books/Monographs/ProceedingsT.Y. Lin, L. A. Zadeh and Y.-Q. Zhang (eds.), Granular Computing, World Scientific, 2008.Y.-Q. Zhang and Jagath C Rajapakse (eds.), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics: Computational Techniques and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.J. Y. Yang, M. Q. Yang, M. M. Zhu, Y.-Q. Zhang, H. R. Arabnia, Y.P. Deng and N. Bourbakis, Proceedings of IEEE 7th International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, ISBN 1-4244-1509-8, IEEE, 2007.W.-R. Zhang, Y.-Q. Zhang and X.H. T. Hu (eds.), Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE ICDM Multiagent Data Warehousing and Multiagent Data Mining Workshop, ISBN 0-9738918-0-7, 2005.H.B. Wang, F. Smarandache, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Sunderraman, Interval Neutrosophic Sets and Logic: Theory and Applications in Computing, Neutrosophic Book Series, no. 5, HEXIS, 2005.Y.-Q. Zhang, A. Kandel, T.Y. Lin and Y.Y. Yao (eds.), Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Application, Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, volume 58, World Scientific, 2004.Y.-Q. Zhang and A. Kandel, Compensatory Genetic Fuzzy Neural Networks and Their Applications, Series in Machine Perception Artificial Intelligence, volume 30, World Scientific, 1998.

B. Publications – Journal ArticlesY.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z. Huang, X.H. T. Hu, and Y. Zhao, “Recursive Fuzzy Granulation for Gene Subsets Extraction and Cancer Classification,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2008.Y.-Q. Zhang, B. Jin and Y.C. Tang, “Granular Neural Networks with Evolutionary Interval Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2008.M. Atlas and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Fuzzy Neural Web Agents for Efficient NBA Scouting,” Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, 2008.Minyong Li, Nanting Ni, Binghe Wang and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Modeling the Excitation Wavelengths (λex) of Boronic Acids,” Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2008.

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W.R. Zhang, J. Zhan, P.P. Wang and Y.-Q. Zhang, “On Truth, Uncertainty, Equilibrium and Harmony – a Taxonomy for YinYang Scientific Compiting,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2008.X.J. Chen, Y. Li, R. Harrison and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Classifier Fusion for Support Vector Machines,” Applied Soft Computing, 2008Y. Qiu, H. Yang, Y.-Q. Zhang and Y.C. Zhao, “Polynomial Regression Interval-valued Fuzzy Systems,” Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 137-145, Jan. 2008.F. Tan, X.Z. Fu, Y.-Q. Zhang and A. Bourgeois, “A Genetic Algorithm-based Feature Subset Selection,” Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 111-120, Jan. 2008.X.J. Chen, R. Harrison and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Genetic Fuzzy Classification Fusion of Multiple SVMs for Biomedical Data,” Special Issue on Evolutionary Computing in Bioinformatics, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 527-541, 2007.Y.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang and Z. Huang, “Development of Two-Stage SVM-RFE Gene Selection Strategy for Microarray Expression Data Analysis,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 365-381, July-September 2007.B. Jin, Y.-Q. Zhang and B.H. Wang, “Granular Kernel Trees with Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Drug Activity Comparisons,” International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 270-285, 2007.Y.-Q. Zhang and X.H. Wan, “Statistical Fuzzy Interval Neural Networks for Currency Exchange Rate Time Series Prediction,” Special Issue on Soft Computing for Time Series Prediction, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1145-1234, August 2007.L. Gu and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Web Shopping Expert Systems Using New Interval Type 2 Fuzzy Reasoning,” Special Issue on Web Intelligence and Chance Discovery, Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 741-751, June 2007.B. Jin, Y.C. Tang and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Support Vector Machines with Genetic Fuzzy Feature Transformation for Biomedical Data Classification,” Special Issue on Advances in Fuzzy Logic, Information Sciences, vol. 177, no. 2, pp. 476-489, 2007.Y.C. He, Y.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Sunderraman, “Adaptive Fuzzy Association Rule Mining for Effective Decision Support in Biomedical Applications,” International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-18, 2006.H.B. Wang, F. Smarandache, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Sunderraman, “Interval Neutrosophic Logic,” Advances in Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 187-218, Oct. 2006.B. Jin and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Evolutionary Construction of Granular Kernel Trees for Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor Activity Comparison,” LNCS Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, vol. V, pp. 25-35, 2006.H.B. Wang, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Sunderraman, “Soft Semantic Web Services Agent,” Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 1021-1029, Sept. 2006.T. Surdilovic and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Convenient intelligent cursor control web systems for Internet users with severe motor-impairments,” Special Issue on Health and the Internet

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for All, International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 75, Issue 1, pp. 86-100, Jan. 2006. Y.-Q. Zhang, “Constructive Granular Systems with Universal Approximation and Fast Knowledge Discovery,” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 48-57, Feb. 2005.L.X. Yu and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Evolutionary Fuzzy Neural Networks for Hybrid Financial Prediction,” Special Issue on Knowledge Extraction and Incorporation in Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, And Cybernetics (Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 244-249, May 2005.Y.C. Tang, B. Jin and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Granular Support Vector Machines with Association Rules Mining for Protein Homology Prediction,” Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques in Bioinformatics, vol. 35, no. 1-2, pp. 121-134, Sept.-Oct. 2005.X.J. Chen, R. Harrison and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Multi-SVM Fuzzy Classification and Fusion Method and Applications in Bioinformatics,” Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for and Bioinformatics, the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 514–52, Dec. 2005.H.B. Wang, P. Madiraju, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Sunderraman, “Interval Neutrosophic Sets,” International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, vol. 3, no. M05, pp. 1-18, March 2005.T.M. Dave, Y.-Q. Zhang, G. Scott Owen and Raj Sunderraman, “Intelligent Web Agents for a 3D Virtual Community,” International Journal for Infonomics, Issue 1, pp. 38-49, Jan. 2005.F.Y. Liu, H.L. Geng and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Interactive Fuzzy Interval Reasoning for Smart Web Shopping,” Applied Soft Computing, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 433-439, July 2005.

C. Publications – Book Chapters

Y.-Q. Zhang, “Granular Neural Networks,” Encyclopedia of Complexity & System Science, Robert Meyers (Ed.), Springer, 2008.Z.J. Ding and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Fuzzy Logic,” The Handbook of Technology Management, H. Bidgoli (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, 2008.Y. Chen and Y.-Q. Zhang, “A Personalized Semantic Web Search Agents Based on Fuzzy Semantic Trees and Neural Networks,” book chapter, T.J. Yao eds., Novel Developments in Granular Computing: Applications for Advanced Human Reasoning and Soft Computation, IGI Global, 2008.B. Jin and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Evolutionary Kernel Machines for Biomedical Data Multi-classification,” Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Y.-Q. Zhang and Jagath C Rajapakse (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, 2007.Y.C. He, Y.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Sunderraman, “Fuzzy-Granular Gene Selection from Microarray Expression Data,” Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics, Gary B. Fogel, David Corne, and Yi Pan (eds.), IEEE Press, 2007. B. Jin and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Voting Scheme Based Evolutionary Kernel Machines for Drug Activity Comparisons,” Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics: Techniques, Methods and Applications, Yi Pan and Xiaohua Hu (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

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Y. Tang and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Soft Statistical Decision Fusion for Distributed Medical Data on Grids,” Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Intelligent Information Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications, X.F. Zha (ed.), IRM Press, Oct. 2006.Y.C. Tang and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Intelligent Type-2 Fuzzy Inference for Web Information Search Task,” Soft Computing for Information Processing and Analysis, Series in Fuzziness and SoftComputing, vol. 164, M. Nikravesh,L.A. Zadeh and J. Kacprzyk (eds.), Physica-Verlag, Springer, 2005. Y.-Q. Zhang, A. Kandel, T.Y. Lin and Y.Y. Yao, “Introduction to Computational Web Intelligence and Hybrid Web Intelligence,” Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications, Y.-Q. Zhang, A. Kandel, T.Y. Lin and Y.Y. Yao (eds.), World Scientific, 2004.Y. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang, A. Kandel, T.Y. Lin and Y.Y. Yao, “Personalized Web Search Agents Using Data Mining and Granular Fuzzy Techniques,” Enhancing the power of the Internet, M. Nikravesh, B. Azvine, R. Yagar, and L.A. Zadeh (eds.), pp. 207-224, Physica-Verlag, Springer, 2004.Y.C. Tang and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Smart Homepage-Finder — A TSK-Based Genetic Fuzzy Information Filtering Agent for Searching Homepages Intelligently,” Enhancing the power of the Internet, M. Nikravesh, B. Azvine, R. Yagar, and L.A. Zadeh (eds.), pp. 379-402, Physica-Verlag, Springer, 2004.Y.F. Wang and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Fuzzy Web Information Classification Agents,” Fuzzy Logic and the Internet, V. Loia, M. Nikravesh and L.A. Zadeh (eds.), pp. 309-325, Physica-Verlag, Springer, 2004.

4. Professional ActivityOrganizing Co-Chair: 2008 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA2008), Atlanta, May 6-8, 2008.Program Co-Chair and Bioinformatics Track Chair: IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE07), Cambridge - Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 15-17, 2007.             Publicity Co-Chair: 2007 International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2007), Singapore, Oct. 1-2, 2007.Vice Chair: The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07), Las Vegas, June 25-28, 2007.Vice Chair: The 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, June 25-28, 2007.Vice Chair: The 2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07), Las Vegas, June 25-28, 2007.Vice Chair: The 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07), Las Vegas, June 25-28, 2007.Organizing Co-Chair: 2007 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA2007), Atlanta, May 7-10, 2007.Chair of the Session on Kernel Methods at ISNN2006, Chengdu, May 28-31, 2006.Program Committee Co-Chair (with W. Pedrycz and M.-C. Shan): 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE-GrC2006), Atlanta, May 10-12, 2006.

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Panel Moderator of Panel on Granular Computing: Theory and Applications at IEEEGrC2006, May 12, 2006. Program Committee Co-Chair (with W.R. Zhang and X.H. T. Hu): 2005 IEEE-ICDM Workshop on MultiAgent Data Warehousing and MultiAgent Data Mining, Houston, November 27, 2005. Co-Chair (with Zhang Y.): the Special Session on Ying-Yang Computation for Brain, Behavior and Machine Learning at the Second International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain (ICNN&B2005, http://cnnc.org.cn/), Beijing, October 13-15, 2005. Chair: Workshop on Ying-Yang Computation for Brain, Behavior and Machine Learning (http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscyqz/conf/GSU-YYC-BBML-Workshop.htm) at GSU, Atlanta, Aug. 30, 2005.Publication Chair of the Second Annual Fall Workshop on Bio-Computing (SECAB 2005), Atlanta, October 27, 2005.Chair of the Best Paper award committee of IEEE-GrC2005.Chair of the Session on Machine Learning, Data Mining, Theory and the Session on Granular Computing at IEEE-GrC2005.Chair of the Session on Data Mining and Related Topics of SPIE’s Defense&Security 2004: Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology.Chair of the Stream on Computational Web Intelligence of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications 2003.Chair of the Special Sessions of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications 2003.Chair of the Session on Intelligent Web Computing of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications 2003.Chair of the Session on Web and E-Commerce Applications of SPIE’s AeroSense 2003: Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology.Chair of the Session on Information Fusion and Knowledge Discovery of SPIE’s AeroSense 2003: Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology.Chair of 2002 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems of World Congress of Computational Intelligence 2002: Special Session on Computational Web Intelligence.Chair of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications 2002: Session on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.Chair of the Session on Image and Web Mining of SPIE’s AeroSense 2001: Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology.Chair of the Session on Soft Computing, Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic of SPIE’s AeroSense 2001: Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology.Chair of SCI/ISAS1999 Invited Session on Intelligent Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.Associate Editor of Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.Editorial Board member of International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics.

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Guest Editor (with J. C. Rajapakse and G. B. Fogel): Special Section on Computational Intelligence Approaches in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, April-June, 2007. Jagath C. Rajapakse, Yan-Qing Zhang, Gary B. Fogel: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section: Computational Intelligence Approaches in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 161-162, April-June, 2007.

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1. Name, rank, academic discipline, institutions attended, degrees earned; Yichuan Zhao, Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics

EducationB. S. in Mathematics, Peking University, 1987.M. S. in Applied Mathematics, Peking University, 1991.M. S. in Stochastics and Operations Research, Univ. Utrecht, Netherlands, 1997M. S. in Statistics, Florida State University, 1999, GPA 4.0.Ph.D in Statistics, Florida State University, 2002, GPA 4.0.

2. Current workload 4 courses/yr:Survival AnalysisMonte Carlo MethodsIntroduction to Statistical MethodsRegression AnalysisElementary StatisticsBiostatistics

3. Scholarship and publication record for past five years; Recent and current grant supportFunding for Professional Development Stipends, Pilot Mentor Program, Georgia State University, 2008, $2400.NSF-Sponsored Young Investigator Grant to Current and Future Trends in Nonparametrics, Columbia, SC, October 11—12, 2007, $500.Travel Support to SAMSI Summer Program on Challenges in Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Multistage Decision-Making, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC, June 18—29, 2007, $500.Funding for Professional Development Stipends, Pilot Mentor Program, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2007, $800.Faculty Mentoring Grant, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2006—2007 (Mentor: G. Chen), $9,304.National Security Agency, Empirical Likelihood Inference in Survival Analysis, 2006---2008, $27,983, single PI.NSF Travel Support to attend International Biometric Conference, July 2006, McGill University, Canada, $1,428.Funding for Professional Development Stipends, Pilot Mentor Program, Georgia State University, 2006, $800.NCI Full Support for ENAR workshop for young researchers, Tampa, 2006, $800.Graduate Student Fellowship Grant, Brain and Behaviors Program, Georgia State University, PI (with A. Petrulis) (supports Min Lu), 2005—2006. $1,1000.New Researcher Travel Award to UF Winter Workshop: Longitudinal Data Analysis, University of Florida, January, 2005, $338.20.NSF Travel Support to UFL Winter Workshop: Data Mining, Statistical Learning, and Bioinformatics, University of Florida, January, 2004, $400.NSF Travel Support to the AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference: Machine Learning Statistics and Discovery, Utah, 2003, $845.

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NSF Travel Support to the International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis, University of South Carolina, 2003, $295.

Publications[3] Z. Xu and Y. Zhao, 2004. Statistical analysis of general additive--multiplicative hazard model and mixed discrete--continuous Cox regression model via empirical likelihood, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biopharmaceutical Section, 938--942.[4] Y. Zhao and Y.S. Hsu, 2004. Statistical inference of semiparametric additive risk model, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section, 566—570.[5] Y. Zhao and Y.S. Hsu, 2005, Semiparametric analysis for additive risk model via empirical likelihood, Communications is Statistics--Simulation and Computation, 34, 135—143.[6] Y. Zhao, 2005. Regression analysis for long-term survival rate via empirical likelihood, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 17, 995--1007 [7] Y. Qiu, Y. Q. Zhang, and Y. Zhao, 2005. Statistical interval-valued fuzzy systems via linear regression, Proc. of IEEE-GrC 2005, pp. 229-232, Beijing, July 25-27. [8] Y. Zhao and Z. Xu, 2005. Inference for the mixed discrete and continuous Cox regression model via empirical likelihood, Advances and Applications in Statistics, 5, 145—157.[9] Y. Zhao and Z. Xu, 2005. Empirical likelihood Inference for the additive-multiplicative hazard model, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 16, 105—112.[10] I.W. McKeague and Y. Zhao, 2005. Comparing distribution functions via empirical likelihood, International Journal of Biostatistics, Vol.1, Issue 1, article 5.[11] Y. Zhao and F. Chen, 2005. Empirical likelihood estimation for median regression model via MIP, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Nonparametric Statistics Section, 1690--1694.[12] Y. Zhao and G. Qin, 2006. Inference for the mean residual life function via empirical likelihood, Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 35, 1025--1036.[13] I. W. McKeague and Y. Zhao, 2006. Width-scaled confidence bands for survival functions. Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, 327—339.[14] Y. Zhao and M. Lu. 2006. Empirical likelihood analysis of the calibration regression model, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section, CD-ROM.[15] Y. Zhao and Y. Zhou. 2006. Statistical analysis of high dimensional gene data, Proceedings of IEEE-Granular Computing 2006, Atlanta, 502—505.[16] Y. Zhao and G. Qin. 2007. Inference for a functional of cumulative hazard functions via empirical likelihood, Communications in Statistics---Theory and Methods, 36, 313—327. [17] G. Qin and Y. Zhao. 2007. Empirical likelihood inference for the mean residual life under random censorship, Statistics and Probability Letters, 77, 549—557.[18] N. Glenn and Y. Zhao. 2007. Weighted empirical likelihood estimates and their robustness properties, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 5130—5141.

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[19] Y.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z. Huang, X. Tony Hu, Y. Zhao, 2007. Granular SVM-RFE feature selection algorithm for reliable cancer-related gene subsets extraction on microarray gene expression data, Special Issue on Bioinformatics, Pattern Recognition, accepted.[20] Y. Zhao and W. Jian. 2007. Analysis of longitudinal data in the case-control studies via empirical likelihood, to appear in Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 36, 565—578. [21] Y. Zhao and Y. Huang. 2007. Test-based interval estimation under the accelerated failure time model , to appear in Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 36, 593—605. [22] Y. Zhao and S. Yang. 2007. Empirical likelihood inference for censored median regression with weighted empirical hazard functions, to appear in Annals of Institute of Statistical Mathematics.[23] Y. Qiu, Y.-Q. Zhang, Y. Zhao. 2007. Statistical genetic interval-valued fuzzy systems with prediction in clinical trials, Proceedings of IEEE-Granular Computing, Silicon Valley, CA, November, 2—4, pp. 129—132.[24] Y. Qiu, H. Yang, Y.Q. Zhang and Y. Zhao. 2008. Polynomial regression interval-valued fuzzy systems, Soft Computing --A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, 12, 137—145.[25] S. Yang and Y. Zhao. 2007. Testing treatment effect via empirical likelihood using weighted log rank tests, Statistics and Probability Letters, 77, 1385—1393.[26] X. Chen, Y. Zhao, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Harrison. 2008. Combining SVM classifiers using genetic fuzzy systems based on AUC for gene expression data analysis. Proceedings of International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics Series, Vol. 4463, 496—505.[27] E. Bishop and Y. Zhao. 2008. Empirical likelihood based rank regression inference, Communications in Statistics, in press, 37, issue 4.[28] Y. Zhao and F. Chen. 2008. Empirical likelihood inference for median regression model via nonparametric kernel estimation, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99, 215—231.[29] Y.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z. Huang, X. Tony Hu and Y. Zhao. 2008. Recursive fuzzy granulation for gene subsets extraction and cancer classification, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

4. Professional activity; Awards and honorsNSF Funded Full Support to the Seventh North American New Researchers Conference, Toronto, 2004NSF Funded Travel Partial Support for the Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium, Rice University, 2004Academic Keys Who's Who in Sciences Higher Education (WWSHE), 2004Laha Travel Award at the IMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, 2003Ralph A. Bradley Award, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, 2002R.L. Anderson Award, Summer research Conference in Statistics, SRCOS/ASA, 2002

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Student Research Paper Award and Travel Fellowship in International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium, 2002Travel Award to UFL Workshop: An IMS Mini-Meeting on Imaging, Classification and Clustering, University of Florida, 2002Student Research Paper Award and Travel Fellowship in International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium, 2001Student Research Paper Award in Florida Chapter of ASA, 2001Travel Award to UFL Winter Workshop: Monte Carlo in the New Millennium, University of Florida, 2001Travel Award to Symposium on Inference for Stochastic Process in University of Georgia, 2000Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Florida State University, 1999Best First Year Student of Theoretical Statistics, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, 1998Full Fellowship from NUFFIC (the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education), Mathematical Research Institute, University of Utrecht, 1996—1997

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EducationB.Eng. Computer Science, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 1991M.Eng. Computer Science, Univ. Electronic Science & Technology, China, 1994Ph.D. Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, 2000

2. Teaching load 3 courses/yr:Computer Graphics ImagingAdvanced Graphics AlgorithmsScientific Visualization Computer Graphics Algorithms

Scholarship and publications in the past five years:Research SupportNational Institute of Health (1R21MH076753 – 01)2006 – 2008 “NeuronBank: A Database for Identified Neurons and Synaptic Connections” Role: Co-PIGeorgia State University Brains & Behavior Program Seed Grant2006 – 2007 “AnimatLab: Software for neuro-biomechanic simulation” Role: Co-PIGeorgia State University Faculty Mentoring Grant2005 – 2006 “Graphical Simulation of Vehicle-Terrain Interaction for Real-time Training Applications” Role: PIGeorgia State University Brains & Behavior Program Seed Grant2004 –2006 “A Web based database for identified neurons” Role: Co-PIGeorgia State University Biomedical Computing Center Seed Grant (sponsored by a NIH Exploratory Centers (P20) for Interdisciplinary Research Grant)2004 –2006 “Design of Molecular Complexes Using a 3-Dimensional Direct Manipulation Interface” Role: PIGeorgia State University Research Initiation Grant2004 – 2005 “Fast and Realistic Visualization of Large Terrain Database” Role: PIGeorgia State University Biomedical Computing Center Seed Grant (sponsored by a NIH Exploratory Centers (P20) for Interdisciplinary Research Grant)2003 –2006 “3D Animated Crayfish Model for Neurobiological Study of Adaptive Behaviors” Role: PI

Peer reviewed full papers:J. W. Chastine, K. Nagel, Y. Zhu, and M. Hudachek-Buswell, “The Cost of Supporting References in Collaborative Augmented Reality,” accepted by the 34th Graphics Interface Conference (GI), 2008.J. W. Chastine, K. Nagel, Y. Zhu, and M. Hudachek-Buswell, “Studies on the Effectiveness of Virtual Pointers in Collaborative Augmented Reality,” accepted by the 3rd IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), IEEE, 2008.

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Y. Zhu, “Visualizing Menisci-Femur Contact Using Deformable Knee Models,” to appear in International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personal Medicine. X. Suo, Y. Zhu, and G. S. Owen, “Measuring the Complexity of Visualization Design,” accepted by the 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC), Springer, 2007. Y. Zhu, “High Level Task Analysis for Computer Security Visualization” (invited paper), in Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Information, Electronics, and Control Technologies (IECT), Chengdu, China, 2007. Y. Zhu, X. Suo, and G. S. Owen, "Complexity Analysis for Information Visualization Design and Evaluation," Advances in Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), G. Bebis et al. (Eds.), Vol. 4841, pp. 576-585, Springer-Verlag, 2007.Y. Zhu, “Measuring Effective Data Visualization,” Advances in Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), G. Bebis et al. (Eds.), Vol. 4842, pp. 652-661, Springer-Verlag, 2007.Y. Zhu, “Simulation and Visualization of Menisci-Femur Contact Using Patient-Specific Deformable Models,” in Proceedings of IEEE 7th International Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), Boston, MA, IEEE, 2007. J. W. Chastine, K. Nagel, Y. Zhu, and L. Yearsovich, “Understanding the Design Space of Referencing in Collaborative Augmented Reality Environments," in the Proceedings of the 33rd Graphics Interface Conference (GI), ACM, 2007.R. Calin-Jageman,  Y. Chen,  A. Dhawan,  C. Frederick,  N. Hiremath,  W. Ma,  X. Shen,  H. Yang,  S. Prasad, R. Sunderraman, Y. Zhu, and P. Katz, “Development of NeuronBank: A Federation of Customizable Knowledge Bases of Neural Circuitry,” IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT), in Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2007), IEEE, 2007.J. W. Chastine, Y. Zhu, and J. A. Preston, “A Framework for Inter-referential Awareness in Collaborative Systems,” in the Proceeding of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom), Atlanta, GA, IEEE, 2006.A. S. Aquilio, J. C. Brooks, Y. Zhu, and G. S. Owen, “Real-time GPU-based Simulation of Dynamic Terrain,” in Advances in Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), G. Bebis et al. (Eds.), Vol. 4291, pp. 891-900, Springer-Verlag, 2006. X. Suo, Y. Zhu, and G. S. Owen, “Analysis and Design of Graphical Password,” in Advances in Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), G. Bebis et al. (Eds.), Vol. 4292, pp. 741-749, Springer-Verlag, 2006.X. Suo, Y. Zhu, and G. S. Owen, “A Survey of Graphical Passwords,” IAnewsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2006, pp. 24-28.H. Tian, R. Sunderraman, R. Calin-Jageman, H. Yang, Y. Zhu, and P. S. Katz, “NeuroQL: A Domain-Specific Query Language for Neuroscience Data,” in Current Trends in Database Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), T. Grust et al. (Eds.), Vol. 4254, pp. 613-624, Springer-Verlag, 2006. P. Madiraju, Y. Zhang, G. S. Owen, and Y. Zhu, "Graphical Web Mining Agent for Class Teaching Enhancement," International Journal for Infonomics, 2006.H. Tian, Y. Wang, H. Yang, R. Sunderraman, P. Katz, and Y. Zhu, “A Novel Neuron Data Model with Domain Specific Language,” in Proceedings of 27th Annual

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International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Shanghai, China, IEEE, 2005.J. W. Chastine, J. C. Brooks, Y. Zhu, G. S. Owen, R. W. Harrison, and I. T. Weber, “AMMP-Vis: A Collaborative Virtual Environment for Molecular Modeling”, in Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Monterey, CA, ACM, 2005. X. Suo, Y. Zhu, and G. S. Owen, “Graphical Password: A Survey”, in Proceedings of 21st

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Tucson, AZ, IEEE, 2005. J. W. Chastine, Y. Zhu, J. C. Brooks, G. S. Owen, R. W. Harrison, and I. T. Weber, "A Collaborative Multi-View Virtual Environment for Molecular Visualization and Modeling," in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV). London, UK, IEEE, 2005.F. Liu, G. S. Owen, Y. Zhu, R. W. Harrison, and I. T. Weber, "Web Based Molecular Visualization using Procedural Shaders in X3D," in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Web Program. Los Angeles, CA, ACM, 2005. G. S. Owen, Y. Zhu, J. W. Chastine, and B. R. Payne. "Teaching Programmable Shaders: Lightweight versus Heavyweight Approach," in ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Educators Program. Los Angeles, CA, ACM, 2005. J. A. Pamplin, Y. Zhu, P. S. Katz, and R. Sunderraman, "A 3D User Interface for Visualizing Neuron Location in Invertebrate Ganglia," in Computational Science - ICCS 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), V. S. Sunderam et al. (Eds.), Volume 3515, pp. 347-350, Springer-Verlag, 2005.R. Payne, S. O. Belkasim, G. S. Owen, M. C. Weeks, and Y. Zhu, “Accelerated 2D Image Processing on GPUs”, in Computational Science - ICCS 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), V. S. Sunderam et al. (Eds.), Volume 3515, pp. 256-264, Springer-Verlag, 2005.Y. Zhu and S. O. Belkasim, "A 3D Reconstruction Algorithm Based on 3D Deformable Atlas," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA). Sydney, Australia, IEEE, 2005. G. Bays and Y. Zhu, "ScoreSVG: A Three-Tiered Software Architecture for Creating Music Scores in SVG," in Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG Open). Enschede, The Netherlands, 2005.Y. Zhu and J. X. Chen, “Simulation and Visualization of Knee Joint Contact using Deformable Model”, in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Wuhan, China, IEEE, 2004. Y. Zhu and G. S. Owen, “Integrating Modeling and Animation Tools into an Introductory Computer Science Graphics Course,” ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Educators Program, Los Angeles, CA, ACM, 2004.Y. Zhu, G. S. Owen, F. Liu, and A. Aquilio, “GPU-Based Volumetric Lighting Simulation,” in Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), Kauai, HI, 2004. Y. Zhu, "A Multi-thread Based Terrain Visualization Algorithm," in Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM). Kauai, HI, 2004.

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APPENDIX V

Library Resources

Comparison of Library Resources at Peer Institutions

Books Periodicals Reference e-books e-journals

Georgia State University

216 330 337

University of Georgia

100

Emory University

256

University of Alabama 212

Miami University

16465 7389 164 276 241

University of Memphis, TN

102 1042 111

Vanderbilt University

228

Stanford University

10172 247 5 182

University of Kentucky

3147 238

Oregon Health Sci Univ

222

Michigan State University

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