Neuroscience Program in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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Neuroscience Program in the College of
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

• March 25, 2005

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The Bakers Dozen Neuroscience Faculty in the
CVM
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Current Students and Staff

• Graduate students 13
• Post docs / research associates 9
• Veterinary students 2
• Undergraduate students 18
• Technicians 6

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Total Funding 2000-2005 (PI or Co-PI)
10,265,071
8.95 mil
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Notable Achievements (2000-2005)

• 1 Patent
• 4 members on NIH study sections
• 2 members on NSF review sections
• 1 member on a NIH special emphasis panel
• 1 diplomate, American College of Veterinary
  Pathologists
• 1 board of directors, Sigma Xi
• Invited chairs for symposia
• International Society for NeuroImmunoModulation
  (ISNIM) Guest Society Symposium at the American
  Association of Immunologists meeting, Denver,
  2003
• 18th International Neurotoxicology Conference,
  Colorado Springs, 2000.
• 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for
  Neurochemistry, Palm Beach, 2002.
• 21st International Neurotoxiciology Conference,
  Honolulu, 2004
• Society of Toxicology 42nd Annual Meeting,
  Baltimore, 2004
• 10th Meeting of the International Neurotoxicology
  Association, Porvoo, Finland, 2005
• International Society for Neurochemistry-European
  Society for Neurochemistry Congress, Innsbruck,
  Austria, 2005

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• Faculty Awards
• AFS Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards
• Teaching, University level Bratton, Storts
• Teaching, College level Bratton, McArthur
• Research Dees, Klemm, Tiffany-Castiglioni
• Administration - Bratton
• Merck Creativity Award
• Best New Idea in Electronic Distance Education,
  Centre Informatique Pedagogique, Geneva
• Student Awards
• 2 NIH/NINDS Awards for students
• 1 - graduate student stipends
• 1 - undergraduate student stipends
• 1 - Interdisciplinary Training in Molecular
  Mechanisms of Host
• Pathogen Interactions - TAMU
• 3 - NIH Physician Scientist Awards
• 1 - National Phi Zeta Award for outstanding
  research manuscript
• 3 - graduate student awards for oral or poster
  presentations at
• national meetings

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Publications (2000-2005)

• Peer reviewed articles - 124
• 2 in PNAS
• 1 in Nature-Biotechnology
• Chapters - 12
• Books - 2

Editorial Appointments

• Editor or associate editor 2
• Editorial board member 3

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Collaborations within the group Storts
Zimmer Stoica Klemm Welsh
Levine Ko
Castiglioni Bratton McArthur Porter
Dees Abbott
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Collaborations
CVM
TAMU and TAMUHSC
The World
US Institutions
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TAMUS Collaborations
TAMU Depts. Animal Science Biology Biochem/Biophys
ics Biomed Engineering Chemistry Computer
Science Education Psychology
TAMUHSC IBT Psychiatry Behav Sci Med Microbiol
Immunol Pathology Lab Med Hum Anatomy Med
Neurobiology Pharmacol Toxicol
CVM VIBS VTPB VTPP SACS LACS
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More Collaborations
TAMU
TAMUHSC
CVM
The World Argentina Canada Germany Italy JapanKor
eaNorway Taiwan United KingdomWest Indies
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• Multidisciplinary Teaching
• by Neuroscience Faculty
• Undergraduate courses - 5
• Graduate courses - 8
• Veterinary professional courses - 3

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Faculty participation in existing Graduate
Student Training Programs Toxicology Training
Grant Mechanistic Studies at the Host-Pathogen
Interface Recovery of Neural Function Veterinary
Medical Student Research Training Grant
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Neuroscience Research
Molecules
Genes
Cells and tissues
Organ Systems
Organisms
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Stress effects on neurotropic virus infection
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Pb-induced GRP78 Aggregation - Imaging
Fused protein cDNA In plasmid
Cells
Fluorescence microscopy
Pb Exposure
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Pb-induced GRP78 Aggregation
Control
5µM Pb
GRP78-EGFP (10 hrs, 40X)
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Circadian modulation of ion channels in
photoreceptors
CNGC
Tyr-PO4
Erk
B-raf
Ras
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Other Neuromodulators (ex. somatostatin)
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cAMP
D2
DA
VDCC
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Ca2
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Melatonin
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Diurnal regulation of ICa in chick photoreceptors
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Synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus
Melatonin?
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QUESTIONS?