Marc L. Baker, MD, PhD
Intern
Internal Medicine residency program at LSU New Orleans

Anthony Paul Barnes
Post-doctoral fellow
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology

Fellowships:
UNC-Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center Fellowship 2001-2003

Publications:
Barnes AP and Milgram SL. Signals from the X: signal transduction and X-linked mental retardation. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2002 Jun-Aug;20(3-5):397-406.

Roy AM, West NC, Rao A, Adhikari P, Aleman C, Barnes AP, Deininger, PL. Upstream flanking sequences and transcription of SINEs. J Mol Biol. 2000 Sep 8;302(1):17-25.

Chen C, Parker MS, Barnes AP, Deininger P, Bobbin RP. Functional expression of three P2X(2) receptor splice variants from guinea pig cochlea. J Neurophysiol. 2000 Mar;83(3):1502-9.

Peimin Zhu, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
LSUHSC Neuroscience Center

Scott Francis Davis, OP, PhD
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
(504) 813-2370
DrScottFDavis@yahoo.com

Publications:

Journal Articles

R.S. Winokur, T. Kubal, D. Liu, S.F. Davis, and B.N. Smith. Recurrent Excitatory Circuit Formation in the Dentate Gyrus of a Murine Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. submitted

S.F. Davis , K.W. Williams W., Xu, N.R. Glatzer, and B.N. Smith. Selective enhancement of synaptic inhibition by hypocretin (orexin) in rat vagal motor neurons: implications for autonomic regulation. Journal of Neuroscience 23(9): 3844-54, 2003

S.F. Davis and C.L. Linn. Mechanism linking NMDA receptor activation to modulation of a voltage-gated sodium current in the distal retina AJP Cell Physiology. 284: C1193-C1204, 2003

S.F. Davis and C.L. Linn. Activation of NMDA receptors linked to modulation of voltage-gated ion channels and functional implications Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 284: C757-C768, 2003

B.N. Smith, S.F. Davis , A. van den Pol, and W. Xu. Hypocretin 2 (Orexin B) enhancement of excitatory synaptic activity in the rat nucleus tractus solitarius. Neuroscience Vol. 115, No. 3 pp. 707-714, 2002

Abstracts

S.F. Davis and B.N. Smith. Differential effects of hypocretin 1 and 2 on synaptic activity within the rat NTS. Society for Neuroscience (2003)

S.F. Davis , K.W. Williams, and B.N. Smith. An inhibitory connection between sensory and motor nuclei of the rat vagal complex is enhanced by hypocretin. Society for Neuroscience (2002)

Ronald S Winokur, Scott F Davis, and Bret N Smith. Mossy fiber sprouting and recurrent excitatory circuit formation in the dentate gyrus of C57BL/6 and CD1 mice after pilocarpine-induced seizures. American Epilepsy Society (2002).

S.F. Davis and C.L. Linn NMDA Modulation of Voltage-Gated Currents in the Catfish Retina Depends on CICR and Calmodulin. Society for Neuroscience (2001)

S.F. Davis and C.L. Linn. Effect of NMDA on Voltage-Gated Ion Channels in Isolated Catfish Cone Horizontal Cells. Society for Neuroscience (2000)

S.F. Davis , R.J. Cork, L.G. Pihl, N. Cao, and R.R. Mize. The NMDA Antagonist MK-801 Fails to Disrupt Refinement of the Ipsilateral Retinocollicular Pathway in C57BL/6 Mice. FASEB (2000)

Wu H.H., S. Davis , D. Shuman, J. Goswami, R.J. Cork, and R.R. Mize. Ipsilateral Retinocollicular Pathway Refinement is Disrupted in Nitric Oxide Synthase Deficient Mice. IBRO (1999).

S.F. Davis , A. Datwani, H.W. Wu, and R.R. Mize. I nhibition of Nitric Oxide Synthase Alters the Refinement of the Ipsilateral Retinocollicular Projection in the Mouse. Society for Neuroscience (1998).

S.F. Davis , H. Hara, G. Hoyle, and C.D. Fermin. Diminished expression of substance P immunoreacticve nerve terminals in knockout mice for p75 nerve growth factor receptor. ARO (1997).

Michael F. Salvatore, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
& Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Whitney-Hendrickson Bldg
800 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40536
Phone: (859) 323-6092

Recent publications:

Salvatore, M.F., Zhang, J.L., Large, D.M., Wilson , P.E., Thomas, T.D., Gash, C.R., Haycock, J.W., Bing, G., Gash, D.M., and  Gerhardt, G.A.  A Molecular Mechanism for GDNF Effects on Dopamine Neuronal Function submitted.

Salvatore, M.F., Hudspeth, O., Arnold , L.E., Wilson , P.E., Mactutus, C.F., Booze, R.M., and Gerhardt, G.A.  Prenatal cocaine exposure alters potassium-evoked dopamine release dynamics in rat striatum.  Neuroscience  In press.

Salvatore, M.F., Apparsundaram, S., and Gerhardt, G.A.  Decreased plasma membrane expression of striatal dopamine transporter in aging. Neurobiol. Aging. In press.

Salvatore, M.F., Hoffman, A.F., Burmeister, J., and Gerhardt, G.A.  In vivo voltammmetry in drug abuse research., In: Waterhouse, B., editor.  "Methods in Drug Abuse Research: Cellular and Circuit Level Analyses". CRC Press, 2003.

Salvatore, M.F., Waymire, J.C., and Haycock, J.W.  Depolarization-stimulated catecholamine biosynthesis: Involvement of protein kinases and tyrosine hydroxylase phosphorylation sites in situ .  J. Neurochem. 79(2), 349-360, 2001.

Salvatore, M.F., Garcia-Espana, A., Goldstein, M., Deutch, A.Y., and Haycock, J.W. Stoichiometry of tyrosine hydroxylase phosphorylation in the nigrostriatal and mesolimbic systems in vivo : Effects of acute haloperidol and related compounds. J. Neurochem. 75(1), 225-232, 2000.

Mike Serou, MD, PhD
Resident
LSU Radiology

Bin Tu, MD, PhD
Research Associate
Duke University Medical Center
Current project: Epilepsy research

Neva C West, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Neuropathology

720 Rutland Ave.
Ross Bldg Room 558
Baltimore , MD 21205
Ph: 410-502-5197

My current project is to study the role of alpha-synuclein in the etiology of Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies.