POSITIONS HELD

2009-present: Professor, Department of Neurobiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Secondary appointments in the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics, Cell Biology, and Psychology.

2006-2009: Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Neurobiology, UAB.

2006-present: Member, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, UAB.

2006-present: Scientist, Civitan International Research Center, UAB.

2006-present: Scientist, Center for Glial Biology in Medicine, UAB.

2005-present: Investigator, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, UAB

2005-present: Scientist, Vision Science Research Center, UAB.

1998-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, UAB.

1995-1998: Senior Staff Fellow (Research Assistant Professor equivalent). Laboratory of Neurobiology (Thomas S. Reese, Lab Chief), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

2006: Master Teacher Program, UAB.

1992-1995: Postdoctoral Fellow, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ. John A. Connor, Mentor.

1990-1992: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Dennis Landis, Mentor.

1986-1989: Graduate Research Student, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina (PhD equivalent). Agustin Aoki, Mentor.

1981-1986: Undergraduate Research Student, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina (MSc equivalent). Augusto Arce, Mentor.

AWARDS & HONORS

2009: Editorial Board Member of Journal of Neurophysiology.

2009: Editorial Board Member of Neural Plasticity.

2008: Honorary Member of the Argentinean Society for Neuroscience (SAN).

2008: Co-Organizer and Speaker at the Symposium on ≥Recent Advances in Neurotrophin Signaling at Central Synapses≤ at the 6^th Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Geneva, Switzerland.

2008: Invited Speaker at the University of California at Irvine Epilepsy Research Center Symposium ≥Hot Topics in Epilepsy≤, Newport Beach, CA.

2008: Permanent Member of NIH Study Section (NTRC).

2008: Member Scientific Review Board, International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF).

2007: Invited Speaker at the ≥Shared Neurobiology of Autism and Related Disorders≤ meeting at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

2005: McNulty Civitan Scholar Award, Civitan International Foundation.

2005: Elected Member of the UAB Faculty Senate.

2004: Invited Speaker at Gordon Conference on Synaptic Transmission, Meriden, NH.

2003: Session Chair at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

2002-2006: Permanent Member of NIH Study Section (MNPS).

2002: Co-Organizer and Speaker at ≥Neurotrophin regulation of synaptic transmission≤ Symposium, 3^rd Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Paris, France.

1999: Fellows Award for Research Excellence. NIH, Bethesda, MD.

1999: Invited Speaker at the Journal of Physiology Symposium on ≥Neuronal compartmentalization: channels, receptors and signaling≤, Miami, FL.

1998: Chairman and Speaker at the session ≥Neurotrophins and Neuronal Plasticity≤, VI Spring Hippocampal Research Conference, Grand Cayman, BWI.

1996: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Fellowship to attend ≥Course on Single-cell PCR and Imaging of Neurons in Bran Slices≤ at I Physiologisches Institut, Universit‰t des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany.

1995: The Lakian Foundation Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

1994: The Grass Foundation Fellowship in Neurophysiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Rodolfo R. Llin·s, Mentor.

1992: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Hoffman La Roche Inc., Nutley NJ. John A. Connor, Mentor.

1986: Predoctoral Fellowship of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1991-present: Society for Neuroscience.

2006-present: The American Physiological Society.

2008-present: Sociedad Argentina de Neurociencias (Honorary Member).

POSTDOCTORAL AND VISITING FELLOWS

Soledad Ferreras, MSc Visiting graduate student, Instituto Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina. November 2008-May 2009.

Kristina Leuner, PhD Visiting Scientist. Institute of Pharmacology, University of Frankfurt, Germany. August-October 2008; March-April 2009.

Michelle Amaral, PhD Postdoctoral Associate. July 2008-present.

Yong Li, PhD Postdoctoral Associate. August 2007-present.

Gaston Calfa, PhD Postdoctoral Associate. January 2007-present.

Antonio Campos-Torres, MD Postdoctoral Associate. July 2003, August 2004. Currently at Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Pablo Pomata, PhD Visiting graduate student, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 2002-April 2003. Currently at Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mariana Alonso, PhD Visiting graduate student, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. September-December 2002. Currently at Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.

Steve P. Perrett, PhD Manager of the Simultaneous Electrophysiology and Imaging Core; funded by the UAB Mental Retardation Research Center (NIH-NICHD P30). July 2001-December 2003.

Chris Ransom, MD/PhD MSTP Program, School of Medicine, UAB. March-July 2001. Currently at Department of Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Carolina Wedemeyer, MSc Visiting graduate student, Instituto Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina. February-March 1998. Currently at INGEBI, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

MENTORED GRADUATE STUDENTS

Michelle D. Amaral (PhD, 2008) Neurobiology Program, School of Medicine, UAB.

Christopher A. Chapleau (PhD, 2008) Neurobiology Program, School of Medicine, UAB.

Claudia Campo Soria (MS, 2006). Neurobiology Program, School of Medicine, UAB. L. Pozzo-Miller, David Weiss, Co-Mentors.

William James Tyler (PhD, 2003) Behavioral Neuroscience Program, UAB. UAB Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies. Currently Assistant Professor at School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tucson, AZ.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2009

Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA (scheduled for December).

Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China (May).

Department of Neurobiology, Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, China (May).

Department of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN (February).

Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University, Boston MA (January).

2008

Invited Speaker at the Sociedad Argentina de InvestigaciÛn en Neurociencias Symposium ≥Neuronal Communication: From Structure to Physiology≤, Bahia Blanca, Argentina (December).

Instituto Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina (October).

Co-Organizer and Speaker at the Symposium on ≥Recent Advances in Neurotrophin Signaling at Central Synapses≤ at the 6^th Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Geneva, Switzerland (July).

Department of Physiological Genomics, Institute of Physiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany (July).

Instituto Cajal, Madrid, Spain (July).

Invited Speaker at the Annual Rett Syndrome Symposium, Chicago, IL (June).

Invited Speaker at the Rett Syndrome Clinical Trial Mini-Symposium, Chicago, IL (June).

Invited Speaker at the UCI Epilepsy Research Center Symposium ≥Hot Topics in Epilepsy≤, Newport Beach, CA (March).

Center for Basic Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (January).

2007

Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (October).

The Salomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (September).

Invited Speaker at the ≥Shared Neurobiology of Autism and Related Disorders≤ meeting at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (June).

Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (April).

Keynote Speaker, Microscopy Course, Instituto Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina (April).

Keynote Speaker, Annual South East Nerve Net Meeting, Wakulla Springs, FL (March).

Department of Neurosurgery University of New Mexico, and The Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Institute, Albuquerque, NM (February).

2006

Laboratory of Neurobiology, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC (December).

Department of Biomedical Engineering, UAB, Birmingham, AL (April).

Department of Cell Biology, UAB, Birmingham, AL (January).

2005

Institute Leloir, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (October).

Keynote Speaker at the 5^th Annual Southeast Multiphoton Excitation Confocal Users Group Meeting, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (August).

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK (May).

2004

Gordon Conference on Synaptic Transmission. Meriden, NH (August).

Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (May).

2003

Neuroscience Research Center, Humboldt University-Charite, Berlin, Germany (December).

Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, NY (September).

Department of Neurobiology, UAB, Birmingham, AL (May).

2002

Co-Organizer and Speaker at the Symposium on Neurotrophin regulation of synaptic transmission, 3^rd Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Paris, France (July).

Department of Physiology and Locus on Neuroscience, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (July).

Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (July).

2001

Instituto de Genetica y Biologia Celular, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (December).

Instituto Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina (December).

Department of Neuroscience, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (March).

Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY (March).

Department of Physiology & Biophysics, UAB, Birmingham, AL (January).

2000

National Institute of Child and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (April).

1999

Centro de Estudios Cientificos de Santiago, Santiago de Chile, Chile (December).

Instituto Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina (December).

Journal of Physiology Symposium on Neuronal compartmentalization: channels, receptors and signaling, Miami Beach, FL (October).

32^nd Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Charleston, SC (March).

1998

Chairman of the session Neurotrophins and neuronal plasticity, VI Spring Hippocampal Research Conference, Grand Cayman, BWI (April).

Neurobiologie et Diversite Cellulaire, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, and Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France (March).

1997

Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT (October).

Department of Neurobiology, UAB, Birmingham, AL (June).

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (May).

Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK (April).

1996

Department of Biophysics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy (October).

Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (June).

Institute for Neurosciences & Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (May).

1995

Guest Lecturer, Neurobiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (August).

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Neurophysiology.

Editorial Board Member of Neural Plasticity.

Reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals:

1. Behavioral Brain Research

2. BioMedCentral Neuroscience

3. Biophysical Journal

4. BioTechniques

5. Brain Research

6. British Journal of Pharmacology

7. Cerebral Cortex

8. Developmental Brain Research

9. European Journal of Neuroscience

10. European Journal of Physiology

11. Experimental Biology and Medicine

12. Experimental Brain Research

13. Experimental Neurology

14. Hippocampus

15. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

16. Journal of Biological Chemistry

17. Journal of Cell Science

18. Journal of Comparative Neurology

19. Journal of General Physiology

20. Journal of Neurobiology

21. Journal of Neurophysiology

22. Journal of Neuroscience

23. Journal of Neuroscience Methods

24. Journal of Neuroscience Research

25. Journal of Physiology (London)

26. Learning & Memory

27. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

28. Molecular Neurobiology

29. Nature Reviews Neuroscience

30. Neural Plasticity

31. Neurobiology of Aging

32. Neurobiology of Disease

33. NeuroImage

34. Neuropharmacology

35. Neuroscience

36. Neuroscience Letters

37. Neuroscience Research

38. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS)

39. Public Library of Science One (PLoS One)

40. Synapse

41. Trends in Neurosciences

Reviewer for national and international funding agencies:

1. Reviewer, National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion, Argentina. 2009.

2. Reviewer, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Holland. 2009.

3. Reviewer, Medical Research Council, United Kingdom, 2008.

4. Member Scientific Review Board, International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF). 2008.

5. Permanent Member of NTRC Study Section, NIH, USA. 2008-2012.

6. Reviewer, Italian Telethon Foundation, Italy. 2008.

7. Reviewer, Ontario Mental Health Foundation, Canada. 2007.

8. Reviewer, The North Carolina Biotechnology Center, USA. 2007.

9. Reviewer, The Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom. 2007.

10. Ad-hoc Member of MDCNJ Study Section, NIH, USA. 2007.

11. Permanent Member of MNPS Study Section, NIH, USA. 2002-2006.

12. Reviewer, International Rett Syndrome Association, USA. 2006.

13. Reviewer, National Science Foundation, USA. 2004, 2006, 2007.

14. Reviewer, National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion, Argentina. 2004.

15. Reviewer, Alzheimer Foundation, USA. 2003, 2004, 2007.

16. Ad-hoc Member of NSD-C Study Section, NIH, USA. 2002.

17. Ad-hoc Member of MDCN-5 Study Section, NIH, USA. 2001.

18. Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland. 2000.

19. Reviewer, Spinal Cord Injury Research Board, Department of Health, New York State, USA. 2000.