Lenz-Hartline lab personnel and professional associates

Collaborators

• Dr. Edward Buskey, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas, Austin (copepod bioluminescence, escape in free-swimming copepods, copepod photophobic responses) (to get a peek at his really classy field-research site in Belize, click here!)
• Dr. Ann Castelfranco,Bekesy Lab., University of Hawaii (computational neuroscience); Email: castelf at pbrc.hawaii.edu
• Dr. Andy Christie, Bekesy Lab, UH (immunohistochemistry of copepod neuropeptides and modulators). Email: crabman at pbrc.hawaii.edu
• Dr. Rudi Strickler, Great Lakes Water Institute, University of Wisconsin, Milkwaukee WI (3D tracking of fish attacks and copepod escapes using laser imaging system)
• Ms. Tina Weatherby (Carvalho), PBRC Biological Electron Microscope Facility, University of Hawaii (copepod sensory morphology) (for pretty pictures of various critters she's aimed her scanning electron microscope at, click here!)

Other trainees

• Robert Young - simulation of myelin and saltatory concuction
• Chizuru Mizuma - respiration of nerve and the energetic cost of impulse activity

Laboratory assistants

Andrea Orcine - cultivating copepods and clown fish

Secretary

• Lynn Hata: email lynn at pbrc.hawaii.edu

Alumni

• Former collaborators
  • Dr. Kenro Tazaki, Nara Univ. of Education, Japan (deceased): stomatogastric neuron morphology
  • Dr. Robert Wayne Newcomb, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland College Park: neural modeling)
  • Dr. Robert White Newcomb, Stanford University (deceased): modeling peptide processing and transport physiology (see Hartline and Newcomb 1991, Newcomb et al 1991, Hartline et al 1995)
  • Dr. William Calvin, Univ. of Washington: doublet spiking in lobster MRO
• Former postdocs
  • Dr. Caroline Wilson (2006-present): Project on development of copepod nervous system and escape circuitry (email: wilsonc at hawaii.edu)
  • Dr. Ann M. Castelfranco (1993-96): Project on simulation of space-clamp errors in processes of cells with voltage-dependent conductances.
  • Dr. Brad R. Jones (1988-92): Project on ionic currents in stomatogastric neurons. Brad is now our Computer Guru at PBRC. To email, click here
  • Dr. David F. Russell (1976-82): Project on pattern production in stomatogastric ganglion.
  • Dr. Howard S. Warshaw (1973-78): Project on simulation of pattern production in simple nerve nets.
• Former graduate students
  • James Jackson (2009-2011) MA thesis: Predator prey interactions in developing clown fish (P. Lenz, research advisor)
  • Kevin Funk (2003-2005): MA thesis: Development of Mechanosensory Responses in Myelinated Copepods. In 2006, Kevin was working on shark sensory systems for Tim Tricas at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
  • April Davis (1996-1999): Project on EM of copepod nervous system and copepod myelin. (See Davis et al 1999.) April graduated from vet school at the University of Colorado at Fort Collins.
  • Galya Orr (1994-95): Project: Computation in dendritic arborization of identified neurons from the lobster stomatogastric ganglion. Transferred to Univ. of Arizona (1996-99). In 2006 she was working as a Senior Research Scientist on time lapse single-molecule fluorescence imaging for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State.
  • Michele Solis (summer 1992): Project on temperature effects on thresholds of copepod antennal mechanoreceptors. Obtained her PhD at UCSF working on bird song; Postdoc: Univ. of Washington Dept. of Psychology; [2003]: Research Associate, Otolaryngology. See April, 2006 J. Neurophysiol.. In 2012, she was a science writer" in Washington state.
  • Greg Wolodkin (summer 1990; from Univ. of Maryland): Project programming netlist compiler for SYNETSIM neural modeling package
  • Curtis A. Baker (1975-77 at UCSD): Project on non-linear systems analysis of repetitive firing. Obtained PhD at UCSD under Walter Heiligenberg; faculty positions at Dalhousie Univ.; 2006 at McGill as a professor of ophthalmology.
  • Claudio Valenzuela (1975-78 at UCSD): Project on parameter optimization in neural models.
  • Jonathan A. Raper (1974-79 UCSD): PhD Thesis: Non-impulse Mediated Synaptic Transmission in the Stomatogastric Ganglion of the Spiny Lobster. Post-doc with Cory Goodman, UCB 1981-83?; Max Planck Tubingen 5-yr appointment 1984-89? current: Professor Univ. of Penna.
  • William M. Roberts (1972-79 UCSD): PhD Thesis: Studies of Membrane Currents in Crayfish Stretch Receptor Neurons and Optimal Recognition of Neuronal Spike Waveform. Post-doc with Wolf Almers, Univ. of Washington 1979-81(?) and with A. James Hudspeth, 1981-83(?); current: Professor of Neuroscience, Univ. of Oregon; Chair Neuroscience Program
  • W. Otto Friesen (1971-74 UCSD): PhD Thesis: Physiology of the Spiny Lobster Cardiac Ganglion. Post-doc with Gunther Stent (UCB) 1975-77(?) Current: Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Virginia
• Former undergraduates
  • Allie Albert (High-school Scholar at MDIBL 2006): Copepod database
  • Elizabeth Mitchell (NIH/INBRE at MDIBL 2006): Cell-division zones in Calanus developmental stages
  • Greg Sousa (NIH/INBRE at MDIBL 2006): Peptide immunohistochemistry of Calanus
  • Delyn Martinez (NSF/REU at MDIBL 2005): escape in free-swimming Calanus [copepod] developmental stages
  • Marisa Litz (from Univ. of Maine -- NSF/REU at MDIBL 2004): escape in free-swimming Tortanus [copepod] developmental stages
  • Daniel Burdick (NSF/REU at MDIBL and UH 2003-4): Mechanically-triggered escape in free-swimming copepods and in 2004 5HT immunohistochemistry of Acartia & Calanus nervous system (w/ B. Beltz)
  • Gabe Rodrigues (from Rutgers Univ. -- NSF/REU at MDIBL 2002-3): photically-elicited escape in free-swimming copepods
  • Christy Herren (from Univ. of So. Carolina -- NSF/ REU 1994): mechanosensitivity of copepod escape behavior. PhD 2002, UCSB Ecol., Evol. & Mar. Biol.[Aldredge/Case]; 2003: Post-doc at MBARI with Steve Haddock; In 2012 she was working as a Research Associate at the Univ. of Maine's Darling Marine Center affiliated with the Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence program (email: christy dot herren at gmail dot com)
  • Wendy Weber (Summer internship 1992): Project on morphology of copepod antennal receptors; received her BA from Weslyan in Psychology/Neurosciences; in 2003 she was at Bastyr University as a Research Institute Investigator. She joined NIH in 2009 as a program officer in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (more ).
  • Katy Wong (NSF/REU 1991-2): Project on scanning EM of copepod antenna; she received her MD at Univ. of Hawaii ca 1997 and now is set up in rheumatology and internal medicine practice in Bloomington IL(see her physician details)
  • Arthur Reyes (NSF/REU 1991): Project on post-inhibitory rebound in STG
  • Mark Aeder (UCSD 1977): Project on rodent ethology; Mark currently lives on the Big Island (Hawaii), works in aquaculture and marine resources and is an avid spelunker.
• Former employees
  • Amy Hower obtained her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Miami under John Bixby with a thesis on Receptor Functions of the Receptor-Type Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase PTPRO (2008).
  • Leanna Bartram [Aker] [(Research Associate 1996-98) is living in Washington state showing everyone that science can be fun at Columbia Junior High. She won a Toyota TAPESTRY minigrant in 2006, and a HP Technology for Teaching grant in 2007 (congratulations, Leanna, keep up the good work!). See also her poetry page
  • Steve Lum graduated from UH Med School when last heard from.
  • Mark Bieda finished up his doctorate at Berkeley; postdoc at Stanford Med School with Bruce MacIver; when last heard from (2006) he was working on retinal ganglion cells)
  • Bev Taira was working at BHP when last heard from.
  • Claire Sirchia (see Hartline et al 1987)
  • Don Gassie continues to move around the country. His wife, Lillian, is working for the Library of Congress in DC; their kids, having been home-schooled by Don are now in college [?]. The family moved to Italy in 2005, back to Texas in 2007 and then to Florida, their current abode (2012).

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