Lucas Pozzo-Miller's CV

Lucas Pozzo-Miller

(as of July 2008)

POSITIONS HELD
2006 Associate Professor (with Tenure), Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Secondary appointments in the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics, Cell Biology, and Psychology.
2006 Member, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, UAB.
2006 Scientist, Civitan International Research Center, UAB.
2006 Scientist, Center for Glial Biology in Medicine, UAB.
2005 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 (Dr. Thomas S. Reese, Lab Chief), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

EDUCATION & TRAINING
2006 Master Teacher Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1992-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ. Dr. John Connor, Mentor.
1990-1992 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Dr. Dennis M.D. Landis, Mentor.
1986-1989 Graduate Research Student, Cordoba National University, Argentina (PhD equivalent). Dr. Agustin Aoki, Mentor.
1984-1986 Undergraduate Research Student, Cordoba National University, Argentina (MSc equivalent). Dr. Augusto Arce, Mentor.

AWARDS & HONORS
2008 Co-Organizer and Speaker at the Symposium on ��Recent Advances in Neurotrophin Signaling at Central Synapses�� at the 6th Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Geneva, Switzerland.
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 Ad-hoc Member of NIH Study Section (NSD-C).
2002-2006 Permanent Member of NIH Study Section (MNPS).
2002 Co-Organizer and Speaker at ��Neurotrophin regulation of synaptic transmission�� Symposium, 3rd Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Paris, France.
2001 Ad-hoc Member of NIH Study Section (MDCN-5).
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
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. Dr. Rodolfo R. Llinas, Mentor.
1992 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Hoffman La Roche Inc., Nutley NJ. John 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.

POSTDOCTORAL AND VISITING FELLOWS
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
2008
Invited Speaker at the Sociedad Argentina de Investigaci��n en Neurociencias Symposium ��Neuronal Communication: From Structure to Physiology��, Bah��a Blanca, Argentina (scheduled for December).
Microscopy Course, Mendoza, Argentina (scheduled for October).
Instituto Ferreyra, C��rdoba, Argentina (scheduled for October).
Co-Organizer and Speaker at the Symposium on ��Recent Advances in Neurotrophin Signaling at Central Synapses�� at the 6th 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 5th 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, 3rd 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).
32nd 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
Reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals (30):
Biophysical Journal
BioTechniques
Brain Research
British Journal of Pharmacology
Cerebral Cortex
European Journal of Neuroscience
European Journal of Physiology
Experimental Biology and Medicine
Experimental Neurology
Hippocampus
International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Cell Science
Journal of Comparative Neurology
Journal of Neurobiology
Journal of Neurophysiology
Journal of Neuroscience
Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Journal of Neuroscience Research
Journal of Physiology (London)
Learning & Memory
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Neurobiology of Aging
NeuroImage
Neuropharmacology
Neuroscience
Neuroscience Letters
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
Synapse
Trends in Neurosciences

Reviewer for grant applications for the following agencies:
Reviewer for the Medical Research Council, United Kingdom, 2008.
Member Scientific Review Board, International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF), 2008.
Permanent Member of NTRC Study Section, NIH, USA. 2008.
Reviewer, Italian Telethon Foundation, Italy. 2008.
Reviewer, Ontario Mental Health Foundation, Canada. 2007.
Reviewer, The North Carolina Biotechnology Center, USA. 2007.
Reviewer, The Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom. 2007.
Ad-hoc Member of MDCNJ Study Section, NIH, USA. 2007.
Permanent Member of MNPS Study Section, NIH, USA. 2002-2006.
Reviewer, International Rett Syndrome Association, USA. 2006.
Reviewer, National Science Foundation, USA. 2004, 2006, 2007.
Reviewer, National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion, Argentina. 2004.
Reviewer, Alzheimer Foundation, USA. 2003, 2004, 2007.
Ad-hoc Member of NSD-C Study Section, NIH, USA. 2002.
Ad-hoc Member of MDCN-5 Study Section, NIH, USA. 2001.
Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Switzerland, 2000.
Reviewer, Spinal Cord Injury Research Board, Department of Health, New York State, USA. 2000.

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