Gerald D. Griffin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology
College of Arts & Sciences
Email: ggriffin@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8829
Office Address: 104 Armstrong Hall
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Dr. Gerald D. Griffin is a neurovirologist. His research interests focus on the reciprocal interactions between neurotropic viruses and neurons. He received the Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) in 2009 where he concentrated in neuroendocrinology. He completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology at UPENN where he focused on how Herpes Simplex Virus Type I alters neuronal gene expression. Presently, Dr. Griffin leads the neurovirology laboratory at Tuskegee. Here, he aims to dissect neural modifications induced by HSV-1 infection as well as to look at how neuropeptides regulate HSV-1 replication.
Representative Publications:
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Griffin GD, Flanagan-Cato LM. Ovarian hormone action in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus: remodelling to regulate reproduction. J Neuroendocrinology. 23:465-71. 2011.
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Griffin GD, Ferri-Kolwicz S, Reyes BAS, Van Bockstaele EJ, Flanagan-Cato LM. Ovarian hormone-induced reorganization of oxytocin-labeled dendrites and synapses lateral to the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus in female rats. J. Comp. Neurol. 518: 4531-45. 2010.
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Griffin GD, Flanagan-Cato LM. Sex differences in the dendritic arbor of hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus neurons. Physiol Behav. 97:151-6. 2009.
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Griffin GD, Flanagan-Cato LM. Estradiol and progesterone differentially regulate the dendritic arbor of neurons in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus of the female rat (Rattus norvegicus). J. Comp. Neurol. 510:631-40. 2008.
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Flanagan-Cato LM, Calizo LH, Griffin GD, Lee BJ, Whisner SY. Sexual behaviour induced the expression of activity-regulated cytoskeletal protein (ARC) and modifies neuronal morphology in the female rat ventromedial hypothalamus. J. Neuroendocrinology. 18:857-64. 2006.
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Jha SK, Jones BE, Coleman T, Steinmetz N, Law C-T, Griffin G, Hawk J, Dabbish N, Kalatsky V, Frank MG. Sleep-dependent plasticity requires cortical activity. J. Neurosci. 25: 9266-74. 2005.
Douglas Hileman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology
College of Arts & Sciences
Email: dhileman@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8828
Office Address: 205 Armstrong Hall
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Biology
HILEMAN
Research Fields:
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Physiological Plant Ecology
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Photosynthesis and Plant Water Relations
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Effects of Elevated CO2 on Plants
Collaborations:
College of Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Sciences, Tuskegee University
Dauphin Island, AL
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Douglas Hileman received his B,S, from Case Western Reserve University in 1972 and his M.S and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1975 and 1981, respectively. His research has focused on the effects of elevated CO2 on the photosynthetic rates and water relations of sweetpotato and peanut. This work is relevant to the responses of crops to global climate change, as well as to the possibility of growing crops in space as part of a long-term space mission to Mars. Dr. Hileman has taught courses in Ecology, Environmental
Biology, Botany, Plant Physiology, General Biology, as well as a course in Mathematics, Computers and
Biosciences. He serves as the coordinator of the Marine Biology concentration in the Biology Department and as the Tuskegee University representative to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab Program Committee. He has also been involved in the recruitment of minority students into careers in ecology and field biology, through the SEEDS program funded by UNCF.
Representative Publications:
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Stanciel, K., D.G. Mortley, D.R Hileman, P.A. Loretan, C.K. Bonsi, and W.A. Hill. 2000. Growth, pod, and seed yield, and gas exchange of hydroponically grown peanut in response to CO2 enrichment. HortScience 35:49-52.
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Biswsas, P.K., D.R. Hileman, P.P. Ghosh, N.C. Bhattacharya, and J.N. McCrimmon. 1996. Growth and yield responses of field-grown sweetpotato to elevated carbon dioxide. Crop Sci. 36:1234-1239.
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Hileman, D.R., G. Huluka, P.K. Kenjige, N. Sinha, N.C. Bhattacharya, P.K. Biswas, K.F. Lewin, J. Nagy and G.R. Hendrey. 1994. Canopy photosynthesis and transpiration of field-grown cotton exposed to Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) and differential irrigation. Agric. For. Meterol. 70:189-207.
Biology
MARTINEZ
Research Field:
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Autoimmune Disease
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Immune Response to Anti-Tumor Agents
Collaborations:
Department of Biology
The City College of CUNY, N.Y.,N.Y.
Integrative Biosciences
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee Institute, AL.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Marcia Martinez earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her training included molecular, cellular and developmental biology as well as in genetics and immunology. Her research centers around the contributory role of failures in central tolerance in the thymus and the development of autoimmune disease states such as systemic lupus erythematosus. Her group focuses on understanding the relationship between a specialized group of thymic epithelial cells called nurse cells and their interaction with developing T cells. She also serves as the Chair of the Tuskegee University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, the Deputy Director for Research and Training for the Tuskegee University Health Disparities Research Institute and as the Program Director for the Tuskegee University MARC U STAR Honors Fellowship program.
Marcia T. C. Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology
MARC Program Director
College of Arts and Sciences
E-mail: mmartinez@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8064
Office Address: Carver Foundation Rm. 17
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee Institute AL 36088
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