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Dr. Karen D. Parfitt
Curriculum Vita
Contact Information:
- Mailing address:
R. C. Seaver Biology Building, Room 211
175 W Sixth Street
Pomona College
Claremont, CA 91711 - Phone: 909-621-8604
- E-mail: karen.parfitt@pomona.edu
- Website: http://pages.pomona.edu/~kdp04747/
Current Position:
- Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Pomona College
- Thesis advisor for students in Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Biology
Education:
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
B.S., Biological Sciences
Postdoctoral positions:
- with Daniel V. Madison, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University (hippocampal synaptic plasticity)
- with Thomas L. Schwarz, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University (molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release)
Courses taught:
- Cellular Neurobiology with lab
- Neuroscience Senior Seminar/Thesis
- Introductory Cell and Molecular Biology with lab
- Introductory Neuroscience
Society Memberships:
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Regular Member
- American Association for University Women, Regular Member
- Council on Undergraduate Research, Regular Member
- Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN), President ’00-’01; Past President, ’02-’04. Get more information about FUN.
- Sigma Xi, Regular Member
- Society for Neuroscience, Regular Member
Peer Review Activities:
- Manuscript reviews for Brain Research, J. Neuroscience, J. Neurobiology
- Grant reviews for:
- INSERM
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Research Service
- Textbook reviews for:
- Harvard University Press (Text title: Molecular Neurobiology, Gordon Fain; reviewed in 1995 and 1997)
- Sinauer Press (Text Title: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior; reviewed 2003)
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- NSF reviews of Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program (CCLI) proposals, Panelist 1999; Panel Leader 2003
Publications:
- Publications are listed on the “Publications page” of the Research section