Neuroscience Faculty
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Dr. Andrew Mickley is a Professor in the neuroscience and psychology programs at Baldwin-Wallace College. He received his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and his M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Physiological Psychology from the University of Virginia. He came to B-W in 1993 after a 21-year career in the United States Air Force. Dr. Mickley retired from the Air Force with the rank of Lt. Colonel. While working in the Department of Defense, Dr. Mickley did extensive research in the brain sciences. He has published over 50 journal articles and books describing his studies on learning and memory, brain plasticity, recovery from brain damage, neurotoxicology, neuropharmacology, obesity and neural transplantation. Dr. Mickley's current research is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Society and the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and a Charter member of the Society for Neuroscience. At B-W, he directs the Faculty-Student Collaborative Scholarship program, and is Chair of the Neuroscience Studies Committee. Dr. Mickley continues to be an active scientist as he directs the activities of students working in the Neuroscience Laboratory located in the Life and Earth Sciences Building. Dr. Mickley teaches Principles of Psychology, Physiological Psychology and several courses in the Neuroscience curriculum. Dr. MIckley is also the executive director of the Neuroscience honor society known as Nu Rho Psi. This organization gives students who excel in Neuroscience material a chance to join an organization that is dedicated to helping students grow intellectually, become part of a fast growing network of people as dedicated to the study of Neuroscience as themselves and gives awards and recognition to those who have a strong desire to further their education in the field of Neuroscience. For further information, the website with the most up-to-date information on this society is http://www.nurhopsi.org/
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Dr. Jacqueline Morris earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Her teaching responsibilities at Baldwin-Wallace College include Developmental Biology, Histology, Neurosciences and non-majors Biology. During graduate school her research focus was to understand the cellular signaling mechanisms that control ovulation in the rat. For her post-doctoral work Dr. Morris traveled to the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA to investigate the role of tyrosine kinase receptors on peripheral nervous system development. She continued her post-doctoral work at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to understand glia cell development by utilizing the zebrafish, a common aquarium fish, as a model. Her current research focus is to understand the molecular mechanisms that control myelination and remyelination in the central nervous system of zebrafish. Her research is currently supported by a research grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. |
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Dr. Michael Bumbulis received his B.S. from the Ohio State University. After working as a respiratory therapist for a few years at Columbus Children's Hospital, he returned to OSU to earn an M.S. in Zoology, where he biochemically characterized an enzyme found in tapeworms. He then began to work on a Ph.D. in genetics at Case Western Reserve University. During this time, Dr. Bumbulis secured a part-time position at Baldwin-Wallace College teaching genetics. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. from CWRU and began teaching full-time at Baldwin-Wallace. He currently teaches courses in genetics, neuroscience, molecular biology, cell biology, anatomy and physiology, and human biology. He is also interested in researching the interaction between transcription factors and DNA. |
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Dr. Brian Thomas earned a B.S. from Ball State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Texas Christian University. His primary research program examines how fears are acquired and subsequently eliminated in a rodent model of human fear conditioning. One of the most challenging questions that his team is addressing is why a fear or phobia that has been treated, more often than not, will return. His team has discovered a number of novel techniques for treating fear that appear to resist relapse and he is hopeful that this research will lead to long-lasting and better-understood treatments for the anxiety disorders. Dr. Thomas teaches courses in learning, applications of psychology, principles of psychology, behavior modification, history and systems of psychology, statistics, and evolutionary psychology. He is also the Chair of the Department of Psychology and Faculty Advisor to Psi Chi. |
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Diana Barko, Ph.D. Dr. Barko teaches in the Chemistry department. She is an enzymologist and is therefore interested in how enzymes function and for what purpose. Enzymes are proteins that regulate and serve as catalysts for chemical reactions. Generally the starting point in these types of projects is to isolate and purify the enzyme aswell as identifying a substrate so that activity assays can be developed forassessing the system. Then the individual steps along the reaction pathway can beelucidated using kinetic or other techniques. There are many enzymes for which wehave little understanding of their specific function, their impact on the cell, andsubsequent effect on the organism as a whole. Dr. Barko's graduate and post doctoral research in enzymology focused oninvestigating two processes intrinsic to cellular survival: protein degradation and nucleic acid metabolism. Her long term research interests include furthering the investigation of these processes in collaboration with Dr. Irene Lee and Dr. Anthony Berdis at Case Western Reserve University as well as the broader goal of affecting a cell by manipulating enzymatic function. The mechanism of how the ATP-dependent Lon protease contributes to the maintenance of mitochondrial function and cell survival |
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