[Neuropostdocs] Fwd: Re: Post-doc/Research Associate Positon

[Joan Cornell]

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>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:30:51 -0600
>To: "A. Loewy" <loewya@pcg.wustl.edu>
>From: "Martha U. Gillette" <mgillett@life.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Post-doc/Research Associate Positon
>Cc: Joan Cornell <jcornell@life.uiuc.edu>,
>    audra Weinstein <a-gandy1@staff.uiuc.edu>,
>    Denice Wells <d-wells2@life.uiuc.edu>
>
>Arthur,
>    How good to hear from you.  The work you summarize below is really 
> expanding our understanding of the central integrative role of the SCN in 
> brain function...how interesting!
>   I have copied this response to the overseers of the graduate programs 
> in Neuroscience, Cell & Structural Biology and Molecular & Integrative 
> Physiology and ask them to please forward it to those faculty and 
> graduate student communities at the University of 
> Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.  I hope you are successful in attracting one 
> of our students.
>Sincerely,
>Martha
>
>At 12:16 PM 12/11/01 -0600, you wrote:
>>Dear Martha,
>>
>>I am writing to see if, by chance, you may know of someone who is
>>interested in the SCN and may also be looking for a post-doc/research
>>associate position?
>>
>>We have used viral tracers to examine the neuroanatomical organization of
>>the SCN:
>>
>>1. Nature Neurosci 2: 1051-3 (1999).  This paper suggests that the SCN is
>>the main circadian clock controlling the autonomic nervous system.
>>
>>2. Thalamus & Related Systems 1: 197-202 (2001). This study details the
>>efferent projections of the SCN to the thalamus, and is important for
>>making predictions about which cortical areas are likely to influenced by
>>the SCN.
>>
>>3. Neuroscience (in press).  This investigation provides a complete
>>description of CNS sites which regulate the SCN.  Viral injections in the
>>SCN resulted in transneuronal labeling in several key interoceptive
>>systems, and as a result we hypothesized that one of the main functions of
>>the SCN is related the central regulation of glucose metabolism.
>>
>>The approach: use of the viral tracing method combined with receptor
>>localization.
>>
>>If you know of someone who might be interested, please have them contact
>>me. Of course, if you have other collaborators who may have someone in
>>their lab, please let them know about this position.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Arthur
>>
>>
>>Arthur D. Loewy, Ph.D.
>>Dept. Anatomy & Neurobiology-Box 8108
>>Washington University School of Medicine
>>660 S Euclid Ave
>>St. Louis, MO 63110-1093 USA
>>
>>Email: loewya@pcg.wustl.edu
>>Tel: 314-362-3930
>>Fax: 314-362-3446

Joan Cornell
Neurosciences Program
University of Illinois
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