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Paul A. Insel |
Effective July 1, 2008, Paul
A. Insel is the new editor for AJP-Cell Physiology.
Insel was born in New York City and grew up in Dayton, OH and near
Washington, DC. He attended George Washington University for two years and
then the University of Michigan Medical School, from which he graduated cum
laude, receiving his MD in 1968. After completing his internship and
residency on the Harvard Medical Service at Boston City Hospital, he entered
the United States Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health
for four years, during which time he also worked as an Attending Physician
at Baltimore City Hospitals’ Endocrine Unit and as an Assistant in Medicine
at Johns Hopkins University.
In 1974, he began research training at the University of California, San
Francisco’s (UCSF) Department of Medicine/Clinical Pharmacology Division and
Cardiovascular Research Institute, serving as an Assistant Professor in
Residence at UCSF before moving in 1978 to the Division of Pharmacology at
the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He has been Professor of
Medicine and Pharmacology at UCSD since 1987 and since 1989, Director of the
Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program. Insel was the Founding
President of the National Organization of MD-PhD Training Directors. He has
also served as Chair of Step 1 of the USMLE, the national licensing
examination for US physicians. He has received a Doc. Hon. Causa from the
University of Paris and been elected as Fellow, American Association for
Advancement of Science and to the American Society for Clinical
Investigation and Association of American Physicians. He has served on
numerous editorial boards, as Associate Editor of several journals and
Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Pharmacology and co-Chief Editor of the Journal
of Clinical Investigation. Since 1996, Insel has been an Associate Editor of
the American Journal of Physiology–Cell Physiology and is now its
Editor-designate.
Insel’s research emphasizes signal transduction by G-protein-coupled
receptors and has been supported by grants from the National Science
Foundation, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, National
Institutes of Health, Ellison Medical Foundation and other agencies. He is
the author of over 200 original articles and over 100 reviews and book
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David Linden |
As of July 1, 2008, David
Linden is the new Editor for the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Linden is Professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Following undergraduate work at the University
of California, Berkeley with Joe Martinez, he performed his doctoral
research in the lab of Aryeh Routtenberg at Northwestern University,
examining the role of protein kinase C in long term synaptic potentiation
and modulation of voltage-gated ion channels. In 1990, he began postdoctoral
work with John Connor at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, where,
together with several colleagues, he developed a cell culture system to
study cerebellar long-term synaptic depression, a putative memory mechanism.
He joined the faculty of the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine in 1992, where he remains, propped up at his
rig by an impressive stack of unread documents.
Linden’s laboratory has used single cell recording and imaging techniques in
brain slices and cultures to examine the cellular and molecular basis of
information storage, often using the cerebellum as a model system. Other
interests of the lab include synaptic transmission, neuron-glia
communication, ion channel modulation, and, more recently, dynamic imaging
of neuronal, glial and vascular fine structure in the intact brain. [http://www.neuroscience.jhu.edu/DavidLindenrecentpapers.php]
Linden has a long standing interest in scientific communication, serving on
the Editorial Boards of Journal of Neurophysiology, Neuron, and The
Cerebellum. He is author of a neuroscience book for a general audience, The
Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams and
God (Belknap/Harvard, 2007). He intermittently blogs at
http://www.accidentalmind.org.
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