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I plan to update this page with information from Dr. Zahniser's obituary as well as her most important work. Based on my research, here are sources that I plan to use for this project.
Gulley, Joshua M; Hoover, Brian R; Larson, Gaynor A; Zahniser, Nancy R (25 June 2003). "Individual Differences in Cocaine-induced Locomotor Activity in Rats: Behavioral Characteristics, Cocaine Pharmacokinetics, and the Dopamine Transporter". Neuropsychopharmacology.
doi:
10.1038/sj.npp.1300279.
Heard, Kennon; Palmer, Robert; Zahniser, Nancy R. (26 September 2008). "Mechanisms of Acute Cocaine Toxicity". The Open Pharmacology Journal. 2 (1): 70–78.
doi:
10.2174/1874143600802010070.
Thank you for your feedback! I will be sure to keep original research more concise and descriptive rather than explaining in full depth all of her work. I have been researching her most important work (as noted in her obituary) and plan to update the page with more information from her obituary and briefly discuss her work. My plan for this update is outlined as follows:
General:
Name, profession, biggest contributions to science
Youth/education, transition into career
Dates of significant events in career
Best-known work (one-sentence summary) and organizations she was a part of
Early life and education:
Birthplace/date, location, family
High school, college, PhD
Thesis (brain acetylcholine study – already inputted)
First job and marriage
Post-doc
University of Colorado:
Hired by UCHSC Dept of Pharmacology, first as instructor
Then became tenure track asst professor in 1981
Became prof w/ full tenure in 1991
Also worked in neuroscience program, med student training program at U CO SOM
Vice-chair and acting chair of Dept of Pharmacology 2003-2006
CUSOM associate dean for research education from 2007-2012
Resource for persons applying for training grants, fellowships and career awards
Directed:
NIAAA-supported postdoc training grant
NIGMS-funded predoctoral pharmacology training grant
ASPET-supported Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship program for underrepresented students
Helped grad students and postdoc trainees advance careers in her lab
Mentored research projects of 9 thesis students
Mentored projects of 22 postdoc fellows
Together published over 150 papers, reviews, book chapters
Many students now run independent neuroscience labs
Involvement in Societies, Organizations and National Meetings:
Funded by NIH since 1981
Regular member of NIDA National Advisory Council
Regular member of NIDA Intramural Research Program Board of Scientific Counselors
Ad hoc member of other NSF (National Science Foundation) and NIH review panels
EDITORIAL BOARDS:
Pharmacological Communications
CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics
Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Awards from NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
RCDA award
MERIT award
Senior Scientist award
Society for Neurosciences, 1979-death
1984: Award in Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology (PhRMA Foundation)
ASPET (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics), 1982-death
In neuropharmacology division
Secretary-Treasurer, 2001-2002
Fellow in Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program for women, 2005-2006
2014: Award in Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology (PhRMA Foundation)
Honored for achievements in field of DA regulation in drug addiction
NATIONAL MEETINGS
Organized and chaired Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines
Distinguished lecturer
Univ of CO
Univ of Pitt (2009: Distinguished Alumna Award from UPitt School of Pharm)
Loyola Univ
UT Health Science Center, San Antonio
2013: “Zahniser Addiction Symposium” held in her honor at Univ of FL Center for Addiction Research and Education
Scientific advisory boards
UT Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
Oregon Health Sciences University Methamphetamine Abuse Research Center
Univ of Kentucky Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation
Research Discoveries:
Dopamine-related studies
FIRST TO DEMONSTRATE: Guanine nucleotides affect DA receptor binding
Alteration of DA receptors/transporters by repeated cocaine exposure
Well, that's quite a program! I do hope that you have
reliable sources for all of this. I did some searching when I wrote this article and couldn't find much, scientists rarely are the subject of coverage in newspapers and magazines (unlike really important people such as football players! :-) --
Randykitty (
talk)
09:46, 2 November 2016 (UTC)reply
This article is now mainly based on obituaries and Zahniser's own publications. Obituaries are rarely sources for unbiased information, although they can be used to source non-controversial information like where a person worked and such). Deducting what her research was about and what was important from a personal investigation of her publications comes very close (probably too close) to
original research and
synthesis... I appreciate the effort you are putting into this, but this is not necessarily an improvement. --
Randykitty (
talk)
10:57, 10 December 2016 (UTC)reply
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on the course page. Student editor(s):
Yerfani.
I plan to update this page with information from Dr. Zahniser's obituary as well as her most important work. Based on my research, here are sources that I plan to use for this project.
Gulley, Joshua M; Hoover, Brian R; Larson, Gaynor A; Zahniser, Nancy R (25 June 2003). "Individual Differences in Cocaine-induced Locomotor Activity in Rats: Behavioral Characteristics, Cocaine Pharmacokinetics, and the Dopamine Transporter". Neuropsychopharmacology.
doi:
10.1038/sj.npp.1300279.
Heard, Kennon; Palmer, Robert; Zahniser, Nancy R. (26 September 2008). "Mechanisms of Acute Cocaine Toxicity". The Open Pharmacology Journal. 2 (1): 70–78.
doi:
10.2174/1874143600802010070.
Thank you for your feedback! I will be sure to keep original research more concise and descriptive rather than explaining in full depth all of her work. I have been researching her most important work (as noted in her obituary) and plan to update the page with more information from her obituary and briefly discuss her work. My plan for this update is outlined as follows:
General:
Name, profession, biggest contributions to science
Youth/education, transition into career
Dates of significant events in career
Best-known work (one-sentence summary) and organizations she was a part of
Early life and education:
Birthplace/date, location, family
High school, college, PhD
Thesis (brain acetylcholine study – already inputted)
First job and marriage
Post-doc
University of Colorado:
Hired by UCHSC Dept of Pharmacology, first as instructor
Then became tenure track asst professor in 1981
Became prof w/ full tenure in 1991
Also worked in neuroscience program, med student training program at U CO SOM
Vice-chair and acting chair of Dept of Pharmacology 2003-2006
CUSOM associate dean for research education from 2007-2012
Resource for persons applying for training grants, fellowships and career awards
Directed:
NIAAA-supported postdoc training grant
NIGMS-funded predoctoral pharmacology training grant
ASPET-supported Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship program for underrepresented students
Helped grad students and postdoc trainees advance careers in her lab
Mentored research projects of 9 thesis students
Mentored projects of 22 postdoc fellows
Together published over 150 papers, reviews, book chapters
Many students now run independent neuroscience labs
Involvement in Societies, Organizations and National Meetings:
Funded by NIH since 1981
Regular member of NIDA National Advisory Council
Regular member of NIDA Intramural Research Program Board of Scientific Counselors
Ad hoc member of other NSF (National Science Foundation) and NIH review panels
EDITORIAL BOARDS:
Pharmacological Communications
CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics
Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Awards from NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
RCDA award
MERIT award
Senior Scientist award
Society for Neurosciences, 1979-death
1984: Award in Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology (PhRMA Foundation)
ASPET (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics), 1982-death
In neuropharmacology division
Secretary-Treasurer, 2001-2002
Fellow in Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program for women, 2005-2006
2014: Award in Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology (PhRMA Foundation)
Honored for achievements in field of DA regulation in drug addiction
NATIONAL MEETINGS
Organized and chaired Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines
Distinguished lecturer
Univ of CO
Univ of Pitt (2009: Distinguished Alumna Award from UPitt School of Pharm)
Loyola Univ
UT Health Science Center, San Antonio
2013: “Zahniser Addiction Symposium” held in her honor at Univ of FL Center for Addiction Research and Education
Scientific advisory boards
UT Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
Oregon Health Sciences University Methamphetamine Abuse Research Center
Univ of Kentucky Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation
Research Discoveries:
Dopamine-related studies
FIRST TO DEMONSTRATE: Guanine nucleotides affect DA receptor binding
Alteration of DA receptors/transporters by repeated cocaine exposure
Well, that's quite a program! I do hope that you have
reliable sources for all of this. I did some searching when I wrote this article and couldn't find much, scientists rarely are the subject of coverage in newspapers and magazines (unlike really important people such as football players! :-) --
Randykitty (
talk)
09:46, 2 November 2016 (UTC)reply
This article is now mainly based on obituaries and Zahniser's own publications. Obituaries are rarely sources for unbiased information, although they can be used to source non-controversial information like where a person worked and such). Deducting what her research was about and what was important from a personal investigation of her publications comes very close (probably too close) to
original research and
synthesis... I appreciate the effort you are putting into this, but this is not necessarily an improvement. --
Randykitty (
talk)
10:57, 10 December 2016 (UTC)reply