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John Dowd, Ph.D.

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216 S. Marion
Oak Park, IL 60302

PROFESSIONAL STATUS

Research Associate
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

EDUCATION

1970-1974 St. Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey
B.A. in Psychology, 1974

1974-1978 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Graduate Student in Physiological Psychology

1986-1992 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ph.D. in Neurobiology, 1992

1992-1994 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Research Associate in Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

PUBLICATIONS

Dowd, JP and Matsumura, P (1997) The use of flash photolysis for a high- resolution temporal and spatial analysis of bacterial chemotactic behavior: CheZ is not always necessary for chemotaxis. Molec. Microbiol., ,25, 295-302.

Ye, S, Dowd, JP, and Comer, CM (1995) A motion tracking system for simultaneous recording of rapid locomotion and neural activity from an insect. J. Neurosci. Meth., 60, 199, 210.

Comer, CM and Dowd, JP (1992) Multisensory processing for movement: Antennal and cercal mediation of escape turning in the cockroach. Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrates: Neurethology and Robotics Beer, R, Ritzmann, R, and McKenna, T (eds). Academic Press.

Comer, CM, Dowd, JP, and Stubblefield, GT (1988) Escape responses following elimination of the giant interneuron pathway in the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Brain Res. 445, 370-375.

Dowd, JP and Comer, CM (1988) The neural basis of orienting behavior: A computational approach to the escape turn of the cockroach. Biol. Cybern. 60, 37-48.

Smith, SR, Dowd, JP, Wheeler, BC, and Comer, CM (1988) Analysis of multi-unit data from a neural ensemble controlling directed movement. IEEE Conf. Engr. Med. Biol. 10, 1171-1172.

Comer, CM and Dowd, JP (1987) Escape turning behavior of the cockroach. Changes in directionality induced by unilateral lesions of the abdominal nervous system. J. Comp. Physiol. 160, 571-583.


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