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Katrina M. MacLeod, Ph.D.

Department of Biology

University of Maryland, College Park

College Park, MD 20742

(301) 405-7174 (office)

(301) 314-9358 (fax)

macleod@glue.umd.edu

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~macleod

Education

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA: PhD in Neurobiology,1999

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: B.A. in Biology, 1992

Research positions experience

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2007-present
Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2001-2007

Research Associate, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1998-2001

Honors and Awards

NIH/NIDCD  R03 DC007972     “Short-term synaptic plasticity in the auditory brainstem”,
                 12/05-11/08,  $222,750  MacLeod, PI
NIH/NINDS National Research Service Award, Univ of Maryland, College Park, 2001-2003

NIH/NINDS National Research Service Award, Brandeis University, 1999-2001

NIH Neuroscience Predoctoral Training Grant, Caltech, 1992-1997

Robert G. Merrick, Jr. Achievement Award, Mind-Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 1992

Society Associations

Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Neuroethology, Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Teaching experience

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, Neural Systems and Behavior, 2001-2006

California Institute of Technology, laboratory and lecture neuroscience courses, 1992-1998

Selected publications  

MacLeod, K.M., Horiuchi, T.K., and Carr, C.E. (2007)  A role for short-term synaptic plasticity in the parallel processing of timing and intensity information in the auditory brainstem.  J Neurophysiology 97: 2863-2874

MacLeod, K.M. and Carr, C.E. (2007) Beyond timing in the auditory: intensity coding in the avian cochlear nucleus angularis.  Prog. Brain Res.  In press.

MacLeod, K.M., Soares, D, Simon, JZ and Carr, CE. (2006) Interaural timing difference circuits in the auditory brainstem of the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae).  J. Comp Neurol.  495: 185-201.

MacLeod, K.M. and Carr, C.E. (2005) Synaptic properties in the cochlear nucleus angularis of the chick.  J Neurophysiology, 93:2520-2529 doi:10.1152/jn.00898.2004.

MacLeod, K.M. and Carr, C.E. (2005) Synaptic dynamics and intensity coding in the cochlear nucleus. In: Auditory signal processing: physiology, psychoacoustics, and models, pp501-509, Pressnitzer, D., de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S., and Collet, L (eds.) New York, Springer

Watt, A.J., van Rossum, M.C.W., MacLeod, K.M., Nelson, S.B., and Turrigiano,G.G. (2000) Activity co-regulates quantal AMPA and NMDA currents at neocortical synapses. Neuron 26:659-670.

MacLeod, K., Bäcker, A., and Laurent, G. (1998) Who reads temporal information contained across synchronized and oscillatory spike trains? Nature 395:693-698.

MacLeod, K., and Laurent, G. (1996) Distinct mechanisms for synchronization and temporal patterning of odor-encoding cell assemblies. Science 274:976-979.

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