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Richelle Cutler Strom

Richelle Strom

Address
Center for Neuroscience
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Tennessee, Memphis
855 Monroe Avenue
Phone: (901) 448-7557 Fax: (901) 448-7193
Email: rstrom@nb.utmem.edu


Education

  • 1997 Ph.D. candidate
  • 1996 Jackson Laboratory Course: "Experimental Genetics of the Laboratory Mouse"
  • 1993–present: Graduate student, Neuroscience Ph.D. program, University of Tennessee, Memphis
  • 1992 B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

    Awards
    Received NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship, 1994-1996
    Merit of Recognition, Baltimore regional Society for Neuroscience, 1992
    Math and Science Award, Essex Community College, 1989

    Teaching
    Medical Gross Anatomy instructor/teaching assistant

    Interests
    Genetic control of neurogenesis
    Quantitative trait locus analysis of mammalian CNS

    Personal
    Born March 3, 1969, Patchogue N.Y. USA., Married, 1 child
    maiden name Cutler

    Publications

    1. Strom, R.C. and Williams, R.W. A quantitative trait locus controlling variation in neuron number in mice maps to chromosome 7 and chromosome 1. (in preparation)
    2. Strom, R.C. and Williams, R.W. A quantitative trait locus controlling variation in brain weight in mice maps to chromosome 14. (in preparation)
    3. Strom, R.C. and Williams, R.W. Roles of cell production and cell death in the generation of normal variation in neuron number. (in press, J. of Neuroscience) Preprint available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/Dev.html.
    4. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Zhou, G., Yan, Z. (1998) Genetic dissection of retinal development. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, in press.
    5. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Goldowitz, D. (1998) Natural variation in neuron number in mice is linked to a major quantitative trait locus on chr 11. The Journal of Neuroscience 18:138–146. Preprint text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/Nnc1ModsFP.html.
    6. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Rice, D.S., Goldowitz, D. (1996) Genetic and environmental control of variation in retinal ganglion cell number in mice. J. of Neuroscience, 16:7193-7205. The Journal of Neuroscience 16: 719–7205. Revised text also available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/GeneticVariation.html.
    7. Cutler, R., Joseph, J.A., Yamagami, K., Villalobos-Molina R., Roth, G.S. (1994) Alterations in muscarinic stimulated low KM GTPase activity in aging and Alzheimer's disease. Brain Research, 664:54-60.
    8. Anson, M., Cutler, R., Yamagami, K., Roth, G.S., Joseph, J.A. (1992) The effects of aging on muscarinic receptor/G-protein coupling in the rat hippocampus and striatum. Brain Research, 598(1-2): 302-306.
    9. Joseph, J.A., Mesco, E.R., Yamagami, K., Anson, M., Cutler, R. (1992) Oxidative stress and the loss of muscarinic and dopaminergic responsiveness in senescence. Treatment of Dementia: a New Generation of Progress, E.M. Meyer, J.W. Simpkins, J. Yamamoto and F.T. Crews (eds.), Plenum Press, New York, 359-376.

    Abstracts
    1. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Zhou, G., Goldowitz, D., Gilissen, E.P., Rosen, G.D. (1998) Mapping genes that control brain size and neuron number: a QTL analysis of the mouse CNS and retina. FASEB J. 12: A628.
    2. Strom, R.C. and Williams, R.W. (1997) Mapping genes that control variation in brain weight using F2 intercross progeny. Neuroscience Abstracts 23:864.
    3. Williams, R.W., Goldowitz, D., Strom, R.C. (1997). Brain weight in relation to body weight, age and sex: A multiple regression analysis. Neuroscience Abstracts 23:863.
    4. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Zhou, G., Goldowitz, D., Gilissen, E.P. (1997) A QTL analysis of the size and cell composition of the mouse brain. 11th International Mouse Genome Conference.
    5. Strom, R.C., Goldowitz, D., Williams, R.W. (1996) Mapping quantitative trait loci that control retinal ganglion cell number using F2 intercross progeny. Neuroscience Abstracts 22:518.
    6. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Goldowitz, D. (1996) Mapping quantitative trait loci that control normal variation in brain weight in the mouse. Neuroscience Abstracts 22:519.
    7. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Goldowitz, D. (1996) QTLs controlling normal variation in neuron number and brain weight. 10th International Mouse Genome conference.
    8. Strom, R.C., Williams, R.W., Goldowitz, D. (1995) Developmental mechanisms responsible for strain differences in the retinal ganglion cell population. Neuroscience Abstracts 21:1523.
    9. Williams, R.W., Strom, R.C., Goldowitz, D. (1995) RCN1: A locus on mouse chromosome 11 that controls natural variation in neuron number. Neuroscience Abstracts 21:780.
    10. Cutler, R., Joseph, J.A., Yamagami, K., Villalobos-Molina, R., Roth, G.S. (1992) Alterations in muscarinic stimulated low KM GTPase activity in aging and Alzheimer's disease: implications for altered signal transduction. Neuroscience Abstracts 18.
    11. Clissold, D.B., Jones, B.E., Cutler , R., Pontecorvo, M.J. (1990) Photochemically-induced ischemia of the frontal cortex results in a transient memory impairment in rats. Neuroscience Abstracts 16.
    12. Joseph, J.A., Anson, M., Cutler, R., Yamagami, K., Roth, G.S. (1990) Age-related deficits in muscarinic agonist responsiveness may occur at the level of the receptor-G-protein complex in signal transduction. Neuroscience Abstracts 16.
    13. Bresnahan, E.L., Muth, N., Abramson, A., Cutler, R., Spangler, E.L., Ingram, D.K. (1989) Age-related comparisons in detour maze performance using a learning set paradigm with rats. Neuroscience Abstracts 15.



    Since 11 August 98