Degrees

Ph.D. (1983) Physiology, University of California, Davis

B.A. (1975) Psychobiology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Interests

Mammalian neurogenetics

Complex trait analysis and functional genomics

Visual system development; genetics of eye growth

Molecular control of cell proliferation and cell death

Professional Experience

2001–present: William and Dorothy Dunavant Chair of Excellence in Developmental Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

1997–present: Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology (primary appointment)

2001–present: Professor, Department of Pediatrics 9joint appointment), University of Tennessee Health Science Center

2000–present: Co-director, Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

1993–1997: Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Center for Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

1989–present: Member, Center for Neuroscience, University of Tennessee, School of Graduate Health Sciences

1989–1992: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Health Sciences Center, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

1986–1989: Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Neuroanatomy

1985–1986: Associate Research Scientist, Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Neuroanatomy

1984–1989: Instructor, Neuroanatomy laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Neuroanatomy

1983–1985: Postdoctoral fellow, Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Neuroanatomy (Pasko Rakic, mentor)

1982–1983: Assistant Research Physiologist, University of California, Davis

1982 Instructor: University of California, Davis

1979–1982: National Institutes of Health Trainee, University of California, Davis (Leo M. Chalupa, thesis advisor)

1978–1981: Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate, Animal Physiology and Psychology, University of California, Davis

Professional Society Memberships

Complex Trait Consortium

Society for Neuroscience

American Society of Human Genetics

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Society for the Study of Evolutionary Biology

International Mammalian Genome Society

Society for Developmental Biology

American Association of Anatomist

American Association for the Advancement of Science

International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS)

Behavioral Genetics Association

Grants and Fellowships

2001–present: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health/NIAAA. "INIA: Complex Triat Analysis of Alcohol and Stress Interactions" R01 AA13499. TDC $1.68 M (01.01.02–12.30.06)

2001–present: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health/NIAAA. "INIA: Genotyping Core" R01 AA13513. TDC $600,000 (01.01.02–12.31.06)

1999

1999–present: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health. "Biometric and Functional Studies of the Eye and Retina" R01 EY13070. TDC, $445,000 (12.1.99–11.30.02)

2000–present: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health and NSF. "Informatics Center for Mouse Neurogenetics" 1P20MH/DA62009-01 (Office on Neuroinformatics). TDC ~$5,400,000 (8.1.00–7.31.05)

1996–present: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health. "Genetic Control of Neuron Populations" R01 NS35485. TDC ~$733,000 (07.1.96–06.30.01)

2000–present: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health. "Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Eye Growth" R01 EY12991. TDC ~$800,000 (03.01.00–02.28.04)

2000–present: Coinvestigator, National Institutes of Health. "Vision Center Core" NEI 00000-01. TDC ~$1,400,000 (06.01.00–05.28.05; D. Johnson, PI)

2000–2001: Principal Investigator, Mammalian Genotyping Service Award. "An Advanced Intercross for Mapping Multigenic Morphometric Trait in Mice: A Community QTL Mapping Resource." 330,000 genotypes

2000–present: Coinvestigator, National Institutes of Health. "Histological Phenotyping of the Mouse Brain" R01 AG18245-01, TDC $450,000 (4.1.00–3.31.03; D. Goldowitz, PI)

2000–present: Coinvestigator, Eye Domain, National Institutes of Health. "Targeted Mutagenesis of the Mouse Genome and Neural Phenotypes" U01-MH61971, TDC, $2,664,000/year (7.1.00–6.30.05; D. Goldowitz, PI)

2000: Principal Investigator, NIHLB Mammalian Genotyping Service. "An Advanced Intercross for Mapping Multigenic Morphometric Traits in Mice: A Community QTL Mapping Resource." This grant funded ~190,000 genotypes.

1987–2000: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health. "Growth of Optic Nerve Fibers" R01 EY06627. TDC $437,511 (12.1.95–06.30.00)

1991–1994: Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health. "Development and Clonal Structure of the Mammalian Retina." R01 EY 08868–03. TDC $260,518 (4.1.92–3.31.96)

1992–1996: Coinvestigator, National Institutes of Health. "Genetic Basis of Retinal Development." R01-EY09586. TDC $505,991 (4.1.92–3.31.96; D. Goldowitz, PI)

1983–1985: Recipient, National Research Service Award, National Eye Institute

1982–1983: Coinvestigator, National Institutes of Health. "The Early Development of the Retinogeniculate System: An Assessment of the Effects of Fetal Unilateral Enucleation on the Physiology and Morphology of the Retina and the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus." R01-EY03991 (L. M. Chalupa, PI)

Awards

Loren D. Carlson Prize in Physiology, 1982–83

Fellow Award, Winter Conference on Brain Research, 1987

Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Graduate Health Sciences, UT Memphis, 1995

Advisory Professor, Fudan University, Department of Histology and Embryology, Shanghai, PRC (2000-2002)

Patents and Inventions

Tissue Analyzer: Inventor Robert W. Williams, Pasko Rakic, U.S. Patent 4,932,044; filed November 4, 1988; issued June 5, 1990. see http://www.uspto.gov

Method for ultra-high resolution mapping of genes and determination of genetic networks among genes underlying phenotypic traits: Inventors David W. Threadgill (Chapel Hill NC) and Robert W. Williams (Memphis TN), U.S. Patent Application (Preliminary) filed December 1, 2000.

Symposia, Conferences, Committees

2002: Organizer, Society for Neuroscience Short Course on Bioinformatics, Nov 2, 2002.

2002: Instructor, 8th International Summer School on Behavioral Neurogenetics, Aug 5–9, 2002.

2002: Chair, Complex Trait Consortium Conference: Memphis, Tennessee, May 15–17.

2000–present: Scientific Oversight Committee, Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium

2001 Organizing committee: 4th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society, San Diego CA, Nov. 8–9, 2001

2000 Invited speaker: QTL Endgame: Strategies for Identifying Genes Influencing Alcohol-Related Behavior, NIAAA, Nov. 30–Dec 1 2000

2000 Invited participant: Cold Spring Harbor, Mouse Behavioral Phenotyping Conference, August 27–29, 2000.

2000 Invited participant: Setting Priorities for Phenotyping the Mouse Nervous System and Behavior, June 20–21, 2000. An NIMH-sponsored meeting at the Airlie Conference Center VA.

1999: Organizer, Symposium on QTL analysis of brain and behavior. Behavior Genetics Association, Vancouver, July 1999

1999: Organizer and sponsor, Symposium on Molecular Biology of the Visual System. . March 1999, UT Memphis

1999: Participant, Gordon Research Conference in Quantitative Genetics. Ventura CA

1998: Course Instructor, Short course in quantitative neuroanatomy. Society for Neuroscience

1998: Chairman, American Association of Anatomists: Experimental Biology 98: Experimental Biology: Symposium on Quantitative Neurobiology and the Human Brain Project

1996–present: Chairman, Mouse Chromosome 7 Committee: International Mammalian Genome Society

1997: Chairman American Association of Anatomists: Experimental Biology 97: Mini-symposium on Quantitative Neurobiology.

1994–96: Co-chair, Mouse Chromosome 7 Committee: International Mammalian Genome Society (1994–1996)

1989: Organizer, Winter Brain Conference Workshop, "Different Strategies of Brain Development," Co-organized with Karl Herrup. Jan. 1989

1996: Organizer, Symposium on Cortical Development, Center for Neuroscience, University of Tennessee, June 1996.

1991: Participant, The Jackson Laboratory "Short Course in Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics " Aug. 1991.

1985: Participant, Gordon Research Conference, "Central Nervous System," Tilton School, New Hampshire, June 1985

1983: Participant, The Neuroscience Institute, "Molecular Bases of Neuronal Development," The Salk Institute, October 1983

1981: Participant, NATO Advanced Studies Institute, "Formation of Neuronal Connections," Varenna, Italy, May 1981

Visiting Scientist

1997: Harvard University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Glenn Rosen

1996: The California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Allman

1993: The Jackson Laboratory, Dr. Muriel Davisson

Invited Lectures (incomplete list)

New England College of Optometry, Apr 25, 2002

University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Grand Rounds in Pediatrics, Mar 13, 2002

Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, Mar 15, 2002

New Mouse Behavioral Phenotyping Assays: Half Moon Bay CA, Dec 2001

Human Brain Project Conference, Natcher Conference Center, NIH, May 2001

Society of Developmental Biology, Southeast Regional Meeting, Montreat NC, May 2001

Cornell University, Department of Psychology and Dept of Neuroscience, Apr 2001

Stanford University, Apr 12, 2001

UAB, Department of Medicine, Mar 21, 2001

UCLA, Neuroscience Grand Rounds, Feb 7, 2001.

Beijing University, School of Medicine, Nov 18, 2000.

Nantong Collge of Medicine, Nov 15, 2000.

Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, Nov 13, 2000.

Neuroinformatics Satellite Symposium, Nov 4, 2000. The Mouse Brain Library. Presentation by G. D. Rosen

Cold Spring Harbor, Aug 28, 2000.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Neuroscience Research Institute, May 26, 2000.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, May 8, 2000

Drexel University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nov 2, 1999

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Genetics, Oct 1999

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Vision Research Center, May 1999

University of California, Santa Barbara, Neuroscience Institute, Feb. 1999

Case Western Reserve University, Depts of Ophthalmology and Genetics, Nov. 1998

Yale University, Section of Neurobiology, New Haven CT, July 1998

University of Southern California, Department of Cell & Neuro, June 1998

University of California, San Diego, Department of Neuroscience, June 1998

Mount Sinai Medical School, Department of Neuroscience, New York, NY, June 1997

Harvard University, Beth Israel Deaconess, Department of Neurology, June 1997

Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. Oct. 1996

Conference on Brain Evolution, Ithaca, NY, June 1995

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Nov. 1995

25th Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Memphis, Oct. 24, 1993

National Cancer Institute (hosted by Steve O'Brien) Frederick, MD, June 9, 1994

The Jackson Lab Bioinformatics Group, Bar Harbor Maine, July 1993

University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, Jan. 1989

Winter Conference for Brain Research, Snowbird, Utah, Jan. 1989

University of Texas, Houston, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Dec 1988

SUNY, Stony Brook, Department of Neurobiology, Oct 1988

Winter Conference for Brain Research, Vail, Colorado, Jan. 1987

Conference on the Development of the Vertebrate Retina, Ithaca, N.Y., June 1987

New York University, Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Oct 1986

University of Rochester, Center for Visual Sciences, Rochester N.Y., Apr 1986

Stanford University, Department of Neurobiology, June 1985

University of California, Davis, Department of Psychology, June 1985

SUNY, Albany, N.Y., Department of Biological Sciences, Jan 1984

Reviewer for

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Journal of Neuroscience, Genomics, Journal of Heredity, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Behavioral Brain Sciences, Brain Behavior and Evolution, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Cerebral Cortex, Developmental Biology, Visual Neuroscience, Anatomy and Embryology, Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Journal of Neurochemistry, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Eye Research

Editorial Boards

2002–present: Neuroinformatics, board member

2002–present: Gene Expression Patterns, board member

2001–present: BioMed Central Neuroscience, core reviewer board member

1995–present: Molecular Vision, board member

1993–present: European Journal of Anatomy

2001: Behavior Genetics

Grant Proposal Reviews

2002 NIH Mammalian Genetics Study Section ad hoc (June 2002)

2002 Mammalian Genotyping Service, ad hoc (Apr 2002)

2002 NIH Special Review (Feb 8, 2002)

2001 NIH Innovations in Biomedical Science Tech ZRG1 SSS-7 21 B (Nov 6, 2001)

2001 NIH BISTI Panel Reviewer ZRG1 SSS-E01 (July and Nov 2001)

2001 NIEHS Review Panel (Genotyping) ES-01-05 (June 29, 2001)

2001 NIH CSR Reviewer ZRG1FCN-3 01 (June 19, 2001)

2001 NIH Special Emphasis Panel NEI and CSR (July 2, 2001)

2001 Medical Research Council (UK) Strategic Grants Reviewer

2000 Fonds voor Weterschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (Belgian NIH)

2000 NIMH Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer (Gene Array RFA MH-00-002, 7/00)

2000 University of Tennessee Reviewer (President's Research Initiative)

2000 NIH VIS-B Study Section Ad Hoc Member (6/00)

1999 NIH VIS-C2 Study Section, Ad Hoc member

1999 NIMH Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer

1999 NIMH Conte Center Grant Reviewer

1998 Department of Veterans Affairs: Merit Review Consultant

1995 NIH VIS-B Study Section, Ad Hoc member

Teaching

2001 – present Course codirector: Seminars in Neuroscience (NS821): Graduate level. 20 contact hours, 10 to 15 students/year

1992 – 2001 Course director: Morphological Neuroscience (NS822): Graduate level, ~60 contact hours, 3 to 6 students/year.

2000 – present Course instructor: Medical Neuroanatomy: First year M1 class, ~40 contact hours, 150 students/year.

1994 – 1996 Course director: Seminars in Neuroscience (NS821): Graduate level. 40 contact hours, 10 to 15 students/year

1995 SGAEC Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Tennessee (for NS822)

1997–1999: Lecturer in Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience and in Techniques in Neuroscience

1995 Short Course in Genetic Testing: Memphis city schools service training for science high school teachers (Summer 1995). 15 high school science teachers.

1998 Short Course in Quantitative Neuroanatomy. Society for Neuroscience Education Committee. Lecture in Quantitative Genetic Analysis of the CNS. 525 students.

1994–1996 Human and Mouse Genetics: City Labs Outrearch Program for High School Science Teachers. 10 to 12 high school science teachers

1990–1996 Medical Embryology, University of Tennessee, 8 lectures on development of cardiovascular, urogenital, and gastointestinal systems. 8 lecture hours circa 120 first year medical students.

1983–1989 Neuroscience-Neuroanatomy laboratory instructor, Yale University. Team taught first year medical students, roughly 20 contact hours, 25 students per lab.

1982 Course Director: Sensory Psychology, University of California, Davis. 25 junior and senior psychology majors.

Personal

Administrative

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Dennis Rice, Ph.D., 1996. University of Tennessee, 1991&1996. Dr. Rice is currently a senior scientists in the Neurology Department at Lexicon Genetics Inc. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Tom Curran, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital from 1996 to 2001.

Richelle C. Strom, Ph.D. University of Tennessee, 1993–1999. Dr Strom is currently a postdoctoral student with Prof. Rubin Adler, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University.

Dale Hogan, Ph.D.: Postdoctoral fellow, 1992–1996. Dr. Hogan is currently a research associate with Prof Mark R. Opp, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Guomin Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.: Research fellow, Mar 1997–Oct 1999. G. Zhou is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology at Fudan University (Shanghai Medical University), China.

Lu Lu, M.D.: Research fellow, Apr 1999–present. Dr. Lu is an Associate Professor in Histology and Embryology at the Medical College of Nantong, China. He is currently a Assistant Professor at in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UTHSC.

David C. Airey: Postdoctoral fellow, May 1999–2001. Dr. Airey received his Ph.D. in 1999 from Cornell University (Dr. T. DeVoogd, advisor). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow with Elaine Sanders Bush at Vanderbilt University.

Anand Kulkarni, MBBS, MS: Research fellow, Oct 1999 – 2000. Dr. Kulkarni was an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at DY Patil Medical College in Pune, India. He is now a physican in Memphis TN.

Kathryn Ryder, M.D: dissertation mentor with P. Rakic, Yale University School of Medicine, 1987. Currently a faculty member, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Michael Borodkin, M.D.: dissertation mentor Yale University School of Medicine, 1989. Dr. Borodkin is now a practicing ophthalmologist in New York.

PhD Committees

Chang-Jin Jeon, Ph.D. in Neuroscience, 1992

Angela R. Howe Ph.D. in Neuroscience, 1994

Vandana Menon, Ph.D. in Physiology, 1996

Dennis S. Rice, Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neurobiology, June 1996

Richelle C. Strom: Anatomy and Neurobiology, June 1996

Qing Tang: Anatomy and Neurobiology, June 1995

Toya H. Kimble: Anatomy and Neurobiology, March 1998

Loren Martin: Anatomy and Neurobiology, Dec 2000

Kathryn Ryder M.D.: MS candidate in Epidemiology, UTHSC 2001

Original Papers (with citation analysis)

1. Williams RW, Chalupa LM (1982) Prenatal development of retinocollicular projections in the cat: An anterograde tracer transport study. Journal of Neuroscience 2: 604–622. Citations = 1983:5, 85:7, 86:13, 87:11, 88:10, 89:9, 90:7, 91:5, 92:2, 93:10, 94:2, 95:4, 96:2 (14 year total = 87). Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/SC1982.html.
   
   
2. Stone J, Rapaport DH, Williams RW, Chalupa LM (1982) Uniformity of cell distribution in the ganglion cell layer of prenatal cat retina: Implications for mechanisms of retinal development. Developmental Brain Research 2: 231–242. Citations = 1983:12, 84:8, 85:12, 86:11, 87:14, 88:9, 89:9, 90:3, 91:2, 92:2, 93:2, 94:1, 95:1, 96:3 (total = 89; 84 in first decade)
   
   
3. Williams RW, Bastiani MJ, Chalupa LM (1983) Loss of axons in the cat optic nerve following fetal unilateral enucleation: An electron microscopic analysis. Journal of Neuroscience 3: 133–144. Citations = 1983:7, 84:10, 85:12, 86:19, 87:12, 88:7, 89:3, 90:2, 91:3, 93:3, 94:2, 95:3, 96:4 (total = 87, 78 in first decade)
   
   
4. Williams RW, Chalupa LM (1983) An analysis of axon caliber within the optic nerve of the cat: Evidence of size groupings and regional organization. Journal of Neuroscience 3: 1554–1564. Citations = 1984:1, 85:8, 86:8, 87:5, 88:2, 89:4, 90:3, 91:0, 92:1, 93:4, 94:4, 95:6, 96:2 (total = 46, 38 in first decade)
   
   
5. Williams RW, Chalupa LM (1983) Development of the retinal pathway to the pretectum of the cat. Neuroscience 10: 1249–1267. Citations = 1984:2, 85:4, 86:4, 87:5, 88:3, 89:2, 90:0, 91:4, 92:2, 93:1, 94:1, 95:0, 96:0 (total = 28, 27 in first decade)
   
   
6. Chalupa LM, Williams RW, Hughes MJ (1983) Visual properties of neurons in the tectorecipient zone of the cat’s lateral posterior-pulvinar complex: A comparison with the superior colliculus. Journal of Neuroscience 3: 2587–2596. Citations = 1984:1, 85:1, 86:3, 87:5, 88:5, 89:5, 90:3, 91:5, 92:0, 93:3, 94:1, 95:1, 96:1 (total = 39; 36 in first decade)
   
   
7. Chalupa LM, Williams RW (1984) Organization of the cat’s lateral geniculate nucleus following interruption of prenatal binocular competition. Human Neurobiology 3: 103–107. Citations = 1985:4, 86:7, 87:0, 88:5, 89:4, 90:2, 91:0, 92:3, 93:5, 94:2, 95:2, 96:2 (total = 36, 32 in first decade)
   
   
8. Chalupa LM, Williams RW, Henderson Z (1984) Binocular interaction in the fetal cat regulates the size of the ganglion cell population. Neuroscience 12: 1139–1146. Citations = 1985:5, 86:7, 87:5, 88:8, 89:4, 90:1, 91:0, 92:1, 93:5, 94:1, 95:6, 96:1 (total = 44, 43 in first decade). Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/Binoc84.html.
   
   
9. Williams RW, Rakic P (1985) Dispersion of growing axons within the optic nerve of the embryonic monkey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 82: 3906–3910. Citations = 1986:9, 87:9, 88:8, 89:4, 90:4, 91:3, 92:4, 93:2, 94:2, 95:4, 96:6 (total = 55; 55 in first decade). Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/dispersion85.html.
   
   
10. Williams RW, Crabtree JW, Chalupa LM, Spear PD, Kornguth SE (1985) Selectivity of antibody-mediated destruction of retinal ganglion cell axons. Brain Research 336: 57–66. Citations through 1996: total = 6.
    
    
11. Williams RW, Bastiani, MJ, Lia B, Chalupa LM (1986) Growth cones, dying axons, and developmental fluctuations in the fiber population of the cat’s optic nerve. Journal of Comparative Neurology 246: 32–69. Citations 1987:18, 88:22, 89:17, 90:19, 91:11, 92:8, 93:11, 94:10, 95:10, 96:7 (total = 133). Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/cat86.html.
    
    
12. Lia B, Williams RW, Chalupa LM (1986) Does axonal branching contribute to the overproduction of optic nerve fibers during early development of the cat’s visual system. Developmental Brain Research 25:296–301. Citations through 1996: total = 14.
    
    
13. Lia B, Williams RW, Chalupa LM (1987) Formation of retinal ganglion cell topography during prenatal development. Science 236:848–851. Citations 1987:1, 88:7, 89:10, 90:2, 91:5, 92:7, 93:1, 94:0, 95:2, 96:2 (total = 37)
    
    
14. Williams RW, Rakic P (1988) Elimination of neurons from the lateral geniculate nucleus of rhesus monkeys during development Journal of Comparative Neurology: 272:424–436. Citations = 1989:4, 90:11, 91:5, 92:7, 93:9, 94:5, 95:3, 96:12 (total = 56). Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/RHESUS_LGN.html.
    
    
15. Williams RW, Rakic P (1988) Three-dimensional counting: An accurate and direct method to estimate cell numbers in sectioned material. Journal of Comparative Neurology 278:344–352. Citations = 1989:4, 90:9, 91:6, 92:7, 93:9, 94:4, 95:3, 96:12 (total = 64). Fully revised and corrected version online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/3DCounting.html.
    
    
16. Wikler KC, Williams RW, Rakic P (1990) Photoreceptor mosaic: Number and distribution of rods and cones in the rhesus monkey retina. Journal of Comparative Neurology:297:499–508. Citations = 1991:6, 92:5, 93:1, 94:4, 95:5, 96:10 (total = 31).
    
    
17. Williams RW, Borodkin M, Rakic P (1991) Growth cone distribution patterns in the optic nerve of fetal monkeys: Implications for mechanisms of axonal guidance. Journal of Neuroscience 11: 1081–1094. Citations = 1992:4, 93:4, 94:3, 95:7, 96:6 (total = 24).
    
    
18. Rakic P, Suñer I, Williams RW (1991) A novel cytoarchitectonic area induced experimentally within the primate visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA: 88: 2083–2087. Citations = 1992:8, 93:3, 94:7, 95:8, 96:7 (total = 33)
    
    
19. Williams RW (1991) The human retina has a cone-enriched rim. Visual Neuroscience 6:403–406. Citations = 1992:?, 93:2, 94:1, 95:3, 96:3 (total = 9). Full revised text also available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/human_retina1991.html.
    
    
20. Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1992) Structure of clonal and polyclonal cell arrays in chimeric mouse retina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 89: 1184–1188. Citations = 19923:5, 94:3, 95:8, 96:5 (total = 21)
    
    
21. Williams RW, Cavada C, and Reinoso-Suárez F (1993) Rapid evolution of the visual system: A cellular assay of the retina and dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the Spanish wildcat and the domestic cat. The Journal of Neuroscience 13:208–228. Citations = 1994:2, 95:7, 96:6 (total = 15). Full text and figures available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/WILDCAT.html.
    
    
22. Williams RW, Hogan D, Garraghty PE (1994) Target recognition and visual maps in the thalamus of achiasmatic mutant dogs. Nature: 367:637–639; and see New and Views article by RW Guillery, Nature 367:597–598. Citations = 1994:2, 95:6, 96:5 (total = 13). Text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/DOGLGNNature.html.
    
    
23. Williams RW (1994) The Portable Dictionary of the Mouse Genome: A personal database for gene mapping and molecular biology. Mammalian Genome: 5:372-375. Citations total = 5.
    
    
24. Brilliant MB, Williams RW, Conti C, Angel J, Holdener BC (1994) Mouse Chromosome 7. Mammalian Genome 5: S104–S123. Citations = 1995:1, 96:18 (total = 19)
    
    
25. Dell'Osso LF, Williams RW (1995) Ocular motor abnormalities in achiasmatic mutant Belgian sheepdogs: Unyoked eye movements in a mammal. Vision Research: 35:109–116. Citations 1996 = 2, 97 = (total = 2)
    
    
26. Scheetz AJ, Williams RW, Dubin MW (1995) Severity of ganglion cell death during early postnatal development is modulated by neuronal activity and binocular competition. Visual Neuroscience 12:605–610. Citations 1996 = 0, 97 = (total = 0)
    
    
27. Hogan D, Williams RW (1995) Analysis of the retinas and optic nerves of achiasmatic Belgian sheepdogs. The Journal of Comparative Neurology: 352:367–380. Citations 1996 = 0, 97 = (total = 0). Text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/achiasmaticretina96.html.
    
    
28. Rice DS, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1995) Genetic control of retinal projections in inbred strains of albino mice. The Journal of Comparative Neurology: 354: 459–469. Citations 1996 = 4, 97 = (total = 4)
    
    
29. Rice DS, Williams RW, Harris B, Bailey PW, Davisson MT, Goldowitz D (1995) Mapping the Bst mutation on mouse Chromosome 16: A model for human optic atrophy. Mammalian Genome 6:546–548. Citations 1996 = 1, 97 = (total = 1). Text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/Bst2.html.
    
    
30. Hogan D, Garraghty PE, Williams RW (1996) Lamination and visual topography in the lateral geniculate nucleus of normal and achiasmatic dogs. European Journal of Anatomy 1:3–11.
    
    
31. Ezer AD, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1996) Arbitrary primer PCR of dog DNA with estimates of average heterozygosity. Journal of Heredity: 87:450–455.
    
    
32. Goldowitz D, Rice DS, Williams RW (1996) Clonal architecture of the mouse retina. Progress in Brain Research 108: 2–15.
    
    
33. Brilliant MH, Williams RW, Holdener BC, Angel JM (1996) Mouse chromosome 7. Mammalian Genome S135–S150.
    
    
34. Hamvas R, Trachtulec Z, Forejt J, Williams RW, Artzt K, Fischer-Lindahl K, and Silver LM (1996) Mouse chromosome 17. Mammalian Genome S281–S299.
    
    
35. Williams RW, Strom RC, Rice DS, Goldowitz D (1996) Genetic and environmental control of retinal ganglion cell number in mice. The Journal of Neuroscience 16: 719–7205. Citations 1997 = X, 98 = (total = XX) WWW at http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/16/22/7193. Revised text also available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/GeneticVariation.html.  
    
    
36. Rice DS, Tang , Williams RW, Harris B, Davisson MT, Goldowitz D (1997) Retinal ganglion cell loss and misdirect axon growth associated with fissure defects in Bst mutant mice. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 38:2112–2124.
    
    
37. Williams RW, Holdener BC, Angel JM, Oakey R, Hunter K (1998) Mouse chromosome 7. Mammalian Genome 8:S136–S159.
    
    
38. Dell'Osso, LF, Williams RW, Jacobs, JB, Erchul DM (1998) The congenital and see-saw nystagmus in the prototypical achiasma of canines: Comparison to the human achiasmatic prototype. Vision Research 38:1629–1641.
    
    
39. Williams RW, Strom RC, 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 WWW at http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/1/138. Citations 1997 = X (total = XX). Preprint text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/Nnc1ModsFP.html.
    
    
40. Strom RC, Williams RW (1998) Roles of cell production and cell death in the generation of normal variation in neuron number. Journal of Neuroscience 18:9948–9953. Text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/dev.html.
    
    
41. Williams RW, Angel JM, Holdener BC, Oakey R, Hunter KW (1999) Mouse chromosome 7. Mammalian Genome 10: 947. (see http://www.informatics.jax.org/bin/ccr/index?year=1999).
    
    
42. Williams RW (1999) A targeted screen to detect recessive mutations that have quantitative effects. Mammalian Genome 10:734–738. On-line preprint at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/consomic.html.
    
    
43. Zhou G, Williams RW (1999) Eye1 and Eye2: Gene loci that modulate eye size, lens weight, and retinal area in mouse. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science 40:817–825. Preprint text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/Eye1.html.
    
    
44. Zhou G, Williams RW (1999) Mouse models for the analysis of myopia: an analysis of variation in eye size of adult mice. Optometry and Vision Science 76:408–418. Preprint text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/OVSMyopia.html.
    
    
45. Dell'Osso LF, Hertle RW, Williams RW, Jacobs JB (1999) A new surgery for congenital nystagmus: effects of tenotomy on an achiasmatic canine and the role of extraocular proprioception. J Amer Acad Ped Ophthal Soc: 3: 166–182.
    
    
46. Toth LA, Williams RW (1999) Circadian patterns of locomotor activity in CXB recombinant inbred mice. Behavior Genetics 29:319–328.
    
    
47. Toth LA, Williams RW (1999) Strain-related differences in slow wave sleep and rapid-eye-movement sleep in C57BL/6J and BALB/c mice. Behavior Genetics 29:329–337.
    
    
48. Toth LA, Williams RW (1999) Circadian patterns of slow wave sleep in influenza-infected C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice: A genetic analysis using CXB recombinant inbred strains. Behavior Genetics 29:339–348.
    
    
49. Hogan D, Garraghty PE, and Williams RW. Asymmetric connections, duplicate layers, and reversed maps in the primary visual system. Journal of Neuroscience 19:RC38 (1–6).
    
    
50. Kimble TDH, Williams RW (1999) Structure of the cone photoreceptor mosaic in the retinal periphery of adult humans: Analysis as a function of age, sex, and hemifield. Anatomy and Embryrology 201:305–316.
    
    
51. Rice DS, Goldowitz D, Williams RW, Hamre K, Johnson PT, Tan SS, Reese BE (1999) Extrinsic modulation of retinal ganglion cell projections: analysis of the albino mutation in pigmentation mosaic mice. Developmental Biology 216:41–56.
    
    
52. Dell’Osso LP, Williams RW, Hogan D, Jacobs JB (2000) Eye movements in canine hemichiasma: Does human hemichiasma exist? Neuro-ophthalmology
    
    
53. Angel JM, Williams RW (2000) Mouse chromosome 7. Mammalian Genome 11: 948–949. (see http://www.informatics.jax.org/bin/ccr/index?year=1999).
    
    
54. Williams RW, Lu L, Kulkarni A, Zhou G, Airey DC (2001) Genetic dissection of the olfactory bulbs of mice: QTLs on chromosomes 4, 6, 11, and 17 modulate bulb size. Behavior Genetics, 31:61–77. nervenet.org/papers/OB/OB2000.html
    
    
55. Cook MN, Williams RW, Flaherty L (2001) Anxiety-related behaviors in the elevated zero maze are affected by genetic factors and retinal degeneration. Behavioral Neuroscience 115:468–476.
    
    
56. Lu L, Airey DC, Williams RW (2001) Genetic dissection of the mouse hippocampus: Identification of loci with specific effects on hippocampal size. Journal of Neurosicence 21:3503–3514. JN 0625-00.
    
    
57. Rosen GD, Williams RW (2001) Complex trait analysis of the mouse striatum: Independent QTLs modulate volume and neuron number. BMC Neuroscience 2:5 @ www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/2/5
    
    
58. Airey DC, Lu L, Williams RW (2001) Genetic control of the mouse cerebellum: identification of quantitative trait loci modulating size and architecture. Journal of Neuroscience 21:5099–5109. nervenet.org/papers/cerebellum2000.html.
    
    
59. Williams RW, Gu J, Qi S, Lu L (2001). The genetic structure of recombinant inbred mice: high-resolution consensus maps for complex trait analysis. Release 1, January 15, 20001 at nervenet.org/papers/bxn.html. Genome Biology, in review.
    
    
60. Mountz JD, van Zant G, Zhang H, Grizzle WE, Ahmed R, Williams RW, Hsu HC (2001) Genetic dissection of age-related changes in immune function in mice. Scand Journal of Immunology. In press
    
    
61. Hardy CL, Lu L, Nguyen P, Woodland DL, Williams RW, Blackman MA (2001) Identification of quantitative trait loci controlling activation of TRBV4 CD8+ T cells during murine g-herpesvirus-induced infectious mononucleosis. Immunogenetics, in press
    
    
62. Geisert Jr EE, Williams RW, Maecker HT, Deng J, Levy S (2001) Increased brain size and glial cell number in CD81-null mice. Journal of Neuroscience (in review May 2001).
    
    
63. Hsu, HC, Mountz JD, Williams RW, Shelton BJ, Yang P, Matsuki Y, Xu X, Zhang HG, Geiger H, van Zant G (2001) Age-related change in thymic T-cell development is associated with genetic loci on mouse chromosomes 1, 3, and 11. In submission (Mar 2001)

1. Chalupa LM., Williams RW (1984) Prenatal development and reorganization in the visual system of the cat. In: Development of Visual Pathways in Mammals. Stone J, Dreher B, Rapaport DH (eds) Alan R. liss Inc, New York, pp 89–102. Citations total through 1996 = 25.
   
   
2. Chalupa LM, Williams RW (1985) Formation of retinal projections in the cat. In: Advances in Neuronal and Behavioral Development. vol. 1. (Aslin RN ed): Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing, pp. 1–32. Citations total through 1996 = 5. Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/catrev84.html".
   
   
3. Williams RW, Herrup K (1988) The control of neuron number. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 11: 423–453. Citations = 1988:3, 89:12, 90:14, 91:20, 22:14, 93:21, 94:11, 95:11, 96:12 (total = 118). Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/NUMBER_REV_1988.html.
   
   
4. Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1992) Lineage versus environment in embryonic retina: A revisionist perspective. Trends in Neuroscience 15: 368–373.
   Williams RW, and Goldowitz D (1993) Lineage versus environment in embryonic retina: Letters to the editor. Trends in Neuroscience 16: 96–98. Citations = 1993:6, 94:5, 95:11, 96:4 (total = 25). Full text available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/TINS_1992.html".
   
   
5. Williams RW (1990) The primary visual system does not care about Previc’s near-far dichotomy. Why not? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13: 557.
   
   
6. Williams RW (1992) A very rare congenital eye movement disorder in Belgian sheepdogs. National Belgian Newsletter 44:75.
   
   
7. Williams RW, Strom RC, Zhou G, Yan Z (1998) Genetic dissection of retinal development. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 9: 249–255. Full text and figures available online at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/RetinaRev98.html.
   
   
8. Williams RW (1998) Neuroscience meets quantitative genetics: Using morphometric data to map genes that modulate CNS architecture. Short Course in Quantitative Neuroanatomy (Morrison J, and Hof P, eds) pp. 66–78. Full text and figures available at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/ShortCourse98.html.
   
   
9. Toth LA, Williams RW (1998). Genetic analysis of complex quantitative traits using inbred mice. Sleep Research Society Bulletin 4:50–56.
   
   
10. Williams RW (2000) Mapping genes that modulate mouse brain development: a quantitative genetic approach. In: Mouse Brain Development (Goffinet AF, Rakic P, eds). Springer, New York, pp 21–49. Full text and figures available at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/BrainRev99.html.
    
    
11. Belknap JK, Hitzemann R, Crabbe J, Phillips T, Buck KJ, Williams RW(2001) QTL analysis and genome-wide mutagenesis in mice: complementary genetic approaches to the dissection of complex traits. Behavior Genetics, 31:5–15. Preprint available at http://www.nervenet.org/papers/Belknap2001.html.
    
    
12. Airey DC and Williams RW. (2001) Quantitative genetic perspectives. Commentary to Finlay BL, Darlington RB, and Nicastro N (2001) Developmental structure in brain evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 : XX-XX.

Web Sites

1. Williams RW (1994) The Portable Dictionary of the Mouse Genome. A World-Wide Web database of over 20,000 gene loci with map, phenotype, and strain distribution data. Available at http://www.nervenet.org/main/dictionary.html, August 1993–present.
   
   
2. Williams RW, Williams AG, and Glenn D. Rosen (1997) The Mouse Brain Library. A World-Wide-Web image database . Available at http://www.nervenet.org/mbl/mbl.html. May 1997–present.
   see minireview in Kaiser J (2000) Mouse Brain Bank in Netwatch Images. Science 289:211.
   
   
3. Williams RW, Michael Connelly, and Brian Cruz (1999) The iScope: an Internet microscopy laboratory providing interactive high-magnification images via streaming video. Available at http://www.nervenet.org/mbl/mbl.html. Aug 1999–present.
   
   
4. Williams RW, Williams AG, and John A. Capra (1999) Atlas of the Mouse Brain. Available at http://www.nervenet.org/mbl/mbl.html. Aug 1999–present.

Abstracts (from 1986 onward)

1. Williams RW, Rakic P (1986) Pronounced architectonic differences between monocular and binocular segments of the monkey’s striate cortex. Neuroscience Abstracts 12:1498.
   
   
2. Rakic P, Williams RW (1986) Thalamic regulation of cortical parcellation: An experimental perturbation of the striate cortex in rhesus monkeys. Neuroscience Abstracts 12:1499.
   
   
3. Williams RW, Ryder K, Rakic P (1987) Emergence of cytoarchitectonic differences between areas 17 and 18 in the developing rhesus monkey. Neuroscience Abstracts .13:1044.
   
   
4. Williams RW, Rakic P (1988) Growth cone assortment in the optic chiasm of fetal monkeys. Neuroscience Abstracts 14: 580.
   
   
5. Williams RW, Cavada C, Reinosos-Suárez F (1989) Evolutionary plasticity in the feline retino-geniculate system. Neuroscience Abstracts 15: 457.
   
   
6. Scheetz AJ, Dubin MW, Williams RW (1989) Activity and the modulation of axon loss in the cat’s optic nerve. Neuroscience Abstracts 15: 457.
   
   
7. Williams RW (1990) An unexpected cone specialization around the rim of the human retina. Neuroscience Abstracts 16: 407.
   
   
8. Goldowitz D, Williams RW (1990) Clonal and polyclonal architecture of the chimeric mouse retina. Neuroscience Abstracts 16: 173.
   
   
9. Williams RW, Garraghty PE, Goldowitz D (1991) A new visual system mutation: Achiasmatic dogs with congenital nystagmus. Neuroscience Abstracts 17: 187.
   
   
10. Goldowitz D, Williams RW (1992) Dynamics of mouse retinogenesis: A population and clonal analysis. Neuroscience Abstracts 18: 1318.
    
    
11. Rice DS, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1992) Clones and polyclones in the retina of adult intraspecies mouse chimeras. Neuroscience Abstracts 18: 1318.
    
    
12. Williams RW, Dell’Osso LF (1993) Ocular motor abnormalities in achiasmatic mutant Belgian sheepdogs. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Suppl 34:1125.
    
    
13. Hogan D, Garraghty, PE, Williams RW (1993) Mapping of retinogeniculate projections in achiasmatic mutant Belgian sheepdogs. Neuroscience Abstracts 19: 524.
    
    
14. Williams RW, Rice DS, Goldowitz D (1993) Genetic control of neuron number: Ganglion cell populations in mouse. Neuroscience Abstracts 19: 53.
    
    
15. Rice DS, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1993) A new mutant phenotype of retinal ganglion cell dysgenesis discovered in the mouse. Neuroscience Abstracts 19: 51.
    
    
16. Hogan D, Williams RW (1994) The retinas of achiasmatic mutant Belgian Sheepdogs. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Suppl 35: 1957.
    
    
17. Williams RW, Rice DS, Goldowitz D (1994) A start at mapping genes that control retinal ganglion cell number: Analysis of inbred, F1 hybrid, and recombinant inbred strains of mice. Neuroscience Abstracts 20: 1323
    
    
18. Tang Q, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1994) Mapping the achiasmatic mutation in the dog: A progress report. Neuroscience Abstracts 20: in press.
    
    
19. Hogan D, Williams RW (1994) The marked nasal-temporal asymmetry in ganglion cell size is an intrinsic property of canine retinas. Neuroscience Abstracts 20: 1323.
    
    
20. Williams RW, Rice DS, and Goldowitz D (1994) Genetic Analysis of Neuron Number. International Conference on the Mouse Genome, London, 1994. Vol 8: 163.
    
    
21. Williams RW, Strom RC, Goldowitz D (1995) RCN1: A locus on mouse chromosome 11 that controls natural variation in neuron number. Neuroscience Abstracts 21: 780.
    
    
22. Rice DS, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1995) Clonal analysis of retinal ganglion cells with crossed and uncrossed projections. Neuroscience Abstracts 21: in press.
    
    
23. Strom RC, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1995) Developmental mechanisms responsible for strain differences in the retinal ganglion cell population Neuroscience Abstracts 21: 1523.
    
    
24. Hogan D, Garraghty PE, Williams RW (1995) Unilateral misrouting at the optic chiasm associated with disrupted lamination in the geniculate and a vertical inversion of the visual map in area 17. Neuroscience Abstracts 21: 394.
    
    
25. Dell'Osso LF, Williams RW, Jacobs JB, Erchul DM (1996) Achiasmatic mutant Belgian sheepdogs: An animal model for congenital nystagmus. Invest. Ophthalmol Vis. Sci. Suppl 37: S227.
    
    
26. Williams RW, Strom RC, Goldowitz D (1996) QTLs controlling normal variation in neuron number and brain weight. Proceedings of 10th International Mouse Genome Conferencee, p. 20.
    
    
27. Hogan D, Garraghty PE, Williams RW (1996) Abnormal retinofugal projections and visual cortical maps in a mutant with unilateral misrouting at the optic chiasm. Neuroscience Abstracts 22: 1611.
    
    
28. Williams RW, Strom RC, Goldowitz D (1996) Mapping quantitative trait loci that control normal variation in brain weight in the mouse. Neuroscience Abstracts 22: 518.
    
    
29. Strom RC, Goldowitz D, Williams RW (1996) Mapping quantitative trait loci that control retinal ganglion cell number using F2 intercross progeny. Neuroscience Abstracts 22: 518.
    
    
30. Tang Q, Rice DS, Williams RW, Goldowitz D (1996) Retinal development in the embryonic Bst mouse. Neuroscience Abstracts 22: 1977.  
    
    
31. Dell'Osso LF, Williams RW, Hogan D (1997) Eye movements in canine hemiachiasma. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Suppl. 38:S1144.
    
    
32. Dell'Osso LF, Williams RW, Hogan D (1997) Eye movements in canine hemiachiasma. NANOS Annual Meeting.
    
    
33. Strom RC, Williams RW (1997) Mapping genes that control variation in brain weight using F2 intercross progeny. Neuroscience Abstracts 23: 864.
    
    
34. Gilissen EP, Williams RW (1997) Genetic dissection and QTL analysis of forebrain, hindbrain, olfactory bulb, and cerebellum. Neuroscience Abstracts 23: 864.
    
    
35. Zhou G, Williams RW (1997) Mapping genes that control variation in eye weight, retinal area, and retinal cell density. Neuroscience Abstracts 23: 864.
    
    
36. Toth LA, Williams RW (1997) Genetic analysis of circadian locomotor activity patterns in CXB recombinant inbred mice. Neuroscience Abstracts 23: 864.
    
    
37. Williams RW, Goldowitz D, Strom RC (1997) Brain weight in relation to body weight, age, and sex. Neuroscience Abstracts 23: 864.
    
    
38. Williams RW, Strom RC, Zhou G, Goldowitz D, Gilissen EP (1997) Proceedings 11th International Mouse Genome Conference No. 182.
    
    
39. Zhou G, Peng X, Williams RW (1998) Genetic and environmental factors influencing eye size in mice. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Suppl39: S506.
    
    
40. Geisert E E, Williams R, Maecker HT, Levy S (1998) Regulation of brain size and glial cell number by TAPA (the target of the antiproliferative antibody, CD81) in the developing rodent brain. Spring Brain Conference, Sonora, AZ.
    
    
41. Dell'Osso LF, Hertle RW, Jacobs JB, Williams RW (1998) Extraocular muscle tenotomy: Damping of congenital and see-saw nystagmus. INOS, Dublin Ireland, 7/19/98.
    
    
42. Hertle RW, Dell'Osso LF, Jacobs JB, Williams RW (1998) Extraocular muscle tenotomy (the Dell'Osso procedure): Damping of congenital (CN) and see-saw (SSN) nystagmus in the achiasmatic Belgian sheepdog. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Suppl. 39: S149.
    
    
43. Zhou G, Peng X, Williams RW (1998) Genetic and environmental factors influencing eye size in mice. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Suppl. 39: S506.
    
    
44. Williams RW, Strom RC, Zhou G, Goldowitz D, Gilissen EP, Rosen GD (1998) Mapping genes that control brain size and neuron number: A QTL analysis of the mouse CNS and retina. FASEB Journal 12: A628.
    
    
45. Rosen GD, Williams RW (1998) Quantitative genetic analysis of the caudate-putamen: An illustration of the use of the Mouse Brain library. Brain Res Satellite Symposium. www.elsevier.com:80/homepage/sag/bri98/home.htm.
    
    
46. Airey DC, Strom RC, Williams RW (1998) Genetic architecture of normal variation in cerebellar size. Neuroscience Abstracts 24: 303.
    
    
47. Williams RW, Strom RC, Zhou G (1998) Continuous and substantial brain growth in specific groups of adult mice. Neuroscience Abstracts 24: 1033.
    
    
48. Zhou G, Strom RC, Giguere V, Williams RW (1998) Modulation of retinal cell populations and eye size in retinoic acid receptor knockout mice. Neuroscience Abstracts 24: 1033.
    
    
49. Williams RW, Zhou G (1999) Genetic control of eye size: A novel quantitative genetic approach. Invest. Ophthalmol Vis Sci Suppl 40: S964.
    
    
50. Toth LA, Williams RW (1999) A quantitative trait locus for slow-wave sleep in influenza-infected CXB recombinant inbred mice. World Fed Sleep Res Soc.
    
    
51. Airey DC, Lu L, Strom R, Zhou G, Gilissen E, Williams RW (1999) Cerebellum-specific QTLs in the mouse brain. Int Mamm Genome Conf 13: E9.
    
    
52. Lu L, Airey DC, Zhou G, Williams RW (1999) Int Mamm Genome Conf 13: E44.
    
    
53. Williams RW, Kulkarni AL, Jones L, Zhou G, Airey DC, Lu L (2000) Growth of the olfactory bulbs is modulated by QTLs on chromosomes 4, 6, 11, and 17. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: XXXX.
    
    
54. Rosen GD, Williams RW (2000) Stereological and quantitative genetic analysis of the mouse caudate nucleus. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: XXXX
    
    
55. Kulkarni AL, Airey DC, Williams RW (2000) Genetic architecture of the mouse retinogeniculate system: a QTL analysis of numerical matching. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: 1087.
    
    
56. Airey DC, Lu L, Williams RW (2000) Gene loci for mouse cerebellum and internal granule layer size. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: 1087.
    
    
57. Lu L Airey DC, Williams RW (2000) Complex trait analysis of the mouse hippocampus. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: 1087.
    
    
58. Tharp R, Williams RW, Smeyne RJ (2000) Complex trait analysis of susceptibility to MPTP-induced Parkinsonism. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: XXXX.
    
    
59. Rosen GD, Williams AG, Capra JA, Connolly MT, Cruz B, Lu L, Airey DC, Kulkarni A, Williams RW (2000) The Mouse Brain Library @ www.mbl.org. Int Mouse Genome Conf 14.
    
    
60. Rosen GD, Williams RW (2000) Stereological and quantitative genetic analysis of the mouse caudate nucleus. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: 311.
    
    
61. Tharp R, Williams RW, Smeyne RJ (2000) Complex trait analysis of susceptibility to MPTP-induced Parkinsonism. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: 1286.
    
    
62. Manly KF and Williams RW (2001) WEBQTLÑWWW services for mapping quantitative trait loci. Mouse Initiatives III. www.jax.org/courses/documents/mouse_init_0801.html
    
    
63. Li L, Lu L, Williams RW, Waters RS (2001) Quantitative analysis of the barrel field in somatosensory cortex (S1) of inbred mice. Neuroscience Abstracts 27: XXX.
    
    
64. Lu L, Airey DC, Williams RW, 2001. Genetic architecture of the mouse hippocampus: identification of gene loci with regional effects. Neuroscience Abstracts 27: XXX.
    
    
65. Goldowitz D, Rinchik E, Johnson D, Goss K, Snoddy J, Ferkin M, Matthews D, Mittleman G, Hamre K, Jablonski M, Williams R, and members of the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium (2001) Regional mutagenesis of the mouse genome and neural phenotypes: Year 1 Progress Report. Neuroscience Abstracts 27: XXX.
    
    
66. Wolfe C, Williams R W , Goldowitz D (2001) Genetic determinants of neurogenesis in adult mice. Neuroscience Abstracts 27: XXX.
    
    
67. Williams RW, Threadgill DW, Airey DC, Gu J, Lu L (2001) RIX Mapping: A demonstration using CXB RIX hybrids to map QTLs modulating brain weight in mice. Neuroscience Abstracts 27: XXX.
    
    
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Simion L (1993) Al micio si e rimpicciolito il cervello. Il Corriere Della Sera (Milan newspaper) Jan 31 issue.

Oliwenstein L (1993, May issue) Brain Donors. Discover 14:18.

Rennie J (1993) Kittty, we shrunk your brain. Scientific American 268:29.

Guillery RW (1994) No crossing at the crossing. A New and Views article. Nature 367:597–598 (this review considers a paper by Williams et al. 1994).

Mansfield BK (1994) Mouse gene data files available from U.T. Memphis. Human Genome News, May 1994.

Takahashi JS (1994) Forward and Reserve Genetic Approaches to Behavior in the Mouse. Science 264: 1724-1733. This review contains a brief description of the Portable Dictionary of the Mouse Genome (pp. 1728-1729)

Kaiser J (2000) Mouse Brain Bank: Netwatch Images selection. Science 289:211.