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Curriculum Vitae Zakon, H.H. 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Harold H. Zakon Section of Neurobiology phone: (512)-471-0194, -3440 The University of Texas fax: (512)-471-9651 Austin, TX 78712 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION 1981-1983: Postdoctoral fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Lab. of Dr. T.H. Bullock. 1974-1981: Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 1968-1972: B. S. with High Honors, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001-- Adjunct Professor, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. 1999-2006 Chairman, Section of Neurobiology, The University of Texas at Austin. 1998-- Professor, Section of Neurobiology, The University of Texas, Austin. 1994-1998 Professor, Dept. of Zoology, The University of Texas, Austin. 1988-1993: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Zoology, The University of Texas, Austin. 1983-1988: Assist. Professor, Dept. of Zoology, The University of Texas, Austin. 1981-1983: Postdoctoral fellow at The University of California, San Diego, Calif. 1974-1981: Teaching and Research Assist., Graduate Program at Cornell. 1972-1974: Research Assist., Dept. Psychiatric Research, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Society for Neuroscience; International Society for Neuroethology; Association for Research in Otolaryngology; American Association for the Advancement of Science; International Brain Research Organization, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for: Animal Behavior; Brain, Behavior & Evolution; Brain Research; Comparative Physiology & Biochemistry; BMC Neuroscience; Current Biology; General & Comparative Endocrinology; FEBS Letters; Genes, Brain & Behavior; Hearing Research; Hormones and Behavior; J. Biological Chemistry.; J. Comparative Neurology; J. Comparative Physiology A; J. Experimental Biology; J. Molecular Evolution; J. Neurobiology; J. Neurophysiology; J. Neuroscience; Molecular Biology & Evolution; Nature; Nature Neuroscience; Naturwissenschaften; Neuroscience Letters; PLoS Biology; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.; Science; Trends in Neurosciences. Ad Hoc reviewer for N.I.H., N.I.M.H., N.S.F., and N.S.E.R.C. (Canadian). Hearing Research Study Section member (1995- 1999); Genetic Variation and Evolution Study Section member (2009-). Co-director of "Neural Systems and Behavior" Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA (1995- 1999). Faculty member (2000-2001). Editorial Board of J. Comparative Physiology A (1996--); Hormones & Behavior (2001--2008); Brain, Beavhior & Evolution (2009-). Council member, International Society for Neuroethology Co-Vice Chairman for the first Gordon Conference on Neuroethology (1999), Chairman for second GRC on Neuroethology (2002). Judge in the Siemens-Westinghouse Science Competition, Austin Texas (1999) Co-Chairman, International Society for Neuroethology World Congress (2010) Zakon, H.H. 2 AWARDS ANDS HONORS 2009 Laura & Arther Colwin Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory 2007 Laura & Arther Colwin Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory 2005 Keynote Speaker, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Annual meeting, Austin , TX; Keynote Speaker for “Electric Fish Workshop” Ottawa, Canada. 2001 Keynote Speaker, Annual Neuroscience Program. U. Mass, Amherst (see below). 2000 Awarded the University of Texas’ President's Associate's Teaching Excellence Award. 1998 Nominated for Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award; Distinguished Lecturer, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge; ISN Young Investigator Award to G. Troy Smith, a postdoctoral fellow in my laboratory. 1997 Capranica Foundation Award for most significant paper in Neuroethology to Michael Ferrari, a graduate student in my laboratory. 1996 Alberta Heritage Foundation Visiting Lecturer, Alberta Canada. 1987 Research Career Development Award (NIH). 1982 Travel grant from the International Brain Research Organization to present a paper at its first world congress in Lausanne, Switzerland. 1981 Best student paper award in Developmental Biology at ASZ meetings in Seattle. 1981 Awarded travel grant by the American Society of Zoologists to attend meeting in Seattle and present a paper in the "Pattern Formation" contributed paper session. 1981 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship. 1980 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. 1980 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined). INVITED LECTURES IN SYMPOSIA 2011 Florida State University (pending) 2010 International School of Neuroethology, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2009 Janelia Conference: Neural Circuits Controlling Sexual Behavior, Janelia Farm, VA (pending). 2007 Heiligenberg Symposium, University of California, San Diego; Symposium for retirement of Curt Bell, Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, OR.; Symposium on “Neurosensory Ecology“ Tuscany, Italy; Symposium on “New Perspectives on Fish Neurobiology: Evolution, Development, and Function” Shanghai, China. 2006 Symposium on “Design, molecular basis, and evolution of muscles for different activities.“ American Physiological Society conference “Comparative Physiology 2006: integrating diversity”, Virginia Beach, VA. 2004 Symposium on “Orchestration of Behavior by Neuromodulators” International Society for Neuroethology, Nyborg, Denmark. 2003 Third Neural Coding Workshop, The University of Chicago. 2001 Symposium on “Comparative Neuroendocrinology: cellular and molecular approaches.” in the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Scottsdale, AZ.; Plenary Speaker for Northwest Developmental Biology meeting, Friday Harbor; Karger Workshop at the J.B. Johnston Club, “Convergence in Evolution of the Nervous System.” ; symposium on “Electroreception” Bonn, Germany ; Keynote Speaker “Neuroscience and Behavior Program” annual banquet, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 1998 Symposium "Electroreception and Electrocommunication" San Diego, CA.; symposium on "Life Span Actions of Developmental Hormones" at the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Atlanta, GA; Karger Workshop at the J. B. Johnston Club "Steroid Hormones and the Brain" Society for Neuroscience meeting, Los Angeles. Zakon, H.H. 3 1995 Symposium on "Behavior" in the International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish" in Austin, TX. 1993 Presidential Symposium on “Sensory Transduction” Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, Florida; Symposium on “Hormones and Behavior” and Keynote Address, Midwestern Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL; Joint U.S.-Russian meeting on Sensory Biology, College Park, MD.; Symposium on "Repair and Regeneration in the Inner Ear" Hearing Research Trust, Wye College, England; Organized symposium on "Steroid Action and Excitable Cells" at Soc. for Neurosci. Meetings, Wash. D.C. 1992 Symposium on “Electrobiochemistry” at the Gordon Conference, Tilton, N.H.; Symposium on “Regeneration of Sensory Receptors.” at the Society for Neuroscience Meetings, Anaheim, CA; Symposium on “The Neurobiology of Reproduction.” J.B. Johnston Club, Anaheim, CA. 1991 Symposium on “GnRH Pulse Generation” sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. 1990 Symposium on "Neuroendocrine Strategies in a Tropical Environment" American Society of Zoologists, San Antonio, TX; Symposium on "Regeneration of Vertebrate Sensory Receptors" CIBA Foundation, London, England. 1989 Symposium on "The Neurobiology of Weakly Electric Fish." Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Symposium on "Hormones, Neural circuits and Communication." Society for Neuroscience meetings in November 1989, Phoenix, AZ. 1986 Symposium on "Biology of Change in Otolaryngology: Developmental Biology, Plasticity and Compensation, and Injury and Repair Mechanisms." Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Tampa, Florida; International Meeting on "The Amphibian Auditory System." Bielefeld, Germany. 1985 International Meeting on "Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals," Sarasota, Florida sponsored by ONR; Organizer and Chairman for session on "Sensory-neural development" at the Larval Fish Conference, Marine Sciences Institute, Port Aransas, Texas; Co-organizer (w/ G. Pollak, W. Wilczynski) for Symposium "Common Principles in the Neuroethology of Acoustic and Electric Communication." An inaugural meeting of the International Society for Neuroethology, at University of Texas, Austin, TX. 1984 Cajal Club, annual meeting of the American Association of Anatomists, Seattle, Wash. 1983 J.B. Johnston Club, annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Boston, Mass. INVITED LECTURES AT VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS 2010 Clemente Estable Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay; SUNY Stony Brook, NY; ; University of Arizona (pending). 2009 University of California, Davis; Washington University, St. Louis; Oberlin College (pending); Case Western Reserve (pending). 2008 McGill University; University of Oregon; Oregon State University. 2007 University of Texas Marine Sciences Institute, Port Aransas, TX; Institute of Zoology, Beijing, China. 2006 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.; University of Texas, San Antonio; Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador. 2005 University of Pennsylvania; University of Virginia; Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 2004 Texas A&M, College Station; Texas A&M, Kingsville; Hunter College, New York; City College of New York; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2003 Columbia University; University of Texas, Galveston. 2002 Michigan State University; University of Oklahoma,
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