John K. Douglass
ARL
Division of Neurobiology
611
Gould-Simpson Building
University
of Arizona
Tucson,
Arizona 85721
Telephone:
(520) 621-8383
Fax:
(520) 621-8282
e-mail:
jkd@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu
Education
Oberlin
College, Oberlin, Ohio 1980, B.A. in Biology
Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina 1986, Ph.D. in Zoology
1993-present:
Research Associate, University of Arizona, ARL Division of Neurobiology
6-8/97
Research Faculty, AFOSR Summer Research Program, Eglin Air Force Base, FL
1992-93
ONR Research Associate, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Physics Department
and Biology Department
1990-92
University of Missouri Postdoctoral Associate, UM-St. Louis, Biology Department
1989-90
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Biology Department
1986-89
NRSA (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Biology Department
1984-86
Research Assistant, Duke University Marine Laboratory
1980-84
Teaching Assistant, Duke Zoology Department and Duke Marine Laboratory
Publications
related to current projects:
Douglass
JK and
Strausfeld NJ, 2001. Pathways in dipteran insects for early visual motion
processing. In Zanker JM and Zeil J (eds), Motion vision: Computational, neural
and ecological constraints. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 67-81.
Douglass
JK and
Strausfeld NJ, 2000a. Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of Diptera:
modeling the role of T5 directional tuning properties. J Comp Physiol A 186,
783-797.
Douglass
JK and
Strausfeld NJ 2000b. Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of Diptera:
modeling innervation matrices onto collators and their evolutionary
implications. J Comp Physiol A 186, 799-811.
Douglass
JK and
Strausfeld NJ, 1998. Functionally and anatomically segregated visual pathways
in the lobula complex of a calliphorid fly. J Comp Neurol 396, 84-104.
Douglass
JK and
Strausfeld NJ, 1996.Visual motion detection circuits in flies: Parallel
direction- and non-direction sensitive pathways between the medulla and lobula
plate. J Neurosci 16, 4551 4562.
Douglass
JK and
Strausfeld NJ, 1995.Visual motion detection circuits in flies: Peripheral
motion computation by identified small-field retinotopic neurons. J Neurosci
15, 5596-5611.
Other
publications:
Douglass
JK and
Wilkens LA, 1998. Directional selectivities of near-field filiform hair
mechanoreceptors on the crayfish tailfan (Crustacea: Decapoda). J Comp Physiol
A 183, 23-34.
Wilkens
LA and Douglass JK, 1994. A stimulus paradigm for analysis of near-field
hydrodynamic sensitivity in crustaceans. J Exp Biol 189, 263-272.
Douglass
JK, Wilkens
LA, Pantazelou E, and Moss F, 1993. Noise enhancement of information transfer
in crayfish mechanoreceptors by stochastic resonance. Nature (London) 365,
337-340.
Douglass
JK, Wilson
JH and Forward RB Jr, 1992. A tidal rhythm in phototaxis of larval grass shrimp
(Palaemonetes pugio). Mar Behav Physiol 19, 159-173.
Douglass
JK and
Forward RB Jr, 1989. The ontogeny of facultative superposition optics in a
shrimp eye: hatching through metamorphosis. Cell Tissue Res 258, 289-300.
Dr.
Charles M. Higgins, University of Arizona. Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and ARL Division of Neurobiology
Dr.
Irina Sinakevitch, University of Arizona, ARL Division of Neurobiology
Dr.
Nicholas J. Strausfeld, University of Arizona, ARL Division of Neurobiology
Jennifer
Talley, University of Arizona (electrophysiology of fly visual motion
processing pathways)
Aaron
Watson, University of Arizona (a Golgi study of fly visual system)