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

 

Academic Appointments

 

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

 

Selected Publications

 

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.

 

Current Collaborators

 

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

Dr. Robert B. Barlow, Jr., Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA

 

Current or Recent Students

 

Jennifer Talley, University of Arizona (electrophysiology of fly visual motion processing pathways)

Aaron Watson, University of Arizona (a Golgi study of fly visual system)