Sarah Marie Farris

Arizona Research Laboratories

Division of Neurobiology

611 Gould-Simpson Building

Tucson, AZ 85721

Telephone: (520) 621-9668

Fax: (520) 621-8282

Email: farris@neurobio.arizona.edu

Date of Birth: 6-11-71

Citizenship: USA

Education

B.S. in Biology, May 1993, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

M.S. in Entomology, May 1996, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

PhD. in Entomology, January 2000, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Urbana, IL.

Research Experience

1993-96 Masters student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Relationships among juvenile hormone, behavior, and neuroanatomical plasticity in the mushroom bodies of the brain in the worker honey bee.

Advisors: Dr. Susan E. Fahrbach and Dr. Gene E. Robinson.

1994 Summer Course, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA) "Neural Systems and Behavior"

1996-2000 Doctoral student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Post-embryonic development and adult plasticity of the mushroom bodies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera.

Advisors: Dr. Susan E. Fahrbach and Dr. Gene E. Robinson.

July, 1997 Cell Culture Workshop, Biotechnology Training Institute, Bridgewater, NJ. A week-long course in mammalian cell culture techniques, including starting and maintaining primary cell cultures, cryopreservation, transfection, and immunocytochemistry.

2000-present Post-doctoral research assistantship, Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona. Development of the mushroom bodies of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Emphasis on process outgrowth and organization and the establishment of proper connectivity with other brain regions.

Advisor: Dr. Nicholas J. Strausfeld.

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

1989-93 University of Iowa Presidential Scholarship

1989-93 National Merit Finalist Scholarship

1993-96 NIH Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant

1994 University of Illinois School of Life Sciences Summer Research Grant

1997 Revco Scientific tuition and travel scholarship for the Cell Culture Workshop at the Biotechnology Training Institute, Bridgewater, NJ

1997 University of Illinois Graduate College Conference Travel Grant

2000 Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Research Support Grant

2000-01 NIH Motor Control Training Grant

Funding Sources

1993-96 NIH Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant

1996-1998 NSF Award (P.I. S.E. Fahrbach, co-P.I. G.E. Robinson)

1997-1999 Teaching Assistantships, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1999 University of Illinois School of Life Sciences Research Board Grant (P.I. S.E. Fahrbach)

2000-01 NIH Motor Control Training Grant

2001-present NIH Program Project Grant (P.I. R.B. Levine, Co-P.I. N.J. Strausfeld)

Positions Held

1995 Graduate student coordinator for NSF-funded Research

Experience for Undergraduates program (REU).

Teaching Experience

1997 Introduction to Neurobiology, teaching assistant

· Responsibilities included writing exam questions and holding office hours and review sessions for students.

1998 Introduction to Entomology, teaching assistant

· Responsibilities included preparing and teaching physiology and taxonomy laboratory exercises, grading lab reports and insect collections, and writing and grading a lab practical exam.

1999 Animal Behavior, teaching assistant

· Responsibilities included holding office hours, group sessions and review sessions, and writing and grading exams.

Invited Lectures

1996 Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

1998 ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

1998 Beekeeping Short Course, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

1999 Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2000 ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

2001 Society for Experimental Biology Symposium “Neurobiology and Behavior of Insects: Entering the Post-Genomic Era,” University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

2001 Institut für Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstracts

Farris, S. M. , Fahrbach, S. E. , and Robinson, G. E. (1995). Effects of behavioral reversion on brain structural plasticity in the honey bee. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 21: 458.

Fahrbach, S.E., Farris, S.M., and Robinson, G.E. (1995). Coincident maturation of flight behavior and the mushroom bodies in the honey bee. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 21: 458.

Farris, S.M., Fahrbach, S.E., Robinson, G.E., and Davis, R.L. (1996). Fasciclin II and Drosophila Myocyte Enhancer Binding Factor 2 in the mushroom bodies of the honey bee. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 22: 1144.

Farris, S.M., Robinson, G.E., and Fahrbach, S.E. (1997). Development of the adult mushroom bodies during metamorphosis in the honey bee. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23: 1335

Farris, S.M., and Fahrbach, S.E. (1999). Cell proliferation in the antennal lobes of the larval and pupal worker honey bee. 21st Meeting of Midwest Neurobiologists Abstracts.

Farris, S.M., Robinson, G.E., Strausfeld, N.J., and Fahrbach, S.E. (1999). Growth of Kenyon cell arborizations in the mushroom bodies of the worker honey bee during adult life. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 25:861.

Farris, S.M. and Strausfeld, N.J. (2000). Development of a learning and memory neuropil: Neurogenesis and lamina formation in the mushroom bodies of the cockroach nymph. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 26.

Farris, S.M. and Strausfeld, N.J. (2001). Neurogenesis and process outgrowth in the embryonic mushroom bodies of the cockroach. 6th International Congress of Neuroethology Abstracts.

Publications

Huerta, P.T., Scearce, K.A., Farris, S.M., Empson, R.M. and Prusky, G.T. (1996). Preservation of spatial learning in fyn tyrosine kinase knockout mice. Neuroreport, 7(10): 1685-1689.

Fahrbach, S.E., Giray, T., Farris, S. M. and Robinson, G.E. (1997). Expansion of the neuropil of the mushroom bodies in male honey bees is coincident with initiation of flight. Neuroscience Letters 236: 135-138.

Fahrbach, S.E., Moore, D. Capaldi, E.A., Farris, S.M. and Robinson, G.E. (1998). Experience-expectant plasticity in the mushroom bodies of the honey bee. Learning and Memory, 5: 115-123.

Farris, S.M., Robinson, G.E., Davis, R.L., and Fahrbach, S.E. (1999). Larval and pupal development of the mushroom bodies in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 414: 97-113.

Capaldi, E.A., Edwards, A.S., Fahrbach, S.E., Farris, S.M., Martin, A., Osborne, J.L., Poppy, G.M., Reynolds, D.R., Robinson, G.E., Smith, A.D., and Riley, J.R. (2000). Harmonic radar reveals ontogeny of orientation flight in the honey bee. Nature, 403: 537-540.

Farris, S.M., Robinson, G.E., and Fahrbach, S.E. (2001). Experience- and age-related outgrowth of intrinsic neurons in the mushroom bodies of the adult worker honeybee. The Journal of Neuroscience, 21: 6395-6404.

Farris, S.M., and Strausfeld, N.J. (2001). Development of laminar organization in the mushroom bodies of the cockroach: Kenyon cell proliferation, outgrowth, and maturation. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 439: 331-351.

Sinakevitch, I., Farris, S.M., and Strausfeld, N.J. (2001). Taurine-, aspartate- and glutamate-like immunoreactivity identifies chemically distinct subdivisions of Kenyon cells in the cockroach mushroom body. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 439: 352- 367.

Professional Societies

· Society for Neuroscience (1997)

· Entomological Society of America (1998)

· International Society for Neuroethology (1999)