Sheena M Brown

 

Arizona Research Laboratories

Division of Neurobiology

611 Gould-Simpson Building

Tucson AZ 85721

 

Telephone (520) 621-966

Fax (520) 621-8282

Email sheena@neurobio.arizona.edu

 

 

Education

BS in Zoology                        1995   University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

PhD in Zoology/Anatomy     2001   University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

 

 

Research and Teaching Experience

2003 - present   Post-doctoral associate, Arizona Research Laboratories Neurobiology Division, University of Arizona

Advisor: Strausfeld N.J

 

2002   Assistant lecturer (Comparative Physiology, Neuroethology), Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

           

2002   Visiting Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Advisor: Meinertzhagen I.A

 

2001   Assistant Lecturer (Neurobiology, Neuroethology), University of Otago, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Department of Zoology

 

1997-2001 Senior laboratory demonstrator (biology) University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

 

1997-2001 Doctoral Research, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand "Ultrastructural analysis of activity dependent volume changes in the antennal lobe of the worker honey bee".

Advisors: Mercer A.R, Napper R.M.A

           

Training Courses

1999   International Society For Stereology, Stereology Course

25-29 October 1999, Melbourne, Australia

Convenor; Professor Hans Gundersen

 

2003    Cryo-techniques and Immunogold Workshop,

4-9 May 2003, Atlanta, GA

Convenor; Jan Leunissen, Hong Yi

 

Scholarships and Awards

2000   Postgraduate Fellow, New Zealand Federation of University Women

 

1999   Young Stereologists Award - best student poster presentation, Xth International Congress for Stereology, Melbourne, Australia.

 

1999   International Society for Stereology, Hans Elias Student Travel Award

 

1998   Microscopy New Zealand (Inc) Travel Grant

 

1997   The Royal Society of New Zealand Science and Technology Award

 

1997   Claude McCarthy Fellowship

 

1997   Neuroscience Programme, Otago University, Travel Award

 

1997-1999     Fanny Evans Postgraduate Scholarship for Women

                                   

1996   Freemasons Undergraduate Scholarship

 

Abstracts

Brown, S.M., Thompson, C., Napper, R.M. and Mercer, A.R.  (2000).  An increase in glomerular volume does not necessarily indicate an increase in synapse number: A quantitative analysis of the antennal lobe of the worker honey bee Apis mellifera.  30th Annual Meeting, Society of Neuroscience Abstracts. 

 

Brown, S.M., Napper, R.M. and Mercer, A.R.  Quantification of Volume Changes in the Antennal Lobes of the Worker Honey Bee Apis mellifera.  Int. J. Neurosci.

 

Mercer, A.R., Brown, S., Dunston, C., Kirchhof, B., Kokay, I., Perk, C.,Sigg, D. and Winnington, A. Behaviour-related plasticity in the antennal lobes of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L., Göttingen Neurobiology Report 1999, Volume I, N. Elsner and U. Eysel (Eds), Thieme Verlag, (1999) 129

 

Armstrong, S.M., Sigg, D., Winnington, A.P., Thompson, C.M., Napper, R.M. and Mercer, A.R.M. (1997).  Structural Plasticity of the Antennal Lobes of the Worker Honey Bee Apis mellifera..  27th Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.  23(2): 1335.

 

 

Publications

Brown, S.M., Napper, R.M. Mercer, A.R.  Foraging experience, glomerulus volume and synapse number. A stereological study of the honey bee antennal lobe.  (2003) J Neurobiol. In press.

Brown, S.M., Napper, R.M. Thompson, CM and Mercer, A.R.  Stereological analysis reveals striking differences in the structural plasticity of two readily-identifiable glomeruli in the antennal lobes of the adult worker honey bee. (2002) J. Neurosci. 22(19): 8514-8522.

 

Armstrong, S.M., Barratt, B.I.P. and Evans, A.A.  (1996).  Circadian pattern of oviposition in the parasitoids Microctonus aethiopoides Loan and M. hyperodae Loan (Hymenoptera:  Braconidae), in relation to host activity.  Proc. 49th N.Z. Plant Protection Conf.: 280-284.

 

Brown, S.M., Napper, R.M. and Mercer, A.R.  Analysis of structural plasticity in the honey bee brain using the Cavalieri estimator of volume and the disector method.  Image Analysis and Stereology.  2000 (19):139-144.

 

Professional Societies

Society for Neuroscience

International Society for Stereology

Microscopy NZ Inc.