Robert J. Calin-Jageman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Dominican University
Education
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2004-2006
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Laboratory of Paul S. Katz, Director of the Center for Neuromics, Department of Biology
lab link and center for neuromics link
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1998-2004
2004 - Ph.D., Psychology (Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience)
2001 - M.A., Psychology (Cognitive)
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Albion College, Albion, MI, 1994-1998
B.A., Philosophy and Cognitive Science
National Merit and Presidential Scholar
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Employment
Dominican University, River Forest, IL, 2007-present
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA, 2007
Adjunct Teaching Faculty
Department of Psychology
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2006-2007
Research Associate
Department of Biology
Database design for small businesses, 1998-2004
Custom database solution in use at over 15 Chamber of Commerce in Michigan and Ohio
link
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Professional Memberships
Society for Neuroscience 2001
Neuroethics Society 2008
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience 2007
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Teaching Experience
Topics in Neuroscience, Bio/Psych 201, Spring 2007, Instructor
Agnes Scott College
I proposed and designed thiscourse as an introduction to neuroscience for biology and psychology majors with a special emphasis on emerging neuroscience technologies.
Neurobiology 4102/6102, Fall 2006, Instructor
Georgia State University
Upper-level undergraduate, entry-level graduate course (Bio, Psych, and Philo majors)
Course website: http://bio4102.homeip.net
Neurobiology 4102/6102, Fall 2005, Co-Instructor
Georgia State University
Post-doctoral Teaching Apprenticeship, 2005-2006 academic year
Mentor: Paul S. Katz, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Georgia State University
Brain Awareness Week, 1998-present, High school visits
Statistics Lab, Spring 2003, Curriculum Design
Wayne State University
Created new lectures and lab activites for units on correlation and ANOVA
Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, 1999, Lab Instructor
Wayne State University
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Funding
"Development of an Invertebrate System for Studying Drug Reinforcement". $17,487. Funded via the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (an NSF Science and Technology Center in Atlanta, GA) and the Georgia State University Department of Biology. Funding Period: 1/3/2007 - 1/3/2008.
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Publications
Wurm
L, Vakoch D, Strasser M, Ross S, Calin-Jageman RJ (2001).
Speech perception and vocal expression of emotion. Cognition and
Emotion, 15: 831-852. link
Calin-Jageman
RJ & Fischer TM. (2003). Temporal aspects of an environmental
stimulus influence the dynamics of behavioral regulation of the Aplysia SWR. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117 , 555-565. link
Calin-Jageman RJ & Fischer TM. (2003). Synaptic augmentation contributes to environment-driven regulation of the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal reflex. Journal of Neuroscience, 23: 11611-11620. link
Calin-Jageman RJ & Ratner HH (2005). The role of encoding in the self-explanation effect. Cognition and Instruction, 23: 523-543. link
Calin-Jageman RJ & Katz PS (2006). A Distributed Computing Tool for Generating Neural Simulation Databases.
Neural Computation, 19: 1-5.
linkTian H, Sunderraman R, Calin-Jageman RJ, Yang H, Zhu Y, & Katz PS. (2006). A domain-specific query language for neuroscience data. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4254: 613-624. link
Calin-Jageman RJ & Fischer TM (2007). Behavioral adaptation of the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal reflec is accompanied by sensory adaptation. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121: 200-11. link.
Calin-Jageman
RJ, Xie C, Pan Y, Vandenberg A & Katz PS (2007). NEURONgrid: A
toolkit for generating parameter-space maps using NEURON in a grid
environment. LNCS Bioinformatics, 4463: 182-191. link.
Calin-Jageman
RJ, Tunstall M, Mensh B, Katz PS, & Frost WN (2007). A computational analysis of intrinsic and
extrinsic control of rhythmic neural activity in the Tritonia swim central pattern generator. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98: 2382-98. link
Sakurai A, Calin-Jageman RJ* & Katz PS (2007). Mechanism of heterosynaptic potentiation by serotonergic interneurons in the Tritonia swim CPG: interaction of neuromodulaiton with transmitter release. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98: 1975-87. (co-first author). link
Clemens S, Calin-Jageman RJ & Katz PS (2007). Altering cAMP levels within a central pattern generator modifies or disupts rhytmic motor output. Journal of Comparative Phsyiology, 193: 1265-71. link.
Calin-Jageman RJ,
Chen Y, Dhawan A, Frederick C, Phoungphol P, Prasad SK,
Sunderraman R, Wang H-C, Yang H, Zhu Y & Katz PS (2007). Development of NeuronBank: A federation of
customizable knowledge bases for neural circuitry. 2007 IEEE Congress on Services, 114-121. link.
Calin-Jageman RJ& Katz PS (in press). Neuromodulation. The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. (L. Squire et al, Editors). Elsevier: New York, NY.
Works in Progress
Calin-Jageman RJ & Fischer TM (in preparation). A computational analysis of co-expressed forms of neural plasticity during environmental regulation of the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal reflex.
Calin-Jageman RJ,
Dhawan A, Frederick C, Hiremath N, Ma W, Shen X, Wang HC, Yang H, Prasad S, Sunderraman
S, Zhu Y, Katz PS (in preparation). NeuronBank:
A Federation of Customizable Knowledge Bases of Neural Circuitry.
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Invited Talks
Calin-Jageman RJ (2007). Remembrance of sea slugs past: What simple organisms have taught us about learnining. 2007 Albertus Magnus Lecture Series, Sienna Center, River Forest, IL.
Calin-Jageman RJ & Katz PS.
(2005). NeuronPM: Parameter-space
mapping with Neuron. Workshop following Fourteenth Annual
Computational Neuroscience Meeting: Madison,
WI. link
Calin-Jageman, RJ & Fischer, TM
(2005). Synaptic Augmentation Contributes
to the Temporal Sensitivity of Environmental Regulation in the Aplysia
Siphon-Withdrawal Reflect. Biological and Computational Perspectives on
Intelligent Systems: Friday Harbor,
WA. link
Calin-Jageman RJ & Fischer TM (2004). Multiple processes contribute to
environtmental regulation of the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal
reflex. Annual Meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the Society
for Neuroscience. link
Conference Presentations
Ajlen AC*, Katz PS, Frantz KJ &
Calin-Jageman RJ (2007). Amphetamine enhances locomotor activity after repeated exposure in the marine mollusc
Aplysia californica.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 33, .
Calin-Jageman RJ,
Sunderraman
S, Zhu Y, Katz PS (2007).
NeuronBank: An on-line knowledge base of identified neurons and synaptic connections.
Gastropod Neuroscience: Past Successes and Future Prospects, Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA.
linkCalin-Jageman RJ, Frost WN, Katz PS
(2006). Neuromodulatory control of
rhythmic neural activity in the Tritonia swim
CPG: a large-scale computational analysis. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,
32, 350.1. link
Calin-Jageman RJ, Frost WN, Katz PS
(2006). A computational analysis of
neuromodulatory control of rhythmic neural activity in the Tritonia swim central pattern generator. 2006
Computational Neuroscience, T50, Edinburgh, Scotland. link
Calin-Jageman RJ,
Sunderraman R, Zhu Y, & Katz PS (2006). Development of Neuron Bank: An on-line
Knowledge Base of Identified Neurons and Synaptic Connections. 9th International Protege
Conference. Mon4. Stanford, CA. link
Sakurai
A, Calin-Jageman RJ, Naugle M* & Katz PS. (2005). Serotonergic enhancement of
transmitter release mediates the synaptic potentiation phase of spike
timing-dependent neuromodulation. Society
for Neuroscience Abstracts, 31, 177.13. link
Katz
PS, Calin-Jageman
RJ, Gardner C,
Pamplin JA, Sunderraman R, Tian H, Yang H, Zhu Y. (2005). Development of NeuronBank: An on-line database of identified neurons and
synaptic connections. Society for Neurosience Abstracts, 31, 570.6. link
Calin-Jageman RJ &
Katz PS. (2005). NeuronPM: Parameter-space mapping with Neuron. Workshop
following Fourteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: Madison, WI.
[Invited talk] link
Calin-Jageman
RJ & Fischer TM. (2005). Interacting
processes within the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal
circuit. Fourtheenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: Madison, WI: #78. link
Calin-Jageman RJ &
Fischer, TM (2005). Synaptic
Augmentation Contributes to the Temporal Sensitivity of Environmental
Regulation in the Aplysia
Siphon-Withdrawal Reflect. Biological and Computational Perspectives on
Intelligent Systems: Friday Harbor,
WA. [Invited Talk] link
Calin-Jageman
RJ & Fischer, TM. (2004). A
computational approach to estimating low-threshold sensory neuron dynamics in
the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal
network. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 30, 778.11 link
Fischer
TM & Calin-Jageman RJ. (2004). Characteristics of low-threshold sensory
input to the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal
netowork. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 30, 778.10. link
Calin-Jageman
RJ & Fischer TM. (2003). Environment-driven synaptic augmentation
reflects the dynamics of behavioral regulation in the Aplysia siphon-withdrawal reflex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 29 , 291.18. link
Calin-Jageman
RJ Fleischer DA*, & Fischer TM. (2002). Probing the Role of Short-term Synaptic
Plasticity in Environmental Regulation of the SWR of Aplysia. [Poster
abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 28 , 186.3. link
Fischer
TM, Calin-Jageman RJ, & Pavlovski S*. (2002). Short-term
synaptic plasticity may impart stable behavioral regulation in a
periodic environment [Poster Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 28 , 186.4. link
Calin-Jageman
RJ & Fischer TM. (2001). Temporal aspects of the ambient
environment invoke different regulatory processes in the
siphon-withdrawal response of Aplysia [Poster Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27 , 644.7. link
Calin-Jageman
RJ, Ratner HH, & Foley MA. (2001). The role of explanation
perspective in the self-explanation effect: Explaining another's
reasoning may lead to better encoding. [Poster Abstract]. Society for Research on Child Development , Minneapolis , MN .
Calin-Jageman
RJ, Ratner HH, & Foley MA. (2000l). The self-explanation effect
and children's acquisition of addition Skills: The role of
perspective-taking. [Poster Abstract]. Conference on Human Development , Memphis , TN.
* Denotes undergraduate research associate.
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Awards and Achievements
2006
First Place, Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Post Competition, Post-Doc Level
2004
Duncan McCarthy Award, Michigan Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.
Julie A. Thomas Award, Department of Psychology, WSU. link
2003
Co-founder and current president of the Wayne State Student Neuroscience Society. link
2002
First place, graduate student poster competition, Annual meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. link
2001
Second place, graduate student poster competiton, Wayne State Graduate Student Research Day. link
2000
Second place, Graduate student poster competition, Wayne State Psychology Graduate St udent Research Day.
Wayne State University Rumble Fellowship. link
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Wayne State University Rumble Fellowship. link
Albion College Presidential Scholar, 1994-1998. link
National Merit Scholar, 1994-1998.link
Consol Inc. Scholar, 1994-1998. link
Marc Leo Ameteur Comedian Scholarship, 1991. link
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Research Projects
Research summaries are available here.