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Brooks Pond, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences at East Tennessee State University College of
Pharmacy.
Dr.
Pond received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology from Duke
University in 2004, where she worked closely with Dr. Rochelle
Schwartz-Bloom in the Department of Pharmacology and Dr. George
Augustine in the Department of Neurobiology. Her graduate work focused
on the role of chloride transporters in neuronal death associated with
cerebral ischemia.
After
graduate school, Dr. Pond continued her research training in a
postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology
at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In collaboration with Dr.
Richard Smeyne, she began investigating the long-term effects of
methylphenidate (Ritalin®) exposure on neural development,
growth, and function.
Dr.
Pond received an American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Young
Investigator Award in 2006. She is also an active member of the
Society for Neuroscience, American Society for Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
| 2000 – 2004 |
Ph.D. in
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Certificate in Cell and MolecularBiology
Duke University Medical Center
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| 1996 – 2000
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B.S. in
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Centre College
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Professional
Experience
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2007 - Present |
Assistant
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
East Tennessee State University
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2006 – 2007 |
Instructor
Department of Biology
King College
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2004 – 2006 |
Postdoctoral
Research Associate
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital |
Research/Scholarship Interests
Morphological, genetic, and behavioral effects of
long-term exposure to psychostimulants
Animal models of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Select Publications
M. Smeyne, J. Boyd, K. R. Shepherd, Y. Jiao, B.
B. Pond, M. Hatler, R. Wolf, C. Henderson, and R.J. Smeyne. (2007)
GST
expression mediates dopaminergic neuron sensitivity in experimental
parkinsonism. Proceedings
of the National
Academy of the Sciences. 104: 1977-1982.
B. B. Pond, K. Berglund, T. Kuner, G. Feng,
G. J. Augustine, and R. D. Schwartz-Bloom. (2006)
The Chloride Transporter Na+-K+-Cl–
Cotransporter Isoform-1 Contributes to Intracellular Chloride Increases
after In Vitro Ischemia. Journal
of Neuroscience. 26: 1396-1406.
B. B. Pond, F. Galeffi, R. Ahrens, and R. D.
Schwartz-Bloom. (2004) Chloride transport inhibitors influence recovery
from oxygen-glucose deprivation-induced cellular injury in adult
hippocampus. Neuropharmacology. 47: 253-262.
F. Galeffi, R. Sah, B. B. Pond, A. George, and R. D.
Schwartz-Bloom. (2004) Changes in intracellular chloride after
oxygen-glucose deprivation in the adult hippocampal slice: Effect of
diazepam. Journal of Neuroscience. 24: 4478-4488.
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