George Happ
University of Alaska Fairbanks & University of Vermont
Photo by Christy Yuncker Happ
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- Christy Yuncker Photo Journal - AlaskaSandhillCrane.com
- Alaska Sandhill Crane Blog
- Is crane dance innate or learned?
- Sandhill crane books
- Do cranes usde pheromones?
- Twin colts in 2010
- Local ecology and novelty
- Crane brains 3 - Mental maps of local ecology
- Crane Brains 2 - wiring plan
- Crane Brains 1- Evolutionary origins
- Death, visitations, and dance of "solidarity"
- Alaska Crane Kindergarten
- Return to nestsite and hatch of twin coltss
- Crane parents compensate for colt's injury
- Origins of the blog
- How birds think
Biographical information
Research
Publications
Lectures on Cranes & Brains
Contact information
How Birds Think
Time & temperature in
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Paul N. Black (PhD, Vermont -1981)
Department Chair
Charles Bessey Professor of Biochemistry
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE
Melton EM, Cerny RL, Watkins PA, DiRusso CC, Black PN (2011) Human fatty acid transport protein 2a/very long chain acyl-CoA synthetase 1 (FATP2a/Acsvl1) has a preference in mediating the channeling of exogenous n-3 fatty acids into phosphatidylinositol J Biol Chem. 286(35):30670-9
Xu Feng (PhD, Vermont -1994)
Department of Pathology
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Birminghan, AL
Xia WF, Tang FL, Xiong L, Xiong S, Jung JU, Lee DH, Li XS, Feng X, Mei L, Xiong WC (2013) Vps35 loss promotes hyperresorptive osteoclastogenesis and osteoporosis via sustained RANKL signaling. J Cell Biol. 200(6):821-837
Njidda M. Gadzama (PhD, NYU ~1971)
Chief Coordinator, Biotechnology Centre,
University of Maidugri,
Maidugri, Nigeria
Molta NB, Daniel HI, Watila IM, Oguche SO, Otu TI, Ameh JO, Gadzama NM. (1992) Efficacies of chloroquine, pyrimethamine/sulphadoxine and pyrimethamine/sulphalene against P. falciparum in northeastern Nigeria. J Trop Med Hyg.95(4):253-9.
Patrick J. Dailey (Postdoctoral-Vermont)
Associate Professor
Division of Health and Life Sciences
Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey, IL
Kay Grimnes (Postdoctoral -Vermont)
Professor of Biology (emerita)
Alma College
Michigan-
Hidenori Kai (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Vermont)
Professor of Insect Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences
Tottori University, Koyama, JapanPitchayawasin-Thapphasaraphong S, Tani N, Isobe M, Kai H, Kurahashi T, Kato J, Trisunan S. (2009) Molecular heterogeneity of TIME-EA4, a timer protein in silkworm diapause eggs Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 73(7):1578-85
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Makoto Kiuchi (Postdoctoral -Vermont)
Transgenic Silkworm Research Unit
Genetically Modified Organism Research Center>br/> National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan.Yukuhiro K, Sezutsu H, Tamura T, Kosegawa E, Iwata K, Ajimura M, Gu SH, Wang M, Xia Q, Mita K, Kiuchi M.. (2012) Little gene flow between domestic silkmoth Bombyx mori and its wild relative Bombyx mandarina in Japan, and possible artificial selection on the CAD gene of B. mori Genes Genetic Syst. 87(5):331-340
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Jean-Jacques Lenoir-Rousseaux (Postdoctoral-Vermont)
Laboratory of Zoology, University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France (retired)
Lenoir-Rousseauz JJ, Gautron JJ (1986) Variations in acetylcholinesterase activity of the brain of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera) during metamorphosis and ecdysterone titer [Article in French] C R Seances Soc Biol Fil. 180:22-8
Milton Landers DO (PhD CSU & Vermont~1980)
Anaesthesiologist, Kansas Spine Institute Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Univ Kansas, School of Medicine-Wichita , KS
Landers MH, Dreyfuss P, Bogduk N (2012) On the geometry of fluoroscopy views for cervical interlaminar epidural injections. Pain Med. 13(1):58-65.
Aleth Lemoine (Postdoctoral Vermont)
UMR-CNRS 6265
Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation
Dijon, France
Gascuel J, Lemoine A, Rigault C, Datiche F, Benani A, Penicaud L, Lopez-Mascaraque L (2012) Hypothalamus-olfactory system crosstalk: orexin a immunostaining in mice. Front Neuroanat. 6:44.
- Guido Paesen (Postdoctoral - Vermont)
Research Scientist, Division of Structural Biology
Oxford University
Oxford, UK
Preston SG, Majtán J, Kouremenou C, Rysnik O, Burger LF, Cabezas Cruz A, Chiong Guzman M, Nunn MA, Paesen GC, Nuttall PA, Austyn JM (2013) Novel immunomodulators from hard ticks selectively reprogramme human dendritic cell responses. Plos Pathog. 9(6):e1003450.
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Marnix Peferoen (Postdoctoral - Vermont)
Program Leader, Plant Genetics Systems
Ghent, Belgium
Filho OG, Denolf P, Peferoen M, Decazy B, Eskes AB, Frutos R.(1998) Susceptibility of the coffee leaf miner (Perileucoptera spp.) to bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins: A model for transgenic perennial crops resistant to endocarpic insects Curr. Microbiol. 36(3):175-9
Amanda Read (Postdoctoral - Alaska)
Hign Containment Lab Manager
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TexasCalverley M, Erickson S, Read AJ, Harmsen AG(2012) Resident alveolar macrophages are susceptible to and permissive of Coxiella burnetii infection PLoS One. 7(12):e51941
- Margaret Schwartz (Postdoctoral - Vermont)
Director, Vermont Forensics Laboratory
Department of Public Safety
Division of Criminal Justice Services
Waterbury, Vermont 
Hiroshi Shinbo (Postdoctoral, Vermont)
Vice President
National Institute of Agrobiological Science
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Shinbo H, Konno K, Hirayama C.(1997) The pathway of ammonia assimilation in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. J Insect Physiol. 43(10):959-964.-
John C Somberg, MD (Undergrad research - NYU)
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Rush University Medical College
Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
Chicago, IL .Somberg JC, Preston RA, Ranade V, Cvetanovic I, Molnar J. (2012) Gender differences in cardiac repolarization following intravenous sotalol administration J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2012 Mar;17(1):86-92.
Teresa M. Szopa (Postdoctoral, Vermont)
former Research Associate
The Royal London HospitalTitchener PA, Jenkins O, Szopa TM, Taylor KW, Almond JW. (1994) Complete nucleotide sequence of a beta-cell tropic variant of coxsackievirus B4. Med Virol. 42(4):369-73.
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Sigrid Vogl, DVM (Postdoctoral - Alaska)
Veterinarian
Austria 
Zhengyu Wei (PhD - Alaska)
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Cooper University Hospital and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Camden, NJ
Frantisek Weyda (Postdoctoral - Vermont)
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Sobotník S, Sillam-Dussès D, Weyda F, Dejean A, Roisin Y, Hanus R, BourguignonT (2011) The frontal gland in workers of Neotropical soldierless termites Naturwissenschaften. 97:495-503.
Toshinohu Yaginima (Postdoctoral Vermont~1985)
Professor of Sericulture and Entomoresources Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Ohde T, Yaginuma T, Niimi T (2013) Insect Morphological Diversification Through the Modification of Wing Serial Homologs Science. 340:495-498.