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R. Scott Peterson
Currently:
Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Physiological Science and Laboratory
of Neuroendocrinology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA.
Principle Research
Interests,
Topics and Techniques: Cellular and
molecular
neuroscience. Neuroendocrine mediators of
neuroprotection and neural repair. The
regulation of steroidogenesis in the zebra finch model of brain injury.
Estrogen synthesis in the central nervous system. In situ
hybridization, immunocytochemistry, in vitro cell culture,
biochemistry,
electron microscopy, stereotaxic surgery.
Doctoral Thesis: Estrogen
Synthesis in the Central Nervous
System:
The Cellular and Spatial
Distribution of
Aromatase in the Songbird Brain
E-mail: rsp@ucla.edu
Education:
Ph.D.
1999-2004
University of
California, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Interdepartmental
Program in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative
Physiology
M.S.
1997-1998
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Department
of Physiological Science
B.A.
1993-1996
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
Department
of Behavioral Biology
Positions Held:
Teaching
Assistant
1997-1999
Dept.
Physiological Science
Teaching Associate
1999-2001
Dept. Physiological Science
Teaching Fellow
2001-present
Dept. Physiological Science
Teaching Assistant Consultant
2000
Dept. Physiological Science
Selected
Publications:
R. Scott Peterson, C. J.
Saldanha and B. A. Schlinger. (2001).
Rapid upregulation of aromatase mRNA
and protein following neural injury in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia
guttata). The
Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 13
(4) 317-323.
R. Scott Peterson, D. W.
Lee, G. Fernando and B.A. Schlinger. (2004) Radial glia express
aromatase in
the injured zebra finch brain. J Comp Neurology. In press.
R. Scott Peterson, B. A Schlinger and C. J. Saldanha. Aromatase is
pre-synaptic and sexually dimorphic in sex steroid sensitive regions of
the
adult songbird brain.
Selected Abstracts:
R.
Scott Peterson, Colin J. Saldanha, and Barney
A. Schlinger. (2000) Aromatase is rapidly transcribed
and translated in glia
following neural injury in the
zebra finch. Society
for
Neuroscience Abstracts.
R.
Scott Peterson, D. W. Lee, C. Okabe, G. Fernando, and B. A Schlinger.
(2002)
Injury-induced cytogenesis and aromatase expression in the zebra finch.
Society
for Neuroscience.
R.
Scott Peterson, G. Fernando, B. A. Schlinger and D. W. Lee. (2003)
Injury-induced aromatase expression and cytogenesis in the adult zebra
finch:
Effects of ovariectomy and aromatase inhibition. Society for Behavioral
Neuroendocrinology.
D. W. Lee, R. S Peterson, G.
Fernando, B. A Schlinger. (2003) Cytogenesis and aromatase expression
in the
injured adult zebra finch.. Society for Neuroscience.
C. J. Saldanha, R. S.
Peterson, L. Yarram, and B. A. Schlinger. (2003) The synaptocrine
hypothesis: A
novel mechanism of estrogen delivery. Society for Behavioral
Neuroendocrinology.
C. J. Saldanha, R. S.
Peterson, L. Yarram, and B. A. Schlinger. (2003) The synaptocrine
hypothesis: A
novel mechanism of estrogen delivery. Society for Neuroscience.
Affiliations:
The Society for Neuroscience
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
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