STATEMENTS from nominees running for FUN Office are listed below. Nominations for President-elect, Treasurer, and Councilor were closed on September 1, 2002. Responsibilities for each office are described in the FUN Bylaws. Current officers are listed on the FUN Officers and Committees page.

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Michelle Mynlieff - Nominee for President-elect
Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

B.A., 1983, Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University.
Ph.D., 1988, Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Postdoctoral Training, Physiology, Colorado State University.
Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University.

My teaching obligations are an undergraduate Experimental Neurobiology course as well as various graduate courses. The two main projects in my research laboratory are on neurotransmitter regulation of calcium channels in the hippocampus and the involvement of autoimmunity against calcium channels in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. I have mentored students at the undergraduate, masters and Ph.D. level in my laboratory.

I joined FUN shortly after arriving at Marquette as a means to interact with other faculty teaching undergraduate neuroscience. I have served as a councilor, on the committee to establish the criteria for travel awards and as a judge for the travel awards at least twice. I would like to continue to foster the networking aspect of FUN as well as strive to attain more recognition for undergraduates and masters students by the Society.

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Matti Saari - Nominee for President-elect
Nipissing University (North Bay, Ontario, Canada)

I received my Ph.D. in 1977 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and began my teaching career at Nipissing, a small undergraduate university in Northern Ontario. I continue to serve as professor of psychology and department chair. During my years at Nipissing I believe that I have shown that undergraduates are capable of doing graduate level research if given the chance. Many of the alumni from my lab have gone on to highly productive teaching and research careers in neuroscience. I have been honoured by the Chancellor's teaching award at Nipissing as well as a province wide teaching award. It is because of my strong belief in the value of neuroscience teaching and research at the undergraduate level that I wish to have my name stand for election for the president of F.U.N.

http://www.nipissingu.ca/saari/home.htm

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Gayle Brosnan-Watters - Nominee for Treasurer
Slippery Rock University (Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania)

Gayle Brosnan-Watters has been a member of FUN for about two years. She was at Vanguard University in Southern California, a small private school, where she was instrumental in starting a neuroscience concentration in the Division of Natural Sciences. She is currently at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania where she is assistant professor of psychology, and setting up what she hopes will be an even more active lab with students. She will be teaching biological psychology every semester, and hopes to be able to develop an interest among students and faculty for a cooperative neuroscience venture of some sort.

Brosnan-Watters did her undergraduate course work at SUNY College at Oswego, and received her MA and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in Experimental Psychology with an unofficial concentration in behavioral neuroscience. She did her research in the School of Medicine at Washington University, working in the laboratories of John Olney under David Wozniak. Brosnan-Watters entered academia later in life, earning her BS at 45 and her PhD at 50. She feels that this life experience has added to her ability to be good at teaching and also to be a good manager of time, energy, and resources. She would welcome the opportunity to serve the membership of FUN as treasurer.

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Nominees (7) for Councilor: (Vote for 3)

| Mark Bardgett | Ron Bayline | Michael Kerchner | Dwight Nelson |
| Caroll Ann Paul | James Schirillo | Robert Waldeck |

Mark Bardgett - Nominee for Councilor
Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights, Kentucky)

I received my Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Missouri at St. Louis in 1991 and performed post-doctoral research at the Washington University School of Medicine. In 2000, I joined the Department of Psychology at Northern Kentucky University as an assistant professor.

My research is in the areas of behavioral neuroscience and psychopharmacology. My studies have been supported by several extramural grant sources and have been recognized by several organizations, including a Dissertation Award from the American Psychological Association, a Rafaelsen Fellowship from the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum, and a Young Investigator Award from the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. My principal teaching interests include courses in Biological Psychology, Drugs & Behavior, and Laboratory in Biopsychology and I was recently awarded the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Northern Kentucky University.

I have also established a Hands-On-Psychology program which performs neuroscience/psychology demonstrations at area grade schools. I am a regular member of the American Psychological Society, Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, Kentucky Psychological Association, and Society for Neuroscience.

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Ronald J. Bayline
Councilor

Ronald J. Bayline - Nominee for Councilor
Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, Pennsylvania)

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA, a national liberal arts college near Pittsburgh. My previous academic experience includes graduate study at Cornell University (Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior, 1998), Visiting Assistant Professor at Pomona College (1997-1998), and Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Arizona (1998-2001). Since arriving at W&J in the fall of 2001, I have worked with faculty members in biology, physics, and psychology to develop a new interdisciplinary neuroscience program. As part of the program, I am developing three new neuroscience courses; introductory neuroscience (team-taught with Psychology faculty member), experimental neuroscience, and a seminar course in neuroscience. Additionally, I have started a neuroscience research lab at W&J. This past summer, three undergraduate students worked with me investigating neuromuscular development during metamorphosis in the moth, Manduca sexta. My goals at W&J are to continue to develop the neuroscience program and neuroscience education, and to expand the research opportunities for undergraduates at the college.

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Ten years ago I helped establish my departments concentration in behavioral neuroscience (BN) and since then have mentored over forty BN students. Moreover, I have been active in a number of other organizations (e.g. CUR, PKAL) whose members share the goal of developing and implementing quality undergraduate curricula in the sciences. I believe that the skills I have acquired will enable me to make substantive contributions to FUN and I promise to devote my best efforts to insure that my period of service as a councilor is productive. Toward this end I believe that we must continue to strengthen the existing network of FUN members, to nurture resources such as JUNE, develop programs for mentoring junior colleagues, establish regional alliances among FUN members, and seek means to secure external sources of funding to support FUN's mission.

http://michael.kerchner.washcoll.edu/

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My graduate research at Northwestern University focused upon the neurobiology of mammalian circadian pacemakers with special emphasis upon the visual pathways that subserve mammalian circadian pacemakers for entrainment to local time.

My post-doctoral research at the University of Virginia focused upon the electrophysiological analyses of the mammalian circadian pacemakers with special emphasis upon the photic entrainment pathways. Currently, I am an Associate Professor of Biology at University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.

My research focus is on mammalian circadian pacemakers and the photic input pathways that subserve circadian entrainment in mammals. My research lab currently involves 5-6 undergraduates per semester in experimental projects funded by the NIMH. These projects explore the photic sensitivity for the mammalian circadian entrainment mechanism in "clock gene" knockouts using locomotor activity as an assay. Our lab meets regularly for lab meetings as well as for joint lab meetings with other circadian neuroscience research labs from the Minneapolis/St.Paul Area. I encourage my students to present their research projects in local, regional and national scientific conferences.

Carol Ann Paul - Nominee for Councilor
Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts)

Carol Ann Paul is a Senior Instructor in Biological Laboratory at Wellesley College where she has taught since 1983. Born in Northern Ireland, she graduated from Keele University, Staffordshire, England. She came to the United States in 1970 where she developed a career in laboratory instruction, teaching at Williams College for 8 years, and Harvard University for 3 years prior to coming to Wellesley College. She specializes in the creation, development and implementation of laboratory programs, especially in Neuroscience and Physiology. This led to the publication in 1997 of Discovering Neurons: The Experimental Basis of Neuroscience. She is currently working on another neuroscience laboratory manual. She has been actively involved in FUN since its inception, has presented posters several times in the Teaching of Neuroscience section at SFN meetings and has presented labs at all 3 of the PKAL Neuroscience workshops.

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I would like to serve as a FUN Councilor. I became an active member of FUN two years ago as I helped coordinate the undergraduate Neuroscience minor at Wake Forest University. As a professor in both undergraduate and graduate Neuroscience programs, I am especially interested in tailoring undergraduate instruction to dovetail with graduate work in Neuroscience. This would include helping develop teaching strategies, workshops, and
providing travel and teaching awards.

My neuroscience specialties include psychophysics, color perception, multisensory integration, portrait perception of emotions using fMRI, Gestalt grouping principles, and physiological psychology.

As an associate professor, I teach and do research at the undergraduate and Masters' level in Wake Forest University psychology department, and at the Ph.D. level in the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy at Wake Forest University Medical School. Thus, I publish collaborative work with undergraduate, Master, and Ph.D. students.

I am beginning my second year at the University of Scranton in the Biology Department. I teach a range of courses from general biology to neurophysiology. This year I will be the coordinator of the general physiology course. I am always looking for new and interesting ways to examine biological issues relevant to the different levels of students I teach. My research focuses on synaptic plasticity under normal and abnormal (recovery from injury) conditions.

Previously I served on the local chapter of the Society for Neuroscience council. We organized workshops, social functions, and poster and talk meetings for students which included such speakers as Nobel prize winner, Eric Kandel.

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