Michele B. Halvorsen Ph.D. June 2003

C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e

Date of Birth: July 24, 1969

Place of Birth: Chicago, IL

Address: University of Maryland

Department of Biology

College Park, MD 20770

301-405-0519 La_Michelita@hotmail.com

Postdoctoral:

June 2003- Present University of Maryland, Dept of Biology, College Park, MD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Academic Education:

Fall 1996 to spring 2003 University of Illinois at Chicago, Biological Sciences Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, Chicago, IL

-Ph.D., Neurobiology

Fall 1989 to spring 1991 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

-B.S., Zoology

Fall 1987 to spring 1989 Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL

-Assoc. in Science

Employment:

Fall 1996 to 2003 Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois at Chicago: Biology, Nerve and Muscle Physiology, Animal Physiological Systems, Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Intro Histology.

Spring 2002,2000 Graduate Research Assistant

Summer 2002, 2000, 1999,

1998,1997

Spring 1994 Instructor at Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL

Principles of Biology

Ph.D. Program:

Entered UIC program: August 1996

Supervising Professor: Dr. Thomas J. Park

My research involved studying the development of the auditory system with regards to its ability to localize sounds. The methods were extracellular electrophysiological recordings and behavioral experiments.

Publications:

Halvorsen MB, Grothe B, Park TJ (In progress 2003). Sensitivity to Interaural Intensity Differences in the Inferior Colliculus of Juvenile and Adult Gerbil.

Comer CM, Parks LY, Halvorsen MB, Breese-Terteling A. (2003). The antennal system and cockroach evasive behavior. II. Stimulus identification and localization are separable antennal functions. Journal of Comparative Physiology A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 189(2):97-103.

Klug A, Khan A, Burger RM, Bauer EE, Hurley LM, Yang L, Grothe B, Halvorsen MB, Park TJ (2000) Latency as a function of intensity in auditory neurons: transformations along the neuraxis. Hearing Research 148:p107-123 (Sept)

Halvorsen MB and Park TJ (2001) IID Sensitivity in Gerbil IC: Adult vs. Juvenile. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr

Halvorsen MB, Grothe B, Bruetel G, Park TJ, (2000) IID sensitivity in neurons tuned to low frequencies in the gerbil inferior colliculus. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Midwinter meeting Abstr.

Klug A, Khan A, Halvorsen MB, Burger RM, Park TJ (1999)

Intensity dependant latency shifts are transformed along the neuraxis. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Midwinter meeting Abstr.

Holinstat MA, Halvorsen MB, Oswald JP, Klug A, Park TJ, (1998)Does nonmonotonicity degrade the reliability of IID coding? Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Midwinter meeting Abstr.

Parks LY, Halvorsen MB, Comer CM, (1997) Localization of receptors crucial for escape behavior elicited by antennal contact in cockroaches. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.

Presentations:

April 2000 Sigma Xi

Specialized Training:

January 2000 Techniques and Theories of Animal Training –Moss Landing, Ca

August 2000 Acoustic Communication (bioacoustics) –Odense, Denmark

Fall 2000 Marine Mammalogy -JG Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL

Spring 2001 Bioacoustics –JG Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL

Related Experience:

1991-1992 Brookfield Zoo

Zoo keeper in Primate Department

1992-1995 Dundee Animal Hospital

Veterinary technician and emergency vet. tech.

Memberships:

2000 - Present International Society for Neuroethology

1998 – Present Association for Research in Otolaryngology

1997, 2001- Present Society for Neuroscience

2001-2002 American Physiological Society