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P.O. Box 32027
572 Rivers Street
Boone, NC
28608-2027
(828) 262-3025
FAX: (828) 262-2127

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Dr. Steven Seagle
seaglesw@appstate.edu

 

Neuroscience

Leslie Sargent Jones
Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University

East Hall B-11
(828) 262-2083
jonesls@appstate.edu

http://www.honors.appstate.edu/about/jonesls.php

Previously, I worked on questions related to neural plasticity. The in vitro kindling model in hippocampal slices was used as a model system to examine questions such as the role of integrins and their extracellular matrix ligands (e.g., laminin) in mediating the anatomical concomitants of neural plasticity. Currently, the main focus of study is strategies to involve undergraduates in original, authentic research. I advise a group of undergraduates at institutions around the world who are the publication team for an international, online journal for undergraduates to report their neuroscience research findings. This journal, IMPULSE, is the first of its kind, posting original research findings and review articles by students globally. For information about IMPULSE see http://impulse.schc.sc.edu

Goto the official website for Impulse: An Undergraduate Journal for Neuroscience.

Recent Publications

Yoshida, Y, Shigeri, Y, Saito, Y, Jones, LS, and Niki, I (2007) Chemical Reactivities and Physical Effects in Comparison between Tocopherols and Tocotrienols, J. Biosci. Bioeng., 104: 439-445.

Jones, LS (2007) The ethics of transcranial magnetic stimulation, Science, 315:1663.

Jones, LS (2005) Recent advances in the role of integrins in developmental and adult synaptic plasticity, in Synaptic Plasticity and Transsynaptic Signaling, Eds:P.K. Stanton, C. Bramham, and H.E. Scharfman, Springer.

Nikonenko, I, Toni, N, Moosmayer, M, Shigeri, Y, Muller, D, Jones, LS (2003) Integrins are involved in synaptogenesis, cell spreading, and adhesion in the postnatal brain. Developmental Brain Research. 140: 185-194.

Smith, M.D., Jones, L.S., and Wilson, MA (2002) Sex differences in CA1 slice excitability: reduction by gonadectomy and restoration by estrogen or testosterone. Neuroscience. 109: 517-530.

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