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Lauren M Jones-Lush
Ph.D.
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| Academic Title:
Assistant Professor |
| Primary Appointment:
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science |
| Secondary Appointments:
Anatomy and Neurobiology |
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ljones-lush@som.umaryland.edu |
| Location:
AHB, 100 Penn Street,
103 |
| Phone:
(410) 706-5490 |
| Fax:
(410) 706-6387 |
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Personal History
Education
1998: B.A. Computer Science, Wesleyan University
2005: Ph.D. Neuroscience, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Post Graduate Education and Training
2005 – 2007: Post-doctoral Fellow, Brandeis University, The Volen Center for Complex Systems.
Mentor: Donald B. Katz, Ph.D.
2007 – 2008: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Mentor: George F. Wittenberg, Ph.D.
Employment History
1998-2000: Software Engineer, Lucent Technologies, Hunt Valley, MD,
Undergraduate Employment
Summer 1995: Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University Department of Astronomy and Physics, Baltimore, MD
Summer 1996: Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University Department of Astronomy and Physics, Baltimore, MD
Fall 1996: Research Assistant, Kings College London, Department of Physiology, London, UK
August 1997: Teaching Assistant, Marine Biological Laboratory, Methods in Computational Neuroscience, Woods Hole, MA
January 1997-May 1998: Research Assistant, Wesleyan University Department of Physics, Middletown, CT
Current Grant Support:
NIH/NCRR Clinical Research Career Development (K12RR023250), 2008-2011
(Clinical Research Scholar, 99%), PI: Alan R. Shuldiner, M.D.
"Time and state dependence of cortical plasticity in robotic-assisted stroke rehabilitation"
University of Maryland Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and Maryland Exercise and Robotics Center of Excellence Pilot Award,
Oct 2009-2010
"Plasticity, Kinetics and Kinematics of Bilateral Reaching Therapy in Chronic Stroke"
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Jones LM, Gardner D, Jensen RV. "Synchronization of Randomly Driven Nonlinear Oscillators and the Reliable Firing of Cortical Neurons" in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1998, p.403-5. Editor: J.M. Bower.
Gao P, Hattox AM, Jones LM, Keller A, Zeigler HP. Whisker motor cortex ablation and whisker movement patterns. Somatosens Mot Res 2003; 20(3-4):191-8.
Jones LM, Lee S, Trageser JC, Simons DJ, Keller A. Precise Temporal Responses in Whisker Trigeminal Neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2004 Jul; 92(1):665-8. [Epub 2004 Mar 3]
Jones LM, Depireux D, Simons DJ, Keller A. Robust Temporal Coding in the Trigeminal System. Science 2004 June 25; 304(5679):1986-9.
Reich CG, Karson MA, Karnup SV, Jones LM, Alger BE. Regulation of IPSP theta rhythm by muscarinic receptors and endocannabinoids in hippocampus. J Neurophysiol 2005 Dec; 94(6):4290-9.
Friedman WA, Jones LM, Cramer NP, Kwegyir-Afful EE, Zeigler HP, Keller A. Anticipatory Activity of Motor Cortex in Relation to Rhythmic Whisking. J Neurophysiol 2006 Feb; 95(2):1274-7.
Jones LM, Kwegir-Afful EE, Keller A. Whisker primary afferents encode temporal frequency of moving gratings. Somatosens Mot Res 2006 March-June; 23(1):45-54.
Jones LM, Fontanini A, Katz DB. Gustatory processing: a dynamic systems approach. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2006 Aug;16(4):420-8.
Jones LM, Fontanini A, Sadacca BF, Miller P, Katz DB. Natural stimuli evoke dynamic sequences of states in cortical ensembles. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007 Nov; 104(47):18772-7. * Faculty of 1000 Biology
Abstracts and/or Proceedings
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2001, San Diego, CA. “PKC Activation During Burst Dependent Protection in Aplysia Sensory Neurons: Modeling the Calcium Dependence”. L.M. Jones, L.T. Izu, T.W.Abrams, 954.16
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2002, Orlando, FL. “Temporal Precision in the Responses of Rat Trigeminal Ganglion Neurons”. L.M. Jones, J.C. Trageser, A. Keller, 450.11
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2002, Orlando, FL. “Oscillatory Activity in Thalamic Neurons During Exploratory Whisking”. J.C. Trageser, L.M. Jones, A. Keller, 450.13
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2003, New Orleans, LA. “Precise, Sparse Coding by Trigeminal Afferents”. L.M. Jones, S. Lee, D.A. Depireux, D.J. Simons, A. Keller, 57.6
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2004, San Diego, CA. “Coding whisker stimuli in primary and second somatosensory cortex”. L.M. Jones, E.E. Kwegyir-Afful, A. Keller, 978.2
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2004, San Diego, CA. “Modulation of whisking frequency by motor cortex”. W.A. Friedman, L.M. Jones, E.E. Kwegyir-Afful, A. Keller, 187.5
Association for Chemoreception Sciences Annual Meeting, 2006, Sarasota, FL. “Ensemble responses of gustatory cortical neurons accurately predict tastant identity”. L.M. Jones, A.F. Fontanini, M.A. Bourjaily, D.B. Katz.
Association for Chemoreception Sciences Annual Meeting, 2007, Sarasota, FL. “Cortical networks and the processing of tastes”. D.B. Katz, L.M. Jones, A.F. Fontanini.
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2007, San Diego, CA. “State encoding of mechanical variables in the rat trigeminal ganglion”. A.S. Kaloti, L.M. Jones, A. Keller, M.J.Z. Hartmann, 403.1
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2008, Washington, DC. “Magnetic cortical stimulation and arm movements in a robotic environment”. L.M. Jones-Lush, T.N. Judkins, G.F. Wittenberg, 861.1
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2008, Washington, DC. “Motor cortical plasticity induced by robotic training”. T.N. Judkins, L.M. Jones-Lush, G.F. Wittenberg, 861.2
National Clinical and Translational Research Education Annual Meeting 2009, Washington, DC. "Motor Cortical Plasticity Induced by Robotic Training", L.M. Jones-Lush, T.N. Judkins, G.F. Wittenberg.
Progress in Motor Control 2009, Marseille, France. “Transcranial magnetic stimulation of Arm Motor Cortex in a robotic training environment: movement representations and plasticity”, G.F. Wittenberg, L.M. Jones-Lush, T.N. Judkins.
American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting 2009, State College, PA. “Robotic outcomes in persons with rotator cuff tears”, M. Finley, S. Conroy, L.M. Jones-Lush, C. Bever.
ACRM-ASNR Joint Educational Conference 2009, Denver, CO. “Robotic training induced cortical plasticity”, L.M. Jones-Lush, T.N. Judkins, G.F. Wittenberg.
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