| RAE SILVER
Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan Professor of Natural and Physical Sciences
CURRICULUM VITAE
Current Appointments
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
1190 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 5501
New York, NY 10027
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
168th Street &Broadway
NY 10032
Department of Psychology
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Telephone: (212) 854-5531
Fax: (212) 854-3609
email: QR@columbia.edu
Titles
Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan Professor of Natural & Physical Sciences Psychology Department, Barnard College
Professor of Psychology, Psychology Department, Columbia University
Professor Psychology in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Program Director, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, Barnard College
Director: Graduate Program in Psychology at Columbia University
Positions/Titles
2006-2007: Senior Advisor, National Science Foundation
1990: Kaplan Professor of Natural and Physical Sciences
1982: Professor, Psychology Department, Barnard College and Columbia University
1979-1982: Associate Professor and Chair, Psychology Department, Barnard College
1976-1979: Assistant Professor, Barnard College of Columbia University
1974-1976: Research Associate, The American Museum of Natural History
1974-1976: Assistant Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York
1972-1974: Assistant Professor, Rutgers - The State University
Educational Background
Degree Institution Year Field
B.Sc. Honours McGill University 1966 Physiol. Psychol.
M.A. City College of the City
University of New York 1970 Biopsychology
Ph.D. Institute of Animal Behavior
Rutgers - The State University
Advisor: Daniel S. Lehrman 1972 Biopsychology
Research Grants (reverse chronological order)
2007-2012 NIMH MH075045SCN Networks and Efferent signals
2006-2008 NSF IOS-05-54514 Cellular mediator of thermoregulatory responses
1998-2011: NINDS grant NS37919 (13 years of support to date, several competing renewals) Physiological dissection of the SCN
2003-2004: NSF DBI 320988
Acquisition of a Confocal Microscope for the Sciences
2003-2006: NIMH R21 The Immune Response in Mast Cell Deficient Mice
2001-2006: NIH
Molecular Physiology of Circadian Rhythms (PI Dr. D. McMahon)
2000-2005: NIH NS41069
The Function(s) of AVP & PKCbeta l in the SCN of mice
Alaskan Basic Neuroscience Program (SNRP Grant: PI Dr. L. Duffy)
1996-2005: NIMH Grant MH 54088
Mast cells-Function in Normal Adult Brain (PI: Dr. A-J Silverman: Co-PI Silver)
1998-2001: NSF-CNRS Grant
Brain mast cells in sheep
*1976-2001: NIMH Grant MH 29380 (*25 years of support, several competing renewals)
Factors influencing parental behavior
1996-1999: AFOSR Grant
Efferent signals of the SCN
1995-1998: NSF Grant
Brain photoreceptors
1994-1995: NSF SGER award
Brain mast cells
1992-1995: AFOSR Grant
Efferent signals of the SCN
1987-1995: NIH Grant NS24292
Circadian rhythms: restoration by neural grafts
1994: NATO Grant (with Dr. Serviere, INRA, France)
1992: NATO Grant (with Dr. Serviere, INRA, France)
1989: Irna and Jacob Michael Visiting Professor
Weizmann Institute, Israel
1986-1987: Whitehall Foundation Grant
Encephalic photoreceptors
1982-1985: Whitehall Foundation Grant
Neural mechanisms of parental behavior
1981: NSF Grant TF1 8100678
Acquisition of a centrifuge and accessories
1978: NSF Grant BNS 7816287
Wild doves in Africa: Field validation of laboratory studies
Educational and Training Awards:
2006: Michael Weintraub APS undergraduate student research award
2002-2004: NIH Grant
Support for students and infrastructure for the meeting of the Society for Research in Biological Rhythms
2002: NASA Grant
Support for students and infrastructure for the meeting of the Society for Research in Biological Rhythms
2002: NSF Grant
Graduate student and post-doc support for attendance at the Society for Research in Biological Rhythms meeting in May 2002
2002: American Physiological Society Award to sponsor of 2 undergraduate students (Taslima Bhuiyan, Lucila Martinez)
1998: NSF Grant: Workshop on “The CSF as a communication pathway of the brain”
Workshop held in association with the Society for Neurosciences meeting
1996: NSF Grant
Support for student travel to Behavioral Endocrinology Conference in Turin
1990-1994: ONR Grant NOO14-91-5-1314
Predictions of scientific career orientation among able college women
1981-1984: NSF CAUSE Grant
Comprehensive improvements in curriculum and instructional technology (Co-Director)
1977-1982: NSF Grant SED 7712124 and 79-09032
Development of the instructional films in ethology: Behavior of the ring dove
Service to Government
2008 US representative to the Human Science Frontiers Program Strasbourg, France
2006-2007 Senior Advisor, National Science Foundation, Office of the Director
2002: Chair, Research Maximization and Prioritization Committee for International Space Station, NASA
2001: Committee member, NASA: International Space Station Cost and Management Evaluation
Task Force
Service to the Scientific and Research Community
2006-2009 Member, Institute of Medicine Forum on Neuroscience
2004-2006: Chair, BRS review panel National Institute of Health
2005-2006: External Advisory Board member NSF Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Georgia State, Emory and other colleges
2004-2007: Society for Neuroscience Education Committee
2003-2005: FO2A Fellowships Study section, ad hoc member
2005: Chair NIH IFCN3 NIH review panel
2000-2005: Special emphasis panel member NIH IFCN3
1999-2005: Advisory Board, International Society for Chronobiology
2001-2004: Member, Society for Neuroscience Program committee
(Chair, Theme E - Autonomic and Limbic System)
2003: Panel member, Ford Foundation Minority Fellowship Review panel
2003: Panel member, ZRIG AARR-5 Center for Scientific Research
2000-2002: President, Society Research in Biological Rhythms
1991-2002: Chair, External Advisory Committee, NSF Center for the Study of Biological Rhythms,
University of Virginia
2001: Panel member, Ford Foundation Minority Fellowship Review panel
1999: Program Chair, International Congress of Chronobiology, Washington DC
1999: Program Chair, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
1999-present: Panel member, IFCN3 CSR National Institute of Health
1999: Chair, Search Committee for editor of Journal of Biological Rhythms
1997: Chair, Search Committee for editor of Journal Hormones and Behavior
1997: Neuroscience Working Group: Integrative, Regulatory and Behavioral Neurosciences - charged
with writing first draft of charter for Neuroscience study sections (March)
1994-1997: Member-at-Large, American Psychological Association
1993-1997: Advisory Committee Member, International Ornithological Society
1996-present: Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Advisory Board Member
1996: Member at Large, Society for Chronobiology
1994-1996: Panel Member, NIMH Psychobiology, Behavior, and Neurosciences 1995: Panel Member, NSF, Undergraduate Education and Instrumentation
1994-1996: Member-at-Large, Society for Research in Biological Rhythms
1995: Panel Member, Careers for Scientists, Bank Street School for Children
1995: Member, Committee of visitors for the Neuroscience Cluster NSF (June)
1995: Rapporteur, American Physiological Society, Conference on "Understanding the Biological
Clock - from Genetics to Physiology"
1994: Program Chair, American Psychological Association
1994: Elective Member, American Ornithological Union
1993-1994: Panel Member, NIMH Behavioral Neurosciences
1992-1994: Member, Advisory Committee, Society for Research in Biological Rhythms
1988-1989: Chair, Psychology Department, Barnard College
1989: Member, Search Committee: Director of the Institute of Animal Behavior-Rutgers University
1987-1989: Panel Member, Sensory & Integrative Systems, NSF
1987: Panel Member, Panel on Mathematics Education, Oberlin College
1986-1987: Panel Member, Psychobiology, NSF
1979-1983: Panel Member, Neuropsychology Panel, NIMH
Service to Educational Community:
2007: Participant: launch of PhD program at University of Jalapa, Jalapa Mexico
2007: External Review Committee, Psychology Department, Berkeley, CA
2005: Member, external reviewer for Training Grant in Neuroscience at Hunter College
2005: External Review Committee: Brooklyn College of City University
2002: Review of Psychobiology Program at Hunter College
2001: Review of Biology Departments of Stern College and Yeshiva University
1998: Review of Psychology and Computer Science Departments at University of Toronto
1990: Selection committee for Chair of Institute of Animal Behavior
Editorial Board
2006-2009 Editorial Board, Endocrinology
2004-present: Receiving editor, European Journal of Neuroscience
1997-present: Biological Rhythm Research
1996-present: Hormones and Behavior
1995-present: Journal for Research in Biological Rhythms
1985-1989: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Service to Barnard/Columbia
2004-2006: Director, Graduate Program in Psychology
2004 - 2006: Director, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, Barnard College
2002-2004: Member, Grants Committee, Barnard College
2001-2004 Member: Program Committee Society for Neuroscience
2003 - : Director of Graduate Program in Psychology (CU)
2002: Member, Grants Committee, Barnard College
1998-2001: Member, Barnard Medalist committee
1995: Chair, Provost Search Committee, Barnard College
1992-1994: Member, Committee on Instruction, Barnard College
1986-2001: Member, Animal Care Committee, Columbia University
1989-1993: Chair, Psychology Department at Barnard
1984-1987: Member, Faculty Planning Committee
1983-1988: (First) Director of Quantitative Reasoning Program, Barnard College
1985: Established first academic computer centers, Barnard College
1983-1984: Member, Faculty Executive Committee
1983-1986: Member, Executive Committee, Health and Society Program
1982-present: University Ad Hoc Committees (approximately 1/year since 1982)
Professional Associations (Alphabetical order)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (~1995)
American Ornithological Union (Fellow, 1994)
American Physiological Society
American Psychological Association (Fellow-Division 6, 1984)
American Psychological Society (Charter Member and Fellow, 1989)
Endocrine Society
FASEB
International Ornithological Society
International Society for Chronobiology
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Society for Neurosciences
Society for Research in Biological Rhythms
Please see PDF for listing of scientific publications.
News and Press Items
Welsh, David K. “Gate Cells See the Light.” Journal of Biological Rhythms 22 (2007):
26-28.
"A Timely Reminder." Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14 (2007): 569.
Sanders, Robert. “Brain hormone puts brakes on reproduction.” UC Berkeley Press
Release. Feb 2006
Faculty of 1000 Biology: evaluations for Kriegsfeld LJ et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2006 Feb 14 103 (7) :2410-5
http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1031785/evaluation
Nicholson, C. “Signals that go with the flow.” TINS 22 (1999): 143-145.
Lamberg, Lynne. "Researchers Dissect the Tick and Tock of the Human Body’s Master
Clock." JAMA 278 (1997): 1049-1051.
Movies and Television Appearances
1999: Research on Circadian rhythms was filmed for a BBC production for the Discovery Series show on Circadian rhythms; air dates Jan 1999 (Britain), July 1999 (USA) (Film)
1999: Played myself in the Comedy Central Show on the bioethics of animating mannequins;
with Vance DeGeneres (Television)
1997: Played myself in the Comedy Central Show on Circadian rhythms; with Whitney Brown
(Television)
1988: Research on circadian rhythms in doves and in hamsters, a sequence filmed for: Rhythms
and Moods, In: "The Mind" (Producer, Martin Freeth) BBC. (Produced by BBC) (Film)
1985: The Reproductive Behavior of the Ring Dove. A 20 minute classroom film. Funded by
NSF 1981 (Film) (Won 2nd prize at the Animal Behavior Society)
1980: The Dove Story: One hour film produced for Mike Mansfield,
Executive Producer at NOVA, funded by NSF and NOVA (Film)
Invited Addresses and Symposia (limited to recent years)
2008: Beijing, China
Kumming, China
New Orleans LSU HSCU Medical School
2007: -Rockefeller University Rockefeller University Student and Postdoc Sponsored seminar
Series (SPSSS) Exploring the brain’s circadian clock
A case study in spatio-temporal circuit organization
-Society for Neuroscience SYMPOSIUM co-chair with Dr Kathie Olsen
(Neurotech for Neuroscience: Unifying Concepts, Organizing Principles, and Emerging
Tools)
-President’s Science Advisory Council, Barnard College Nov 13
-Latin American Physiology 50TH year celebration conference, Puebla, Mexico
-Cold Spring Harbor, Clocks Symposium
-Cold Spring Harbor, Arousal Course
-Gatsby Institute Conference on Quantitative Biology, London
-Gordon Conference on Chronobiology
2005: Lehigh University, University of Massachusetts, University of Veracruz at Jalapa,
Mast Cells in Health and Disease Meeting, Eilat, Israel; Department of Neuroscience,
University of Chicago; Rockefeller University; University of Halifax; Gordon Conference
on Chronobiology, Rhode Island; University of Puerto Rico; University of Toronto,
Society for Neuroscience meeting Beach Award presentation to Lance Kriegsfeld.
2004:
Speaker (with Nawshin Hoque and Jennifer Nunez) at President’s Advisory Council,
Barnard College;
Eastern Psychological Association, Invited keynote address for Presidential Symposium,
Eastern Psychological Association, Washington DC;
Co-Chair and Speaker, Japanese Anatomy Meeting Kyoto, Japan;
Invited Address on Brain Mast Cells, Keystone conference, Taos, NM.,
Winter Brain Research Conference, Invited Symposium Participant;
Keynote Speaker at Presidential Lecture, Society for Research in Biological Rhythms,
Whistler, Vancouver;
Keynote speaker on Circadian Control of Hormone Secretion, Society for Behavioral
Neuroendocrinology, Lisbon, Portugal;
Biology Department, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
2003: Organizer and Chair of NIMH workshop NIH meeting on Circadian rhythms
Sapporo, Japan
University of Minnesota
Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Indiana University, Bloomington
University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2002: University of Virginia, Center for Biological Timing (January)
NIMH: "The Effects of Psychological Variables on the Progression of HIV
Disease" (January)
University of Michigan (February)
University of Texas at College Station (March)
Universite de Tours Ecole Doctorale, Tours, France (June)
New York University Biology Department (June)
University of Alaska, Neuroscience Program, Fairbanks (July)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (September)
Andechs Germany Summer School Lecture (September)
Beijing University, Beijing, China, (October)
Japanese Society for Chronobiology, Nagoya Japan (November)
University of Sapporo, Sapporo Japan (November)
2001: Keystone symposium on Biological Clocks (March)
American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Chicago (June)
Society for Behavioral Neuroendrocrinology (June)
University of Alaska, Fairbanks First Annual Neuroscience Program (July)
Japanese Neuroscience Meeting, Clock symposium and Molecular Clock symposium
(September)
2000: University of Fairbanks, Alaska
Oregon State Health Sciences University, Oregon, Health Sciences Center
Society for Research in Biological Rhythms, Jacksonville, FL.
Department of Neonatology, Columbia Health Sciences
Dartmouth University Medical School, Dartmouth Symposium for the Life Sciences
1999: Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (January)
Williams College (February)
Hamilton College (March)
Workshop on steroid hormones and brain function, Breckenridge, CO (April)
Institut National pour Recherche Agricole, Nouzilly, France (June)
University of Delaware; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, CPMC
Sleep and Vigilance at the American Physiological Society, Fort Lauderdale, Miami
Gordon Research Conference, Barga, Italy
Biology Department, Puerto Rico
1998: University of Pennsylvania (January)
University of Houston (February)
New York University (March)
American Society for Neurochemistry, Denver Colorado (March)
NYU Post-graduate-Medical School and New York Neuropsychology Group (May)
Society for Research in Biological Rhythms (May)
Society for Behavioral Endocrinology Atlanta (June)
INRA, Nouzilly, France (June)
University of Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz, Mexico (July)
City College, Biology Department (November)
Workshop Organizer: “The CSF as a communication pathway of the brain”. Society for
Neuroscience Meeting (November)
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry (December)
1997: Department of Neurosciences at Concordia University (February)
NSF-NIH panel on immune-neuroendocrine interactions (March)
University of Maryland, Baltimore (April)
University of Massachusetts Neuroscience Seminar Series (April)
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Medicine (April)
Georgia State University, Atlanta Georgia (May)
Gordon Conference on Chronobiology (August)
Distinguished Visiting Speaker Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Brain Research
Institute, U.C.L.A. (June)
NSF-CNRS Conference: Biological Rhythms: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms
International Society for Chronobiology Paris, France
1996: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore Speaker and Co-chair
for symposium: The Mind’s Clocks-Circadian and Interval Timing Mechanisms,
Baltimore (February)
Human Frontiers Conference: Photic control of Seasonal Cyclicity - Lyons, France (May)
Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (June)
International Conference on the study of Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Turin, Italy,
(August)
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Columbia College of Phsyicians and Surgeons
University of Cincinnati, School of Medicine. Cincinnati, Ohio
1995: Sapporo Symposium on Biological Rhythms. Symposium on role of the SCN in Circadian
Rhythmicity, Sapporo, Japan.
Toya Conference, Symposium on Biological Rhythms, Toya National Park, Japan
Discussant: Panel on GnRH neurons. Conference on reproductive behavior, Boston
American Physiological Society Symposium-Rapporteur on Cellular Basis of Biological
Clocks, Hanover, NH
Keystone Symposium on encapsulation of biological tissue for transplantation. Frisco,
Colorado.
American Psychological Association, invited address on brain-immune interactions,
Hunter College
1994: Organizer and speaker, NIMH workshop on Mast Cells, Washington, D.C.
Plenary Speaker, International Ornithological Union, Vienna, Austria
Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, Participant in Workshop on photoreception
and Session Chair of "Ontogeny of the SCN", FL. Invited symposium speaker, Conference on Reproductive Behavior
Society for Neurosciences, Chair of Social Event for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Biology Department, Columbia University
University of Tlaxcala, Mexico
1993: Gordon Conference on Biological Timing, Vermont
Conference on Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Tours, France
World Conference of Sleep Research, Hawaii
Neuroscience Program, Johns Hopkins University
Neuroscience Program & Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Columbia University School of Medicine
Neurosciences Program, Princeton University
1992: Conference on Circadian Rhythms - Fondation pour L'Etude du Systeme Nerveux Central
et Peripherique
Neurosciences Department, University of Connecticut
Biology Department, Wellesley College
Biology Department, Cornell University
Albert Einstein School of Medicine; Neurosciences Program
Michigan State University
Vth International Avian Endocrinology Conference, Edinburgh
NSF Science and Technology Center for the Study of Biological Timing, University of
Virginia at Charlottesville
1991: Visiting lecturer, Guadalajara, Mexico
Gordon Research Conference, Irsee, Germany
20th International Conference on Chronobiology, Tel Aviv, Israel-Session chairman and
speaker
INRA, Laboratoire de Physiologie Sensorielle, Jouy-en-Josas, France
100th Anniversary celebration of the University of Goteborg, Session chairman and
organizer, Goteborg, Sweden
Visiting Professor, University of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, Mexico
European Winter Brain Conference on Endocrine and Peptidergic Control of Sexual
Behavior, Crans-Montana, Switzerland
Biobehavioral Research Center, Bloomington, Indiana
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Columbia University, Biology Department
Rockefeller University Field Research Center
1990: Developmental Psychobiology Meeting, Session chair and speaker, Puerto Rico
Society Biological Rhythms, Florida
New York State Department of Psychiatry
Psychology Department, Binghamton, NY.
Society for Research in Biological Rhythms, Fla.
Biology Department, State University of New York at Albany
Neurosciences Program, University of Illinois at Champaign
Psychology Department, Concordia UniversityBiology Department, Neuroscience Colloquium, City University of New York
Department of Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Occasional Reviewer (partial listing)
Aggression; Animal Behaviour; Association of Women in Science Educational Foundation; Biol.
Reproduction; City University Research Foundation; Condor; Developmental Psychobiology;
Gen. Comp. Endocrinology; Harper and Row; Hormones and Behavior; Journal of Comparative
and Physiological Psychology; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal for Research in Biological
Rhythms; National Research Council of Canada, Canadian National Medical Research Council;
National Science Foundation; Nature; NIH - Center for Scientific Review; NIH - RCDA
Program; NIMH - Fellowship Program; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Little, Brown and Co.;
Ontario Mental Health Foundation; Pharmacology; Physiology and Behavior; Science
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