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Lieberman, Melvyn was born on February 4, 1938 in Brooklyn.
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The tissue culture approach to the study of membrane properties of excitable cells has progressed beyond the technical problems of culture methodology. Recent developments have fostered substantive contributions in research con cerned with the physiology, pharmacology, and biophysics of cell membranes in tissue culture. The scope of this volume is related to the application of tissue culture methodology to developmental processes and cellular mechanisms of electrical and chemical excitability. The major emphasis will be on the body of new biological information made available by the analytic possibilities inherent in the tissue culture systems. Naturally occurring preparations of excitable cells are frequently of suf ficient morphological complexity to compromise the analysis of the data obtained from them. Some of the limitations associated with dissected prepa rations have to do with the direct visualization of and access to the cell(s) in question and maintenance of steady-state conditions for prolonged periods of time. Since preparations in tissue culture can circumvent these problems, it is feasible to analyze the properties of identifiable cells, grown either singly or in prescribed geometries, as well as to follow the development of cellular inter actions. A crucial consideration in the use of cultured preparations is that they must faithfully capture the phenomenon of interest to the investigator. This and other potential limitations on the methodology are of necessary concern in the present volume.
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Lieberman, Melvyn was born on February 4, 1938 in Brooklyn.
Bachelor in Zoology, Cornell University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 1965.
Lecturer, lab in instructor, department biology, Queens College, CUNY, 1960, 63-64;
teaching assistant department physiology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1960-1964;
postdoctoral fellow department embryology, Carnegie Institute Washington, Baltimore, 1964-1965;
postdoctoral fellow department embryology, Institute de Biofisica, U. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1965-1967;
postdoctoral fellow division biomedical engineering, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1967;
research associate department physiology and pharmacology, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1967-1968;
assistant professor, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1968-1973;
associate professor, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1973-1978;
professor department physiology, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1978-1988;
director department graduate studies, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1977-1980;
professor department cell biology, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, since 1988;
director graduate studies, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1988-1990;
associate professor medicine, member integrated toxicology program, since 1989;
special assistant to executive vice president, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1990-1995;
special assistant to senior vice president research administrator, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1995-1996;
member Heart Center, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, since 1988;
member Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, since 1992;
director university associations program, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, since 1992;
professor department biomedical engineering, since 1993. Coordinator United States-Japan Cooperative Science Program Conference, Tokyo, 1974, 88, United States-Brazil Cooperative Science Program Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 1980, Gordon Conference-Muscle, 1979. Visiting investigator Jan Seammerdam Institute, U. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1975.
Consultant Macy Foundation, 1970, National Institutes of Health, since 1972, physiology study section, 1980-1984, Research Training Review Comm., 1990-1994, National Science Foundation, since 1974, others. Member research review committee New York Heart Association, 1980-1985. Member cardiovascular research study committee American Heart Association, 1987-1990.
Howard Hughes Predoctorate Fellowship Evaluation, since 1994. Participant numerous science symposia. Member basic Science county American Heart Association, 1963, established investigator, 1971-1976, public review committee, 1989-1993, Research Program and Evaluation Commission, since 1995.
Research review subcommittee North Carolina Heart Association, 1972-1975, chairman, 1975-1976, public affairs committee, 1988-1991, research committee, since 1993. Microstructure committee, North Carolina Board Science and Technology, 1989-1993, Task Force on Intellectual property and licensing government university industry research roundtable, 1991-1993, Industrial Liaison program, Research Triangle Universities, 1991-1993. Academic advisory coun.Indsl.
Research Institute, since 1994, President's advisory county, Houston Advanced Research Center, since 1995.
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Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, American Heart Association, American Physiological Society (Porter development committee 1974-1977, educational materials review board 1975-1977, international physiological committee 1993, chairman 1994-1995, councillor cell and general physiological section 1984-1987, chairman 1987-1988, 91-95, section advisory committee 1992-1995), American Society Cell Biology, Biophysics Society, Cardiac Muscle Society, International Society Heart Research (councillor since 1993), New York Academy of Sciences, North Carolina Heart Association, Physiological Society, Society General Physiologists (secretary 1969-1971, representative Nil Ratan Sircar 1971-1974, president 1981-1982, publications committee 1982-1985), Physiological Society (United Kingdom), Sigma Xi.
Married; 2 children.