Background
Greenspan, Ralph Jay was born on March 23, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin and Frances Greenspan.
(A second edition of the classic handbook has become a sta...)
A second edition of the classic handbook has become a standard in the Drosophila field. This edition is expanded to include topics in which classical genetic strategies have been augmented with new molecular tools. Included are such new techniques as homologous recombination, RNAi, new mapping techniques, and new mosaic marking techniques.
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(The neurogenetic approach to understanding the developmen...)
The neurogenetic approach to understanding the development, structure, and functioning of excitable cells and systems is a relatively new one. The results of this approach as described in this book, demonstrate that neurogenetics is already taking its place along side the traditional tools of physiology and biochemistry in the study of the nervous system. The book opens with a discussion of the basic cellular functions that underlie a variety of seemingly simple behaviors. It then proceeds to more complex phenomena, involving far more than one or a pair of excitable cells. Rather than developing the neurogenetic features of each experimental organism in isolation, topical features of the various organisms are discussed at appropriate points throughout. The subject is developed under three major headings: Physiological and Neurochemical Genetics: sensory mechanisms, nerve impulses and ionic channels, and neurotransmission; Behavioral Neurogenetics: general motor mutants, visual behavior, circadian rhythms, learning and memory, reproductive behavior, and the neurochemistry of higher behavior, and Developmental Neurogenetics: fate mapping of presumptive neural tissues, histogenesis and differentiation of excitable cells, inductive tissue interactions, neurospecificity, and physiological activity in development. Jeffrey C. Hall is affiliated with the Department of Biology, Brandeis University; Ralph J. Greenspan with the Department of Physiology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco; and William A. Harris with the Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego. The book is another in a series that has evolved from a Work Session organized by MIT's Neurosciences Research Program.
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Greenspan, Ralph Jay was born on March 23, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin and Frances Greenspan.
Bachelor in Biology, Brandeis University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1979.
Postdoctoral fellow University California, San Francisco, 1979-1982. Assistant professor Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1982-1987. Associate member Roche Institute Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey, 1987-1992.
Professor biology and neural science New York University, 1992-1997. Instructor The New School, New York City, 1992-1997. Senior fellow The Neuroscis.
Institute, San Diego, since 1997.
(The neurogenetic approach to understanding the developmen...)
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Director public education Thrivers' Network for Cancer Survivors, San Diego, since 1994.
Married Dani Suzanne Grady, February 18, 1994.