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Kathleen M. Susman (Raley-Susman)

Professor of Biology on the Jacob P. Giraud, Jr. Chair of Natural History

Olmsted Hall Room 320
Phone: 845-437-7311
Fax 845-437-7315

Contact Kathleen M. Susman

  • Ph .D May 1989. Physiology, University Wisconsin Madison
  • M.S. January 1986 Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • B.S. May, 1983 Biology, College of William and Mary
  • High Honors; Phi Sigma Outstanding Student Scientist Prize

Research Interests

My lab explores the role played by microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) in neuronal cell biology and physiology. Our most recent work is exploring the role of a MAP, PTL-1, in mechanosensation in C. elegans. We use cell biological, molecular biological and proteomic approaches to these questions.

Teaching Interests

neurobiology, cell biology, introductory biology, neuroscience and behavior seminars, stress physiology

Selected Publications

  • Buddle, M., E. Eberhardt, L.H.,*Ciminello, T. *Levin, R. *Wing, and K.M. Raley-Susman. (2003) Microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) associates with the NMDA receptor and is spatially redistributed within rat hippocampal neurons after oxygen-glucose deprivation. Brain Research 978: 38-50.
  • Raley-Susman, K.M., I.S. Kass, J.E. Cottrell, R.B., *Newman, G. Chambers and J. Wang, (2001) Sodium influx blockade and hypoxic damage to CA1 pyramidal neurons in rat hippocampal slices. J. Neurophysiology 86: 2715-2726.
  • *Monje, M.M., J. *Chatten-Brown, S.E. Hye, and K.M. Raley-Susman, (2000) Free radicals are involved in the damage to protein synthesis after anoxia/aglycemia and NMDA exposure. Brain Research 857: 172-182.
  • Wang, T., K.M. Raley-Susman, J. Wang, G. Chambers, J.E. Cottrell, and I.S. Kass (1999) Thiopental attenuates hypoxic changes of electrophysiology, biochemistry and morphology in rat hippocampal slice CA1 pyramidal cells. Stroke 30: 2400-2407.
  • Gray, J. and K.M. Raley-Susman, (1998) Effects of tamoxifen, fluphenazine and estradiol on ATP levels in preoptic area and hypothalamic slices from ovariectomized rats. Brain Res. 798: 223-231.

* student author

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