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Jeff G Edwards
Physiology & Developmental Biology
Email: jeffrey_edwards@byu.edu

455 WIDB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-8080

Assistant Professor

Office Hours: T, Th 12-1

Education

PhD , Physiology, School of Medicine , University of Utah , 2003
BS , Zoology , Brigham Young University , 1994

Research

My lab studies the mechanisms mediating learning and memory that occur based on responses to our environment, which are caused by synaptic plasticity or in other words changes in synapse activity or structure. The goal of the lab is to identify the mechanisms and signaling pathways causing different forms of plasticity in the hippocampus, the structure involved in spatial and declarative (fact) memory formation, and in other regions of the brain. We hope that by studying what mediates plasticity within different cell types of the hippocampus we will not only better understand normal hippocampal function, but what occurs to alter function in disease states such as Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy.

Selected Publications

Articles

Gibson HE, Edwards JG, Page RS, Van Hook MJ, Kauer JA. "TRPV1 Channels Mediate Long-Term Depression at Synapses on Hippocampal Interneurons." Neuron. 57.5 (2008): 746-759. <website>

Wang Z, Edwards JG, Riley N, Provance DW Jr, Karcher R, Li XD, Davison IG, Ikebe M, Mercer JA, Kauer JA, Ehlers MD. "Myosin Vb mobilizes recycling endosomes and AMPA receptors for postsynaptic plasticity." Cell. 135.3 (2008): 535-548. <website>

T. JENSEN, D. BENNION, J. COUCH, M. CASTLE, S. DANIEL, *J. G. EDWARDS;. "TRPV1 modulation in the hippocampus." Program No. 737.7. 2008 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online. Nov. 2008. <website>

Edwards JG, Greig A, Sakata Y, Elkin D, Michel WC. "Cholinergic innervation of the zebrafish olfactory bulb." Journal of Comparative Neurology. 504.6 (2007): 631-645. <website>

Park M, Penick EC, Edwards JG, Kauer JA, and Ehlers MD. "Recycling Endosomes Supply AMPA Receptors for LTP." Science. 305.5692 (2004): 1972-1975. <website>

Edwards JG and Michel WC. "Pharmacological characterization of ionotropic glutamate receptors within the zebrafish olfactory bulb." Neuroscience. 122.4 (2003): 1037-1047.

Edwards JG and Odell WD. "Partial characterization of chorionic gonadotropin-like binding sites from the bacteria Xanthomonas maltophilia." Experimental Biology and Medicine. 28.8 (2003): 926-934.

Edwards JG and Michel WC. "Odor-stimulated glutamatergic neurotransmission in the zebrafish olfactory bulb." Journal of Comparative Neurology. 454.3 (2002): 294-309.

Experience

Professional

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Developmental Biology, , BYU , 2007-Present
Faculty, Dept. of Biology , BYU-Idaho , 2005-2007
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology , Brown University , 2003-2005
Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Biology , Rhode Island College , 2003-2005
Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Biology , Salt Lake Community College , 2002-2002

Awards

Course Development Project Grant , Faculty Center , 2007
National Service Research Award- Postdoctoral Fellowship , NIH , 2005
Don Tucker Memorial Award Nominee , Association for Chemoreception Sciences , 2002
Don Tucker Memorial Award Nominee , Association for Chemoreception Sciences , 2001
Most outstanding presentation , Intermountain Chapter Society for Neuroscience , 2001

Courses Taught

PDBIO 568 : Biophysics
NEURO 480 : Advanced Neuroscience
PDBIO 650R : Sel Top PDBio/Neuro
PDBIO 305 : Human Physiology (with lab)
PDBIO 494R : Undergraduate Research
PDBIO 495R : Adv Undgraduate Research
NEURO 449R : Neuro Research Experience
PDBIO 601 : Cell and Molecular Physiology (Graduate course)
PDBIO 649R : Laboratory Research
PDBIO 550R : Advanced Topics
PDBIO 349R : PDBio Teach Sem

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