CV - Don Katz

Donald Brian Katz, Ph. D.
DOB: 6/12/67
dbkatz @ brandeis . edu

Home address:
6B Windsor Rd
Somerville, MA 02144
617.623.1187

Lab address:
Rm 303 Bassine
Brandeis University, MS 013
Waltham, MA 02454
781.736.3221 (ph) or 781.736.2398 (fax)

Educational Background

Brown University (1985-1989): Honors B. A. in Cognitive Science.
Indiana University (1991-1997): Dual Ph. D. in Psychology (Clinical) and Neural Science.

Professional Experience

Indiana University:
- Assistant Instructor, Graduate Statistics I and II (led labs)
- Instructor, Research Methodology
Duke University Medical Center:
- Assistant Instructor, Fundamentals of Neuroscience (independently led and tested Discussion sections)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Neural Dynamics laboratory
Brandeis University: Assistant Professor

Honors, awards and funding

1989:	Member, Sigma Xi.
1991-1992:	Cognitive Science Fellowship, Indiana U.
1993-1995:	Traineeship on NSF Clinic Training Grant, Indiana U.
1995-1997:	Member, American Psychological Society
1995-present:	Member, Society for Neuroscience
1995-1997:	NRSA predoctoral Fellowship.
1997-1998:	Postdoctoral position on NSF Neurobiology Training Grant, Duke U.
1999-2001:	NRSA postdoctoral Fellowship.
2001-present:	NIDCD Small Grant (R-03).
2004:	Ajinomoto Young Investigator in Gustation Award, AChemS
2005:	R01 from NIDCD

Peer-reviewed Papers

Quittner, A. L., Smith, L. B., Osberger, M. J., Mitchell, T. V., & Katz, D. B. (1994). The impact of audition on the development of visual attention. Psychological Science, 5 (6), 347-353.
Blumstein, S. E., Burton, M., Baum, S., Waldstein, R., & Katz, D. B. (1994). The role of lexical status on the phonetic categorization of speech in aphasia. Brain and Language, 46, 181-197.
Katz, D. B. & Steinmetz, J. E. (1994). How long do relational representations last in the hippocampus during classical conditioning? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(3), 484-485.
Milberg, W., Blumstein, S. E., Katz, D B., Gershberg, F., & Brown, T. (1995). Semantic facilitation in aphasia: Effects of time and expectancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 7(1), 33-50.
Katz, D. B., & Steinmetz, J. E. (1997). Single-unit evidence for eyeblink conditioning in cerebellar cortex is altered, but not eliminated, by deep nuclear kainic acid lesions. Learning & Memory, 4(1), 88-104.
Ghazanfar, A. A. & Katz, D. B. (1998). Distributed processing and the evolution of speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 516-517.
Katz, D. B., Simon, S. A., Moody, A., & Nicolelis, M. A. L. (1999). Simultaneous reorganization in thalamocortical ensembles evolves over several hours following perioral capsaicin injections. Journal of Neurophysiology, 82(2), 963-977.
Katz, D. B., Tracy, J., & Steinmetz, J. E. (2001). The effect of brief stimulation of cerebellar cortex on the development and maintenance of eyeblink conditioning. Physiology & Behavior, 72, 499-510.
Katz, D. B., Simon, S. A., & Nicolelis, M. A. L. (2001). Dynamic and multimodal responses of gustatory cortical neurons in awake rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(12), 4478-4489.
Moody, A. & Katz, D.B. (2002). Artificial Intelligence in the Spatial Domain: Practice, Performance, & Possibility. In M.P. Bishop & J.F. Shroder, Jr. (Eds.), Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Mountain Geomorphology. Springer-Verlag.
Katz, D. B., Simon, S. A., & Nicolelis, M. A. L. (2002). Taste-specific neuronal ensembles from the gustatory cortex of awake rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 22(5), 1850-1857.
Katz, D. B., Rogers, R. F., & Steinmetz, J. E. (2002). Novel factors contributing to the expression of latent inhibition. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(5), 824-836.
Fontanini, A. & Katz, D. B. (2005). 7 to 12 Hz activity in rat gustatory cortex reflects disengagement from a fluid self-administration task. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93, 2832-2840.
Stone, M. E., Grimes, B. S., & Katz, D. B. (in press). Hippocampal inactivation enhances taste learning. Learning & Memory.

Chapters, reviews and commentaries

Katz, D. B. & Steinmetz, J. E. (1995). Analyzing behavior-related neural activity via correlation of distribution shape. DKI Carrier.
Smith, L. B. & Katz, D. B. (1996). Activity-dependent processes in cognitive development. In Gelman, R. & Kit-Fong, T. (Eds.), Perceptual and cognitive development. Handbook of perception and cognition (pp. 413-445). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Nicolelis, M. A. L., Katz, D. B., & Krupa, D. J. (1998). Potential circuit mechanisms underlying concurrent thalamic and cortical plasticity. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 9(3), 213-224.
Katz, D. B., Nicolelis, M. A. L., & Simon, S. A. (2000). There is more to taste than meets the tongue. American Journal of Physiology: Liver and Gastrointestinal Physiology, 278, G6-G9.
Katz, D. B., Simon, S. A., & Nicolelis, M. A. L. (2001). Electrophysiological studies of gustation in awake rats. In Nicolelis, M. A. L. & Simon, S. A., Methods and Frontiers in the Chemical Senses (pp. 339-357). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Kralik, J. D., Dimitrov, D. F., Krupa, D. J., Katz, D. B., Cohen, D., Nicolelis, M. A. L. (2001) Techniques for chronic, multisite neuronal ensemble recordings in behaving animals. Methods 25, 121-150.
Katz, D. B., Simon, S. A., & Nicolelis, M. A. L. (2002). Gustatory processing is dynamic and distributed. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12, 448-454.
Katz, D. B., Steinmetz, J. E. (2002). Psychology, circuitry, and the cerebellum. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 1(3), 229-241.
Katz, D. B. (2003). Making time with taste. Focus on "Taste response variability and temporal coding in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the rat". Journal of Neurophysiology, 90(3), 1375-1376.
Fontanini, A., Grossman, S. E., Revill, B. A., & Katz, D. B. (2003). Neural ensembles in taste coding. To appear in: The Handbook of Perception.

Invited Presentations

“Information processing in the gustatory cortex in rats.” To be presented at the XIVth International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, Kyoto, Japan. July, 2004.
“Information processing in the gustatory cortex in rats.” To be presented at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Baltimore, MD. May, 2004.
“Information processing in the gustatory cortex in rats.” To be presented at the Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Waltham, MA. March, 2004.
“Time and Gustatory Neural Responses.” Presented at Bowdoin College, Department of Biology Seminars, Brunswick, ME. October, 2003.
“Time and Gustatory Neural Responses.” Presented at the Gordon Conference for Taste and Smell, July 2003.
“It’ll All Make Sense Later: Random-walking Your Way to a Career in Neuroscience.” Presented at SUNY Binghamton, Psychobiology student seminar, Binghamton, NY. November, 2002.
“Time and Gustatory Neural Responses.” Presented at SUNY Binghamton, Department of Psychobiology Symposium, Binghamton, NY. November, 2002.
“Dynamic, Multimodal, and Hedonic Aspects of Gustatory Cortical Responses in Awake Rats.” Presented at the Pierce Laboratories, Yale University, New Haven, CT. May, 2002.
“Rapid and Evolving Reorganization of Thalamocortical Whisker Responses Following Capsaicin Injection into the Lip.” Presented at the 29th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO. January, 2000.