Education and Training

 

09 – 15             Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (with Dennis D.M. O’Leary)

 

03 – 09             PhD in Neuroscience at Northwestern University (“Focal Manipulation of αE-catenin Function in the

                         Developing Neocortex,” with Anjen Chenn)

 

00 – 03             MS in Biology at Bowling Green State University (“Sub-chronic Serotonin Treatment Down-

                         regulated Endoplasmic Reticular Oxidoreductin,” with Robert Huber)

 

96 – 00             BS with honors in Biology at Bowling Green State University

 

Publications

 

Journals

 

Stocker, AM & DDM O’Leary.  2016.  Emx1 is required for neocortical area patterning. PLoS One. 11(2): e0149900.  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149900

[PubMed]  [pdf]

 

A Zembrzycki*, Stocker, AM*, A Leingartner, S Sahara, S-J Chou, VA Kalatsky, SR May, MP Stryker, & DDM O’Leary.  2015.  Genetic mechanisms control the linear scaling between cortical primary and higher order sensory areas. eLife. 4: e11416.  DOI: 10.7554/eLife.11416

*Denotes co-first author.

[PubMed]  [pdf]

 

Zhang, J, GJ Woodhead, SK Swaminathan, SR Noles, ER McQuinn, AJ Pisarek, AM Stocker, CA Mutch, N Funatsu, & A Chenn.  2010.  Cortical neural precursors inhibit their own differentiation via N-cadherin maintenance of beta-catenin signaling. Developmental Cell, 18 (3), 472 – 479.

[PubMed]

 

Stocker, AM & A Chenn.  2009.  Focal reduction of alpha-E-catenin causes premature differentiation and reduction of beta-catenin signaling during cortical development.  Developmental Biology, 328, 66 – 77.

[PubMed]

 

Maher, MT, AS Flozak, AM Stocker, A Chenn, & CJ Gottardi.  2009.  Activity of the beta-catenin phosphodestruction complex at cell-cell contacts is enhanced by cadherin-based adhesion.  Journal of Cell Biology, 186 (2), 219 – 28.

[PubMed]

 

Stocker, AM & A Chenn.  2006.  Differential expression of alpha-E-catenin and alpha-N-catenin in the developing cerebral cortex.  Brain Research, 1073-4, 151 – 158.

[PubMed]  [pdf]

 

Stocker, AM & R Huber.  2001.  Fighting strategies in crayfish Orconectes rusticus (Decapoda, Cambaridae) differ with hunger state and the presence of food cues.  Ethology, 107 (8), 727 – 736.

[Abstract]  [pdf]

 

Reviews & Book Chapters

 

Stocker, AM & A Chenn.  2015.  The role of adherens junctions in the developing neocortex.  Cell Adhesion & Migration, 9 (3), 167 – 174.

[PubMed]  [pdf]

 

O'Leary, DDM, AM Stocker, A Zembrzycki.  2013.  Area Patterning of the Mammalian Cortex.  In: Patterning and Cell Type Specification in the Developing CNS and PNS: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience, Volume 1, Chapter 21, 25 pages.

[DOI]  [pdf]

 

 

 

 

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