DONAL C. SKINNER The Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701 Mobile: 307-760-4408 Office: 740-593-2724 dcs@ohio.edu
CITIZENSHIP USA
EDUCATION 1997 -1998 Postdoctoral Wellcome Trust International Prize Travelling Research Fellow, INRA, France 1994 -1996 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK 1994 PhD Biology (Neuroendocrinology), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England 1988 BSc Honors Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1987 BSc Zoology & Computer Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2019-Present Dean, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University 2017-2019 Dean, The Honors College, University of Wyoming 2012-2019 Professor, Endocrinology, Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming 2013-2017 Head of Department, Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming 2005-2012 Associate Professor, Physiology, Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming 2002-2005 Assistant Professor, Physiology, Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming 1999-2001 Lecturer (equivalent, in the UK, to an Assistant Professor), Animal Reproduction, Department of Clinical & Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, England; Tenured
BIOGRAPHY Donal C. Skinner received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1994, following a BS in Zoology and Computer Science from Rhodes University in South Africa. After post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and INRA in France, he was appointed to an Assistant Professorship at the Vet school at the University of Bristol before relocating to the University of Wyoming in 2002. His research during the past 20 years has focused on the seasonal mechanisms driving hormone secretion and, most recently, on the roles of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) outside the neuroendocrine reproductive axis. He was an editorial board member of Neuroendocrinology and the Journal of Endocrinology and Reproduction. He pioneered the development of the physiology bachelor’s degree at UW as a direct response to increasing student preparedness for engaging in the health care professions in Wyoming. After four years as head of the Department of Zoology and Physiology, he became the inaugural Dean of the University of Wyoming’s Honors College before accepting the deanship in Honors at Ohio University. Skinner has an h-index of 33 and has published 80 papers in scientific journals, mostly on hormones secreted by the brain.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Accomplishments as Dean of the Honors College Following intensive data analysis to identify bottlenecks in Honors completion, and in consultation with others, I drafted the first strategic plan for the Honors College. Key areas aligned with the UW strategic plan Breaking Through directive of increasing the number of students graduating with Honors. These included, amongst many: • Improving retention o oversaw a redesigned colloquium (50% of loss occurring here) o initiated new course development to align more closely with majors (10% loss) • Increasing recruitment o developed several on site recruitment days specifically for Honors. o visited community colleges to create pathway for high achieving students into Honors
• Driving internationalization o New course development (10 new courses (12 total) from a base of 2 developed) o creating pathways for semesters abroad
• Creating a clear pathway for senior thesis completion (40% loss) o provided significant increase in project resources o assisting students identify mentors/projects
• Maximizing resources which enabled hiring of key new personnel into Honors o Assessment coordinator (MJ Flanigan) o Academic curriculum coordinator (A Stebner-Steele) o Senior thesis director (J Cassady) o Online course coordinator (MK Scott) o Long-term High School Institute director (C Rothfuss)
University of Wyoming & College Committees 2018-2019 Chair of the Calendar Committee 2018 Member of President’s advisory council for Entrepreneurship & Innovation 2017-2018 Member of Co-curricular curriculum (SOAR) committee 2017 Member of search team for VP in Enrollment Management 2017 Member of the advisory committee to increase Trustee Scholar acceptance 2016-2017 Co-Chair of the Strategic Planning Subcommittee for Student Success 2016-2017 Member of the Strategic Planning Committee for Student Enrollment Management 2016 Co-Chair College of Arts & Sciences ad-hoc budgetary committee 2014-Present Member of the UW Science Initiative Leadership Committee 2014-2016 Committee for Articulation of 2+2 with Community Colleges 2010-2011 Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion committee 2008-2010 Member of the College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion committee 2012-2013 Member of the UW Women in Science Initiative 2012-2013 Member of the Society for Neuroscience Women in Science Initiative 2010-2013 Member of the Faculty Senate Speaker Series Committee 2008-2015 Chair of the Physiology Curriculum Committee 2004-2007 Member of the Faculty Senate Library Committee
Department Committees
2011-2013 Assessment Committee
2005-2013 Physiology Curriculum Committee Chair
2008-2010 Gardner-Fiske Chair Search Committee
2005-2008 Library Committee Representative
2003-2017 T.S. Harris Premedical Scholarship Committee
2002-2003 Neurobiology Position Search Committee
2007-2009 Neurobiology Position Search Committee
2002-2003 Head of Department Search Committee
2002 Floyd Clarke Scholarship Committee
Inter-Department Committees Division of Communication Disorders Position Search Committee
2003-2005 Steering committee of the University of Wyoming/New York University Fetal Programming Research Center
2002-2005
FUNDRAISING INITIATIVES Honors McMurry-Spieles Honors-Libraries endowment ($2.5 million) Hank Gardner Honors endowment ($1 million) Harris endowment ($80k and counting) John Clay endowment ($550,000) Liz & Chad Deaton $30k gift for student recruiting Several smaller donors ($1-2.5k)
Zoology & Physiology Facilitation of the WEST endowment ($100,000) UW Science Initiative ($85 million) Fred Harris (legacy endowment $1.4 million)
TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT Selected as one of 10 faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences for an Outstanding Teaching Award in 2005 and 2015. Received a “thumbs up” award Spring 2009. Awarded a Mortar Board “Top Prof” (2003, 2009, 2016, 2017), received the TS Harris Faculty award for teaching in the Zoology & Physiology Dept in 2011 and was the 2011 University of Wyoming CASE award nominee
In 2008, I developed a new degree (BS in Physiology) that forms the platform of students interested in entering the biomedical professional programs. Last year 50% of students accepted into the Wyoming contingent of the multi-state medical school consortium (WWAMI), were BS Physiology majors
I co-taught core courses in the Physiology BS 2006-2017; Fall (100 students) and Spring (210 students): ZOO3115 Human Systems Physiology 2006-2017; Fall (140 students): ZOO4125 Integrative Physiology
Developed two courses for Honors: HP3125 Medicine’s Moving Images on the role of biology in cinema, which I co-taught with a professor of English and I developed a study abroad course (UK and France) HP4152 A History of Medicine. Currently developing another study abroad War!. Taught several graduate seminars in Reproductive Biology and Neuroscience
PUBLISHED WORKS (80 papers; h-index 33) † Graduate Student; * Undergraduate Student (italics = undergraduate papers) 1. Pitynksi-Miller D†, Ross M*, Schmill M*, Schambow R*, Fuller T*, Flynn FW, Skinner DC 2017 A high salt diet inhibits obesity and delays puberty in the female rat. Int J Obesity. 41:1685-1692 2. MacGregor MJ†, Asa C, Skinner DC 2017 Variable duration of reproductive suppression in male coyotes (Canis latrans) treated with a high dose GnRH agonist Deslorelin. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 29: 12711279 3. Cardoso RC, Burns A, Moeller J, Skinner DC, Padmanabhan V 2016 Developmental programming: Insulin sensitizer prevents the GnRH-stimulated LH hypersecretion in a sheep model of PCOS Endocrinology 157: 4641-4653 4. Pitynski DP†, Flynn FW, Skinner DC 2015 Does salt have a permissive role in the induction of puberty? Medical Hypotheses 85: 463-467 5. MacGregor MJ†, Perkins EG*, Asa C, Skinner DC 2013 Contraception has gone to the coyotes (Canis latrans). J Zoo Wildlf Med 44: S4-S8 6. Edwards BS†, Smith A†, Skinner DC 2013 Chronic effects of the GnRH agonist deslorelin: the male rat as a model. J Zoo Wildlf Med Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 44: S97–S101. 7. Smith AW†, Asa C, Edwards BS†, Murdoch WJ, Skinner DC 2012 Predominant suppression of FSHβimmunoreactivity after long-term treatment of intact and castrate adult male rats with the GnRH agonist
deslorelin. J Neuroendocrinol 24(5):737-47 8. Alexander BM, Skinner DC, Roselli CE 2011 Wired on steroids: Sexual differentiation of the brain and its role in partner preference. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 2, 42: 1-11 9. Taylor AW, Evans NP, Hertz C, Skinner DC 2011 Intra-pituitary administration revisited: Development of a novel in vivo approach to investigate the ovine hypophysis. J Neuroscience Methods 199:175-182 10. Dong F, Skinner DC, Wu TJ, Ren J 2011 The heart: a novel GnRH target. J Neuroendocrinol 23(5):456-63 11. Albertson A† & Skinner DC 2009 A novel animal model to study hot flashes: no effect of GnRH. Menopause 16(5):1030-1036. 12. Skinner DC, Albertson AJ†, Navratil A, Smith A†, Mignot M†, Talbott H*, Scanlan-Blake N 2009 GnRH effects outside the hypothalamo-pituitary-reproductive axis. J Neuroendocrinol 21:282-292 13. Skinner DC 2009 Rethinking the stalk effect: A new hypothesis explaining suprasellar tumor-induced hyperprolactinemia. Medical Hypotheses 72:309-310 14. Skinner DC, Lang AL, Pahl L*, Wang Q* 2009 Substance P-immunoreactive cells in the ovine pars tuberalis. Neuroendocrinology 130: 3-8 15. Caraty A & Skinner DC 2008 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone in third ventricular cerebrospinal fluid: endogenous distribution and exogenous uptake. Endocrinology 149: 5227-5234 16. Albertson AJ†, Navratil A, Mignot M†, Dufourny L, Cherrington B, Skinner DC 2008 Immunoreactive GnRH type I receptors in the mouse and sheep brain. J Chem Neuroanat 35: 326-333 17. Albertson A†, Wang Q*, Talbott H*, Jensen D & Skinner DC 2008 The gonadotropin releasing hormone type I receptor is expressed in the mouse cerebellum. The Cerebellum 7: 379-384 18. Bliss SP, Navratil A, Breed M, Skinner DC, Clay CM & Roberson MS 2007 Signaling complexes associated with the type I GnRH receptor: Colocalization of ERK2 and GnRH receptor within lipid rafts. Mol Endocrinol 28: 531549 19. Lutz L†, Schofield N*, Crowe C*, Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2007 No effect of nutrient restriction from gestational days 28 to 78 on immunocytochemically detectable growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) neurons and GHRH receptor colocalization in somatotropes of the ovine female fetus. J Chem Neuroanat 33: 34-41 20. Lutz L†, Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2006 Effect of nutrient restriction on the somatotropes and substance Pimmunoreactive cells in the pituitary of the female ovine fetus. Growth Horm IGF Res. 16:108-18 21. Dufourny L, Caraty A, Clarke IJ, Robinson JE & Skinner DC 2005 Progesterone-receptive dopaminergic and NPY neurons in the arcuate nucleus project to regions of high density GnRH neurons in the ovine preoptic area. Neuroendocrinology 82:21-31 22. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2005 Immunocytochemical colocalization of galanin receptor 1 (GAL-R1) in GnRH neurons in the ovine hypothalamus: Effect of sex, season and oestrous cycle Brain Res 1054: 73-81 23. Dufourny L, Caraty A, Clarke IJ, Robinson JE & Skinner DC 2005 Progesterone-receptive b-endorphin and dynorphin B neurons in the arcuate nucleus project to regions of high density GnRH neurons in the ovine preoptic area. Neuroendocrinology 81: 139-149 24. Skinner DC & Dufourny L 2005 Estrogen receptor b expression in the ovine hypothalamus: Distribution and colocalization with GnRH J Neuroendocrinol 17: 29-39 25. Mignot M† & Skinner DC 2005 Colocalization of GH, TSH and prolactin, but not ACTH, with bLHimmunoreactivity: evidence for pluripotential cells in the ovine pituitary. Cell Tiss Res 319: 413 – 421 26. Dufourny L, Schofield N* & Skinner DC 2003 Galanin expression in ovine GnRH neurons: no effects of gender or reproductive status. J Neuroendocrinol 15: 1062-1069 27. Skinner DC & Caraty A 2003 Prolactin release during the estradiol-induced LH surge in ewes: modulation by progesterone but no evidence for prolactin-releasing peptide involvement. J Endocrinol 177: 453-460 28. Scanlan N†, Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2003 Somatostatin-14 neurons in the ovine hypothalamus: colocalization with estrogen receptor a and somatostatin-28(1-12) immunoreactivity, and activation in response to estradiol. Biol Reprod 69: 1318-1324 29. Vonnahme KA, Hess BW, Hansen TR, McCormick R, Rule DC, Moss GE, Murdoch WJ, Nijland M, Nathanielsz
PW, Skinner DC & Ford SP 2003 A constant 50% nutrient restriction from day 28 to 78 of gestation in ewes markedly reduces fetal growth rate in association with bilateral ventricular hypertrophy. Biol Reprod 69: 133140 30. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2003 Colocalization of progesterone receptors and thyroid hormone receptors a in the ovine diencephalon: no effect of estradiol. Neuroendocrinology 77: 51-58 31. Skinner DC, Head S* & Oliver J* 2003 Growth hormone-releasing hormone neurones in the cat do not express progesterone receptors. Cell Tissue Res. 311: 267-270 32. Skinner JD, Moss DG* & Skinner DC 2003 Inherent seasonality in the breeding seasons of African mammals: evidence from captive breeding. Trans Roy Soc Sth Afr 57: 25-34 33. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2002 Progesterone receptor, estrogen receptor a and the type II glucocorticoid receptor are coexpressed in the same neurons of the ovine preoptic area and arcuate nucleus: a triple immunolabeling study. Biol Reprod. 67: 1605-1612 34. Foradori CD, Coolen LM, Fitzgerald, ME, Skinner DC, Goodman RL & Lehman, MN 2002 Coexpression of progesterone receptors in parvicellular dynorphin neurons of the ovine preoptic are and hypothalamus. Endocrinology. 143: 4366-4374 35. Skinner DC, Cilliers SD & Skinner JD 2002 The effect of ram introduction on the oestrous cycle of springbok ewes (Antidorcas marsupialis). Reproduction. 124: 509-513 36. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2002 Type II glucocorticoid receptors in the ovine hypothalamus: distribution, influence of estrogen and absence of colocalisation with GnRH. Brain Res. 946: 79-86 37. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2002 Influence of estradiol on NADPH diaphorase/neuronal nitric oxide synthase activity and colocalization with progesterone- or type II glucocorticoid-receptors in the ovine hypothalamus. Biol Reprod. 67: 829-836 38. Skinner DC & Caraty A 2002 The measurement and possible function of GnRH in cerebrospinal fluid in ewes. Reproduction Suppl 59: 25-39 39. Malpaux B, Tricoire H, Daveau A, Locatelli A, Chemineau P & Skinner DC 2002 Melatonin and seasonal reproduction: understanding the neuroendocrine mechanisms using the sheep as a model. Reproduction Suppl 59: 167-179 40. Evans NP, Richter TA, Skinner DC, Robinson JE 2002 On the neuroendocrine mechanisms of GnRH surge induction by estradiol. Reproduction Suppl 59: 57-66 41. Goodman RL, Gibson M, Skinner DC & Lehman MN 2002 Neuroendocrine control of pulsatile GnRH secretion during the ovarian cycle: Evidence from the ewe. Reproduction Suppl 59: 41-56 42. Scanlan N† & Skinner DC 2002 Estradiol modulation of growth hormone secretion in the ewe: no growth hormone-releasing hormone neurons and few somatotropes express estradiol receptors. Biol Reprod. 66: 1267-1273 43. Skinner DC, Caraty A & Allingham R 2001 Unmasking the progesterone receptor in the preoptic area and hypothalamus of the ewe: no colocalization with GnRH neurons. Endocrinology. 142: 573-579 44. Skinner DC, Richter TA†, Malpaux B & Skinner JD 2001 Annual ovarian cycles in an aseasonal breeder, the springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) Biol Reprod. 64: 1176-1182 45. Skinner JD & Skinner DC 2001 Significance of aseasonal breeding in arid adapted antelope in southern Africa. Ecology of Desert Environments pages 391-403 46. Richter TA, Spackman DS*, Robinson JE, Dye S, Harris TG, Skinner DC & Evans NP 2001 Role of endogenous opioid peptides in mediating progesterone-induced disruption of the activation and transmission stages of the GnRH surge induction process. Endocrinology 142: 5212-5219 47. Skinner DC, Harris TG & Evans NP 2000 Duration and amplitude of the luteal phase progesterone increment times the estradiol-induced LH surge in ewes. Biol Reprod 63: 1135-1142 48. Chabbert-Buffet N, Skinner DC, Caraty A & Bouchard P 2000 Neuroendocrine actions of progesterone. Steroids 65: 613-620 49. Robinson JR, Healey AE, Harris TG, Messent AE, Skinner DC, Taylor JA & Evans NP 2000 The negative feedback
action of progesterone on luteinizing hormone release is not associated with changes in GnRH mRNA expression in the ewe J Neuroendocrinol 12: 121-130 50. Skinner DC, Bouchard P & Caraty A 1999 The progesterone blockade of the luteinizing hormone surge is overcome by RU486. J Neuroendocrinol 11: 637-643. 51. Skinner DC & Malpaux B 1999 High melatonin concentrations in third ventricular cerebrospinal fluid are not due to Galen vein blood recirculating through the choroid plexus. Endocrinology 140: 4399-4405. 52. Caraty A & Skinner DC 1999 Progesterone is essential for the full expression of the positive feedback effect of estradiol in inducing the preovulatory GnRH surge in the ewe. Endocrinology 140: 165-170. 53. Caraty A & Skinner DC 1999 Dynamics of steroid regulation of GnRH secretion during the estrous cycle of the ewe. Annales d’Endocrinologie 60: 68-78. 54. Harris TG, Dye S, Robinson JE, Skinner DC & Evans NP 1999 Progesterone can block the transmission of the estradiol-induced signal for LH surge generation during a specific period of time immediately after activation of the GnRH surge generating system. Endocrinology 140: 827-834. 55. Skinner DC 1998 Org-31806. IDrugs 1:350-354. 56. Harris TG, Robinson JE, Evans NP, Skinner DC & Herbison AE 1998 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone mRNA expression changes prior to the onset of the estradiol-induced LH surge in the ewe. Endocrinology 139: 5764. 57. Skinner DC, Caraty A & Evans NP 1998 Does gonadotropin-releasing hormone in the cerebrospinal fluid modulate luteinizing hormone release? Neuroendocrinology 67:37-44. 58. Skinner DC, Evans NP, Bouchard P, Delaleu B & Caraty A 1998 The negative feedback actions of progesterone on gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion are transduced by the classical progesterone receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci 95: 10978-10983. 59. Caraty A, Skinner DC, Huyge B, Berthault T, Picard S, Delaleu B, Malpaux B & Thiery JC 1998 GnRH increase following progesterone withdrawal in the ovariectomised (OVX) ewe is associated to an increase in the glutamaergic tone in the preoptic area (POA). Ann NY Acad Sci 839: 363-364. 60. Skinner DC & Herbison AE 1997 Effects of photoperiod on estrogen receptor, tyrosine hydroxylase, neuropeptide Y and b-endorphin immunoreactivity in the ewe hypothalamus. Endocrinology 138:2585-2595. 61. Skinner DC & Robinson JE 1997 Luteinising hormone secretion from the perifused ovine pars tuberalis and pars distalis: effects of melatonin and LH-releasing hormone. Neuroendocrinology 66: 263-270. 62. Skinner DC, Evans NP & Malpaux B 1997 Does a shortloop feedback mechanism for the control of luteinizing hormone secretion exist in the ewe? Endocrinology 138: 4220-4226. 63. Skinner DC, Caraty A, Malpaux B & Evans NP 1997 Simultaneous measurement of GnRH in the third ventricular cerebrospinal fluid and hypophyseal portal blood of the ewe. Endocrinology 138: 4699-4704. 64. Malpaux B, Viguié C, Skinner DC, Thiéry JC & Chemineau P 1997 Control of the circannual rhythm of reproduction by melatonin in the ewe. Brain Res Bull 44: 431-438. 65. Robinson JE, Skinner DC, Skinner JD & Haupt MA 1997 Distribution of LHRH neurones in the springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis). J Comp Neurol 389:444-452. 66. Skinner DC & Robinson JE 1996 The pars tuberalis of the ewe: no effect of season or ovariectomy on the distribution, density or presence of immunoreactive cells. Cell Tiss Res 284:117-123. 67. Herbison AE, Skinner DC, Robinson JE & King I 1996 Androgen receptor- immunoreactive cells in ram hypothalamus: Distribution and co-localization patterns with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone, somatostatin and tyrosine hydroxylase. Neuroendocrinology 63:120-131. 68. Malpaux B, Viguié C, Skinner DC, Thiéry JC, Pelletier J & Chemineau P 1996 Seasonal breeding in sheep: mechanism of action of melatonin. Anim Reprod Sci 42:109-117. 69. Skinner DC & Robinson JE 1995 Melatonin-binding sites in the gonadotroph- enriched zona tuberalis of ewes. J Reprod Fert 104:243-250. 70. Skinner DC, Malpaux B, Delaleu B & Caraty A 1995 Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone in third ventricular cerebrospinal fluid of the ewe: correlation with luteinizing hormone pulses and the LH surge. Endocrinology
136:3230-3237. 71. Malpaux B, Skinner DC & Maurice F 1995 The ovine pars tuberalis does not appear to be targeted by melatonin to modulate luteinising hormone secretion, but may be important for prolactin release. J Neuroendocrinol 7: 199-206. 72. Van Aarde RJ, van der Merwe M & Skinner DC 1994 Progesterone concentrations in the plasma, ovary, adrenal gland and placenta of the pregnant natal clinging bat, Miniopterus schreibersii natalensis. J Zool Lond 232: 457-464. 73. Herbison AE, Robinson JE & Skinner DC 1993 Distribution of estrogen receptor- immunoreactive cells in the preoptic area of the ewe: Co-localization with glutamic acid decarboxylase but not luteinizing hormonereleasing hormone. Neuroendocrinology 57:751-759. 74. Herbison AE, Robinson JE & Skinner DC 1993 Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP): Immunocytochemical identification of a neuropeptide synthesised by ventral paraventricular magnocellular neurones in the sheep. Brain Res 611:147-151. 75. Skinner DC, Herbison AE & Robinson JE 1992 Immunocytochemical identification of oestrogen receptors in the ovine pars tuberalis: Localisation within gonadotrophs. J Neuroendocrinol 4 : 659-662. 76. Allanson BR, Skinner DC & Imberger J 1992 Flow in prawn burrows. Est Coast Shelf Sci 35: 253 – 266. 77. Skinner DC, Moodley G & Buffenstein R 1991 Is vitamin D3 essential for mineral metabolism in the Damara mole-rat (Cryptomys damarensis)? Gen Comp Endocrinol 81: 500 -505. 78. Skinner DC 1991 Effect of intraperitoneal melatonin injections on thermoregulation in the Transvaal girdled lizard, Cordylus vittifer. J Therm Biol 16: 179 – 184. 79. Buffenstein R, Skinner DC, Yahav S, Moodley G, Cavaleros M, Zachen D, Ross FP & Pettifor J 1991 The effect of oral cholecalciferol supplementation at physiological and supraphysiological doses in naturally D3-deplete subterranean mole-rats (Cryptomys damarensis). J Endocrinol 131: 197 – 202. 80. Van Aarde RJ, Skinner JD, Knight MH & Skinner DC 1988 The use of space by a striped hyaena Hyaena hyaena in the Negev Desert. J Zool Lond 216: 575 – 577.
CONTRACTS & GRANTS Funded Projects 2012-2016 Sex and Salt: Is there a Link? NIH $100k P30 award 2011-2012 Salt and Sex. Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility $22k 2010-2012 Coyote Contraception. AMDB $38k 2011-2012 British Neuroendocrine Society support For Undergraduate Researcher $4.5k 2010-2011 Development of Non-Lethal Control of Coyotes. Morris Animal Foundation $11k 2009-2011 The Ram as a neuroendocrine model. NIH $283k 2008-2012 Prolactin regulation by the Pars Tuberalis. NSF $420k 2006-2010 Daylight Regulation of Pars Tuberalis Tachykinin-Induced Prolactin Secretion. NIH COBRE, $630k 2003-2005 X-ray System for Central Nervous System Cannulation, USDA, $27k 2003-2005 Persistence of Insufficient Luteal Phases, Co-PI Dr Bill Murdoch, AES, $40k 2002-2005 Role of GnRH in Sexual Behavior, NIH COBRE, $395k 2002-2004 Control of Fertility in Coyotes, NWRC/USDA, $25k 2002-2002 Role of Nitric Oxide in the GnRH system of the ewe. BRIN $12k 2002-2003 Hibernation and the role of the biological clock in white-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys lecurus). Wyoming University Space Grant Consortium $7k 2001-2002 What neuronal systems does progesterone target to inhibit GnRH secretion? Wellcome Trust, £75k 2000-2001 Progesterone targets in the brain. The Royal Society, £10k 1999-2002 Steroid regulation of growth hormone release. Univ. of Bristol, £28k 1997-1998 Neural mechanisms by which progesterone controls GnRH secretion. Wellcome Trust, £110k 1994-1995 GnRH secretion in CSF, BBSRC/INRA Exchange Fellowship £10k
Other
2001 Royal Society International Travel Grant (£985) 2000 Society for the Study of Fertility International Travel Grant (£300) 2000 Royal Society International Travel Grant (£1,000) 1996 British Council Alliance Grant for research in France (£2,000) 1996 Society for the Study of Fertility International Travel Grant (£300) 1995 Physiological Society Affiliate Travel Grant (£350) 1994 Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Grant (£700)
HONORS AND AWARDS 2015 College of Arts & Sciences Top 10 Teaching Award 2013 University of Wyoming CASE Award for Outstanding Teaching 2012 University of Wyoming Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award 2011 T.S. Harris Teaching Award, University of Wyoming 2009 Fall Faculty Senate Speaker Series recipient, University of Wyoming 2009 Faculty Outstanding Research Award, University of Wyoming 2005 College of Arts & Sciences Top 10 Teaching Award 1999 Short-listed for Walpole Prize, Society for the Study of Fertility, UK 1998 Royal Society of South Africa Meiring Naude Medal for contributions to science by a South African under 35 years of age. 1997-1999 Wellcome Trust International Prize Research Fellowship, France/UK. 1997-1998 Exhibition for the Royal Commission of 1851 Research Fellowship, UK 1997 Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, Séjour Scientifique Fellowship, France (declined in favor of Wellcome Fellowship); 1994-1996 Research Fellow, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK 1990-1994 Overseas Research Student Scholarship, UK 1990-1994 Overseas Trust Scholarship, UK 1990-1994 Gonville & Caius Overseas Bursary, UK 1990-1994 Foundation for Research & Development Doctoral Scholarship, South Africa 1990-1994 C.J. Adams Fellowship, South Africa 1990-1994 Ernst & Ethel Eriksen Trust Scholarship, South Africa 1990-1992 National Postgraduate Scholarship, South Africa
1989 Foundation for Research & Development Honours Bursary, South Africa 1988 Best Student paper, ZSSA Conference, Etosha, Namibia. 1986 Zoology Prize,Rhodes University, South AFrica 1985-1987 W. Waddel Trust Bursary, South Africa 1985-1987 A. Beit Scholarship, South Africa 1985-1987 T. Alty Memorial Scholarship, South Africa
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Memberships in professional societies Zoological Society of Southern Africa Society for the Study of Fertility Royal Society of Southern Africa Endocrine Society Society for Endocrinology British Society for Neuroendocrinology Society for Neuroscience Society for the Study of Reproduction Front Range Neuroscience Group Editorial Boards Domestic Animal Endocrinology (20032007) Neuroendocrinology (2006-Present) Reproduction (2007-Present) Journal of Endocrinology (2008-2012)
Frontiers in Endocrinology (2011-Present) Grant Refereeing National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation BBSRC
The Wellcome Trust
The Health Research Council of New Zealand National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Manuscript Refereeing Biology of Reproduction Cell & Tissue Research Domestic Animal Endocrinology Endocrinology European Journal of Pharmacology Experimental Neurology Hormones and Behavior Journal of Arid Environments Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy
Journal of Comparative Neurobiology Journal of Endocrinology Journal of Neuroendocrinology Journal of Neuroscience Methods Neuroendocrinology Neuroscience Letters Reproduction Tissue & Cell
PAPERS PRESENTED/SYMPOSIA/INVITED LECTURES/PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS Organization of major conferences Symposium coordinator of “Large mammals as Neuroendocrine Mammals: Advantages, Advances and Importance” 8th International Theriogenology Conference; Aug 12-17, 2001. Session for annual “Steroids in the Brain” meeting entitled Steroidal Regulation of Growth Hormone Secretion. Breckenridge March 2004 Session for annual “Peptides in the Brain” meeting entitled “Volume Transmission in Neural Communication”, Breckenridge January 2005 Session for annual “Steroids in the Brain” meeting entitled “Steroidal regulation of GnRH receptors”, Breckenridge March 2005
Papers presented 1. Pitynski D, Flynn F, Skinner, DC Salt and Puberty: “Self-regulated salt intake and the effect varying levels of salt on puberty,” European Congress of Endocrinology, 2015, Dublin, Ireland 2. Pitynski D, Flynn F, Skinner, DC. “Salt and Sex: Is there a link?” European Society of Endocrinology Basic Endocrinology Course on “Neuroendocrinology,” 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands 3. MacGregor, MJ, Collamer, L., Kiehne, M., Alderete, E., Asa, C, and Skinner, DC. 2014. Can single administration of a high dose GnRH agonist persistently suppress the coyote (Canis latrans) reproductive axis? The Society for the Study of Reproduction Annual Meeting (Grand Rapids, MI). 4. MacGregor, MJ, Asa, C, and Skinner DC. 2013. Development of a Chemical Sterilant for Coyotes. The National Academies Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources Scoping Session for the National Resources Council Frontiers in Contraception for Wildlife Management and Invasive Species Control. Webinar, November 20, 2013. 5. MacGregor, MJ, Asa, C, and Skinner DC. 2013. Development of a Chemical Sterilant for Coyotes. The Albany County Stockgrowers Annual Meeting (Laramie, WY). 6. MacGregor, MJ, Asa, C, and Skinner DC. 2013. Can Single Administration of a high dose GnRH agonist persistently suppress the canid reproductive axis? The coyote (Canis latrans) as a model, 5th International Symposium on NonSurgical Contraceptive Methods of Pet Population Control, Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs (Portland, OR). 7. Skinner DC 2012 GnRH Receptors and Effects Outside the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Reproductive Axis. 7th International Conference on Wildlife Contraception, Jackson Hole, WY 8. Edwards BS, Asa C, Skinner DC 2012 Long term exposure to a high dose GnRH agonist permanently down regulates gonadotrope immunoreactivity in the anterior pituitary gland. 7th International Conference on Wildlife Contraception, Jackson Hole, WY
9. MacGregor MJ, Asa CS, Skinner DC 2012 Chemical Castration of the Coyote (Canis latrans). 7th International Conference on Wildlife Contraception, Jackson Hole, WY 10. Baxter K, Roselli, CE, Skinner DC 2012 Pituitary gonadotropin expression in mid- and late-gestation lamb fetuses: Effect of mid-gestation exposure to an androgen agonist or antagonist. Idea Program Meeting, NIH, Washington DC 11. Edwards B, Asa C Skinner DC 2012 Suppression of male rat gonadotropes by a chronic high dose deslorelin persists post-exposure. Idea Program Meeting, NIH, Washington DC 12. Edwards B, Skinner DC 2011 Advances in Use of the GnRH Agonist Deslorelin as a Mammalian Contraceptive. Society for Reproduction & Fertility, Brighton, UK 13. Baxter K, Roselli, CE, Edwards BS, Skinner DC 2011 Sex Comparison of Pituitary Gonadotropin Expression in Late Gestation Lamb Fetuses: Effect of Mid-Gestation Treatment with an Androgen Agonist or Antagonist. Society for Reproduction and Fertility, Brighton, UK 14. Edwards B, Skinner DC 2011 Advances in Use of the GnRH Agonist Deslorelin as a Mammalian Contraceptive. British Neuroendocrine Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK 15. Baxter K, Skinner DC 2011 Sex Comparison of Pituitary Gonadotropin Expression in Late Gestation Lamb Fetuses: Effect of Mid-Gestation Treatment with an Androgen Agonist or Antagonist. Undergraduate Research Symposium, Tacoma, WA 16. Shearrer G, Skinner DC 2011 GnRH agonists alter body composition. Undergraduate Research Symposium, Tacoma, WA 17. Taylor AW, Evans NP, Hertz C, Skinner DC 2010 Intra-pituitary administration: A novel in vivo approach to investigate the ovine hypophysis. Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA 18. Smith A, Asa C, Murdoch WJ, Skinner DC 2010 Persistent cytoarchitectural changes in the adult male rat pituitary after discontinuing treatment with the GnRH agonist deslorelin. Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA 19. Smith A, Asa C, Murdoch WJ, Skinner DC 2009 Advances in Use of the GnRH Agonist Deslorelin as a Mammalian Contraceptive. Society for Reproduction and Fertility, Oxford 20. Smith A, Asa C, Murdoch WJ, Skinner DC 2009 Chronic GnRH Agonist Exposure Selectively Decreases FSHImmunoreactive Cells in the Male Rat Pituitary. British Neuroendocrine Society, Edinburgh 21. Talbott H, Skinner DC, Wu TJ 2009 Further evidence for a cardiac GnRH system in the mouse. Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, Chicago, IL 22. Smith A, Asa C, Skinner DC 2009 Effects on the pituitary of chronic treatment with the GnRH agonist deslorelin. Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, Chicago, IL 23. Skinner DC 2008 Pars tuberalis tachykinins. Presented at Winter Neuropeptide Conference Breckenridge, CO 24. Adetoye M, Skinner DC 2008 Tachykinins may induce prolactin release from the ovine pituitary via the NK1 receptor. Presented at the Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington DC 25. Skinner DC, Dong F, Wang Q, Ren J 2008 The heart: A novel source and site of action for GnRH. Presented at the Annual Endocrine Society meeting, San Francisco 26. Skinner DC, Lang AL, Pahl L, Wang QQ. 2007 Are tachykinins the elusive tuberalin? Presented at the Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego 27. Adetoye M & Skinner DC 2007 Effects of tachykinins on prolactin secretion in the male rat. School of Neuroendocrinology, Seillac, France 28. Lutz L, Skinner DC 2005 Nutrient restriction and fetal GH axis development. Combined British Fertility Societies meeting, Warwick. UK 29. Duittoz A, Constantin S, Skinner DC, Wray S 2005 GnRH-1 regulates GnRH-1 neurons Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 30. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2004 Neuropeptide Y (NPY) receptor (Y1, Y2, Y5) colocalization in ovine GnRH neurons. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, San Diego, USA. 31. Mignot M & Skinner DC 2004 Distribution of GnRH receptors in the ovine and murine brain. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, San Diego, USA. 32. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2004 Galanin receptor (GAL-R1, GAL-R2) immunoreactivity in the ovine hypothalamus: colocalization with GnRH. Annual Meeting of the Soc Study Reprod, Vancouver, Canada. 33. Mignot M & Skinner DC 2004 Immunoreactive GnRH receptors in the ovine pituitary: colocalization with gonadotropes and somatotropes but not thyrotropes. Annual Meeting of the Soc Study Reprod, Vancouver, Canada.
34. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2004 Estrogen receptor b (ERb) in the ewe hypothalamus: colocalization with GnRH or ERa. Abstract 383, FENS, Lisbon, Portugal. 35. Skinner DC, Scanlan N, Dufourny L & Fuzessery Z 2003 Somatostatin – 14 neurons in the ovine hypothalamus: colocalization with estrogen receptor α and somatostatin-28 (1-12) immunoreactivity, and activation in response to estradiol. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, New Orleans, USA. 36. Mignot M, Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2003 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor expressing neurons in the ovine hypothalamus. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, New Orleans, USA. 37. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2003 Gal-R3 receptor colocalization in ovine GnRH neurons. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, New Orleans, USA. 38. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2003 Galanin and GnRH co-localization in the ovine brain. Biol Reprod 68 Suppl. 1:645 39. Skinner DC, Harness H & Dufourny L 2003 Immunoreactive GnRH neurons in the main olfactory bulb of the ewe. Biol Reprod 68 Suppl. 1: 643 40. Dufourny L, Robinson JE & Skinner DC 2002 A small subpopulation of neuropeptide Y and progesterone receptor containing neurons projects from the arcuate nucleus to GnRH neurons in the ovine preoptic area. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, Orlando, USA. 41. Skinner DC & Dufourny L 2002 A large subpopulation of progesterone receptors containing neurons express thyroid hormone receptors a in the ovine diencephalon. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, Orlando, USA. 42. Dufourny L, Robinson JE & Skinner DC 2001 A subpopulation of neurons expressing progesterone receptor (PR) and b-endorphin (bend) projects from the arcuate nucleus (ARC) to GnRH neurons in the ovine preoptic area (POA). Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, San Diego, USA. 43. Skinner DC 2001 The measurement and possible function of GnRH in cerebrospinal fluid in ewes, 8th International Theriogenology Conference, South Africa 44. Skinner DC & Scanlan N 2001 Progesterone receptors, but not estrogen receptors, are immunocytochemically undetectable in the ovine pituitary gland Biol Reprod 64 Suppl 1:251 45. Scanlan N & Skinner DC 2001 An immunocytochemical investigation into the role of estrogen in the growth hormone axis of the ewe. Biol Reprod 64 Suppl. 1: 130-131 46. Dufourny L & Skinner DC 2001 Progesterone receptor-containing neurons show estrogen receptor alpha immunoreactivity in the ovine preoptic area and hypothalamus. Biol Reprod 64 Suppl. 1:115 47. Skinner DC 2001 Progesterone regulation of GnRH secretion. Workshop on Steroid Hormones, Breckenridge CO, USA 48. Skinner DC 2000 Unmasking the neural progesterone receptor in the ewe: no colocalization with GnRH neurons. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, New Orleans, USA. 49. Skinner DC & Caraty A 2000 Progesterone acts in the arcuate nucleus to inhibit GnRH secretion. Annual Meeting of the British Neuroendocrine Group, Bristol. 50. Lehman MN, Coolen LM, Anderson GM, Hardy SL, Skinner DC & Goodman RL 2000 Do dynorphin neurons in the sheep hypothalamus contain progesterone receptors? Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, New Orleans, USA. 51. Scanlan N & Skinner DC 2000 Distribution of growth hormone-releasing hormone immunoreactive cells in the hypothalamus of the ewe: no co-localisation with oestrogen receptor. Annual Meeting of the British Neuroendocrine Group, Bristol. 52. Skinner DC & Caraty A 1999 Dynamic changes in cerebrospinal fluid neuropeptide Y and LH responses to icv NPY infusions in ewes. J Reprod Fert Abstract Series 23: 27 53. Skinner DC, Delaleu B & Caraty A 1999 Where in the brain does progesterone inhibit GnRH secretion? Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, Miami, USA. 54. Evans NP, Robinson JE & Skinner DC 1999 Regulatory actions of progesterone on GnRH secretion. Annual Meeting of the British Neuroendocrine Group, London. 55. Lincoln GA & Skinner DC 1999 Pulsatile gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion into the cerebral ventricular system in hypothalamo-pituitary disconnected (HPD) rams. Annual Meeting of the British Neuroendocrine Group, London 56. Skinner JD, Richter TA, Cilliers SD, Haupt MA, Moss D, Malpaux B & Skinner DC 1999 Is the Springbok (antidorcas marsupialis) a true aseasonal breeder? J Reprod Fert Abstract Series 23: 107 57. Skinner DC, Evans NP, Delaleu B & Caraty A 1998 How fast does progesterone act to inhibit GnRH secretion? Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, Los Angeles, USA.
58. Skinner DC, Delaleu B, Bouchard P & Caraty A 1998 The progesterone blockade of the estradiol-induced luteinizing hormone surge is transduced by the classical progesterone receptor. Society for the Study of Reproduction Annual Meeting. Houston, Texas, USA. 59. Skinner DC, Evans NP, Delaleu B, Goodman RL, Bouchard P & Caraty A 1998 The inhibition of GnRH secretion by progesterone is transduced by the classical progesterone receptor. Joint British/French Neuroendocrine Soc Meeting, Lille, France 60. Caraty A & Skinner DC 1998 GnRH secretion during the estrous cycle of the ewe: Dynamic role of steroids. Paris, France. 61. Caraty A & Skinner DC 1998 Dynamics of steroid regulation of GnRH secretion during the ovine estrous cycle. 4th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology, Kyoto, Japan. 62. Caraty A, Delaleu B, Goodman RL, Bouchard P & Skinner DC 1998 The rapid inhibition of GnRH secretion by progesterone is transduced by its nuclear receptor. Soc Neurosci Ann Meeting, Los Angeles, USA. 63. Skinner DC, Mandon-Maurice F & Malpaux B 1996 Melatonin in third ventricular cerebrospinal fluid: Temporal relationship with melatonin concentrations in jugular plasma. Itln J Anat Embryol 101 (Suppl 1): 79-80. 64. Skinner DC, Evans NP, Harris TG & Dye S 1996 Both luteal phase progesterone (P) concentrations and the interval between P-decline and increase in oestrogen determine the timing of the LH surge in ewes. J Endocrinol 151(Suppl): P59. 65. Skinner DC, Dyer RG & Herbison AE 1996 Effect of photoperiod on estrogen receptor (ER), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), neuropeptide Y (NPY) and b-endorphin (bE) immunoreactivity in the ewe hypothalamus. Soc Neurosci Abst. Washington, USA 66. Harris TG, Evans NP, Robinson JE, Skinner DC & Herbison AE 1996 Changes in cellular gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) mRNA content in the rostral preoptic area (rPOA) prior to the estradiol-induced luteinising hormone (LH) surge in the ewe. Soc Neurosci Abst. Washington, USA 67. Harris TG, Evans NP, Dye S, Skinner DC & Robinson JE 1996 Progesterone (P) can block the LH surge when introduced immediately after a stimulatory oestradiol (E) signal, but not prior to the onset of LH surge release. J Reprod Fert Abstract Ser 18: 61. 68. Healey AE, Harris TG, Evans NP, Skinner DC & Robinson JE 1996 The rapid increase in LHRH secretion following progesterone withdrawal in the ewe is not dependent on changes in cellular LHRH mRNA content within the preoptic area (POA). J Reprod Fert Abstract Ser 18: 63. 69. Malpaux B, Viguie C, Skinner DC, Thiery JC, Pelletier & Chemineau P 1996 Melatonin and the control of seasonal reproduction in sheep. Conference on Circadian Light Reception and Regulation. Lyon, France 70. Spackman DJ Dye S, Harris TG, Robinson JE, Skinner DC & Evans NP 1996 The progesterone (P) blockade of the luteinising hormone (LH) surge is noted mediated by endogenous opioid peptides (EOP’s). J Reprod Fert Abstract Ser 18: 62. 71. Thiery JC Caraty A, Gallegos-Sanchez J, Skinner DC, Picard S, Delaleu B & Robel P 1996 Effects of progesterone withdrawal on extracellular neurotransmitters and metabolites in the preoptic area of the ewe under long versus short days 1996 7th International Conference on in vivo Methods. Tenerife, Spain 72. Skinner DC, Malpaux B, Delaleu B & Caraty A 1995 GnRH in ovine cerebrospinal fluid (CSF): detection during LH pulses and the LH surge. Proceedings of the 77th Annual Endocrine Society Meeting, Washington, USA p 554 73. Skinner DC, Malpaux B, Delaleu B & Caraty A 1995 CSF-LHRH analysis: A novel method for investigating the ovine neuroendocrine axis. British Neuroendocrine Group, Cardiff 74. Caraty A, Skinner DC, Delaleu B & Malpaux B 1995 L’amplitude de la sécrétion préovulatoire de GnRH chez le brebis est dépendante d’une imprégnation préalable par la progestérone. 24th Colloque de la Société de Neuroendocrinologie Expérimentale. 2nd Réunion Franco-Québécoise, Orford, Québec, Canada 75. Robinson JE, Skinner DC, King I, Skinner JD & Haupt MA 1995 Sex differences in the size of luteinising hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) neurones in a wild antelope. British Neuroendocrine Group, Cardiff 76. Robinson JE, Skinner DC, Skinner JD & Haupt MA 1995 Distribution of LHRH neurones in the springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis). J Reprod Fert Abst Ser 15: 54. 77. Skinner DC & Robinson JE 1994 Melatonin binds to the zona tuberalis, and not the pars distalis, of the ovine pituitary gland. J Physiol 480: 131P. 78. Skinner DC, Maurice F & Malpaux B 1994 Is the pars tuberalis (PT) the site of action of melatonin in the ewe? J Reprod Fert Abst Ser 14: 12. 79. Herbison AE, Robinson JE, Skinner DC & Harris TG 1994 Distribution and characterisation of estrogen and androgen
receptor-immunoreactive cells in the sheep hypothalamus. Fourth International Symposium on Reproduction in Domestic Ruminants, Townsville, Australia 80. Skinner DC, Goode J & Robinson JE 1993 Does melatonin influence the luteinising hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)-stimulated secretion of luteinising hormone (LH) from the foetal ovine pars tuberalis (PT) and pars distalis (PD) J Reprod Fert Abst Ser 11: 28. 81. Skinner DC & Robinson JE 1993 Melatonin inhibits the secretion of luteinising hormone releasing hormone (LHRH)stimulated luteinising hormone (LH) secretion from the ovine pars tuberalis in vitro. 32nd International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Glasgow 82. Skinner DC, Mason WT & Robinson JE 1992 Gonadotrophs in the ovine pars tuberalis respond to melatonin with an increase in intracellular calcium. Melatonin and the Pineal Gland: From basic science to clinical application. Satellite symposium of the IX International Congress of Endocrinology, Paris, France 83. Skinner DC 1992 Intracellular calcium changes in ovine pars tuberalis cells in response to melatonin. EMBO Workshop on Molecular Chronobiology, Leicester 84. Skinner DC & Robinson JE. 1992 The ovine pars tuberalis: An immunocytochemical investigation. Annual Conference of the British Neuroendocrine Group, Edinburgh 85. Tregear RT, Miller NGA, Skinner DC & Coadwell WJ 1992 Analysis of cytosolic free calcium records from lactinactivated rat t-lymphocytes and human lymphoma cells in the fluorescence activated cell sorter. J Physiol 446: 62P. 86. Skinner DC, Bunting R, Mason WT & Robinson JE. 1991. Melatonin causes an increase in intracellular calcium in dispersed ovine pars tuberalis cells. Annual Conference of the British Neuroendocrine Group, Cambridge 87. Skinner DC, Moodley G, Ross F & Buffenstein R 1989 The effect of vitamin D3 on mineral homeostasis in the Damara mole-rat (Cryptomys damarensis). S Afr J Sci 85: 333. 88. Skinner DC, Buffenstein RB & Moodley G 1989 Sunlight, sand, mole-rats and minerals. Annual Conference of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa, Namibia 89. Skinner DC 1987 Studies on an induced current through a U-tube, and its possible significance to the mud prawn, Upogebia africana. Annual Conference of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa, Pretoria
Invited Lectures 2012 GnRH – new frontiers for an old hormone. (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) 2011 GnRH – new frontiers for an old hormone. (University of Texas, Dallas, TX) 2010 GnRH – new frontiers for an old hormone. (Colorado University, Boulder, CO) 2009 Extra-pituitary effects of GnRH and its analogs. (University of Victoria, BC, Canada) 2009 Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone – New Frontiers for a Classic Neuroendocrine Hormone. (Neuroscience Division, Texas A&M, Texas) 2009 Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone – the Reproductive Axis and Beyond. (Reproduction Division, Texas A&M, Texas) 2009 Stopping Wild(life) Sex. (Brown Bag, Dept of Zoology & Physiology, Univ of Wyoming) 2008 New Frontiers in GnRH research (Animal Science Dept, University of Wyoming) 2008 GnRH receptors outside the hypothalamo-pituitary-reproductive axis (UC Denver, CO) 2008 GnRH receptors outside the hypothalamo-pituitary-reproductive axis (Gifu, Japan) 2004 Sex, GnRH and Cerebrospinal Fluid (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) 2003 Sex, GnRH and Cerebrospinal Fluid (Washington State University, Pullman, WA) 2003 From Mudprawns to Mating. (UC Davis, Bodega, CA) 2002 Environmental Endocrine Disruptors: Are we going to reap what we sow? (Dept of Engineering, University of Wyoming) 2001 Progesterone modulating GnRH secretion (Dept Zoology, University of Wyoming) 1999 Factors in ventricular CSF: Do they have a physiological function? (Dept of Physiology, University of Bristol) 1999 Cerebrospinal fluid and its possible functions (Dept of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol) 1999 Progesterone and the control of GnRH release (Dept of Anatomy, University of Bristol) 1999 Unraveling progesterone-receptive pathways (The Babraham Institute) 1998 Progesterone’s effects on GnRH release (Dept of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, UK)
1998 Progesterone: the forgotten GnRH modulator (Reproductive Science Program, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) 1998 Progesterone: the forgotten GnRH modulator (Zoology Dept; Aberdeen University, UK) 1997 Progesterone: the forgotten GnRH modulator (Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology; McGill University, Montreal, Canada) 1997 Progesterone’s acute effects on GnRH release (Physiology Dept; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) 1996 The cerebrospinal fluid and reproduction (Physiology Dept, King’s College, London) 1996 GnRH in cerebrospinal fluid (Equine Fertility Unit, Newmarket) 1996 GnRH and progesterone (Physiology Dept, Cambridge University) 1995 Spinal tap: An ewe version. Studies investigating the role of cerebrospinal fluid in reproduction (Zoology Dept, Cambridge University) 1995 Central regulation of reproduction (Institute for Zoo Biology and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany) 1993 The pars tuberalis and its possible role in seasonal reproduction (INRA-PRMD, Nouzilly,
Workshops 1998 Invited to participate in workshop on cerebrospinal fluid to establish international benchmark for diffusible signals. Los Angeles 1993 Selected for European Science Foundation workshop on Neural mechanisms involved in psychological and biological time measurement (San Feliu de Guixois, Spain);
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS
David Mayer Arianna Schabauer – Optometry School, Southern College of Optometry, Memphis Brooke Fallon Rachel Schambow – Veterinary School, Univ Minnesota Teresa Fuller – Medical School (WWAMI) Margaret Schmill – Grad School UC Riverside Micah Ross – Grad School BYU Patrick Cuin – DPharm Kelly Baxter – Medical School (WWAMI) Elsey Perkins – Oregon Institute of Technology Grace Shearrer – PhD 2016 from University of Texas at Austin Heather Talbott – PhD 2015 from the University of Nebraska Jennifer Smith – Qualified PA (Georgia)
Arik Smith – Qualified Veterinarian 2017, CSU Asher Albertson – Qualified MS/PhD 2013 Univ. Alabama Paige Chamberlain – completed MS in Doctoral program Carley Grubbs – Qualified MD (WWAMI) Nicholas Schofield – Qualified Pharmacist Lindsay Pahl Andrew Sundell Qiqi Wang – Qualified Dentist 2014 (Creighton) Rochelle Fleithman Crystal Crowe – PhD (Vanderbilt) Angela Nyland – Qualified Veterinarian Roselyn Kirsch Hayley Harness – Qualified MD (WWAMI), practicing in Utah
GRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS Graduate Degrees Completed Under My Supervision: Dori Pitynski (PhD; 2017) Postdoc at CU Denver Marjorie McGregor (PhD; 2015) Teacher in Kansas City Brian Edwards (PhD; 2014) Post-doctoral scientist in the laboratory of Dr Amy Navratil. Graduate Neuroscience Award at University of Wyoming 2013 Paige Chamberlain (MS; 2012) Currently enrolled in a Doctorate of Physical Therapy program at Clarke University Arik Smith (MS; 2010) Currently enrolled at a Veterinary School, CSU, CO; Graduate Neuroscience Award at University of Wyoming 2010
Mercy Adetoye (MS; 2009) Currently completing an MD at Michigan State Asher Albertson (MS; 2007) Accepted into MD-PhD program at Birmingham, Alabama. Graduated 2013. Awarded OUTSTANDING MS at University of Wyoming 2009 Lacey Lutz (MS; 2007) Currently a forensic pathologist in Missoula Mallory Mignot (MS; 2004) Currently runs Mears-Morgans horse center near Woods Landing, Wyoming Niamh Scanlan (PhD; 2004; Bristol, UK) Currently lecturer at Sparsholt College, Hampshire, England Trevor Richter, (MS; 1998; University of Pretoria) Currently works for Pfizer, Ontario, Canada Graduate Degrees Completed in which I served on a Committee Maureen McAuliffe 2003 MS Clarke Cotton 2005 MS Matt Stratton 2006 MS Katie Greller 2009 MS Lea Rempel 2004 PhD Feng Dong 2007 PhD Shawna McBride 2008 PhD Gwen Haley 2008 PhD Catherine Hubbard 2008 PhD Xiaochun Zhang 2008 PhD Anna Fuller 2010 MS Andrew Young 2011 PhD Tuerdi Subati 2011 PhD Caitlin Murphy 2011 PhD
POSTDOCTORAL STUDENTS/RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Andrew Taylor (2007-2011) works for Conservation Africa Laurence Dufourny (2000-2004) Currently a CNRS Research Scientist at INRA, Tours, France
OTHER ACTIVITIES/ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2019 TEDx speaker at the University of Wyoming Wired on Steroids 2013-2015 Received award from The Society for Endocrinology (UK) to promote Endocrinology as an undergraduate at the University of Wyoming 2005-2015 I raised funds from the Society for Reproduction and Fertility as well as the British Neuroendocrine Society to send four undergraduates and one graduate to work in the United Kingdom for 8 weeks over the summer 2003-2006 Faculty advisor for University of Wyoming Physiology Club 1998-2001 Evaluator for Current Drugs Ltd 1992 One of 20 postgraduate students in Europe to attend Chronobiology workshop (JW Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany)