Epernicus: David E Featherstone, Ph.D.

David E Featherstone, Ph.D.

Position:
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences

University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Biology, Utah State University (Logan, UT)

M.S., Toxicology, Iowa State University (Ames, IA)

B.S., Zoology, Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
Past Advisors:
Research:
Synapse development and function

http://tigger.uic.edu/~def/
Other Experience:
2006-present Lecturer, Instructor, Organizer 'Neurobiology of Drosophila' summer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

1999-2002 Consultant, Axon Instruments

1993-1994 Technician, Pacific Biomedical Research Center (Honolulu Hawaii)
Honors:
2002-present NIH, MDA, other funding agency awards

2009 Alexander von Humboldt Award for Experienced Researchers

2008 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award

2008 Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching

Communities:

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David Featherstone's Publications (34)

Regulation of glutamate receptor subunit availability by microRNAs.
Karr J, Vagin V, Chen K, Ganesan S, Olenkina O, Gvozdev V, Featherstone DE

The Journal of cell biology. 2009 May 18;185(4):685-97
Hemolymph amino acid variations following behavioral and genetic changes in individual Drosophila larvae.
Piyankarage SC, Augustin H, Featherstone DE, Shippy SA

Amino acids. 2009 Apr 10
Journal club. A neuroscientist argues for a broader approach to brain mapping.
Featherstone D

Nature. 2009 Apr 23;458(7241):949
Effect of ambient extracellular glutamate on Drosophila glutamate receptor trafficking and function.
Chen K, Augustin H, Featherstone DE

Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology. 2009 Jan;195(1):21-9
Electrophysiological recording in the Drosophila embryo.
Chen K, Featherstone DE, Broadie K

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. 2009;(27)
Harvesting and preparing Drosophila embryos for electrophysiological recording and other procedures.
Featherstone DE, Chen K, Broadie K

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. 2009;(27)
Identification and Investigation of Drosophila Postsynaptic Density Homologs.
Liebl FL, Featherstone DE

Bioinformatics and biology insights. 2008 Nov 3;2:375-387
Accelerated bang recovery in Drosophila genderblind mutants.
Featherstone DE, Yanoga F, Grosjean Y

Communicative & integrative biology. 2008 Jul;1(1):14-17
Regulation of synaptic transmission by ambient extracellular glutamate.
Featherstone DE, Shippy SA

The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry. 2008 Apr;14(2):171-81
Derailed regulates development of the Drosophila neuromuscular junction.
Liebl FL, Wu Y, Featherstone DE, Noordermeer JN, Fradkin L, Hing H

Developmental neurobiology. 2008 Feb 1;68(2):152-65
Hemolymph amino acid analysis of individual Drosophila larvae.
Piyankarage SC, Augustin H, Grosjean Y, Featherstone DE, Shippy SA

Analytical chemistry. 2008 Feb 15;80(4):1201-7
A glial amino-acid transporter controls synapse strength and courtship in Drosophila.
Grosjean Y, Grillet M, Augustin H, Ferveur JF, Featherstone DE

Nature neuroscience. 2008 Jan;11(1):54-61
Identification and investigation of Drosophila postsynaptic density homologs.
Liebl FL, Featherstone DE

Bioinformatics and biology insights. 2008;2:369-81
Nonvesicular release of glutamate by glial xCT transporters suppresses glutamate receptor clustering in vivo.
Augustin H, Grosjean Y, Chen K, Sheng Q, Featherstone DE

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2007 Jan 3;27(1):111-23
Genome-wide P-element screen for Drosophila synaptogenesis mutants.
Liebl FL, Werner KM, Sheng Q, Karr JE, McCabe BD, Featherstone DE

Journal of neurobiology. 2006 Mar;66(4):332-47
A single vesicular glutamate transporter is sufficient to fill a synaptic vesicle.
Daniels RW, Collins CA, Chen K, Gelfand MV, Featherstone DE, DiAntonio A

Neuron. 2006 Jan 5;49(1):11-6
The 4.1 protein coracle mediates subunit-selective anchoring of Drosophila glutamate receptors to the postsynaptic actin cytoskeleton.
Chen K, Merino C, Sigrist SJ, Featherstone DE

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2005 Jul 13;25(28):6667-75
An essential Drosophila glutamate receptor subunit that functions in both central neuropil and neuromuscular junction.
Featherstone DE, Rushton E, Rohrbough J, Liebl F, Karr J, Sheng Q, Rodesch CK, Broadie K

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2005 Mar 23;25(12):3199-208
Discs-large (DLG) is clustered by presynaptic innervation and regulates postsynaptic glutamate receptor subunit composition in Drosophila.
Chen K, Featherstone DE

BMC biology. 2005;3:1
Genes involved in Drosophila glutamate receptor expression and localization.
Liebl FL, Featherstone DE

BMC neuroscience. 2005;6:44
Increased synaptic microtubules and altered synapse development in Drosophila sec8 mutants.
Liebl FL, Chen K, Karr J, Sheng Q, Featherstone DE

BMC biology. 2005;3:27
Response: meaningless minis?
Featherstone D, Broadie K

Trends in neurosciences. 2002 Aug;25(8):386-7
Wrestling with pleiotropy: genomic and topological analysis of the yeast gene expression network.
Featherstone DE, Broadie K

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 2002 Mar;24(3):267-74
Developmental regulation of glutamate receptor field size by nonvesicular glutamate release.
Featherstone DE, Rushton E, Broadie K

Nature neuroscience. 2002 Feb;5(2):141-6
Drosophila alpha- and beta-spectrin mutations disrupt presynaptic neurotransmitter release.
Featherstone DE, Davis WS, Dubreuil RR, Broadie K

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2001 Jun 15;21(12):4215-24

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