Nina Tang Sherwood
Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Duke University 1998
B.S., University of California - San Diego 1990
Ozdowski, E. F., S. L. Baxter, and N. T. Sherwood. “Drosophila Models of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia.” In Movement Disorders: Genetics and Models: Second Edition, 1103–22, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-405195-9.00073-1. Full Text
Ozdowski, Emily F., Jill S. Wentzell, Stefanie M. Engert, Helena Abbott, and Nina T. Sherwood. “Suppression of spastin Mutant Phenotypes by Pak3 Loss Implicates a Role for Reactive Glia in AD-HSP.” Frontiers in Neuroscience 14 (January 2020): 912. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00912. Full Text
Baxter, Sally L., Denise E. Allard, Christopher Crowl, and Nina Tang Sherwood. “Cold temperature improves mobility and survival in Drosophila models of autosomal-dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP).” Disease Models & Mechanisms 7, no. 8 (August 2014): 1005–12. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.013987. Full Text
Stone, Michelle C., Kavitha Rao, Kyle W. Gheres, Seahee Kim, Juan Tao, Caroline La Rochelle, Christin T. Folker, Nina T. Sherwood, and Melissa M. Rolls. “Normal spastin gene dosage is specifically required for axon regeneration.” Cell Reports 2, no. 5 (November 2012): 1340–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2012.09.032. Full Text
Stewart, Andrea, Asako Tsubouchi, Melissa M. Rolls, W Daniel Tracey, and Nina Tang Sherwood. “Katanin p60-like1 promotes microtubule growth and terminal dendrite stability in the larval class IV sensory neurons of Drosophila.” The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 32, no. 34 (August 2012): 11631–42. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0729-12.2012. Full Text
Ozdowski, Emily F., Sophia Gayle, Hong Bao, Bing Zhang, and Nina T. Sherwood. “Loss of Drosophila melanogaster p21-activated kinase 3 suppresses defects in synapse structure and function caused by spastin mutations.” Genetics 189, no. 1 (September 2011): 123–35. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.111.130831. Full Text
Du, Fang, Emily F. Ozdowski, Ingrid K. Kotowski, Douglas A. Marchuk, and Nina Tang Sherwood. “Functional conservation of human Spastin in a Drosophila model of autosomal dominant-hereditary spastic paraplegia.” Hum Mol Genet 19, no. 10 (May 15, 2010): 1883–96. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddq064. Full Text
Sherwood, Nina Tang, Qi Sun, Mingshan Xue, Bing Zhang, and Kai Zinn. “Drosophila spastin regulates synaptic microtubule networks and is required for normal motor function.” Plos Biology 2, no. 12 (December 2004): e429. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020429. Full Text
Bolton, M. M., D. C. Lo, and N. T. Sherwood. “Long-term regulation of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in hippocampal cultures by brain-derived neurotrophic factor.” Progress in Brain Research 128 (January 2000): 203–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0079-6123(00)28018-7. Full Text
Sherwood, N. T., and D. C. Lo. “Long-term enhancement of central synaptic transmission by chronic brain-derived neurotrophic factor treatment.” The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 19, no. 16 (August 1999): 7025–36. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.19-16-07025.1999. Full Text
Sherwood, N. T., S. S. Lesser, and D. C. Lo. “Neurotrophin regulation of ionic currents and cell size depends on cell context.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94, no. 11 (May 1997): 5917–22. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.94.11.5917. Full Text
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Selected Grants
Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2001 to 2022
Transmission electron microscope (TEM) awarded by National Institutes of Health (Minor User). 2019 to 2020
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
Organization and Function of Cellular Structure awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1975 to 2020
Genetic Analysis of the Function and Regulation of Microtubule Severing in Neurons awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2008 to 2012
Neurotrophin Modulation Of Synaptic Transmission awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 1995 to 1997
Neurotrophin Modulation Of Synaptic Transmission awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 1996 to 1997