ELIZABETH B. EZERMAN

Lecturer

Anatomy and Neurobiology

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968

Elizabeth.Ezerman@uvm.edu

I am interested in factors that influence the development of appropriate axon pathways in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Preganglionic sympathetic neurons as well as spinal sensory neurons have been used  as model systems. With Dr. Cynthia Forehand, I have performed  experiments using in ovo microsurgery and chemical perturbations of chicken embryos followed by double labeling (fluorescent dextran amines and fluorescent carbocyanine dyes) to study the development of specificity of interaction of preganglionic sympathetics with their targets.  We are currently utilizing viral and electroporation methods to deliver function-blocking RNAi’s  to the avian hypothalamus.

• Medical Foundations course: Human Structure and Function, Course Director
• Senior Selective: Anatomy 1002
• ANNB 301Medical Gross Anatomy

D. Robinson, E.B. Ezerman, C.J. Forehand (2009) Myosin II regulation of sensory afferent growth in the embryonic chicken spinal cord, Program No. 128.4/B13. 2009 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2009.

Coutinho-Budd J.C., Ezerman, E.B. and C.J. Forehand (2008). The Effect of cAMP Signaling on the Longitudinal Extension of Spinal Sensory Neurons in the Chicken Embryo. J. Anat. 213: 547- 554.

Berggren, K., Ezerman, E.B. , P. McCaffrey and C.J. Forehand (2001). The expression and regulation of the retinoic-acid sythetic enzyme RALDH-2 in the embryonic chicken wing. Dev. Dyn. 221:1-16.

Forehand, C.J., Ezerman, E.B., J.P., Goldblatt, Skidmore, D.L. and J.C. Glover (1998) Segment-specific pattern of sympathetic preganglionic axon projections in the chicken embryo spinal cord is altered by retinoids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 95:10878-10883.

Ezerman, E.B. and C.J. Forehand (1996) Development and segmental organization of rostrocaudal dendrites of rat sympathetic preganglionic neurons. J. Autonom. Nerv. Syst. 57:29-35.

Forehand, C.J., E.B. Ezerman, E. Rubin and J.C. Glover (1994). Segmental patterning of Sympathetic Preganglionic neurons: Correlation between soma position and Axon Projection Pathway. J. Neurosci. 14:231-241.

Ezerman, E.B. (1991). Cerebellar reaggregate and explant transplants contain Bergmann glial fibers. Develop. Brain Res. 61:143-146.