The following is a list of people who are willing to offer assistance to teachers and students wanting to use zebrafish in laboratory exercises. The list was compiled by:
Pat Edwards, ZF Publications Coordinator
Institute of Neuroscience
1254 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1254
(503) 346-4556
FAX (503) 346-4548
edwards@uoneuro.uoregon.edu
***************************************************** High School Resource List ***************************************************** Daniel Alexandre (devel curriculum) Laboratoire de Neurogenetique INSERM U 432 Universite Montpellier II. CC 103 Place Eugene Bataillon 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, FRANCE 33-67-14-48-02/ 33-67-14-39-28 daniel@univ-montp2.fr "I am currently a postdoc at King's College, London, but will (hopefully) get an assistant professor position when back in France. I'll be teaching developmental biology and zebrafish would be an ideal model for that purpose..." DR. ALEXANDRE HAS SINCE MOVED TO HIS LAB IN FRANCE... ***************************************************** Jim Barnes (h.s. teacher) 8771 S. 83rd St. Franklin, WI 53132 (715) 785-3910/ FAX (715) 785-3993 jbarnes@omnifest.uwm.edu ***************************************************** Alison Barth (resource) Department of Molecular & Cell Biology 306 Stanley Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 abarth@uclink.berkeley.edu ***************************************************** Alexei O. Beniumov (resource) Moscow State University Faculty of Biology Department of Embryology 119899 Moscow, Vorobjovi Gory RUSSIA FAX 7-95-939-5022 benjumov@embr.bio.msu.su "I go in for the zebrafish normal development and patomorphogeny, transgenics and gene activity in embryogenesis. If you suggest my assistance in this program from Russia of use, I will lend a hand, gladly..." ***************************************************** Peter Brunjes (resource) Life Sciences Labs Unviersity of Virginia 102 Gilmer Hall Charlottesville, VA 22903 (804) 924-0687/ FAX (804) 982-4785 or 982-4766) brunjes@virginia.edu "I am interested! I occasionally do school presentations..." ***************************************************** Lucy Byrnes (resource) Department of Zoology University College Belfield Dublin 4, IRELAND 353-1-706-2347/ FAX 353-1-706-1152 lucyb@ollamh.ucd.ie ***************************************************** Charles Carlson (commercial resource) Exploratorium 3601 Lyon St. San Francisco, CA 94123 (415) 561-0319/ FAX (415) 561-0307 charlie_carlson@qm.exploratorium.edu ***************************************************** Bon-chu Chung (devel curriculum) Institute of Molecular Biology Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 886-2-7899215/ FAX 886-2-7826085 mbchung@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw "I am interested in finding out how to plan a high school curriculum using zebrafish as a model system, although I have no such experience before..." ***************************************************** Vincent P. Cirillo (devel curriculum) 17947 Windflower Way Dallas, TX 75252 (972) 248-2126 / FAX (972) 248-5075 cirillo@utdallas.edu "I am a professor emeritus of biochemistry from SUNY, Stony Brook now retired in Dallas Texas. For the last six years I have worked in a hands-on science enrichment laboratory in a local K-6 elementary school. I also teach in the biology program at UT Dallas during the spring semester and I advice high school students working on science fairs. I would like to introduce some simple experiments using zebra fish appropriate at each level. I welcome any suggestions and instruction from persons who have had such experience. I wonder, additionally, whether there is anyone in or near Dallas or in North Texas whom I can contact for such help." ***************************************************** Pam Close (devel curriculum w/Kathleen Metter) Hickman High School 1104 N. Providence Road Columbia, MO 65203 (573) 886-2500 pclose@mail.coin.missouri.edu "We are interested in using zebrafish to demonstrate basic vertebrate embryo development to high school biology students..." ***************************************************** Maya Culbertson (h.s. student... now college student) 223 Forbes College Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 (609) 258-9661 mayac@phoenix.princeton.edu "Your timing was fantastic! Two days ago, I was talking to my research advisor about basing more of the physiological research on vertebrates (i.e. zebrafish) and he was coming up with all sorts of things to use them for. After I graduate (from high school), he's going to take my lab (an abandoned darkroom I cleaned up and supplied with tanks, fish, and reagents) and turn it into a permanent fish room. So, it looks like zebras are going to start taking a pretty important role around here, and we'll need everything we can get..." (Note: Joe Kuper, address below, is her research advisor) MAYA PARTICIPATED IN OUR MINORITY HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER PROGRAM FOR 3 YEARS. SHE SET UP A BREEDING FACILITY AT HER HIGH SCHOOL AND IS NOW A FRESHMAN AT PRINCETON AND IS WORKING IN THE ZEBRAFISH LAB OF ROBERT HO. ***************************************************** Linda Dizer Girls Preparatory School 205 Island Avenue Chattanooga, TN 34705 ldizer@gps.edu I am a high school biology teacher that has just begun to work with zebra fish and I'm hooked. They are perfect for classroom use. Since this is my first year working with them, I have lots of questions. If you know of other high school teachers who are using zebras in the classroom please give them my address ldizer@gps.edu because I could use some advice. Thank you! ****************************************************** Stan J. Eller (devel curriculum) Homer High School 600 E. Fairview Homer, AK 99603 seller@kpbsd.k12.ak.us "We are spawning salmon in my Marine Biology classes next week and I would like to use zebrafish when I teach the development process of fish..." ***************************************************** Kerry Fulcher 3900 Lomaland Dr. Biology Department Point Loma Nazarene College San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 221-2651/ FAX (619) 221-2598 fulchebi@ptloma.edu "I teach a Developmental Biology course at Point Loma Nazarene College and we are using zebrafish as one of the model systems. I am currently involved with research in mammalian spermalogenesis but I am considering the zebrafish as a research model system, as well..." ***************************************************** Edward M. Goolish (h.s. opportunities) NASA Ames Research Center P.O. Box 138 Moffett Field, CA 94035 (415) 604-1961/ FAX (415) 604-1701 egoolish@mail.arc.nasa.gov "We at NASA are developing facilities to do research with zebrafish in space, and there may be opportunities for high school student participation in the future..." ***************************************************** Susan C. Grether (devel curriculum) Polytechnic School 1030 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91001 (818) 792-2147/ FAX (818) 796-2189 "At present, I try to keep my Advanced Placement students up to date on the work being done in zebrafish genetics, and my dream is to one day actually get some zebrafish experiments in my curriculum. I would be very eager to network with other high school teahcers who are using or plan to use zebrafish..." ***************************************************** Perry B. Hackett (resource) Dept/Genetics and Cell Biology University of Minnesota 250 BioSciences Center 1445 Larpenteur Ave. St. Paul, MN 55108-1095 (612) 624-6736/ FAX (612) 625-5754 perry@molbio.cbs.umn.edu ***************************************************** Anne Hansen (resource) Zoological Institute & Zoological Museum University of Hamburg Martin Luther King Platz 3 D20146 Hamburg, GERMANY 49-40-4123-3947/ FAX 49-40-4123-3937 fb4a005@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de ***************************************************** Bob Haselbeck, Ph.D. The Burnham Institute 10901 N. Torrey Pines Rd. La Jolla, CA 92037 (619) 455-6480 X3659 (619) 646-3195 FAX rhaselbeck@ljcrf.edu "I am actually trying to use zebrafish as a teaching tool for undergraduates, but would still greatly appreciate any input and suggestions for the instructional use of zebrafish." ******************************************************* Allen Heide (h.s. teacher) Springfield High School 875 N. 7th St. Springfield, OR 97477-4064 (503) 744-4700 (work) (503) 933-2070 (home) ***************************************************** Joel Kuper (devel curriculum) Research Seminar Gold Beach High School 757 S. Ellensburg Gold Beach, OR 97444 ***************************************************** Dennis Liu (commercial resource) Videodiscovery 1700 Westlake Avenue, North Suite 600 Seattle, WA 98109-3012 (206) 285-5400 x377 / FAX (206) 285-9245 dliu@u.washington.edu "I'm no longer in a position to be helpful as a researcher contact, but if you think I should be a part of the directory you're compiling, that would be great. I would also be interested in getting in touch with some of these interested teachers and finding out what sorts of things they are doing in their classrooms..." ***************************************************** Martha Lundell (devel curriculum) Department of Biology University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 (804) 982-5607/ FAX (804) 982-5626 mjl4m@virginia.edu "I will be teaching a development course at a small undergraduate college... In particular, I'm looking for simple experiments that a novice such as myself could set up and that could be accomplished in one or two lab periods..." ***************************************************** Patrick McGuire (devel curriculum) East Jefferson High School 4413 Ligustrum Street Metairie, LA 70001-4633 patmcg@acadiacom.net "I am teaching a Marine Biology/Limnology course next year at East Jefferson High School. I discovered your very informative Zebrafish site on the net and as a result have decided that the zebrafish will be an excellent animal for my students to study. I can imagine all kinds of fascinating activities that my students could use to study this fish (e.g. Microscopic studies of embryos, culturing the various organisms for feeding them, analysis of the water, breeding them, etc.) But I have several questions that may help me in getting started..." ******************************************************** Douglas McMahon (resource) Department of Physiology University of Kentucky 800 Rose St. Lexington, KY 40536-0084 (606) 257-2345/ FAX (606) 323-1070 ***************************************************** Sue McPherson (7th grade teacher) Cranberry Jr.-Sr. High School 1 Education Drive Seneca, PA 16346 (814) 676-8504/ FAX (814) 676-5156 mcpherson@vaxa.clarion.edu "I will be teaching 7th grade life science and I would like to develop a zebrafish curriculum...Any help you could offer me will be greatly appreciated..." ***************************************************** Kathleen Metter (devel curriculum w/Pam Close) Hickman High School 1104 N. Providence Road Columbia, MO 65203 (573) 886-2500 pclose@mail.coin.missouri.edu "We are interested in using zebrafish to demonstrate basic vertebrate embryo development to high school biology students..." ***************************************************** Marcia L. O'Connell (devel curriculum) Trenton State College Department of Biology Hillwood Lakes, CN 4700 Trenton, NJ 08650-4700 oconnema@tscvm.trenton.edu "I have thought of trying to design a lab exercise for my own students, at the college level, using my fish. I thought of doing a semester-long project where they did some simple crosses with known mutants, but that is about as far as I got..." ***************************************************** Jason Potter (h.s. teacher) Haslett High School Haslett, MI 48840 jpotter@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us "...want to use zebrafish in both introductory and AP Biology. I am looking for a source of fish to start with for the fall semester..." ***************************************************** Dennis A. Powers (resource) Hopkins Marine Station Pacific Grove, CA 93950-3094 fh.dap@forsythe.stanford.edu ***************************************************** Betsy Price (curriculum specialist) Project Manager/Curriculum Specialist "The Natural History of Genes" Utah Museum of Natural History Eccles Institute of Human Genetics University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (801) 581-6286/ FAX (801) 581-6927 betsy@geode.umnh.utah.edu "The Eccles Institute and the Utah Museum of Natural History have a joint project called the 'Natural History of Genes.' We are building activity kits for teachers to use in the schools to do hands-on genetics experiments. We are looking at the possibility that zebrafish could be one of the kits. Do you have examples of other projects who have used zebrafish in the schools?" SEE THEIR WEB PAGE ( http://raven.umnh.utah.edu ) ***************************************************** Laurie Roman (resource) Dept/Cellular & Molecular Physiology Yale University School of Medicine 333 Cedar St. New Haven, CT 06520 (203) 737-2852/ FAX (203) 785-4951 "I am not aware of any local high school zebrafish projects in the New Haven area, but would be interested in helping out in anyway that I can..." ***************************************************** R.C. Schirone nappyfs@earthlink.net "I published a paper on D. rerio in the J. Exp. Zool:1967, "The effects of temperature on the early embryological development of B. rerio". I worked in a research institute which developed the first NSF sponsored high school research workshops. One of the projects involved the rearing and study of Zebrafish. I'd love to hear what's new. I am currently teaching at Syosset HS, on Long Island N.Y.,and teach three sections of environmental science and marine biology." ***************************************************** Ellen Schmitt (resource) Harvard University Biological Laboratories 16 Divinity Avenue, Room 286 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-2599/ FAX (617) 496-3321 ellen_schmitt@hgl-mail.harvard.edu "I have already been involved with two different groups of high school students here at Harvard, designing experiments and demonstrations. It has been very successful and there is likely going to be more of this interaction in the future..." ***************************************************** Don Seto (resource) Dupont-Merck P.O. Box 80400 Expltl Station 400/5444 Wilmington, DE 19880 don@helix.nih.gov ***************************************************** Pate Skene (resource/devel curr) Department of Neurobiology Box 3209 Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710 (919) 681-6346/ FAX (919) 684-4431 skene@neuro.duke.edu "I have a general interest in high school and elementary school science curricula and, although I am not yet actively involved, I would appreciate being added to your mailing list so that I can keep up with what others are doing..." ***************************************************** Giselle Thibadeau (resource) Department of Biological Sciences Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762 (601) 325-7572 giselle@ra.msstate.edu "I may or may not be of help, but with the new and learning experience that this has been, and will surely continue to be, I'll help wherever I can. Areas may be: how to start with little money, equipment, and experience; neural crest culture; pigment cell development comparison to amphibian projects..." ***************************************************** Gary Trojanowski (h.s. teacher) St. Joseph High School 145 Plainfield Avenue Metuchen, NJ 08840-1004 (908) 549-7600 / FAX (908) 549-0664 ***************************************************** Richard Vogt (resource) Department of Biological Sciences University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-8101/ FAX (803) 777-4002 vogt@biol.sc.edu ***************************************************** James T. Warren, Jr. (resource) Department of Biology University of Michigan Room 3083 Natural Science Bldg. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048 (313) 936-0495/ FAX (313) 747-0884 jtwarren@umich.edu "I am interested in getting involved with using zebrafish as a model in high school and even elementary school classes. Could you include my name as a resource..." ***************************************************** Dennis Webb (resource) Equipe de Physiologie Cellulaire INRA, Lab/Physiologie des Poissons Universit de Rennes I Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE 33-992-86117/FAX 33-992-85020 webb@univ-rennes1.fr "I am not a high school/community college teacher, but I was hoping to interest local schools, even primary schools, in early development, etc. of medaka/zebrafish, so I'd appreciate being kept in touch..." ***************************************************** Karen Wickersham Troy High School 4777 Northfield Parkway Troy, MI 48098 phone (810) 952-6200 no easily accessable fax email kwickers@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu "I became interested in zebrafish last year and started to use them in my 9th grade biology classroom. I am currently developing some protocols for using the fish to enhance basic biology concepts. I would be interested in communicating with anyone else who shares my interests..." ***************************************************** Anat Yarden Department of Chemical Immunology The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL 972-8-342289 / FAX 972-8-469713 lianat@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il ***************************************************** Sara E. Zalik (resource) Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, Alba, CANADA T6G 2E9 (403) 492-4403/ FAX (403) 492-9234 szalik@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca *****************************************************