CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Martin Andrew Connaughton

Biology Department

Washington College

300 Washington Ave.

Chestertown, MD 21620

Voice: 410-778-7727

FAX: 410-778-7727

email:  martin.connaughton@washcoll.edu

Web page: http://www.connaugton.washcoll.edu

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Educational background:

1994                University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies, Lewes, DE

            Ph.D. in Marine Studies

Dissertation: Reproduction in the male weakfish: seasonality and function of the sonic muscle.

 

1988                Lafayette College, Easton, PA

            BS in Biology,

            Cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Thesis in Biology

Thesis topic: Seasonal changes in the Na⁺, K⁺–ATPase levels in the mud fiddler crab Uca pugnax.

 

Professional experience:

1997 -              Assistant professor

            Washington College, Department of Biology

 

Jan.-Jul./1997   Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology, Philadelphia, PA and Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

Integrative muscle physiology of red, white and super-fast sonic muscles of the toadfish, Opsanus tau.

 

Jun.-Jul./1996   Independent Researcher

                        Thomas H. Maren Fellowship

                        Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salsbury Cove, ME

Electrophysiology and bioacoustics of super-fast sonic muscles of the searobin, Prionotus carolinus.

 

1994 -1996      Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Texas at Houston Medical School; Laboratory for Neuroendocrinology, Houston, TX

            Effects of suckling on the activity of the hypothalamic GnRH pulse generator in Rhesus monkeys.

 

1988 – 1994    Research Assistant

                        University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies, Lewes, DE

Field and laboratory studies of the reproductive biology of female weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, including sonic tagging studies of fish movements in the field.

 

 

1987 – 1988:   Undergraduate thesis research

                        Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Dr. Charles Holliday, advisor

Seasonal changes in the Na⁺, K⁺–ATPase levels in the mud fiddler crab Uca pugnax.

 

1986–1987      Undergraduate research assistant

                        Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Dr. Shamal Majumdar, advisor

Effects of acidic soil on root mycorrhizae of red and white oaks, Quercus rubra and Q. alba.

 

Honors:

Washington College Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching, awarded at the 220th Commencement, May 19, 2002.

 

Christian A. Johnson Junior Faculty, awarded for the Fall semester of 2002.

 

Awarded a position as adjunct faculty of American University at the rank of Faculty Fellow, Feb., 2002.

 

Awarded membership in Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, FA 1999.

 

                  Student presented awards:

Presented an award "In appreciation of teaching guidance and inspiration," by the students of the Natural Sciences dorm, West Hall, on April 25, 2002.

 

Elected to the Order of Omega, an honor society for leadership in inter-fraternity activities, Mar., 2002.

 

Research interests:

                        Bioacoustics

                        Reproductive physiology and behavior

                        Muscle physiology

                        Ichthyology

                        Reproductive endocrinology

 

Peer-reviewed publications:

Connaughton, M.A., M.L. Lunn, M.L. Fine, and M.H. Taylor.  2002. Characterization of sounds and their use in two sciaenid species: weakfish and Atlantic croaker.  MIT Sea Grant Special Report, in press.

 

Vance, T.L, J.M. Hewson, S. Modla, and  M.A Connaughton.  2002. Variability in sonic muscle size and innervation among three sciaenids: spot, Atlantic croaker and weakfish. Copeia, in press.

 

Connaughton, M.A., M.L. Fine, and M.H. Taylor.  2002. Weakfish sonic muscle: influence of size, temperature and season.  Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 2183-2188.

 

Connaughton, M.A., M.L. Fine, and M.H. Taylor.  2002. Use of sound for localisation of spawning weakfish in Delaware Bay and effects of fish size, temperature and season on sound parameters.  Bioacoustics 12(2/3): 294-296.

 

Connaughton, M.A., M.H. Taylor, and M.L. Fine. 2000. Effects of fish size and temperature on weakfish disturbance calls: implications for the mechanism of sound generation.  Journal of Experimental Biology 203: 1503-1512.

 

Rome, L.C., C. Cook, D.A. Syme, M.A. Connaughton, M. Ashley-Ross,  A. Klimov, B. Tikunov, Y.E. Goldman.  1999. Trading force for speed: Why superfast crossbride kinetics leads to super low force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science  96(10): 5826-5831.

 

Connaughton, M.A. and K. Aida. 1998. Female Reproductive System, Fish. In: Encyclopedia of Reproduction (eds. E. Knobil and J. Neill), Vol. 2, pp. 193-204. Academic Press, San Diego.

 

Ördög, T., M-D. Chen, K.T. O'Byrne, J.R. Goldsmith, M.A. Connaughton, J Hotchkiss, and E. Knobil. 1998. On the mechanism of lactational anovulation in the rhesus monkey. American Journal of Physiology 274 (Endocrinol. Metab. 37): E665-E676.

 

Ördög, T., J.R. Goldsmith, M-D. Chen,  M.A. Connaughton, J. Hotchkiss, and E. Knobil. 1998. On the mechanism of the positive feedback action of estradiol on lutenizing hormone secretion in the rhesus monkey.  Journal of Comparative Endocrinology and Metabolism 38: 4047-4053.

 

Ördög, T., M-D. Chen, J.R. Goldsmith, M.A. Connaughton, M. Nishihara, and E. Knobil. 1997. On the role of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the operation of the pulse generator in the Rhesus monkey.  Neuroendocrinology 65: 307-313.

 

Syme, D.A., M.A. Connaughton, L.C. Rome. 1997. Apparatus for measuring steady-state ATP utilization rates of single muscle fibers. Biological Bulletin 193: 251-253.

 

Connaughton, M.A., M.L. Fine, and M.H. Taylor. 1997. The effects of seasonal hypertrophy and atrophy on fiber morphology, metabolic substrate concentration, and sound characteristics in weakfish sonic muscle. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 2449-2457.

 

Chen M-D., T. Ördög, K.T. O'Byrne, J.R. Goldsmith, M.A. Connaughton, and E. Knobil. 1996. The insulin hypoglycemia-induced inhibition of gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulse generator activity in the rhesus monkey: roles of vasopressin and corticotropin-releasing hormone. Endocrinology 137: 2012-2021.

 

Connaughton, M.A. and M.H. Taylor. 1996. Effects of photoperiod and temperature on sexual recrudescence in the male weakfish, Cynoscion regalis. Environmental Biology of Fishes 45(3): 273-281.

 

Connaughton, M.A. and M.H. Taylor. 1996. Drumming, courtship, and spawning behavior in captive weakfish, Cynoscion regalis. Copeia 1996(1): 195-199.

 

Connaughton, M.A. and M.H. Taylor. 1995. Effects of exogenous testosterone on sonic muscle mass in the weakfish, Cynoscion regalis. General and Comparative Endocrinology 100(2): 238-245.

 

Connaughton, M.A. and M.H. Taylor. 1995. Seasonal and daily cycles in sound production associated with spawning of the weakfish, Cynoscion regalis. Environmental Biology of Fishes 42: 233–240.

 

Connaughton, M.A. and M.H. Taylor. 1994. Seasonal cycles in the sonic muscles of the weakfish. U.S. Fisheries Bulletin  92(4): 697-703.

 

Additional manuscripts:

Connaughton, M.A.  A novel mechanism of sound production by the sonic muscles of the northern searobin, Prionotus carolinus. In preparation.

 

Connaughton, M.A., M.L. Lunn, M.L. Fine, and M.H. Taylor. 2002. Web publication: Characterization of sounds and their use in two sciaenid species: weakfish and Atlantic croaker.  Conference web page: International workshop on the application of passive acoustics in fisheries.  Brooks Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dedham, MA. (April 8-10, 2002). http://web.mit.edu/seagrant/acoustics/exsum/connaughton/extended.html

This paper will be published in an MIT Sea Grant Special Report, see above.

 

Connaughton, M.A., M.H. Taylor. 1995. Extended abstract.  Seasonal changes in weakfish sonic muscle fiber morphology and metabolic substrate concentrations. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Reproductive Physiology of Fish (ed. F.W. Goetz and P.Thomas), p. 229.  Fish Symposium 95, Austin, TX. 

 

Connaughton, M.A. 1997. Extended abstract. Acoustics and electrophysiology of the sonic muscles of the northern searobin, Prionotus carolinus.  Abstract, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Bulletin, Vol. 36, p101.

 

Connaughton, M.A. 1994. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.  Reproduction in the male weakfish: seasonality and function of the sonic muscle. College of Marine Studies. University of Delaware, 186pp.

 

Oral presentations:

Invited presentations:

Oral presentation: Characterization of sounds and their use in two sciaenid species: weakfish and Atlantic croaker. 

Conference title: International workshop on the application of passive acoustics in fisheries.  Brooks Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dedham, MA (April 2002).

Co-authors: M.L. Lunn, M.L. Fine, and M.H. Taylor.

 

Oral presentation: Weakfish sonic muscle, influence of size, temperature and season. 

Conference title: Structure and function of highly specialized muscle; Satellite symposium of the 34th international congress of physiological sciences.  University of Wallongong, Wallongong, Australia (September 2001).

Co-authors: M.L. Fine and M.H. Taylor.

                       

Poster presentation: Use of sound for localization of spawning weakfish in the Delaware Bay and effects of fish size, temperature and season on sound parameters.  International bioacoustics conference - Fish bioacoustics: sensory biology, behavior and practical applications, Loyola University, Chicago, IL (May/June 2001).

Co-authors: M.L. Fine and M.H. Taylor.

Oral presentation: A novel mechanism of sound production by the sonic muscles of the northern searobin, Prionotus carolinus. 

Conference title: Soniferous fishes symposium, 11th annual meeting of the Tidewater chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Beaufort, NC (January 1997).  

 

Oral presentation: Reproduction in the male weakfish: seasonality and function of the sonic muscle.

Postdoctoral research forum, The Program in Reproductive Biology. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas at Houston Medical School, Houston, TX (May 1995).

 

Oral presentation: Reproduction in the male weakfish: seasonality and function of the sonic muscle.

Marine biology seminar series sponsored by the University of Texas Marine Biomedical Institute and Texas A & M University at Galveston, TX (November 1994).

 

Oral presentation: Hormonal control of the seasonal cycle in weakfish sonic muscles.

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (September 1993).

 

Contributed presentations

Poster presentation: A novel mechanism of sonic muscle function in the northern searobin, Prionotus carolinus.  81st annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Penn State University, State College, PA  (July 2001).

 

Poster presentation: A comparison of the sonic muscle innervation patterns of three Sciaenids: the spot, weakfish and Atlantic croaker. 81st annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Penn State University, State College, PA (July 2001).

Co-authors: T.L. Vance and J.M. Hewson

 

Poster presentation: Effects of fish size and temperature on weakfish disturbance calls: implications for the mechanism of sound generation. Poster presentation, 29th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Miami Beach, FL (Oct. 1999).

Co-authors: M.H. Taylor and M.L. Fine

 

Poster presentation: The positive feedback action of estradiol on lutenizing hormone secretion in the Rhesus monkey is not due to an escape from its negative feedback effect. 79th annual Endocrine Society meeting (June 1997).

Authors: Ördög, T., J.R. Goldsmith, M–D. Chen, M.A. Connaughton, and E. Knobil.

 

Poster presentation: Role of prolactin in the lactational anovulation in the Rhesus monkey.  26th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC (Nov. 1996).

Authors: Ördög, T., M–D. Chen, J.R. Goldsmith, M.A. Connaughton, K.T. O'Byrne, J. Hotchkiss and E. Knobil.

 

Poster presentation: The contribution of vasopressin to the somnolence of insulin-induced hypoglycemia in the Rhesus monkey. Tenth international congress of endocrinology, San Francisco, CA (June 1996).

Authors: Chen, M-D., T. Ördög, M.A. Connaughton, E. Knobil.

 

Poster presentation: Seasonal changes in weakfish sonic muscle fiber morphology and metabolic substrate concentrations.  Fifth international symposium on reproductive physiology of fish, The University of Texas, Austin, TX