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Curriculum Vitae
- TURK ELEAZAR RHEN
- ADDRESS
Department of Biology
Startcher Hall, Stop 9019
10 Cornell Street
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202-9019
E-mail: turk.rhen@und.nodak.edu
Phone: (701) 777-4667
Fax: (701) 777-2623
- EDUCATION
University
of Texas-Austin, Ph.D. in Zoology, May 2000.
University of North Dakota, M.S. in Biology, December 1993.
University of Minnesota Biological Station-Lake Itasca, Summer
1991.
University of North Dakota, B.S. in Biology, minor in Chemistry,
May 1991.
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology (UND), August 2003
to present.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Supervisor: John Cidlowski (NIH), July
2000 to July 2003.
GRA, Supervisor: David Crews (UT-Austin), Fall 1999 and Spring
2000.
GTA, Mammalian Anatomy (UT-Austin), Fall 1997.
GTA, Genetics (UT-Austin), Spring and Fall 1995 and Spring
1996.
GTA, Vertebrate Physiology (UT-Austin), Fall 1994.
GTA, Vertebrate Anatomy and Adaptations Laboratory (UND), Fall
1993.
GTA, Biometry (UND), Spring 1992 and 1993.
GTA, Animal Physiology Laboratory (UND), Fall 1992.
Undergraduate Research Assistant (UND), May 1990 to September
1991.
Tutor for Learning Services (UND), November 1989 to May 1990.
- PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
The Endocrine Society
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
The Society for the Study of Evolution
- HONORS/FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS
- National Research Service Award-Predoctoral
Fellowship (National Institute of Mental
Health), 1996-1999.
- Travel Fellowship (Department
of Zoology, UT-Austin), 1998.
- Carl Gottfried Hartman Fellowship (Department of
Zoology, UT-Austin), 1998
- David Bruton,
Jr. Fellowship (UT-Austin), 1998-1999.
- Sigma Xi, elected
full member 1997.
- Zoology Scholarship Endowment for
Excellence (UT-Austin), 1997.
- Houston Endowment President’s
Excellence Fellowship (UT-Austin), 1996-1997.
- Summer Tuition Fellowship (UT-Austin),
1996.
- State Board of Higher Education Scholarship
(UND), 1993.
- GRANTS/AWARDS
- Loan Repayment Program for Contraception and
Infertility Researchers, NIH (National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development), 2006-2008.
- Exploratory/Developmental
Research Grant (R21), NIH (National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development), 2005-2007.
- Faculty Travel Award, Senate
Scholarly Activities Committee (UND), 2005.
Fellows Award for Research Excellence (National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), 2002.
Dissertation Improvement Grant (National Science
Foundation), 1996-1999.
- Student Activities Committee Travel Stipend (UND),
1993.
- Biology Graduate Student Association Travel Stipend
(UND), 1993.
- Academic
Programs and Student Awards Committee Research
Stipend (UND), 1992.
- Floyd Hunter Memorial Award
(UND), 1991.
- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (1st
author presented paper/poster)
- Elf, P., T. Rhen, A. Fivizzani, and D. Crews. 2005. Inter- and
intra-seasonal differences in yolk
hormone levels in eggs from the leopard gecko, Eublepharis
macularius. Annual Meeting of
the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
- Elf, P., T. Rhen, A. Fivizzani, and D. Crews.
2004. Relationships between female circulating
plasma hormones and hormones deposited in
eggs of the leopard gecko, Eublepharis macularius. Annual
Meeting of the Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology.
- Rhen, T., and J.A. Cidlowski. 2003. Dexamethasone
antagonizes estrogen action in immature rat uterus
without blocking estrogen induced gene expression.
Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society.
- Rhen,
T., and J.A. Cidlowski. 2002. The classical
pathway of complement plays a role in mediating
the pro-inflammatory effects of E2 in the rat
uterus. Annual Meeting of the Endocrine
Society.
- Crews, D., T. Rhen, R.S.
Porter, S.C. Wooley, and J.T. Sakata. 2001.
Changes in sex steroid hormone receptor gene
expression over the reproductive cycle in female
leopard geckos. Annual Meeting of the Society
for Neuroscience.
- Rhen, T., and J.A. Cidlowski. 2001. Glucocorticoids
block estrogen-induced uterine growth. Annual
Meeting of the Endocrine Society.
- Rhen, T. 1999. Sex-limited mutations and the
evolution of sexual dimorphism. Annual Meeting
of the Society for the Study of Evolution.
- Rhen, T., J.T. Sakata, and D. Crews. 1998. The
reproductive cycle of female leopard geckos.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative
and Comparative Biology.
- Sakata,
J.T., T. Rhen, and D. Crews. 1998. Ontogeny
of secondary sex structures and gonadal
steroids in the leopard gecko. Annual Meeting
of the Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology.
- Lang, J.W., and T. Rhen. 1998. Sex ratio evolution
in reptiles with temperature-dependent sex
determination. Special Issue: Proceedings from
the First International Symposium on the
Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination, April
7-11, 1997, Honolulu, Hawaii. Guest
Editors: V.A. Lance and M.H. Bogart. Journal
of Experimental Zoology 281: 509-510.
- Rhen, T., and D. Crews. 1996. Phenotypic plasticity
in adult sex traits of lizards with temperature-dependent
sex determination. Annual Meeting of the Society
for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
- INVITED SEMINARS
- Rhen, T. 2005. Comparative genomics
of sex determination in amniotes. Department of Animal
Sciences, Rutgers University.
- Rhen, T. 2005. Comparative genomics of sex determination
in vertebrates. Department of
Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University.
- Rhen, T. 2005. Evolution of sex differences:
genetic, physiological, and ecological mechanisms.
Conference on the Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism.
Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte
Verita, Switzerland.
- Rhen, T. 2004. The genetics, evolution, and ecology
of sex differences. Anthropology Club,
University of North Dakota.
- Rhen, T. 2004. Estrogen
and glucocorticoid regulation of uterine gene
expression, inflammation, and innate immunity.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of North Dakota School of Medicine
and Health Sciences.
- Rhen, T. 1996. Possible
Adaptive Significance of Temperature-Dependent
Sex Determination. International Herpetological
Society Symposium, San Antonio, Texas
- EDITORIAL SERVICE
Editorial Board, Sexual
Development (2006- ).
- AD HOC REVIEWER
American Naturalist; Biology of Reproduction; Canadian Journal
of Zoology; Copeia; Ecography; Ecology; Endocrinology;
Evolution; Journal of Comparative Physiology B Biochemical,
Systemic, and Environmental Physiology; Journal of Experimental
Biology; Journal of Experimental Zoology; Journal of Herpetology;
Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society; Naturwissenschaften;
Oikos; Oncogene; Physiological and Biochemical Zoology;
Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B; Trends in Ecology
and Evolution
- GRANT REVIEWER
National Science Foundation (Program in Ecological and Evolutionary
Physiology, Neuroendocrinology Program, and Dissertation
Improvement Grants)
- UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Genomics Search Committee (2006)
Academic Program and Student Awards Committee (2004-2006)
Radiation Safety Committee (2004-2006)
Animal Physiologist Search Committee (2005)
Advisor for Undergraduate Biology Majors (2004-present)
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK
- Reviewed and rated high school biology textbooks for
the Texas Education Agency.
- Wrote chapter review questions and answers for
fifth edition of Endocrinology by M.E. Hadley.
- Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
- Served as a judge for Fellows Award for Research
Excellence (National Institutes of Health, 2003).
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