Advanced Concentration

Neuroscience

Mentor

Kevin K. W. Wang, Ph.D.

Department

Neuroscience

Enrolled 

August 2003

Lab Room

L3-166

Lab Phone

392-3639

E-mail

zzq@ufl.edu

Education

B.Med., Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University

Dissertation Research

Publications

Zhang Z, Ottens AK, Sadasivan S, Kobeissy FH, Fang T, Hayes RL, Wang KK. Calpain-mediated collapsin response mediator protein-1, -2, and -4 proteolysis after neurotoxic and traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma. 2007 Mar;24(3):460-72.

Kobeissy FH, Ottens AK, Zhang Z, Liu MC, Denslow ND, Dave JR, Tortella FC, Hayes RL, Wang KK.  Novel differential neuroproteomics analysis of traumatic brain injury in rats. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2006 Oct;5(10):1887-98.  abstract

Zhang Z, Ottens AK, Larner SF, Kobeissy FH, Williams ML, Hayes RL, Wang KK.  Direct Rho-associated kinase inhibiton induces cofilin dephosphorylation and neurite outgrowth in PC-12 cells. Cell Mol Biol Lett. 2006;11(1):12-29.  abstract

Ottens AK, Kobeissy FH, Golden EC, Zhang Z, Haskins WE, Chen SS, Hayes RL, Wang KK, Denslow ND.   Neuroproteomics in neurotrauma. Mass Spectrom Rev. 2006 May-Jun;25(3):380-408.  abstract

Zhiqun Z, Ottens AK, Golden EC, Hayes RL, Wang KKW.  Using calmodulin-affinity capture to study rat brain calmodulin binding proteome and its vulnerability to calpain and caspase proteolysis. Calcium Binding Proteins, 2006,Vol 1 (2):125-134.  abstract
Editor Commentary. Calcium Binding Proteins, 2006, Vol 1(2):65-66  abstract

Kobeissey FH, Wang KK, Demetree JM, Ottens AK, Zhang Z, Warren MW, Gold MS.  Club Drugs: They're All the Rave: A Review of Use and Abuse: Effects of MDMA, Methamphetamine, and Gamma-Hydroxy-Butyrate (GHB) on Memory.  Law Enforcement Executive Forum, Septemeber 2005.

Abstracts Presented at Meetings

Z. Q. Zhang, A. K. Ottens, F.H.Kobeissy, T. Fang, R. L. Hayes and K. K.W. Wang. Calpain-mediated collapsin response mediator protein-2 following neurotoxic and traumatic brain injury. NIMH Predoctoral ResearchFestival, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, 2006

Z. Q. Zhang, A. K. Ottens, S. Larner, F. H. Kobeissy, M. Williams, R. L. Hayes, K. K. W. Wang.“Rho-associated kinase inhibitor, Y-27632, induces robust and rapid neurite outgrowth in PC-12 cells” The Society for Neuroscience 35th Annual Meeting, Washington, 2005.

Z. Q. Zhang, A. K. Ottens, S. F. Larner, F. H. Kobeissy, M. L. Williams, S. Busygin, A. Revenko, P. M. Pardalos, R.L. Hayes and K. K. W. Wang “Systematic approach to decipher neuritogenesis: ROCK pathways in mediating neurite outgrowth in PC-12 cells ” Conference on Systems Analysis, Data Mining, and Optimization in Biomedicine, Gainesville, FL, Feb. 2005

Z. Q. Zhang, A. K ottens, F. H. kobeissy, E. C. Golden, R. L.Hayes, K. K. W. Wang. Calmodulin binding proteins in traumatic brain injury: a neuroproteomic approach. Society for nNuroscience 34th Annual Meeting , 2004

A. K. Ottens, F. H. Kobeissy, Z. Q. Zhang, E. C. Golden, W. A. Regina, K. K. W. Wang. Data Mining and Bioinformatic Analysis in Neuroproteomics of Brain Injury. Conference on Systems Analysis, Data Mining and Optimization in Biomedicine, Gainesville, FL, 2005

F. H. Kobeissy, A. K. Ottens, W. A. Regina, Z. Q. Zhang, N. D. Denslow, K. K. W. Wang. Neuroproteomics analysis via a new high-resolution multimensional separation scheme. Society for Neuroscience 34th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2004.

F. H. Kobeissy; A. K. Ottens; Z. Q. Zhang; R. L. Hayes; K. K. W. Wang “Novel Multi Dimensional Separation Approach Coupled Mass Spectrometry Analysis for Rapid Discovery of Putative Biomarkers of Traamatic Brain Injury” The Society for Neuroscience 35th Annual Meeting, Washington, 2005.

Honors & Awards

NIMH Predoctoral ResearchFestival travel schornership, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2006