IDP Students


	Advanced Concentration	Neuroscience
	Mentor	Stephen J. Blackband, Ph.D.
	Department	Neuroscience
	Enrolled	August 2004
	Lab Room	L5-185
	Lab Phone	846-2854
	E-mail	jflint@mbi.ufl.edu

Education
B.S., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Florida
Dissertation Research
Examination of Neural Tissue Microstructure Under Normal and Pathological Conditions Using Magnetic Resonance Microscopy
Publications
Flint J, Hansen B, Vestergaard-Poulsen P, Blackband SJ. Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of neuronal activity in the hippocampal slice model. Neuroimage. 2009 Feb 20. [Epub ahead of print] abstract
Shepherd TM, Flint JJ, Thelwall PE, Stanisz GJ, Mareci TH, Yachnis AT, Blackband SJ. Postmortem interval alters the water relaxation and diffusion properties of rat nervous tissue--implications for MRI studies of human autopsy samples. Neuroimage. 2009 Feb 1;44(3):820-6. Epub 2008 Oct 19 abstract
Pike BR, Flint J, Dave JR, Lu X-CM, Wang KK, Tortella FC, Hayes RL. Accumulation of calpain and caspase-3 proteolytic fragments of brain-derived alphaII-spectrin in cerebrospinal fluid after middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab.2004 Jan; 24(1): 98-106. abstract
Pike BR, Flint J, Dutta S, Johnson E, Wang KK, Hayes RL. Accumulation of non-erythroid alphaII-spectrin and calpain-cleaved alphaII-spectrin breakdown products in cerebrospinal fluid after traumatic brain injury in rats. J Neurochem. 2001 Sep;78(6):1297-306. abstract
Pike BR, Johnson E, Flint J, Glenn CC, Hayes, RL. (2000). Prolonged calpain activation in regions of tissue atrophy after traumatic brain injury. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 16(3,4), 166.
Abstracts Presented at Meetings