2000-2003           Member, Perl Prize Selection Committee, University of North Carolina

2000-                    Member, College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs

2000                     Co-organizer, Symposium celebrating the Decade of the Brain

2003-                    Member, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

2004-                    Member, International Science Advisory Council, Neuroscience Canada

2004-                    Member, NY Spinal Cord Injury Research Board,

2008-                    External Advisory Board, London Pain Consortium

Various                 Consultant to funding agencies:

               NIH ad hoc member of study sections (IFCN4; Training grant committee; Site visits (St. Louis University; UCLA; Intramural Programs at NINDS and NIDR);

                              MRC Canada- site visits to University of Manitoba, Queens University;

                              Wellcome Trust (UK)

Various             Consultant on research and academic programs at:

University of Florida; Medical College of Pennsylvania; Yale University; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Centre of Excellence Network on Recovery of Function (Canada); Program in Physiology and Biophysics, University of  Washington; Center for Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; University of Florida Brain Institute; Wright State University; University of Connecticut, Dept of Physiology and Neurobiology; State University System of Florida, Spinal Cord and Head Injury Programs; Centre de Recherches en Sciences Neurologiques, Université de Montréal

                                             Editorial Boards

Journal of Neurophysiology                                                       1978-1989; 1996-

Journal of Neuroscience                                                              1984-1989

Somatosensory and Motor Research                                         1988-

Current Opinion in Neurobiology                                                             1990-

News in Physiological Sciences                                                  1994- 1999

Primary Sensory Neuron                                                                                  1995-2000

Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology      1996-2001

Stony Brook activities

Research Areas                    

Electrophysiology of the Spinal Cord and Sensory Neurons

Cellular Mechanisms of Adjustment after Spinal Injury

Functional Effects of Growth Factors

Pain Mechanisms

Current Research Support

Mechanisms of Plasticity in Neuronal Connections 

               -NINDS  R01 NS 16996  (initially NS 08411 at Duke)

               -1969- 2012 (current annual direct costs: $215,000):

Neurotrophins and Spinal Cord Injury

               -Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Consortium on Spinal Cord Injury

               -2007-2009 (current annual direct costs: $227,000)

Current Teaching assignments

BIO 208, Cell Brain and Mind   responsible for 50% of the course (non BIO major undergraduates)

BNB 562, Systems Neuroscience for graduate students:  9 hours of lecture: Course Director

BNB 655  Neuropharmacology for graduate students: 2 hr. lecture on Pain Mechanisms

Current Departmental Assignments

Organizer, Seminar Program

Member, Departmental search committee

Current University activities external to Department of Neurobiology

Member, Library Committee, Health Sciences Center

Member, Core Committee, Center for Computational Neuroscience