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Education:
1977 B.A., Earth and Planetary Sciences The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1983 PhD in Biology The University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA under the direction of Paul N. Adler.
Academic appointments:
1983-1985 Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, with Ann Beyer.
1985-1989 Postdoctoral Fellow Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, with Linda M. Hall.
1989-1997 Assistant Scientist Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida
1997-2000 Research Associate Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida
2000-2004 Associate Professor of Neuroscience Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida
2003-2004 Faculty Member Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida
2004-present Associate Scientist The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.
Professional memberships:
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Biophysical Society
Society for Neuroscience
Distinctions and awards:
1977-1979 University of Virginia Pratt Fellow
1979-1983 NIH Predoctoral trainee
1980 NSF travel award, ASZ annual meeting
1986-1987 NIH postdoctoral trainee
1987-1989

NIH postdoctoral trainee

2004 Neal Cornell Research Fund Fellow, MBL
Other activities:

 

Publications:

Stark, W.S., Ivanyshyn, A.M., and Greenberg, R.M.: Sensitivity and photopigments of R1-6, a two-peaked photoreceptor in Drosophila, Calliphora, and Musca, J. Comp. Physiol., 121:289-305 (1977).

Stark, W.S., Srygley, R.B., and Greenberg, R.M.: Analysis of a compound eye mosaic of outer rhabdomeres absent marked with cardinal, Drosoph. Inf. Serv., 56:132-133 (1981).

Greenberg, R.M. and Adler, P.N.: Protein synthesis and accumulation in Drosophila melanogaster imaginal discs: identification of a protein with a nonrandom spatial distribution, Develop. Biol., 89:273-286 (1982).

Greenberg, R.M. and Adler, P.N.: Protein synthesis in homeotically transformed imaginal discs, Drosoph. Inf. Serv, 60:121 (1984).

Greenberg, R.M. and Adler, P.N.: Cell-free translation of imaginal disc mRNA, J. Exp. Zool., 236:53-58 (1985).

Greenberg, R.M. and Adler, P.N.: Protein synthesis during imaginal disc pattern regulation, J. Exp. Zool., 242:17-25 (1987).

Greenberg, R.M., Striessnig, J., Koza, A., Devay, P., Glossmann, H., and Hall, L.M.: Native and detergent solubilized membrane extracts from Drosophila heads contain binding sites for the phenylalkylamine class of calcium channel blockers, Insect Biochem., 19:309-322 (1989).

Glossmann, H., Zech, C., Striessnig, J., Staudinger, R., Hall, L., Greenberg, R., and Armah, B.I.: Very high affinity interaction of DPI 201-106 and BDF 8784 enantiomers with the phenylalkylamine-sensitive Ca2+ -channel in Drosophila head membranes, Br. J. Pharmacol., 102:446-452 (1991).

Lin, P.Y.-W., Rupnow, B.A., Price, D.A., Greenberg, R.M., and Wallace, R.A.: Fundulus heteroclitus gonadotropins 3. Cloning and sequencing of gonadotrophic hormone (GTH I and II &beta-subunits using the polymerase chain reaction, Molecular Endocrinology, 85:127-139 (1992).

Anderson, P.A.V., Holman, M.A., and Greenberg, R.M.: Deduced amino acid sequence of a putative sodium channel from the scyphozoan jellyfish Cyanea capillata, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 90:7419-7424 (1993).

Smith, W.C., Greenberg, R.M., Price, D.A., and Battelle, B.A.: Cloning and sequencing of opsin in the horseshoe crab, Limulus, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 90:6150-6154 (1993).

Trapido-Rosenthal, H.G., Linser, P.J., Greenberg, R.M., Gleeson, R.A., and Carr, W.E.S.: cDNA clones from the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster encode a protein related to eukaryotic glutamine synthetase, Gene, 129:275-278 (1993).

LaFleur, G.L., Byrne, B.M., Haux, C., Greenberg, R.M., and Wallace, R.A.: Vitellogenins and vitelline envelope protein precursors (choriogenins), in Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Reproductive Physiology of Fish, ed. P. Thomas and F.W. Goetz , University of Texas Press, Austin TX, 336-338 (1995).

LaFleur, G.L., Byrne, B.M., Kanungo, J., Nelson, L.D., Greenberg, R.M., and Wallace, R.A.: Fundulus heteroclitus vitellogenin: The deduced primary structure of a piscine precursor to noncrystalline, liquid-phase yolk protein, J. Molec. Evol., 41:505-521 (1995).

Smith, W.C., Greenberg, R.M., Calman, B.G., Hendrix, M.M., Hutchinson, L., Donoso, L.A., and Battelle, B-A.: Isolation and expression of an arrestin cDNA from the horeshoe crab lateral eye, J. Neurochem., 64:38365 (1995).

James, M.O., Boyle, S.M., Trapido-Rosenthal, H.G., Smith, W.C., Greenberg, R.M., and Shiverick, K.T.: cDNA and protein sequence of a major form of P450, CYP2L, in the hepatopancreas of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 329:31-38 (1996).

Jeziorski, M.C., Greenberg, R. M., and Anderson, P.A.V.: Cloning of a putative voltage-gated sodium channel from the turbellarian flatworm Bdelloura candida, Parasitology, 115:289-296 (1997).

Battelle, B-A., Andrews, A.W., Calman, B.G., Sellers, J.R., Greenberg, R.M., and Smith, W.C.: A myosin III from Limulus eyes is a clock-regulated phosphoprotein, J. Neuroscience, 18:4548-4559 (1998).

Boyle, S.M., Greenberg, R.M., and James, M.O.: Isolation of CYP2L2 and two other cytochrome P450 sequences from the Florida spiny lobster, Panularis argus, hepatopancreas cDNA library, Marine Env. Res., 46:21-24 (1998).

Boyle, S.M., Popp, M.P., Smith, W.C., Greenberg, R.M., and James, M.O.: Expression of CYP2L1 in the yeast Pichia pastoris, and determination of catalytic activity with progesterone and testosterone, Marine Env. Res., 46:25-28 (1998).

Jeziorski, M.C., Greenberg, R. M., Clark, K.S., and Anderson, P.A.V.: Cloning and functional expression of a voltage-gated calcium channel &alpha1 subunit from jellyfish, J. Biol. Chem., 273:22792-22799 (1998).

White, G.B., Pfahnl, A., Haddock, S., Lamers, S., Greenberg, R.M., and Anderson, P.A.V.: Structure of a putative sodium channel from the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida, Invert. Neurosci., 3:317-326 (1998).

Jeziorski, M.C., Greenberg, R.M., and Anderson, P.A.V.: Cloning and expression of a jellyfish calcium channel &beta subunit reveal functional conservation of the &alpha1-&beta interaction, Receptors and Channels, 6:375-386 (1999).

Jeziorski, M.C., Greenberg, R.M., and Anderson, P.A.V.: Calcium channel &beta subunits differentially modulate recovery of the channel from inactivation, FEBS Letts., 483:125-130 (2000).

Munger, S.D., Gleeson, R.A., Aldrich, H.C., Rust, N.C., Ache, B.W., and Greenberg, R.M.: Characterization of a phosphoinositide-mediated odor transduction pathway reveals plasma membrane localization of an inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor in lobster olfactory receptor neurons, J.Biol.Chem., 275:20450-20457 (2000).

Kohn, A.B., Anderson, P.A.V., Roberts-Misterly, J.M., and Greenberg, R.M.: Schistosome calcium channel &beta subunits: unusual modulatory effects and potential role in the action of the antischistosomal drug praziquantel., J. Biol. Chem., 276:36873-36876 (2001).

Kohn, A.B., Lea, J.M., Roberts-Misterly, J.M., Anderson, P.A.., and Greenberg, R.M.: Structure of three high voltage-activated calcium channel subunits from Schistosoma mansoni, Parasitology, 123:489-497 (2001).

Kohn, A.B., Moroz, L.L., Lea, J.M., and Greenberg, R.M.: Distribution of nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity in the nervous system and peripheral tissues of Schistosoma mansoni, Parasitology, 122:87-92 (2001).

Chakravarty, D., Kohn, A.B., Greenberg, R.M., and Kultz D.: Fundulus heteroclitus 14-3-3.a inhibits an endogenous chloride channel in Xenopus laevis oocytes, MDIBL Bulletin, 41:60 (2002).

Orozco, A., Jeziorski, M.C., Linser, P.J., Greenberg, R.M.,Valverde-R, C.: Cloning of the gene and complete cDNA encoding a type 2 deiodinase from Fundulus heteroclitus, Gen. Comp. Endocrinol., 128:162-167 (2002).

Dalal, J.S., Jinks, R.N., Cacciatore, C., Greenberg, R.M., and Battelle, B-A.: Limulus opsins: diurnal regulation of expression, Visual Neuroscience, 20:523-535 (2003).

Kohn, A.B., Roberts-Misterly, J.M., Anderson, P.A.V., and Greenberg, R.M.: Creation by mutagenesis of a mammalian Ca2+ channel &beta subunit that confers praziquantel sensitivity to a mammalian Ca2+ channel, Int. J. Parasitol., 33:1303-1308 (2003).

Kohn, A.B., Roberts-Misterly, J.M., Anderson, P.A.V., Khan, N., and Greenberg, R.M.: Specific residues in the Beta Interaction Domain of a schistosome Ca2+ channel &beta subunit are key to its role in sensitivity to the antischistosomal drug praziquantel, Parasitology, 127:349-356 (2003).

Cole, E.B., Miller, D., Rometo, D., Greenberg, R.M., Bromme, D., Cataltepe, S., Pak, S.C., Mills, D.R., Silverman, G.A., Luke, C.J.: Identification and activity of a lower eukaryotic serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) from Cyanea capillata: analysis of a jellyfish serpin, jellypin, Biochemistry, 43:11750-11759 (2004).