Taube CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

1970-1974 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of General Studies
1980-1986 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Joint Program – Physiology & Biophysics and Psychology

Appointments and Research Experience

2002-Present: Professor
1996-2002: Associate Professor
1990-1996: Assistant Professor
1998-Present: Core Faculty, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1988-1990: Post-doctorate Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Carl W. Cotman
Department of Psychobiology
University of California-Irvine, CA

Intracellular recording from neurons in subiculum; intrinsic circuitry of subiculum; behavioral experiments following selective lesions of the postsubiculum.

1986-1988: Post-doctorate Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. James B. Ranck, Jr.
Department of Physiology
S.U.N.Y. Health Science Center, Brooklyn, New York

Chronic unit recording in freely moving rats; spatial and behavioral correlates of               neurons in the postsubiculum and hippocampal formation; anatomical studies (using HRP    and PHA-L) of the pre- and postsubiculum.

1980-1986: Graduate student
Supervisor: Dr. Philip A. Schwartzkroin
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Intracellular recording in hippocampal slice preparation; analysis of cellular mechanisms underlying long-term potentiation in hippocampus; development of GABAergic responses in the rabbit; synaptic circuitry of the hippocampus.

1973-1974: Undergraduate research project
Supervisor: Dr. David Bohr
Department of Physiology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Contractility of vascular smooth muscle in an in vitro system.

Research Funding – Awarded Grants

NIMH R29 First Award, 1992-98
Title: Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition
Hitchcock Foundation, 1992
Title: Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Cognition
NIMH K02 Research Career Development Award, 1995-2000
Title: Neural Mechanisms of Directional Orientation
NSBRI-NASA: Neurovestibular Integrated Program: 1997-2000 (Co-PI with Charles Oman,            MIT)
Subproject Title: Visual Orientation in Unfamiliar Gravito-Inertial Environments
NSF Cooperative Science Program, 1998-2003
Title: Integration of Idiothetic Cues in Head Direction Cells
NIMH R01, 1999-2005
Title: Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition
NIMH K02, Independent Scientist Award, 2000-2005
Title: Neural Mechanisms of Directional Orientation
NSBRI-NASA: Neurovestibular Integrated Program: 2000-2003 (Co-PI with Charles Oman, MIT)
Subproject Title: Visual Orientation in Unfamiliar Gravito-Inertial Environments
NINDS R01, 2005-2010
Title: Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition
Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, 2005
Title: Neural Substrates for the Perception of Self-Motion and Motion Sickness
Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 2006
Title: Restoration of Cognitive Spatial Functions with a Vestibular Prosthesis
NIDCD R01, 2008-2013
Title: Motor, Vestibular, and Mnemonic Interactions in Directional Heading Perceptions
Martens Family Fund Award, 2008
Title: Head Direction Cell Recordings in a Monkey Performing a Visual Search Task
NIDCD Supplemental, 2009-2011
Title: Motor, Vestibular, and Mnemonic Interactions in Directional Heading     Perceptions
NINDS Supplemental, 2009-2010
Title: Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition
NINDS R01, 2011-2016
Title: Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition
NSF Eager Award, 2013-2015 (co-PI with John Phillips, Virginia Tech Univ.)
Title: Magnetic Field Effects on Head Direction and Subicular Place Cell Responses
Martens Family Fund Award, 2015.                                                                           Title: Head Direction Cell Responses Following Opto-genetic Stimulation of the Nucleus Prepositus

NINDS R56, 2017-2018
Title: Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition
NINDS R21, 2018-2020
Title: 3D Firing Properties of Head Direction Dells and Grid Cells
NINDS R01, 2018-2022
Title: Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition
NINDS U01, 2019-2022 NIH Brain Initiative Grant with Johns Hopkins University
(co-PI with Matt van der Meer, Dartmouth)
Title: A Neural Systems Approach to Understanding the Dynamic Computations     Underlying Our Sense of Direction

Training grants received for students in which I was the primary advisor.

NIH NRSA F32 Post-doctoral fellowship: Paul Dudchenko, 1993-1995.
NIH NRSA F32 Post-doctoral fellowship: Robert Stackman, 1996-1999
NIH NRSA F32 Post-doctoral fellowship: Joel Brown, 2005-2008
Canada NSERC: Ben Clark, 2006-2009
NIH NRSA F32 Post-doctoral fellowship: Ryan Yoder, 2006-2009
NIH NRSA F32 Pre-doctoral fellowship: Max Mehlman, 2016-2018

Research Interests

Neurobiology of Spatial Orientation & Navigation
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Neural Plasticity
Limbic System Circuitry and Function
Electrophysiology of Hippocampal Neurons

Teaching Interests

Physiological Psychology/Behavioral Neuroscience
Spatial Orientation & Navigation
Neurophysiology
Neuroanatomy
Learning & Memory
Human Neuropsychology

Professional Organizations and Scientific Societies

Society for Neuroscience
The American Physiological Society

Conference Organizer

Conference Organizer: Brain Basis of Spatial Orientation, Treilles Foundation, France, Sept, 2002
Social Committee Chair: Society for Neuroscience: Hippocampus Social, Chicago, Oct, 2009
Society for Neuroscience: Hippocampus Social Panel Invitee, New Orleans, Oct, 2012
Conference Organizer (co-Director): Brain & Space, Vespucci Institute, Portugal, Sept, 2014
Society for Neuroscience: Hippocampus Social Panel Invitee, Chicago, Oct, 2015
Conference Organizer (co-Director): iNAV: 1st Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium, Bad            Gastein, Austria, June, 2016
Conference Organizer (co-Director): iNAV: 2nd Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium,    Mont Tremblant, Canada, June, 2018
Conference Organizer (co-Director): iNAV: 3rd Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium,   Virtual, Oct, 2020
Conference Organizer (co-Director): iNAV: 4th Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, June, 2022

Editorial Boards

Hippocampus 1997-Present
Behavioral Neuroscience 1999-2007, 2010-Present
Journal of Neurophysiology 2014-Present
Frontiers in Neuro-otology, Review Editor, 2009-Present

Invited Lectures/Seminars

Yale University, Section Molecular Neurobiology (Feb 1988)
University of Colorado, Department of Psychology (April 1989)
International Neuroethology Conference, Berlin, Germany (Sept 1989)
University of Florida, Department of Psychology (Jan 1990)
Ohio State University, Department of Psychology (Feb 1990)
Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology (Feb 1990)
University of North Carolina, Department of Psychology (March 1990)
University of Colorado, Department of Psychology (March 1990)
Yale University, Department of Psychology (March 1990)
Brown University, Department of Psychology (Oct 1991)
University of Montreal, Department of Physiology (Jan 1993)
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience (Feb 1993)
University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics (July 1994)
Neurology of Human Spatial Orientation Conference, Ibiza, Spain (May 1995)
SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience (June 1995)
SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn, Neural and Behavioral Science Prog (June 1995)
Third Annual Cambridge Basic Research Workshop: Panel Discussant (June 1996)
University of Otago, New Zealand, Department of Psychology (Dec 1996)
Learning and Memory Conference, Park City, Utah (Jan 1997)
University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology (Feb 1998)
Brandeis University, Neuroscience Program (Feb 1998)
Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, Dept. of Psychology (April 1998)
CNRS-College de France LPPA, Paris, France (May 1998)
Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Physiology (Nov 1998)
Boston University, Department of Psychology (April 1999)
Vestibular Influences on Spatial Orientation Conference, Kauai, Hawaii (April 1999)
University of Vermont, Department of Psychology (Dec 1999)
Persistent Neural Activity Conference, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (October 2000)
Yale University, Neuroscience Program (December 2000)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Man Vehicle Laboratory Program (May 2001)
University of Pittsburgh, Neuroscience Program (July 2001)
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA (Nov 2001)
Brain Basis of Spatial Orientation Conference, Tourtour, France (Sept 2002)
Vestibular Influences on Movement Conference, Orcas Island, WA (Sept 2002)
NASA Symp: Role of Vestibular Organs in Exploration of Space, Portland, OR (Oct 2002)
University of Texas Health Science Ctr, Dept. Neurobiology & Anatomy, Houston, TX (Feb 2003)
University College London, Dept. of Anatomy, London, U.K. (March, 2003)
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Winter Meeting, Daytona, FL (Feb 2004)
John Hopkins University, Mind/Brain Institute (April 2004)
2004 Barany Society Meeting, Paris, France (July 2004)
2005 Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Key Biscayne, FL (April 2005)
Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ (Feb 2006)
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (Sept 2007)
Tulane University, Neuroscience Program, New Orleans, LA (March 2008)
University of New Mexico, Dept. of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM (April 2009)
Summer Institute for Learning & Memory, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (June 2009)
Neurobiology Program, Woods Hole, MA (June 2010)
Orientation and Navigation Symposium for the Physiological Society, Manchester, UK (July 2010)
FENS, Symposium on Directional Heading/Orientation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (July 2010)
Dartmouth College, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences (Jan 2011)
Learning & Memory Conference, Intl. Graduate School of Neuroscience, Bochum, Germany (Apr 2011)
International Conference on Cognitive & Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA (June 2012)
Baylor School of Medicine, Neuroscience Program, Houston, TX (April 2013)
Conference on Space in the Brain: Cells, Circuits, Systems, Cogntion, Royal Kavli Society, UK (May 2013)
Spring Hippocampal Research Conference, Taormina, Italy (June 2013)
Cardiff University, School of Psychology, Wales, UK (July 2013)
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA (March 2014)
Vespucci Institute, Brain & Space, Lisbon, Portugal (Sept 2014)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Nov 2015)
University of New Hampshire, Department of Psychology, Durham, NH (Dec 2015)
John Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Hearing & Balance, Baltimore, MD (Dec 2015)
University of Pennsylvania, Cognitive Science Program, Philadelphia, PA (Apr 2016)
iNAV Symposium, Bad Gastein, Austria (June 2016)
University of Munich, Neuroscience Program, Munich, Germany (July 2016)
SUNY Global Center, New York, Head direction Symposium, NY (Sept 2016)
Janelia Conference at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia (March 2017)
Spring Hippocampal Research Conference, Taormina, Italy (June 2017)
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Keynote speaker, Dartmouth, NH (Oct 2017)
Dartmouth Neuroscience Day, Faculty speaker, Dartmouth, NH (April 2018)
iNAV Symposium, Mont Tremblant, Canada (June 2018)
Cajal Course for Computational Neuroscience, Faculty speaker, Lisbon, Portugal (Aug 2018)
Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Neurobiology, Boston, MA (Nov 2018)
Neurobiology of Learning & Memory Conference, Park City, UT (Jan 2019)
Neural Plasticity Conference, Moorea, Tahiti (Feb 2019)
Methods in Neuroscience at Dartmouth – Computational Summer School, NH (August, 2019)