JITKA OUREDNIK, Ph.D.                                                                   
        
   
     Associate Professor
     Department of Biomedical Sciences
     2052, College of Veterinary Medicine
     Iowa State University
     Ames, IA 50011- 1250

     Phone : (515) 294-6449
     Fax :  (515) 294-2315
     E-mail : joured@iastate.edu


Education
M.S.: Charles University, Prague, Czech. Republic, 1980.
R.N.Dr.: Charles University, Prague, Czech. Republic, 1982.
Ph.D.: Inst. Physiol., Czechosl. Acad. Sci., & Charles University, 1986.
One can access my full curriculum vitae via this link.

Research Interests

My “Laboratory of Neural Development, Regeneration, and Transplantation” is focused on basic research of the reciprocal interaction between neural grafts and the central nervous system suffering from oxidative stress directly related to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. Using in vivo and in vitro methods, the Lab could demonstrate, for the first time, that a neural graft does not have only the ability to replace certain neural cell populations but can display a strong capacity to rescue and protect a brain that is either already damaged or in potential danger.

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Teaching Interests

Publications


Invited talks
2005 – Slovak Republic, International Stem Cell Meeting, Kosice, planned for October 
2005 -  California University, April
2004 -  Kansas State University, September
2004 - International Symposium, "Growth Factors and Signal Transduction Conference on Stem Cell Biology, Development, and Plasticity", Ames, September
2004 -  Stem Cell Symposium "Brain Research, Where is it Going", Prague, July
2003 -  Nobel Forum Lecture for Junior Faculty: Neural transplants induce protection and regeneration in the host brain, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, October
2003 - Rikshospitalet, University of Oslo, Norway, October
2003 - Satellite Symposium for Neural transplantation, International Congress of Brain Research (IBRO), Prague, Czech Republic, June
2003 - Winter Conference of Neurochemistry, Solden, Austria, April

Chairman of scientific symposia
2004  Symposium: Neuroscience – where it is going? Prague, June        
2004 - International Symposium, "Growth Factors and Signal Transduction Conference on Stem Cells Biology – Development and Plasticity", organizer member and chair, Ames, September
2003 - Winter Conference of Neurochemistry, Solden, Austria, April
2003 - IBRO, session chairing, Prague, June

Memberships
2003 – present        International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
2002 - present         International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
1999 - present         American Society for Neural Transplantation & Repair (ASNTR)
1998 - present         Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

Links
ISU Neuroscience program
ISU Department of Biomedical Sciences
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
American Society for Neurotransplantation

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