Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
UCD Anschutz Medical Campus, RC-1 North Tower, P18-7117. PO Box 6511, Mail Stop F8307. Tel (303) 724-4517. Fax (303) 724-4501.
Email angie.ribera@UCHSC.edu

| Education | Academic Appointments | Honors & Awards | Service | Publications | Abstracts |

• Columbia University, New York, NY: Ph.D. in Physiology 1982
  
• Harvard-Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA: A.B. in Biochemistry 1976
  

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• Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, UCD 2001-present
  
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology, UCD 1995-2001
  
• Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie 1997-1998
  
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology, UCD 1990 - 1995
  
• Assistant Research Biologist, Dept. of Biology, UCSD, 1988 - 1990
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow (NIH), Dept. of Biology, UCSD, 1985 - 1988
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow (MDA), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 1983 - 1985
  

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• Nominator, MacArthur Foundation
  
• Guggenheim Fellow 1997-1998
  
• Fogarty International Fellowship 1997-1998
  
• Fullbright Kommission Award 1997-1998
  
• Basil O'Connor Scholar, March of Dimes 1991-1993
  
• Klingenstein Fellow in the Neurosciences 1991-1994
  
• Research & Career Development Award 1991-1996
  
• NIH FIRST Award 1988-1993
  
• Philippe Foundation Travel Grant 1986
  
• INSERM Fellowship 1985
  
• IBRO/UNESCO Travel Grant 1983
  
• University Fellowship, Columbia University 1976-1978
  

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Review Panels

• NSF Cellular Neuroscience, Regular Member, 1989-1992
• NIH NeuroB-1 Study Section, Ad-Hoc Reviewer, February 1994
• NSF Committee of Visitors, June 1995
• NIH NeuroB-1 Study Section, Panel Member, 1995-1998
• NIH MDCN-3 Study Section, Panel Member, 1998-1999
• March of Dimes, BOC Study Section, October 1995
• NSF BIO-POWRE Panelist, August 1997
• NIH MDCN-3 Study Section, Panel Member, 1998-1999
• NIH NSD-C Study Section, Panel Member, 2000-present

Review Panels

• Journal of Neuroscience (Associate Editor, 1996-1998
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer: European Journal of Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Journal of Neurobiology, Biophysical Journal

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Articles

• Changeux, J.-P., Pinset, C. and Ribera, A.B. (1986) Effects of chlorpromazine and phencyclidine on mouse C2 acetylcholine receptor kinetics. J.Physiol. 378: 497-513.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Spitzer, N.C. (1987) Both barium and calcium activate two neuronal potassium currents. P.N.A.S. 84: 6577-6581.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Nastuk, W.L. (1987) The effects of ruthenium red on the postjunctional membrane of the frog. Neuroscience 23: 739-744.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Nastuk, W.L. (1988) Effects of prednisolone on responses of the postjunctional membrane to agonists. Muscle & Nerve 11: 265-269.
  
• O'Dowd, D.K., Ribera, A.B. and Spitzer, N.C. (1988) Development of voltage dependent calcium, sodium and potassium currents in Xenopus spinal neurons. J.Neurosci. 8:792-805.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Spitzer, N.C. (1989) A critical period of transcription required for differentiation of the action potential of spinal neurons. Neuron 2: 1055-1062.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Nastuk, W.L. (1989) The actions of verapamil at the neuromuscular junction. Comp. Biochem. Physio. 93C: 137-141.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Spitzer, N.C. (1990) The differentiation of "A" current in amphibian spinal neurons. J. Neurosci. 10: 1886-1891.
  
• Ribera, A.B. (1990) A potassium channel gene is expressed at neural induction. Neuron 5: 691-701.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Spitzer, N.C. (1991) The differentiation of potassium current in embryonic amphibian myocytes. Dev. Biol. 144: 119-128.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Nguyen, D.-A. (1993) Primary sensory neurons express a Shaker like potassium channel gene. J. Neurosci. 13: 4988-4996.
  
• Jones, S.M. and Ribera, A.B (1994) Overexpression of a potassium channel gene perturbs neural differentiation. J. Neurosci. 14: 2789-2799.
  
• Jones, S.M., Hofmann, A.D., Lieber, J.L. and Ribera, A.B (1994) Overexpression of potassium channel RNA: In vivo development rescues neurons from suppression of morphological differentiation in vitro. J. Neurosci. 15: 2867-2874.
  
• Ribera, A.B. (1996) Homogeneous development of electrical excitability by heterogeneous ion channel expression. J. Neurosci. 16: 1123-1130.
  
• Burger, C. and Ribera, A.B. (1996) Xenopus spinal neurons express Kv2 potassium channel transcripts during embryonic development. J. Neurosci. 16: 1412-1421.
  
• Gurantz, D., Ribera, A.B. and Spitzer, N.C. (1996) Temporal expression of Shaker- and Shab-like potassium channel gene expression in single embryonic spinal neurons during K+ current development. J. Neurosci: 3287-3295.
  
• Ribera, A.B., Pacioretty, L.M. and Taylor, R. (1996) Probing identity of native channels with dominant negative mutants. Neuropharm. 35:1007-1016.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Nusslein-Volhard, C. (1998) Zebrafish touch-sensitive mutants reveal an essential role for developmental regulation of sodium current. J. Neurosci., 18:9181-9191.
  
• Blaine, J.T., and Ribera, A.B. (1998) Heteromultimeric potassium channels formed by members of the Kv2 subfamily. J. Neurosci. 18:9585-9593.
  
• Lazaroff, M.A., Hofmann, A.D., and Ribera, A.B. (1999) Xenopus embryonic spinal neurons express potassium channel Kv beta-subunits. J. Neurosci. 19:10706-10715.
  
• Nick, T.A. and Ribera, A.B. (2000) Synaptic activity modulates presynaptic excitability. Nature Neurosci. 3:142-149.
  
• Blaine, J.T. and Ribera, A.B. (2001) Kv2 channels form delayed-rectifier potassium channels in situ. J. Neurosci. 21:1473-1480.
  
• Svoboda, K.R., Linares, A.E., and Ribera, A.B. (2001) Activity regulates programmed cell death of zebrafish Rohon-Beard neurons. Development 128(18):3511-3520.
• Lazaroff MA, Taylor AD, Ribera AB (2002) In vivo analysis of Kvb2 function in Xenopus embryonic myocytes. J Physiol 541.3: 673-683.
• Kukuljan M, Taylor A, Chouinard H, Olguín P, Rojas CV, Ribera AB (2003) Selective regulation of xSlo splice variants during Xenopus embryogenesis. J Neurophysiol 90: 3352-3360.
• Novak AE, Ribera AB. (2003) Immunocytochemistry as a tool for zebrafish developmental neurobiology. Methods Cell Sci 25: 79-83.
• Blaine JT, Taylor AD, Ribera AB (2004) The carboxyl tail region of the Kv2.2 subunit mediates novel developmental regulation of channel density. J Neurophysiol 92: 3446-3454.
• Pineda, RH, Heiser RA, Ribera AB (2005) Molecular determinants of INa in vivo in embryonic zebrafishsensory neurons. J Neurophysiol 93: 3582-3593.
• Novak AE, Jost MC, Lu Y, Taylor AD, Zakon HH, Ribera AB (2006) Gene duplications and evolution of vertebrate voltage-gated sodium channels. J Mol Evol 63: 208-221.
• Novak AE, Taylor AD, Pineda RH, Lasda EL, Wright MA, Ribera AB (2006) Embryonic and larval expression of zebrafish voltage-gated sodium channel a-subunit genes. Dev Dyn 235: 1962-1973.
• Pineda RH, Svoboda KR, Taylor AD, Wright MA, Novak AE, Gamse J, Eisen JS, Ribera AB. (2006) Knock-down of Nav1.6a sodium channels affects zebrafish motor neuron development. Development 133: 3827-3836.
• Pineda RH, Ribera AB (2008) Dorsal-Ventral Gradient for Neuronal Plasticity in the Embryonic Spinal Cord. J Neurosci 28: 3824-3834.
• Gravagna NG, Knoeckel CS, Taylor AD, Hultgren B, Ribera AB (2008) Localization of Kv2.2 protein in Xenopus laevis embryos and tadpoles. J Comp Neur 510: 508-524.
• Pineda RH, Knoeckel CS, Taylor AD, Estrada-Bernal A, Ribera AB (2008) Kv1 potassium channel complexes in vivo require Kvβ2 subunits and drive developmental changes in potassium current in dorsal spinal neurons, J Neurophysiol, in press.
• Yonkers MA, Ribera AB (2008) Sensory neuron sodium current requires nongenomic actions of thyroid hormone during development, submitted.
  

Reviews

• Ribera, A.B. and Spitzer, N.C. (1992) Developmental regulation of potassium channels and the impact on neuronal differentiation. In : Ion Channels, Vol III, T. Narahashi, Ed. , Plenum Press, NY.
  
• Ribera, A.B. and Blaine, J.T. (1998) Construction, characterization and applications of potassium channel dominant negative subunits. Methods in Mol. Biol., in press.
  
• Ribera, A.B. (1998) Potassium currents in developing neurons. NYAS, 868:399-405.
  
• Spitzer, N.C. and Ribera, A.B. (1998) Develoment of electrical excitability in embryonic neurons: mechanisms and roles. J. Neurobiol. 37:190-197.
  
• Ribera, A.B. (1998) Perspective: Ion channel activity drives ion channel expression. J. Physiol. 511.3:645.

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• Lazaroff, M.A., and Ribera, A.B. (1997) Role of KvBeta subunits in maturation of potassium current in the embryonic nervous system. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 23:681.1.
  
• Nick, T.A., and Ribera, A.B. (1998) Myocytes regulate the development of electrical excitability in Xenopus motoneurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 24:122.3
  
• Ribera, A.B., and Nusslein-Volhard, C. (1998) Sensory neuron sodium current is reduced in zebrafish touch-insensitive mutants. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 24:525.19.

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