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Curriculum vitae

Katherine Rennie, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology Campus Box B205. Tel (303) 315-2923.

Email katie.rennie@UCHSC.edu.
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Research Interests
Ion channels in type I and type II vestibular hair cells.
Synaptic transmission in the vestibular periphery.
Education
1987 B.Sc. Hons., Physiology, University of Leeds, U.K.
1991 Ph.D., Physiology, University of Bristol, U.K.
1991-1997 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Otolaryngology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

Honors and Awards
1988 Dale and Rushton Fund (Physiological Society) travel award.
1988 NATO travel award
1994-1997 NRSA Post-doctoral Fellowship (NIDCD).
1996 NSAS-NSF-Gordon Res Conference Young Investigator Award

1997 R03 Small Grant Award (NIDCD).
1998 FIRST Award (NIDCD).
2000-2001 Deafness Research Foundation Award.

2000-2002 NIDCD R01 (Co-Investigator, P.I. Manning J. Correia)

2003 American Physiological Society Research Career Enhancement Award

2004 American Hearing Research Foundation Award

2004 National Hearing Research Grants Center (DRF Award)

Ad Hoc reviewer for the Journal of Physiology and the Journal of Vestibular Research.
Grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

Ad Hoc reviewer for the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Experimental Neurology, Journal of Neurophysiology, (Journal of Physiology and the Journal of Vestibular Research).

(Grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Wellcome Trust).

NIDCD Special Emphasis Panel

Professional Experience
1991-1997    Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Otolaryngology, UTMB, Galveston, TX
1995-1996    Research Associate, Department of Physiology, University of Bristol, U.K.
1997-2002    Research Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, UTMB, Galveston, TX
2002             Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, UCD, Denver, CO.   

2004             Director of Research, Department of Otolaryngology, UCD

2004             Neuroscience Training Program (UCD)

Membership in Scientific Societies:
1993-present Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honors Society.
1995-present Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
2000-present American Physiological Society.
2001-present Society for Neuroscience.

2002             New York Academy of Sciences.

Selected Publications:
  • Rennie, K. J. and Ashmore, J. F. Ionic currents in isolated vestibular hair cells from the guinea-pig crista ampullaris. Hear. Res. 51:279-292, 1991.
  • Rennie, K. J. and Ashmore, J. F. Effects of extracellular ATP on hair cells isolated from the guinea-pig semicircular canals. Neuroscience Letts. 160:185-189, 1993.
  • Rennie, K. J. and Correia, M. J. Potassium currents in mammalian and avian isolated type I semicircular canal hair cells. J. Neurophysiol. 71: 317-329, 1994.
  • Ricci, A. J., Rennie, K. J. and Correia, M. J. A delayed rectifier conductance shapes the voltage response of type I hair cells. In: New Frontiers of Vestibular Research. B. Cohen and S. Highstein (Eds.) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 781:690-692, 1996.
  • Correia, M. J., Ricci, A. J. and Rennie, K. J. Filtering properties of vestibular hair cells: an update. In: New Frontiers of Vestibular Research. B. Cohen and S. Highstein (Eds.) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 781:138-149, 1996.
  • Rennie, K. J., Ricci, A. J. and Correia, M. J. Electrical filtering in gerbil isolated type I semicircular canal hair cells. J. Neurophysiol. 75:2117-2123, 1996.
  • Ricci, A. J., Rennie, K. J. and Correia, M. J. The delayed rectifier, IKI, is the major conductance in type I vestibular hair cells across vestibular end organs. Pflügers Arch. 432:34-42, 1996.
  • Ricci, A. J., Rennie, K. J., Cochran, S. L., Kevetter, G. A. and Correia, M. J. Vestibular type I and type II hair cells. 1: Morphological identification in the pigeon and gerbil. J. Vestib. Res. 7:393-406, 1997.
  • Ricci, A. J., Cochran, S. L., Rennie, K. J. and Correia, M. J. Vestibular type I and type II hair cells. 2: Morphometric comparisons of dissociated pigeon hair cells. J. Vestib. Res. 7:407-420, 1997.
  • Rennie, K. J., Ashmore, J. F. and Correia, M. J. Evidence for a Na+-K+-Cl- cotransporter in mammalian type I vestibular hair cells. Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol. 273:C1972-C1980, 1997.
  • Rennie, K. J. and Correia, M. J. Effects of cationic substitutions on delayed rectifier current in type I vestibular hair cells. J. Membr. Biol. 173:139-148, 2000.
  • Rennie, K. J., Weng, T. X., and Correia, M. J. Effects of KCNQ channel blockers on K+ currents in vestibular hair cells. Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol. 280:C473-C480, 2001.
  • Correia, M. J, Rennie, K. J. and Koo, P. Return of potassium ion channels in regenerated hair cells: Possible pathways and the role of intracellular calcium signaling. In: Vestibular labyrinth in health and disease. J. A. Goebel and S. M. Highstein (Eds.) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. Vol. 942:228-240, 2001.

  • Rennie, K. J. Modulation of the resting potassium current in type I vestibular hair cells by cGMP. In: Hair cell micromechanics and otoacoustic emissions. C. I. Berlin, L. J. Hood and A. Ricci (Eds.) Singular Press 79-89, 2002.

  • Rennie, K. J., Manning K. C. and Ricci, A. J. Mechano-electrical transduction in the turtle utricle. Biomed. Sci. Instrum. 40 (ISA Volume 449):441-446, 2004.

  • Correia, M. J., Wood, T. G., Prusak, D., Weng, T. X., Rennie, K. J. and Wang, H-Q. Molecular characterization of an inward rectifier channel (IKir) found in avian vestibular hair cells: cloning and expression of pKir 2.1. Physiol. Genomics 19:155-169, 2004.

     

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