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Curriculum Vita

Neal J. Smatresk President

4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 451001 University of Nevada Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV 89154 702-895-3201

president@unlv.edu

Education:

B.A., Biology, Gettysburg College, 1973 M.A., Biology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1978 Ph.D., Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas Marine Laboratory, 1980 Postdoctoral Trainee, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1980-1982

Appointments:

Research expedition on R/V Alpha Helix, Moro Expedition to Palau, 1979. NIH Postdoctoral Trainee with the Respiration Group, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, 1980-1982. Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, 1982-1988. Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, 1988-1993. Full Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, 1993-present. Acting Chair of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, 1993-1994 Chair of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, 1994-1998 President, Academic Association of Departmental Chairs, UTA, 1995-1997 Dean of Science, University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-2004 Director, Texas Science Careers Consortium, 1999-2004 Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Deputy to the Chancellor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004 – 2007 Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Spring 2007-2009 Professor of Biology, UNLV, 2007- present President, University of Nevada Las Vegas, August 2009 - present

Select Professional Activities and Honors:

UNLV Research Foundation, Executive Board, 2007 - present Nevada Development Authority Executive Board, 2009 – present Brookings Institution Metropolitan Program Partner, 2009 - present Chair, UHM Confucius Institute Board, 2006-2007 Arlington Technology Incubator Executive Board, 2002 - 2004 Texas Education Agency PK-16 Advisory Board 2002 - 2003 UTA Nanotech Executive Advisory Board, 2002 - 2004 U.S. House Science Committee Field Hearings on workforce end educational issues, April 22, 2002. National Science Foundation San Antonio Site Review Team, Urban Systemic Program, 2001 Director, Texas State Science and Engineering Fair, 2000 - 2004 Director, Texas Science Careers Consortium 1998 - 2004 Board Member, Dallas NSF Urban System Program, 2001-2003 North Texas Commission, Educational Committee, 1999 - 2003 Dallas/Ft. Worth Health Care Council, 1998-2002

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UTA Leadership Development Award, 1995 Program Officer for Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 1996-1998. Omikron Delta, National Leadership Honorary, elected 1997 Panelist for National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung, Blood, Chancellor's Council Teacher of the Year, UTA, 1988 Phi Kappa Phi

Memberships in Professional Societies: American Physiological Society

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology American Association for the Advancement of Science

Society for Neuroscience Reporting Lines as Executive Vice President and Provost:

Vice Presidents Vice President for Research Vice President for Students Academic Deans Including:

College of Business College of Engineering College of Education College of Fine Arts College of Liberal Arts College of Natural Sciences Greenspun College of Urban Affairs Harrah’s Hotel School School of Dental Medicine School of Community Health School of Nursing and Allied Health Honor’s Program Boyd School of Law Libraries

Academic Success Center

Provost Staff Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Vice Provost for Education Outreach Vice Provost for Information Technology Vice Provost for Academic Resources (vacant) Teaching and Learning Center Associate Vice Provost for Institutional Analysis and Planning

Assistant Provost Grant, Foundation, and Line Item Funding Support: 1982 Microcirculation and the control of carotid body chemoreceptor activity. Parker B. Francis

Foundation, Neal J. Smatresk principle investigator. $61,699. 1983 Neural control of the respiratory responses of an air breathing fish to hypoxia. UTA

Organized Research Fund. Principle investigator N.J. Smatresk. $5424.00.

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1983 Neural control of the respiratory responses of an air breathing fish to hypoxia. Summer research stipend of the UTA Organized Research Fund. Principle investigator, Neal J. Smatresk. $4500.00.

1984 Control and coordination of respiration and heart rate in an air breathing fish, Lepisosteus osseus. Principle investigator N. J. Smatresk. National Science Foundation, Regulatory Biology. $95,685, 2/84 to 1/88.

1987 Research Experience for Undergraduates, Supplement to NSF Grant DCB 8317914 to NJS. National Science Foundation, Regulatory Biology. $4000. 1987

1988 Control of Respiration in Fishes. Principle investigator N.J. Smatresk. National Science Foundation, Regulatory Biology. $117,000, 7/88 to 6/91.

1988 Electrophysiology Workstation, joint request by E.D. Brodie and N.J. Smatresk. UTA Permanent University Fund (PUF) $31,000.

1991 Current perspectives on the evolution, ecology and comparative physiology of bimodal breathing. National Science Foundation Ray Henry (Auburn University) and Neal Smatresk, Co-Principal Investigators. Symposium grant, $9000.

1991 CO2/pH chemosensitivity and the control of breathing in fishes. Neal J. Smatresk, sponsoring senior scholar, National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral award to Mark L. Burleson. $45,000.

1992 Chemoreception and Control of Breathing in Amphibians. National Institutes of Health AREA grant to NHLBI. Neal J. Smatresk principal investigator. $103,977, 6/92-5/95.

1995 Johnson and Johnson Bridge to Employment. Neal J. Smatresk, principal investigator. 9/95-8/98. $100,000.

1995 Johnson and Johnson Medical Inc., to N.J. Smatresk for laboratory development, 10/95. $5000 1996 Precision Porous Pipe, to N.J. Smatresk for testing and development, 1/96. $6000. 1999 Students Work Consortium, B. Henderson, J. Forsberg and A. White, Co-PIs, $475,000. 1999 Science to Careers: A Higher Education Consortium. NJ Smatresk, PI Texas Workforce

Commission. $550,000 2001 Workforce Development Chair, Texas Instruments Foundation $150,000 2001 ExxonMobil Foundation, for Texas Science and Engineering Fair, $50,000 2001 Prentice Hall Science Text Review Contract, $75,000. 2001 Texas Science Careers Consortium, Texas Workforce Commission, $100,000 2001 Received 3 years of line item funding in state budget for launching a Science Education Center ($600,000) 2001 Sid Richardson Foundation, in collaboration with for Hurst Euless Bedford ISD

Teaching partnership, $225,000 - approved 2002 Intel Foundation, for ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering fair, $10,000. 2002 UTA Nano Science and Engineering Center, with various co-writers a federal earmark

proposal, $2,000,000 awarded through DARPA 2002 UTA Center for Nanostructured Materials, federal earmark proposal in Nanostructured

super magnets, $350,000, awarded. 2002 Lockheed Martin Aeronautical, for summer science program, $5,000 awarded. 2003 Texas Science Careers Consortium and TexBESS, Texas Workforce Commission, $220,000

awarded. 2003 Science Education Center, state line item $540,000 2003 Lockheed Martin Aeronautical, for STARTING stems CLUBS, $7,000 awarded. 2004 Texas Science Careers Consortium for ExxonMobil Texas State Science and Engineering

Fair, Texas Workforce Commission, $40,000 2006 Hawaii/Pacific Compact for the Louis Stokes NSF Alliance for Minority Participation

(LSAMP) program co PI with Rose Tseng (UH Hilo) and Bernard Pluger (Chaminade Univ.), $1,740,105; 11/06-10/11.

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2009 Lincy Institute for Community and Urban Research and Analysis, gift from the Lincy Foundation, $14,000,000

2009 Solar minor program, gift from Nevada Energy, $500,000. Scholarly Symposia: (* = symposium organizer) Control of the respiratory mode in air breathing fishes. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in a symposium on "Respiratory Strategies in Lower Vertebrates", supported by the Canadian Society of Zoologists, and National Research Council. 1986. Chemoreflexive control of respiration in an air-breathing fish. Comroe Memorial Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Trip sponsored by University of Pennsylvania, and the NHLBI. 1987. Respiratory defense reflexes mediated by the olfactory and trigeminal nerves in longnose gar. Satellite symposium of International Union of Biological Sciences meeting in Baton Rouge, in a workshop on "New Frontiers in Chemoreception". 1988. Chemoreceptor modulation of the endogenous respiratory rhythm. International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Helsinki, Finland, in a symposium on "Receptors in Control of Breathing". July, 1989. Control of breathing in air-breathing fishes. Joint meeting of the American Physiological Society, Canadian Society of Zoologists, Society of Experimental Biologists (Great Britain) and the American Society of Zoologists, Orlando, Florida in a symposium "The Control of Breathing in Fishes", supported by APS. October, 1990. Control of breathing in fishes. In a symposium on Respiratory and Cardiovascular Physiology of Fishes. International Congress of Biological Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, supported by IUBS. August, 1991. *Control of breathing in bimodal breathers, a phylogenetic perspective. In a symposium "Current perspectives on the evolution, ecology and comparative physiology of bimodal breathing". Co-organizer along with Ray Henry (Auburn University) and presented. American Society of Zoologists, Atlanta, GA. December, 1991. *Afferent Modulation of Respiratory Rhythms in Vertebrates organized the symposium and presented at the APS (ASZ, SEB, CSZ) Intersociety Meeting entitled "Regulation, Integration, Adaptation: A Species Approach", San Diego. October, 1994. Neuromodulation of Respiratory Control in Lower Vertebrates, presented at annual ASZ meeting, in Washington, D.C. December, 1995. Evolution of respiratory control in the transition from water to air breathing. to be presented at a special American Physiological Society meeting on Respiratory Neurobiology. Madison, Wisconsin, July, 1996 Comparative Respiratory Neurobiology, in a symposium on Comparative Respiratory Physiology International Congress of Biological Sciences, Calgary, August 1999. *Periodic Breathing and Breathing Mechanics in Lower Vertebrates a symposium at Cambridge University, Queens College, UK August, 2000.

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Ph.D. Students Supervised: Chemoreceptor and pulmonary mechanoreceptor regulation of blood flow in the turtle, Trachemys

scripta. Jay Herman, Spring 1997. Afferent signal oscillations, stimulus variability and the control of breathing in lower vertebrates.

Flavio Codeco Coelho, spring, 1999. Masters Theses Supervised: Cardiovascular and ventilatory control in the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus.

Mark Burleson, graduated August 1986. An analysis of normal ventilation and unusual ventilatory behaviors in channel catfish exposed to

severe hypoxia. Chi-Na Kim, graduated Fall 1988. The effects of maximal and submaximal exercise on blood gas transport, acid-base balance,

cardiovascular control and ventilation in an air breathing fish. Brad Shipman, graduated, Summer 1989.

The role of the sensory and motor innervation to the air breathing organ in gar. S. Qassim Azizi, graduated, Fall 1989.

The influence of size on hypoxic avoidance and selection in largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides. Don Wilhelm, graduated, Summer 1990.

Control of breathing in Ambystoma tigrinum. A. Boynton, Summer 1994. Ventilatory mechanics and the effect of water depth on breathing pattern in the aquatic caecilian,

Typhlolnetctes natans. Prahba, KC, Summer 1996. Responses of the aquatic caecilian, Typhlonectes natans, to changing aquatic and aerial gas tension.

Manuela Gardner, Summer 1996. Vagal afferent control of breathing in Ambystoma tigrinum, Shahdi Abdolahi Spring, 1997 Temperature effects on oxygen regulation and the ventilatory responses to central and peripheral

hypercapnic stimulation in the toad, Bufo marinus. Kent Boles, Spring 1997. Vagal control of ventilatory mechanics in the toad, Bufo marinus. Tracy Baker, Spring 1997. Ad Hoc Review for: Nature

Science National Science Foundation National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung, Blood Division Journal of Neurobiology American Journal of Physiology Journal of Applied Physiology Journal of Experimental Biology Canadian Journal of Zoology American Zoologist Physiological Zoology Respiration Physiology

Royal Society Journals Oxford University Press

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Natural Environmental Research Council, U.K. Journal Publications: Smatresk, N.J., A.J. Preslar and J.N. Cameron. Post exercise acid-base balance in Gecarcinus lateralis, a terrestrial crab. J. Exp. Zool. 210: 205-210, 1979.

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Smatresk, N.J., and C.F. Herreid. Group metabolism in swordtails, Xiphophora helleri, under controlled oxygen conditions. Copeia 1980: 562-564, 1980. Randall, D.J., J.N. Cameron, C. Daxboeck and N.J. Smatresk. Aspects of bimodal gas exchange in the bowfin, Amia calva. Respirat. Physiol. 43: 339-348, 1981. Smatresk, N.J. and J.N. Cameron. Post-exercise acid-base balance and ventilatory control in Birgus latro, the coconut crab. J. Exp. Zool. 218: 75-82, 1981. Henry, R.R., G. Kormanik, N. Smatresk and J. Cameron. The role of calcium carbonate dissolution for the buffering of hypercapnic acidosis in aquatic and terrestrial decapod crustaceans. J. exp. Biol. 94: 269-274, 1981. Smatresk, N.J. and J.N. Cameron. Respiratory and acid-base physiology of the spotted gar, a bimodal breather. I. Normal values, and the response to severe hypoxia. J. exp. Biol. 96: 263-280, 1982. Smatresk, N.J. and J.N. Cameron. Respiratory and acid-base physiology of the spotted gar, a bimodal breather. II. Responses to temperature change and hypercapnia. J. exp. Biol. 96: 281-293, 1982. Smatresk, N.J. and J.N. Cameron. Respiratory and acid-base physiology of the spotted gar, a bimodal breather. III. Responses to a transfer from fresh water to sea water, and control of ventilation. J. exp. Biol. 96: 295-306, 1982. Smatresk, N.J. and S. Lahiri. Aortic body chemoreceptor responses to dopamine, haloperidol and pargyline. J. Appl. Physiol. 53: 596-602, 1982. Lahiri, S., N. Smatresk, M. Pokorski, P. Barnard, and A. Mokashi. Efferent inhibition of carotid body chemoreception in chronically hypoxic cats. Am. J. Physiol. 245: R678-R683, 1983 Smatresk, N., M. Pokorksi and S. Lahiri. Opposing effects of dopamine receptor blockade on ventilation and carotid chemoreceptor activity. J. Appl. Physiol. 54: 1567-1573, 1983. Lahiri, S., N. Smatresk, M. Pokorski, P. Barnard, A. Mokashi and K. McGregor. Dopaminergic efferent inhibition of carotid body chemoreceptors in chronically hypoxic cats. Am. J. Physiol. 247: R24-R28, 1984. Smatresk, N.J. Ventilatory and cardiovascular reflex responses to hypoxia and NaCN in Lepisosteus osseus, an air breathing fish. Physiol. Zool. 59: 385-397, 1986. Smatresk, N., M. Burleson and S.Q. Azizi. Chemoreflex responses to hypoxia and NaCN in longnosed gar: Evidence for two chemoreceptor loci. Am. J. Physiol. 251: R116-R125, 1986. Smatresk, N.J. and S.Q. Azizi. Characteristics of pulmonary mechanoreceptors in the air breathing fish, Lepisosteus oculatus. Am. J. Physiol. 252: R1066-R1072, 1987. Barnard, P., S. Andronikou, M. Pokorski, N. Smatresk, A. Mokashi, and S. Lahiri. Time-dependent effect of hypoxia on carotid body chemosensory function. J. Appl. Physiol. 63: 685-691, 1987. Smatresk, N.J. Control of the respiratory mode in air breathing fishes. Can J. Zool. 66:144-151, 1988. Henry, R., N. Smatresk and J. Cameron. The role of intra and extracellular carbonic anhydrase in CO2 excretion in channel catfish. J. exp. Biol., 134:201-218, 1988.

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Kilgore, M., G.L. Stewart, and N.J. Smatresk. Oxygen uptake in mice infected with Trichinella spiralis. J. Parasit. 74:721-724, 1988. Burleson, M.L. and N.J. Smatresk. The effects of decerebration and anesthesia on the reflex responses to hypoxia in catfish. Can J. Zool., 67: 630-635, 1989. Burleson, M.L. and N.J. Smatresk. Evidence for two oxygen sensitive chemoreceptor loci in Channel catfish, Phys. Zool., 63:208-221, 1990. Brodie, E., and N. Smatresk. The antipredator arsenal of fire salamanders: Spraying of neurotoxins from highly pressurized dorsal skin glands. Herpetologica, 46: 1-7, 1990. Smatresk, N.J. Chemoreceptor modulation of the endogenous respiratory rhythm in vertebrates. Am. J. Physiol., 259:R887-897, 1990. Burleson, M.L. and N.J. Smatresk. Effects of sectioning cranial nerves IX and X on the reflex responses to hypoxia in channel catfish. J. exp. Biol., 154:407-420, 1990. Smatresk, N.J. and A.W. Smits. Effects of central and peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation on ventilation in the Marine toad, Bufo marinus. Respir. Physiol., 83:223-238, 1991. Byrne, R., N.J. Smatresk, R.F. McMahon and B.N. Shipman. Acid-base balance during prolonged emergence in the freshwater bivalve, Corbicula fluminea. Physiol. Zool. 64:748-766, 1991. Robinson, J.V., L.Shaffer, D. Hagemeir, and N. Smatresk. The role of caudal lamellae loss in intraspecific interactions of the larval damselfly, Ischnura posita (Hagen) (Odonata: Zygoptera). Oecologia, 87:1-7, 1991. Henry, R.P. and N.J. Smatresk Current perspectives on the evolution, ecology, and comparative physiology of bimodal breathing: Introduction to the symposium. Am Zool. 34:177, 1994. Smatresk, N.J. Respiratory control in the transition from water to air breathing in vertebrates. Am. Zool. 34:264-279, 1994. Byrne, R., M. Burleson, N. Smatresk, and R. McMahon. Respiratory and acid-base consequences of Zebra Mussel infestation on valves of unionids. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 73:1489-1494, 1995. M.L. Burleson, B.N. Shipman and N.J. Smatresk. Effects of exercise and aquatic hypoxia on ventilation and acid-base regulation in the spotted gar, Lepisosteus occulatus. J. exp. Biol., 201: 1359-1368, 1998. Herman, J. and N.J. Smatresk. Cardiorespiratory responses to progressive hypoxia and hypercapnia in the turtle, Trachemys scripta. J. exp. Biol, 202, 3205-3212, 1999 KC, Prabha; D. Bernard and N.J. Smatresk. Ventilatory mechanics and the effects of water depth on breathing pattern in the aquatic caecilian, Typhlonectes natans. J. exp. Biol.: 203: 263-272, 2000. Gardner, M., A.W. Smits and N.J. Smatresk. The ventilatory responses of the caecilian Typhlonectes natans to hypoxia and hypercapnia., Physiol. and Bioch. Zool. 73(1):23-29. 2000.

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M.L. Burleson, and N.J. Smatresk. Branchial chemoreceptors mediate the ventilatory reflex responses to hypercapnia in catfish: Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A: 125:403-414, 2000 Burleson, M., D. Wilhelm and N. Smatresk. The influence of fish size on hypoxic avoidance and oxygen selection by largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides. J Fish Biol. 59: 1336-1349, 2001. Coelho, F. C., T. Baker and N. Smatresk. Ventilatory behaviors of the toad Bufo marinus revealed by coherence analysis. Braz. J. Biol.,63 (1): 27-34. 2003. Coelho, F. C. and N. Smatresk. Resting respiratory behavior in minimally instrumented toads - effects of very long apneas on blood gases and pH. Braz. J. Biol., 63(1):35-45. 2003. Mendelson, J. R., E. D. Brodie, Jr., J. M. Malone, M. E. Acevedo, M. A. Baker, N. J. Smatresk, and J. A. Campbell. Amphibian Chytridomycosis in Guatemala: Decline of a Cloudforest Frog Fauna. Biotropica: 2004 Book Chapters: Lahiri, S., N. Smatresk, and E. Mulligan. Responses of peripheral chemoreceptors to natural stimuli. In Physiology of Peripheral Arterial Chemoreceptors, ed. by Acker, H. and R. O'Regan. Elsevier, pp 221-256, 1983. Lahiri, S., N.J. Smatresk, M. Pokorski, A. Mokashi and K. McGregor. Altered structure and function of carotid body in chronically hypoxic cat. In The Peripheral Arterial Chemoreceptors, ed. by D. Pallot, Oxford University Press, pp 303-309, 1984. Smatresk, N.J. Chemoreflexive control of respiration in an air-breathing fish. In Chemoreceptors and Chemoreflexes in Breathing - Cellular and Molecular Aspects"., ed. Lahiri et al. Oxford University Press, pp 52-59, 1989. Lahiri, S., P. Barnard, A. Mokashi, E. Mulligan, D. Torbati, M. Pokorski, N. Smatresk, R. Zhang. Mechanisms of carotid body responses to chronic low and high oxygen pressures. In Chemoreceptors and Chemoreflexes in Breathing - Cellular and Molecular Aspects". ed. Lahiri et al., Oxford University Press, pp 215-227, 1989. Burleson, M., N. Smatresk, and W. Milsom. Sensory control of breathing and the heart in fishes. in Fish Physiology, Vol.X, Gills Part B. ed. Perry, S. and D. Randall. Academic Press, London, 1992. Published Abstracts: Smatresk, N. and C.F. Herreid II. Group metabolism in swordtails, Xiphophora helleri. Am Zool. 17: 937, 1977. Smatresk, N.J. and J.N. Cameron. Gas exchange across the gills and lungs of the spotted gar, Lepisosteus oculatus. Am Zool. 19: 893, 1979. Smatresk, N.J. and J.N. Cameron. Temperature related changes in respiration and acid-base balance in an air breathing fish. Physiol. 23: 176, 1980 Smatresk, N.J., A. Mokashi, and S. Lahiri. Modulation of aortic body chemoreceptor responses to hypoxia by dopamine, before and after pargyline. Fed. Proc. 40: 566, 1980. Smatresk, N.J. , S. Lahiri. M. Pokorski and P. Bernard. Augmented efferent inhibition of carotid body chemoreceptors in chronically hypoxic cats. Physiol. 24: 114, 1981

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Barnard, P. R. Zhang, N. Smatresk, M. Pokorski, A. Mokashi and S. Lahiri. Carotid chemoreceptor and ventilatory responses in chronically hypoxic cats. Physiol. 24: 114, 1981. Pokorski, M. S. Lahiri, N. Smatresk and A. Mokashi. Effects of naloxone on carotid chemoreceptor activity and ventilatory responses in chronically hypoxic cats. Physiol. 24: 114, 1981. Smatresk, N.J., M. Pokorski and S. Lahiri. Opposing central and peripheral effects of haloperidol on carotid chemoreceptor activity and ventilation during hypoxia. Fed. Proc. 41: 1102, 1982. Pokorski, M. N. Smatresk and S. Lahiri. Effect of 4-aminopyridine on carotid chemoreceptor and ventilatory response to hypoxia. Fed. Proc. 41: 1101, 1982. Lahiri, S., N.J. Smatresk, M. Pokorski, P. Barnard, and S. Lahiri. Altered structure and function of carotid body in chronically hypoxic cat. 7th Symposium on Arterial Chemoreceptors, Leicester, England, 1982. McGregor, K., J. Gil, N. Smatresk, P. Barnard and S. Lahiri. A morphometric study of the carotid body in chronically hypoxic rats. Fed. proc. 42: 978, 1983. Smatresk, N.J. Control of air breathing and gill ventilation in longnose gar. Am. Zool., 24: 893, 1983. Smatresk, N.J. and S.Q. Azizi. Characteristics of pulmonary mechanoreceptors in the air breathing fish, Lepisosteus oculatus. Am. Zool. 25:52, 1985. Burleson, M.L. and N.J. Smatresk. Responses of conscious, decerebrate and anesthetized catfish to hypoxia and NaCN. Am. Zool. 25:52, 1985. Smatresk, N.J. Control of the respiratory mode in air breathing fishes. Bull. Can. Soc. Zool. 2:13, 1986. Azizi, S.Q. and N.J. Smatresk. Relationships between vagal efferent activity and pressure in the air breathing organ of gar. Physiol. 29: 177, 1986. Burleson, M.L. and N.J. Smatresk. Effects of sectioning cranial nerves IX and X on the reflex responses to hypoxia in catfish. Am. Zool. 26: 51A, 1986. Shipman, B.N. and N.J. Smatresk. Exercise recovery in Lepisosteus oculatus, an air-breathing fish. Am. Zool. 27: 111a, 1987. Henry, R.P., N.J. Smatresk and J.N. Cameron. Distribution of branchial carbonic anhydrase and effects of gill and red cell CA inhibition in the channel catfish. Am. Zool. 27: 111a, 1987. Smatresk, N.J. Vagal afferent control over water and air breathing patterns in Lepisosteus oculatus, an air-breathing fish. Am. Zool. 27: 111a, 1987. Smatresk, N.J. and S.Q. Azizi. Reflex effects of chemoreceptors and ABO mechanoreceptors in Lepisosteus oculatus, an air-breathing fish. Intl. Union Biol. Sci. meeting in Baton Rouge, 1988. Robinson, J.V., L.Shaffer, D. Hagemeir, and N. Smatresk. Cost and benefits of damselfly gill autotomy. Southwest Association of Naturalists meeting, 1989.

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Robinson, J.V., L. Shaffer, D. Hagemeir, and N. Smatresk. The role of gill autototomy in intraspecific interactions of the larval damsel fly, Ishnura posita (Hagen) (Odonata:Zygoptera): Tenth International Symposium of Odonatology, 10: 30, 1989. Robinson, J.V., L. Shaffer, D. Hagemeir, and N. Smatresk. Gill autotomy: a fulcrum between predation and competition in damselfly larvae. Bull. Ecol. Soc. of Amer., 70:196-197, 1989. Smatresk, N.J. and A.W. Smits. Evidence for central chemoreceptor control of ventilation in Bufo marinus. Am. Zool. 29:58a, 1989. Shipman, B.N. and N.J. Smatresk. Ventilation, blood gas and acid-base recovery in Lepisosteus oculatus, and air-breathing fish, following exercise in hypoxic water. Am. Zool., 29:103a, 1989. Smits, A.W. and N.J. Smatresk. Central and peripheral chemoreceptor interactions in the Marine toad, Bufo marinus., Physiol. 33:A-51, 1990. Smatresk, N.J. Control of breathing in air-breathing fishes. Physiol. 33:A-28, 1990. Smatresk, N.J. Respiratory defense reflexes in an air-breathing fish, Lepisosteus oculatus. Am. Zool., 30: 67A, 1990. Smatresk, N.J. and M.L. Burleson. Branchial chemoreceptors and the reflex responses to hypoxia in fishes. Proc. of Int. Cong. of Comp. Physiol. and Biochem. 3:64, 1991. Burleson, M.L., E.D. Brodie, and N.J. Smatresk. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) resistance in garter snakes. Am Zool. 31:114A, 1991. Smatresk, N.J., A.W. Smits, A. Boynton, and M. Burleson. Phase space and spectral analysis of the effects of branchial denervation on the ventilation in catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. FASEB Journal 7:A22, 1993. Smits, A.W., N.J. Smatresk, N. Burleson, A. Boynton. Is there determinsitic chaos in the catfish cardiac rhythm? FASEB Journal 7:A678, 1993. Boynton, A., and N.J. Smatresk. The effects of hypoxia and hypercapnia on ventilation patterns in tiger salamanders. FASEB Journal 7:A23, 1993. Burleson, M.L. and N.J. Smatresk. Effects of branchial nerve section on responses to hypercapnic acidosis in channel catfish. FASEB Journal 7:A23, 1993 Smatresk, N.J., A.W. Smits, M.L. Burleson, and A.K. Boynton. The effects of branchial denervation on ventilation and blood gasses in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. Abstr. of Ichthyology and Herpetology, May, 1993:287, 1993. Smatresk, N.J. Afferent modulation of ventilatory patterns in lower vertebrates. Physiol. 37:A27, 1994. Boynton, A., and N. J. Smatresk. Ventilatory mechanics of larval and adult Ambystoma tigrinum. Exp. Biol., 9:A642, 1995. Boles, K., and N.J. Smatresk. Temperature effects on the ventilatory responses to central and peripheral hypercapnic stimulation in the toad, Bufo marinus. Exp. Biol., 1995. 9:A641, 1995

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Smatresk, N.J. Respiratory patterns and intermittent breathing in primitive vertebrates. Physiol. Zool. 68:90, 1995 Smatresk, N.J. Neuromodulation of ventilatory patterns in lower vertebrates. Am. Zool, 35, 131A, 1995. Bernard, D.G., S. Abdolahi, and N. Smatresk. Evidence for central CO2 chemosensitivity in tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum). The FASEB Journal, 10:A 406, 1996. Prabha KC, M. Gardner and N.J. Smatresk. Ventilatory mechanics of Typhlonectes natans. The FASEB Journal 10:A361 1996. N.J. Smatresk. Phylogeny of vertebrate ventilatory control. Physiol. 39(3): 191, 1996. T.L. Baker and N.J. Smatresk. Ventilatory responses of toads (Bufo marinus) to intermittent hypoxic exposure. Physiol. 39(3): 184, 1996. M.L. Burleson and N.J. Smatresk. Afferent sensory activity from catfish gills. Physiol. 39(3): 184, 1996. S.S. Abdolahi and N.J. Smatresk. Ventilatory responses to changes in gas tensions and lung volume in the adult tiger salamander. The FASEB Journal 11:A30, 1997. J.K. Herman, T.L. Baker and N.J. Smatresk. Progressive augmentation of pulmonary blood flow during intermittent hypoxia in the turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans The FASEB Journal 11:A291997. T.L. Baker and N.J. Smatresk. Effects of pulmonary denervation on ventilatory mechanics of the toad, Bufo marinus. The FASEB Journal 11:A29, 1997. M. Gardner, A.W. Smits, and N.J. Smatresk. Ventilatory responses in Typhlonectes natans to changing aerial and aquatic gas tensions. The FASEB Journal 11:A30, 1997. F.C. Coelho, T.L. Baker and N.J. Smatresk. Coherence and wavelet analysis of ventilatory time series in the toad, Bufo marinus, and episodic breather. The FASEB Journal 11:A30, 1997. Burleson, M.L. and N.J. Smatresk. Phylogeny of Respiratory Control in Vertebrates. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 124A. Suppl. S32, 1999. Smatresk, N.J. Sensory control of breathing rhythms and mechanics in amphibians. Cambridge Proceedings, 2000. Coelho, F.C., T.L. Baker, N.J. Smatresk. Relevância da Variabilidade Temporal de Sinais Aferentes para o Controle Ventilatório em Bufo marinus XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, 2002, Itajai, SC, Brasil, Vol. 1, p 419, 2002. Education, Development and Workforce Presentations Summer Math and Science Partnerships: Forging Connections between Higher Education and Public Schools, School to Careers Professional Development Conference, July, 1999, Dallas, TX

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Summer Science and Math Partnerships, 1999NCSSSMST 12th Annual Conference, March, 1999 Austin, TX Models of Cooperation: Education and Arts/Sciences Working Together, February, 2000 Texas A&M meeting of Texas Deans of Arts and Sciences, College Station, Texas. Opening Address, Shaping the Future Conference, UT Arlington, April, 2000 Professional Development in Science and Math: Building a Higher Education Consortium. February 2000. School in Main, Dallas, TX Conference Report, Texas Alliance for Legislative Action, Dallas, August 2000 Linking Science Education and Career Development, Valley Workforce Development Board, McAllen, TX, October, 2000 Science and Workforce Development, Texas Workforce Advantage, Ft. Worth, November, 2000 Statewide Workforce Forum (organized meeting), UTA, Arlington, Texas, October, 2000 Science to Careers, Annual Texas School to Careers Conference, Education That Works, Corpus Christi, November 2000 Help Wanted, Workforce Development and the New Economy, Sherman, Texas, April 2001 The Texas Science Careers Consortium, presented to the directors of the Texas Regional Workforce Development Boards, April, 2001 Texas Workforce Commission Annual Development Board Meeting, Workforce Partnerships, Linking Students to careers through Science Education Reform, Sept. 2001 Texas CAST meetings, ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair, November, 2001 CASE Conference, Academic/Professional Development Interactions, panel discussion, Oklahoma City, April 2002 Mid-Cities Technical Club, Emerging Careers and workforce development in a high tech economy, May, 2002 The Arlington Technology Incubator, Presentation to the DFW Health Care Council, August, 2002 The Texas Two-Step, Incorporating Community College Technical Degree Programs in Science and Interdisciplinary Studies, Texas Association of College Technical Educators, September, 2002. TexBESS coordination conference and summer workshop coordination June, 2003. American Forensics Institute Teacher Education National Conference – organizer and host, October, 2003. Courses taught: Principles of Animal Physiology Human Anatomy and Physiology I

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Human Anatomy and Physiology II Zoology

Cell Physiology Neurobiology Vertebrate Physiology Quantitative Physiology

Physiological Modeling Presentation Graphics Cardiorespiratory Physiology, Neurobiology Readings and other seminar classes Bioscience Careers Biotechniques Contemporary Science (a graduate class for science teachers)

Capstone Science Education Class Synergistic and Interdisciplinary Activities Highlights

• Established the Lincy Community and Urban Research and Analysis Institute at UNLV to promote community non-profits, and change in health, education and social systems

• Established the Academic Success Center to improve student service and retention • Developing new General Education program across disciplines, UNLV • Lead Strategic Plan and refocused research mission of UNLV • Serve on the Research Park advisory board • Promoted federal earmark requests in support of cross disciplinary research • Developed multidisciplinary programs in Health Sciences, working across NSHE • Oversight for multidisciplinary Science and Engineering Building planning and construction • Support of Mid-Town UNLV public private partnership • Established the Lincy Institute, a community centered research and support program • Gained Brookings Affiliated status for UNLV • Initiated a new articulation program for General Education Core classes for more

transparent interactions between UHM and area CCs. • Launched new student housing facilities through public private partnership • Developing a number of system wide IT tools for academic programs and articulation for

UH System-wide use • Programmed, planned and lobbied for funding for new physical sciences building at UTA,

construction nearing completion • Developing an integrated fiscal management, system and working on integrated plan for

infrastructure, building, budget allocation etc for UHM • Created an automated IT Banner data mining system for providing an online institutional

research office at UHM for enrollment management and basic analysis of institutional data. • Building a technology incubator focused on nanofab and biotech, developing UTA tech

transfer pathways, and leading efforts to foster development of a tech incubator with the Arlington Chamber.

• Instituted new science education programs between Colleges of Science and Education, and developed programs for regional science and math teachers.

• Developing an interdisciplinary nanosciences and engineering program for UTA. • Developing a program to increase minority access to Ph.D. degrees by working with sister

institutions UT Brownsville and UT Pan-American in The Rio Grande Valley. • Developing community college articulations to create seamless pathways for tech prep

students to 4 year universities (the Texas Two Step) • Working to create a contract work center with the College of Science, Business and

Engineering for Lockheed Martins Advanced Development Group • Developed a variety of new interdisciplinary programs between biology, biomedical

engineering, liberal arts, business, psychology and math.

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• Developing an Endowed Chair for workforce development in physical and mathematical sciences with Texas Instruments support.

• Sponsor Frontiers in Science, a popular science symposium for the community. • Initiating a bioinformatics/computational biology program. • Expanding physics/engineering interactions with materials science, nanofabrication and

environmental science programs. • Organize and run an annual Conference for Science Education and Workforce Development

called Shaping the Future, gathering key stakeholders from Government, Education and Industry.

• Co-authoring state and federal earmark legislation to foster research, tech transfer and IP development at UHM and UTA.

Research Interests: The major focus of my research has been to identify and characterize the sensory receptors that contribute to cardiorespiratory control in vertebrates. A broad goal of this work has been to better understand how the respiratory neurobiology of vertebrates changed during the evolutionary transition from water to air breathing. I am most interested in sensory modulation and the formation of respiratory rhythms and patterns in fish and amphibians. I have been developed amphibian models for studying the neurogenesis of periodic breathing patterns. I also developed new methods to understand the interrelationships between cardiovascular and ventilatory control using new time series analysis including non-linear dynamics, approximate entropy, coherence theory, and wavelet analysis. A lifelong interest has been to fostering science and math education research and program development, and I have served in this capacity with NSF and in addition to research funding from NSF and NIH, I received funding for a number of science education proposals.