Curriculum Vita
Alan P. Jones
Office Address: Pitzer College
1050 N. Mills
Claremont, CA 91711
Office Telephone: (909) 607-8217
Fax: (909) 621-8481
e-mail: alan_jones@pitzer.edu

PRESENT POSITIONS
    Dean of Faculty, Pitzer College
    Vice President for Academic Affairs
    Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
     
EDUCATION
   

Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Neuroscience (1983)
M.A., Psychology/Neuroscience, Princeton University. (1978)
B.S., Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (1976) (Magna cum laude)

     
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
   
  • Teratogenic influences on brain development
  • Effects of early undernutrition on development
  • Neural and metabolic factors in the ontogeny of obesity
     
TEACHING/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
    Professor of Psychology, Pitzer College, 1997-present
    Associate Professor of Psychology, Pitzer College, 1991-1997
    Assistant Professor of Psychology, Pitzer College, 1986-1991
    Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Goleta, California, 1995
    Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
    NIH Individual Post Doctoral Fellow and Instructor in Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, July 1984-July-1986
    NIH Institutional Post Doctoral Fellow at the Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, University of Colorado School of Medicine, June 1983-June 1984
    Research Assistant to Dr. Mark Friedman, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, June 1978-September 1982
     
GRANT AWARDS
 
2000
 Principal Investigator (PI) for an Anonymous Grant to support the Pitzer in Ontario project
 
1997
 PI for equipment grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Neuroscience Program
 
1996
 PI for NSF-CCD grant to establish a 6-college Neuroscience Program
 
1996
 Co-PI for Luce Foundation Grant to fund a Brain, Mind and Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives professorship
 
1990
 PI for Academic Research Enhancement Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
 
1985
 Developmental Psychobiology Investigator Research Award
 
1985
 PI on NIH Research Grant
 
1984
 NIH Individual Post-Doctoral Fellowship
     
MEMBERSHIP in PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
   

International Society for Developmental Psychobiology

    Society for Neuroscience
    Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
     
COMMUNITY SERVICE
   

Member, Board of Directors, Homeless Outreach Programs and Education, Ontario, CA
    Member, City of Ontario Downtown Revitalization Committee
     
PUBLICATIONS
    Jones, A.P. and D.H. Olster. The impact of obesity producing maternal nutritional manipulations on fetal insulin and glucose levels. Endocinology. In Press
   

Jones, A.P. "Anti-Anxiety (Anxiolytic) Drugs " Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society. Ed. R. Volti. Vol 1. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
    Jones, A.P. "Antipsychotic (Neuroleptic) Drugs" Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society. Ed. R. Volti. Vol 1. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
    Jones, A.P. "Hallucinogens" Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society. Ed. R. Volti. Vol 1. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
    Jones, A.P. "Antidepressants" Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society. Ed. R. Volti. Vol 1 New York: Facts on File, 1999.
    Jones, A.P., D. H. Olster and B. States. Maternal insulin manipulations in it orgnize body weight and noradrenergic pinnervation of the hypothalamus in gonadally intact male offspring. Developmental Brain Research, 97: 16-21, 1996.
    Jones, A.P., E. Pothos, P. Rada, B.G. Hoebel, and D.H. Olster. Maternal hormone manipulations in rats cause obesity and increase medial hypothalamic norepinephrine release in male offspring. Developmental Brain Research, 88: 127-131, 1995.
    Jones, A.P. J.F. McElroy, L. Cynic and G.N. Wade. Effects of ovariectomy on thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue and liver in syrian hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, 50: 41-45, 1991.
    Jones, A.P. and M. Dayries. The effects of prenatal exposure to elevated metabolic hormone levels on offspring body weight. Physiology and Behavior, 47: 1107-1110, 1990.
    Jones, A.P. and L.S. Cynic. Maternal metabolic responses to offspring undernutrition. Nutrition and Behavior, 3: 233-239, 1986.
    Jones, A.P., S.A. Assimon, & M.I. Friedman. Effect of a high fat diet on obesity induced by gestational undernutrition. Physiology and Behavior, 37: 381-386, 1986.
    Jones, A.P. and L.S. Crnic. Maternal mediation of the effects of malnutrition. In: E. Riley and C.V. Vorhees (eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Teratology, Plenum, 1986.
    Jones, A.P., S.A. Assimon, and R.M. Gold. Retroperitioneal and Epididymal Adipose Tissue unaffected by unilateral hypothalamic knife cuts. Physiology and Behavior, 34: 29-31, 1985.
    Jones, A.P., E.L. Simson, and M.I. Friedman. Gestational undernutrition and the development of obesity in rats. Journal of Nutrition, 114: 1484-1492, 1984.
    Simson, E.L., A.P. Jones, R.M. Gold, and M.L. Schwarz. Estrogenic control of adipocyte number. Physiology and Behavior, 29: 63-66, 1982.
    Simson, E.L., A.P. Jones, M.L. Schwartz and R.M.Gold. Ovariectomy without obesity and obesity without hyperadiposity. Appetite, 3: 243-253, 1982.
    Jones, A.P., and M.I. Friedman. Obesity and adipocyte abnormalities in offspring of rats undernourished during pregnancy. Science, 215: 1518-1519, 1982.
    Simson, E.L., A.P. Jones and R.M. Gold. Horizontal stereotaxic atlas of the albino rat brain. Brain Research Bulletin, 6: 297-326, 1981.
    Gold, R.M., A.P. Jones, P.E. Sawchenko and G. Kapatos. Paraventricular area: Critical focus of a longitudinal neurocircuitry mediatiating food intake. Physiology and Behavior, 18: 1111-1119, 1977.
     
PAPERS PRESENTED
   

Jones, A.P. and D.H. Olster. Maternal insulin manipulations in rats organize body weight ai noradrenergic innervation of the hypothalamus. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1996.
    Jones, A.P. Fetal Insulin Levels in offspring of obese Sprgue Dawley rats. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, 2000.
    Vasquez. M., and A.P. Jones. Food suppressant effects of leptin reversed by intraventriculai injections of melanocyte concentrating hormone. Accepted for presentation at the Meeting c Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2001.
    Bentham, W.D., E.Pothos and A.P. Jones. The impact of early insulin treatment on obesity dopamine turnover in the Nucleus Acumbens. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Inge,, Behavior, Princeton, NJ, 1992.
    Jones, A.P. Insulin and the Organization of Obesity. Invited Address. Meeting of the Socie for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. Princeton, NJ, 1992.
    Jones, A.P. and M. Dayries. The effect of prenatal insulin on offspring body weight regulate capabilities. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Meeting, Toronto, 1981
    Jones, A.P. and J. Carillo. The effect of hypothalamic lesions on hepatic thermogenesis. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans, 1987.
    Jones, A.P. and L.S. Cynic. Maternal metabolic responses to undernutrition in the rat International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Meeting, Dallas, 1985.
    Jones, A.P. and L.S. Cynic. Increased body weight produced by gestational undernutrition. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Dallas, 1985.
    Jones, A.P. and S. Assimon. The effect of diet on food intake and adiposity in rats made obe by gestational undernutrition. Eastern Psychological Association Meeting. Philadelphia 1985
    Assimon, S., R.M. Gold and A.P. Jones. Development of obesity by perinatal exposure to supermarket diet. Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Baltimore, April 1982.
    Schwarz, M., E. Simson, A. Jones, and R. Gold. Differential ontogenies of dietary and ovariectomy obesity in rats. Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, New York, April 1981.
    Jones, A.P. and M.I. Friedman. Obesity in male offspring of female rats food restricted during pregnancy. Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Hartford, CT, April 1980.
    Jones, A.P., D'Angelo and P. Sawchenko. Localization of satiety neuro-circuitry utilizing assymetrical knife cuts. Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, New York, April 1976.