Jake Krans
Visiting Assistant Professor
jkrans@mtholyoke.edu
413-538-3318
Office: 125 Clapp Lab

EDUCATION
B.A., Natural Science, Simon’s Rock College, 1998
Ph.D., Physiology and Neurobiology, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, 2004
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 2005-2006
RESEARCH INTERESTS
(1) Force generation in wildtype and mutant strains of larval Drosophila melanogaster, fruit fly.
(2) Hemolymph ion concentrations, the regulation, and the effect of divalents at the neuromuscular junction of fruit fly.
COURSES
Biology 145 Introductory Biology (Model Organisms) Fall
Biology 333 Neurobiology Spring
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Krans JL, Gilbert C, and Hoy RR (2006) Teaching insect retinal physiology with newly designed, inexpensive micromanipulators. Accepted: Advances in Physiology Education


Krans JL and Hoy RR (2005) Tools for physiology labs: An inexpensive means of temperature control. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE). Fall 2005; (4)1:A22-A26.


Krans JL, Rivlin PK, and Hoy RR (2005) Demonstrating the temperature sensitivity of synaptic transmission in a Drosophila mutant. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE). Fall 2005; (4)1:A27-33.


Krans JL and Chapple WD (2005) Variability of motoneuron activation and the modulation of force production in a postural reflex of the hermit crab abdomen. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. August; 191(8)761-775.


Krans JL and Chapple WD (2005) The action of spike frequency adaptation in the postural motoneurons of hermit crab abdomen during the first phase of reflex activation. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. February; 191(2):157-174.


Chapple WD and Krans JL (2004) Cuticular receptor activation of postural motoneurons in the abdomen of the hermit crab, Pagurus pollicarus. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. May; 190(5):365-77.

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