SALLY A. MOODY

PRESENT APPOINTMENT:
S ince 1994 Professor, Dept. Anatomy and Cell Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
1983-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Virginia.
1989-1992 Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Virginia.
1992-1994 Associate Professor, Dept. Anatomy & Cell Biology, George Washington University Medical Center.
1994-1996 Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program, The George Washington University.

EDUCATION:
BA in Biological Sciences at Goucher College, 1973.
MS in Human Anatomy at the University of Maryland, 1976.
PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Florida, 1981.
Postdoctorate in Developmental Neurobiology at the University of Utah, 1981-83.

CURRENT RESEARCH SUPPORT:
NIH-NINDS Grant R01 NS23158, January 1986 - December 1998, "Neuronal Lineage Determinants Embryos",
principal investigator, direct costs January 1996 - December 1998, $664,618.
NIH-NEI Grant R01 EY10096, August 1992 - July 1999, "Determination of Neurotransmitter Phenotype in Retina", principal investigator, direct costs August 1995 - July 1999, $449,049.
NICHD National Research Service Award (F32 HD08055), August 1995 - July 1998, postdoctoral sponsor for Dr.Steven Sullivan. "Maternal Determinants of Nervous System Lineages".
NEI National Research Service Award (F32 EY06649), July 1995 - September 1998, postdoctoral sponsor for Dr.Kathryn B. Moore. "Signalling Pathways that Determine Retinal Lineagesî.

PUBLICATIONS: (selected)
Moody, S. A. and M. Jacobson. 1983. Compartmental relationships between anuran primary spinal motoneurons and somitic muscle fibers that they first innervate. Journal of Neuroscience, 3:1670-1682.
Jacobson, M. and S. A. Moody. 1984. Quantitative lineage analysis of the frog's nervous system. I. Lineages of Rohon-Beard neurons and primary motoneurons. J. Neurosci., 4:1361-1369.
Moody, S. A. 1987. Fates of the blastomeres of the 16-cell stage Xenopus embryo. Dev. Biol., 119: 560-578.
Moody, S. A. 1987. Ibid: Fates of the blastomeres of the 32-cell stage Xenopus embryo. Dev. Biol., 122:300-319
Huang, S. and S.A. Moody. 1992. Does lineage determine the dopamine phenotype in the tadpole hypothalamus: A quantitative analysis. J. Neurosci., 12:1351-1362.
Huang, S. and S. A. Moody. 1993. The retinal fate of Xenopus cleavage stage progenitors is dependent upon blastomere position and competence:
Studies of normal and regulated clones. J. Neurosci., 13:3193-3210.
Bauer, D.V., S. Huang and S.A. Moody. 1994. The cleavage stage origin of Spemann's Organizer: Analysis of the movements of blastomere clones before and during gastrulation in Xenopus. Development, 120:1179- 1189.
Moody, S.A., D.V. Bauer, A.M. Hainski and S. Huang. 1996. Determination of Xenopus Cell Lineage by Maternal Factors and Cell Interactions.
Curr. Top. Dev. Biol.. R. Pedersen and G. Schatten (eds.), Vol. 32, Academic Press, pp 103-138.
Hainski, A. M. and S.A. Moody. 1996. Activin-like signal activates dorsal-specific maternal RNAs between 8- and 16-cell stages of Xenopus.
Dev. Genetics, 19:210-221.
D.V. Bauer, D.W. Best, A.M. Hainski and S.A. Moody. 1996. A contact-dependent animal-to-vegetal signal biases neural lineages during Xenopus cleavage stages. Dev. Biol., 178:217-228.