DAVID B. PARFITT, Ph.D.
Director, Teaching and Learning Center
State University of New York/Geneseo
1 College Circle; Milne 214
Geneseo, New York 14454
E-mail: parfittd@geneseo.edu
Office: (585) 245-5336 Fax: (585) 245-5769
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
State University of New York/Geneseo, Geneseo, New York
Director, Teaching and Learning Center, 2008 - present
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Psychology, 2008-present
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, 2008- present
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, 2005-2008
Department of Psychiatry and Rochester Center for Mind-Body Research
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Assistant Professor of Biology, 1999-2004
Department of Biology and Neuroscience Program
EDUCATION
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1997-1999
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program
Co-Advisors: Dr. Cheryl L. Sisk and Dr. Laura Smale
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ph.D., Neuroscience, 1997
Thesis: A multiple mating behavioral paradigm reveals discrete amygdala circuitry regulating sexual satiety in the male Syrian hamster brain.
Committee: Dr. Sarah W. Newman (co-chair); Dr. Theresa M. Lee (co-chair);
Dr. Huda Akil; Dr. Richard Altschuler; Dr. Bobbi Low
M.S., Neuroscience, 1994
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
B.S., cum laude, Behavioral Neuroscience, 1991
Thesis: Restoration of pulsatile LH secretion after fasting in rhesus monkeys.
Advisor: Dr. Judy L. Cameron
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Middlebury College
Vermont Campus Compact, Finalist for the “Engaged Scholar” Award, 2004
University of Michigan
Duncan McCarthy Award for Excellence in Graduate Research,
Michigan Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, 1996
NIH Research Fellowship, Hearing and Chemical Senses Prog., 1995-1997
NIH Research Fellowship, Reproductive Sciences Program, 1993-1995
NIMH Research Fellowship, Neuroscience Program, 1992-1993
University of Pittsburgh
James Bradler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research,
Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, 1991
Senior Departmental Honors, 1991
Tri-Beta National Biological Honor Society, 1989-1991
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
State University of New York/Geneseo
PSYC251, Behavioral Research Methods, Spring 08
University of Rochester Medical Center
Lecturer, Neuroscience Graduate Course, Spring 07
(Course Directors, M.J. Gdowski and L.M. Romanski)
Lecturer, Psychiatry Resident Training Program, Spring 06
(Course Director, J.L. Fudge)
Lecturer, Neurotoxicology Graduate Course, Spring 06
(Course Director, L.A. Opanashuk)
Lecturer, Mind Brain and Behavior, Second Year Medical School course, Fall 06, 05; (Course Directors, R.F. Jozefowicz and J.L. Lyness)
Middlebury College
BI470 Neural Disorders: Individuals, Families and Society
(service-learning senior seminar), Fall 02, 01
BI370 Animal Physiology (with laboratory and college writing), Spring 03, 02
BI350 Endocrinology (with laboratory), Fall 02, 01, 00, 99
BI270 Early Experience and Brain Development, Winter 03
(2 week service-learning component in Romania),
BI202 Vertebrate Life (with laboratory), Spring 01, 00
BI150 Biology of Neurological Disorders, Fall 99
BI078 Impact of Multiple Sclerosis (service-learning), Winter 01
FS006 Neural Disorders (service-learning first year seminar – college writing), Fall 00
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Lecturer
Neuroanatomy, Department of Biological Sciences, Fall 1996
University of Michigan
Teaching Assistant
Dental Neuroscience, Dental School, Spring 1995, 1996
Neuroanatomy, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Winter 1995
Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science, Department of Psychology, Winter 1994
RESEARCH SUPPORT
Current Support
2006-2008 NIMH (R03 MH075733) “Neonatal Rearing and Adult Stress Reactivity in C57BL/6 Mice”.
Completed Projects
2005-2006 Department of Psychiatry, Leonard F. Salzman Research Award, “Neonatal Rearing and Adult Stress Reactivity in C57BL/6 Mice”.
2003-2004 Vermont Genetics Network (NIH 1 P20 RR16462), “Rearing and Genetic Interactions on Mouse Social Behavior”
2002-2004 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and James S. McDonnell Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development, “Interaction of Early Rearing Environment and Genetic Background on the Development of Social Behaviors in C57BL/6 Mice”
2002-2003 Vermont Genetics Network (NIH 1 P20 RR16462), “Effect of Stress and Coping on Reproduction”
2001-2002 NSF-ROA (M. Tetel, PI) “Effect of Controllable Stress on the Expression of Steroid Receptor Co-Factors in the Male Syrian Hamster Brain”
2000-2001 VT-EPSCoR, “Impact of Controllable Stress on Male Hamster Reproductive Behavior” with Dr. Dana L. Helmreich co-PI.
SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS
Parfitt, D. B., Walton, J. R., *Corriveau, E. A., & Helmreich, D. L. (2007) Early life stress effects on adult stress-induced corticosterone secretion and anxiety-like behavior in the C57BL/6 mouse are not as robust as initially thought. Hormones and Behavior 52, 417-426.
Novak, C. M., Parfitt, D. B, Sisk, C. L., & Smale, L. (2007). Associations between behavior, hormones, and Fos responses to novelty differ in pre- and post-pubertal grass rats. Physiology and Behavior 90, 125-132.
Helmreich, D. L., *Crouch, M, *Dorr, N. P., & Parfitt, D. B. (2006). Peripheral triiodothyronine (T3) levels during escapable and inescapable footshock. Physiology and Behavior 87, 114-119.
Helmreich, D. L., Parfitt, D. B., Lu, X-Y., Akil, H., & Watson, S. J. (2005). Relation between the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis during repeated stress. Neuroendocrinology 81, 183-192.
Parfitt, D. B., *Levin, J. K., *Saltstein, K. P., *Klayman, A. S., *Greer, L. M., & Helmreich, D. L. (2004). Differential Early Rearing Environments can Accentuate or Attenuate the Responses to Stress in Male C57BL/6 Mice. Brain Research 1016, 111-118.
*Cordner, A. P., *Herwood, M. B., Helmreich, D. L., & Parfitt, D. B. (2004). Antidepressants block the effects of inescapable stress on male reproductive behavior and corticotropin releasing hormone mRNA expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of the Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Journal of Neuroendocrinology 16, 628-636.
Richardson, H. N., Nelson, A. L. A., Ahmed, E. I., Parfitt, D. B., Romeo, R. D., & Sisk, C. L. (2004). Female pheromones stimulate release of luteinizing hormone and testosterone without altering GnRH mRNA in adult male Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). General and Comparative Endocrinology 138, 211-217.
*Holmer, H. K., *Rodman, J. E., Helmreich, D. L., & Parfitt, D. B. (2003). Differential effects of chronic escapable versus inescapable stress on male Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) reproductive behavior. Hormones and Behavior 43, 381-387.
*Boscarino, B. T. & Parfitt, D. B. (2002). Chronic oral administration of clomipramine decreases sexual behavior in the male Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Physiology and Behavior 75, 361-366.
Richardson, H. N., Parfitt, D. B., Thompson, R. C., & Sisk, C. L. (2002). Redefining gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) cell groups in the male Syrian hamster: testosterone regulates GnRH mRNA in the tenia tecta. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 14, 375-383.
Williams, N. I., Helmreich, D. L., Parfitt, D. B., Caston-Balderrama, A., & Cameron J. L. (2001). Evidence for a causal role of low energy availability in the induction of menstrual cycle disturbances during strenuous exercise training. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 86, 5184-5193.
Williams, N. I., Caston-Balderrama, A. L., Helmreich, D. L., Parfitt, D. B., Nosbisch, C., & Cameron, J. L. (2001). Induction of menstrual cycle disturbances in cynomolgus monkeys during strenous exercise training: longitudinal changes in reproductive hormones and menstrual cyclicity. Endocrinology, 142, 2381-2389.
Parfitt, D. B., Thompson, R. C., Richardson, H. N., Romeo, R. D., & Sisk, C. L. (1999). Pubertal increases in GnRH mRNA expression in specific neuronal subpopulations of the male Syrian hamster brain. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 11, 621-627.
Romeo, R. D., Parfitt, D. B., Richardson, H. N., & Sisk, C. L. (1998). Pheromones elicit equivalent levels of Fos-immunoreactivity in prepubertal and adult male Syrian hamsters. Hormones and Behavior, 34, 48-55.
Parfitt, D. B. & Newman, S. W. (1998). Fos-immunoreactivity within the extended amygdala is correlated with the onset of sexual satiety. Hormones and Behavior, 34, 17-29.
Newman, S. W., Parfitt, D. B., & Kollack-Walker, S. W. (1997). Mating induced c-fos expression patterns complement and supplement observations after lesions in the male Syrian hamster brain. New York Academy of Sciences, 807, 239-259.
Goodman, R. L., Parfitt, D. B., Evans, N. P., Dahl, G. E., & Karsch, F. J. (1995). Endogenous opioid peptides control the amplitude and shape of gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulses in the ewe. Endocrinology, 136, 2412-2420.
Schreihofer, D. A., Parfitt, D. B., & Cameron, J. L. (1993). Suppression of luteinizing hormone secretion after short-term fasting in male rhesus monkeys: the role of metabolic versus stress signals. Endocrinology, 132, 1881-1889.
Parfitt, D. B., Church, K. R., & Cameron, J. L. (1991). Restoration of pulsatile LH secretion after fasting in male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): dependence on size of refeed meal. Endocrinology, 129, 749-756.
ABSTRACTS PRESENTED AT NATIONAL MEETINGS
*Saltstein, K. P., Helmreich, D. L., & Parfitt D. B. (2002). Maternal separation alters the adult response to stress in male C57BL/6 mice. Society for Neuroscience. Abstract 571.17.
Helmreich, D. L., *Crouch, M., & Parfitt D. B. (2002). Does controllable or non-controllable foot-shock stress alter PVN TRH mRNA levels? Society for Neuroscience. Abstract 865.16.
*Cordner, A. P., Helmreich, D. L., & Parfitt D. B. (2002). Antidepressant administration prevents the effect of uncontrollable stress on male reproductive behavior in the Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. Abstract 28.
Parfitt, D. B., *Levin, J. K., *Greer, L. M., & Betourney M. A. (2001). Effect of early rearing environment on the development of social behaviors in C57BL/6 mice. Society for Neuroscience. Abstract 737.6.
Helmreich, D. L., *Crouch, M., & Parfitt D. B. (2001). Thyroid hormone levels during controllable and non-controllable stress. Society for Neuroscience. Abstract 732.7.
*Rodman, J. E., Helmreich, D. L., *Holmer, H. K., & Parfitt, D. B. (2001). Two days of controllable or uncontrollable stress does not inhibit mating in the male Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. Abstract 7.
Parfitt, D. B., Novak, C. M., Sisk, C. L., & Smale L. (2000). Differential neuroendocrine and Fos response to a novel environment in juvenile and adult Arvicanthis niloticus. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 471.10.
Richardson, H. N., Romeo, R. D., Venier, J. E., Parfitt, D. B., & Sisk, C. L. (2000). Androgenic regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis before and after pubertal development. Joint Meeting of the VI th International Conference on Hormones, Brain, and Behavior and the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.
Parfitt, D. B., Thompson, R. C., Richardson, H. N., Romeo, R. D., & Sisk, C. L. (1999). Differential neuroendocrine response to female pheromones in juvenile and adult male Syrian hamsters. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 582.16.
Richardson, H. N., Parfitt, D. B., Thompson, R. C., & Sisk, C. L. (1999). Testosterone (T) regulation of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) mRNA in juvenile and adult male Syrian hamsters. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 582.17.
Parfitt, D. B., Richardson, H. N., Romeo, R. D., Wissman, A. M., & Sisk, C. L. (1998). Quantification of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) mRNA in the male Syrian hamster during puberty. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 545.3.
Romeo, R. D., Parfitt, D. B., Richardson, H. N., & Sisk, C. L. (1998). Pheromones elicit equivalent levels of Fos-immunoreactivity in prepubertal and adult male hamsters. Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Abstract 9.
Parfitt, D. B., Coolen, L. M., Newman, S. W., & Wood, R. I. (1996). Lesions of the posterior medial nucleus of the amygdala delay sexual satiety. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 67.8.
Parfitt, D. B. & Newman, S. W. (1996). Mating induced neuronal activation within the BNST supports the concept of an extended amygdala. Conference on Reproductive Behavior, Abstract 89.
Parfitt, D. B. & Newman, S. W. (1995). Specific neuronal activation in the medial amygdala after mating is correlated with the onset of sexual satiety. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 282.5.
Parfitt, D. B. & Newman, S. W. (1994). Distribution of neuropeptide Y in the male Syrian hamster brain. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 656.5.
Lehman, M. N., Berriman, S. L., Jansen, H. T., Parfitt, D. B., Dahl, G. E., Evans, N. P., & Karsch, F. J. (1994). Is Fos expression in GnRH and other neurons during the estradiol-induced LH surge of the ewe associated with neurosecretory or behavioral events? Society for the Study of Reproduction, Abstract 521.
Parfitt, D. B., Evans, N. P., Dahl, G. E., & Karsch, F. J. (1993). Blockade of endogenous opiates increase pulse duration, amplitude, and interpulse secretion of GnRH in the ovariectomized ewe. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 571.10.
Schreihofer, D. A., Parfitt, D. B., & Cameron, J. L. (1991). Effects of overfeeding on subsequent fasting-induced suppression of pulsatile LH secretion in male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 544.8.
Helmreich, D. L., Parfitt, D. B., & Cameron, J. L. (1991). Definition of metabolic states associated with the suppression and restoration of LH secretion caused by fasting and refeeding in rhesus monkeys. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 544.7.
Parfitt, D. B., Church, K. R., & Cameron, J. L. (1990). Fasting-induced suppression of pulsatile LH secretion is rapidly reversed by refeeding in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 168.18.
Schreihofer, D. A., Parfitt, D. B., & Cameron, J. L. (1990). Evidence that the suppression of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis activity during fasting results from a nutritional signal and not the psychological stress of food deprivation. Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 168.17.
Cameron, J. L., Nosbisch, C., Helmreich, D. L., & Parfitt, D. B. (1990). Reversal of exercise induced amenorrhea in female cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) by increasing food intake. Endocrine Society, Abstract 1042.
Cameron, J. L., Helmreich, D. L., Parfitt, D. B., & Nosbisch, C. (1990). Slowing of pulsatile LH and testosterone secretion after a one-day fast in adult male rhesus monkeys. Serono Symposium on the Neuroendocrine Regulation of Reproduction. Abstract 462.
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS AT REGIONAL MEETINGS