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    • David Eilam Ph.D.

    Curriculum Vitae

    Current Position: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

    Education
    Period Name of University Subject Degree
    1976-1979 Tel-Aviv University Biology B.Sc
    1979-1982 Tel-Aviv University Zoology M.Sc
    1982-1987 Tel-Aviv University Zoology Ph.D.
    1987-1989 McMaster University Neurosciences Postdoctorate
    1996- SUNY Binghamton Developmental Psychobiology Visiting Scientist

    Academic Duties:

       Teaching
          1997 - present      Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
          1991 - present      Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Vertebrate Locomotion

    Membership in Editorial Boards
          1995 - present      Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

    Administration
          2000 - present      Academic Director of Meir Seagl’s Garden for Zoological Research

    Awards
    Year Name of Institution Occasion
    1978 Tel-Aviv University Special track for outstanding B.Sc. students
    1982 Tel-Aviv University Dean's Prize for the best M.Sc. thesis
    1985 Tel-Aviv University Scholarship from the Rector for outstanding Ph.D. student
    1987 Henry Leon Weiler Foundation,Israel Post-doctoral travel award
    1989 Council for Higher Education, Israel Alon Fellowship (Career Award)



    Publications:

    Recent

  • Eilam, D. 2003a. Open field behavior withstands drastic changes in arena size. Behavioral Brain Research, In press.
  • Libhaber, N. & Eilam, D. 2002. Social vole parents force their mates to baby-sit. Developmental Psychobiology, 41, 236-240.

  • Eilam, D., Dayan, T., Ben-Eliyahu, S., Schulman, I., Shefer, G. and Hendrie, C.A. Differential Behavioural and Hormonal Response of Voles and Spiny-Mice to Owl Calls. Animal Behaviour 58 (1999): 1085-1093.

  • Eilam, D., Goffman, D. and Smotherman, W.P. How the neonatal rat gets to the nipple II. Changes during development. Developmental Psychobiology 34 (1999): 217-226

  • Eilam, D. Postnatal development of body architecture and gait in the postnatal development of several rodent species. J. Exp. Biol. 200 (1997):1339-1350.



    • In my laboratory (without my students)

    Collaboration with Professor Henry Szechtman (my postdoctorate supervisor)
    • Szechtman, H., Eilam, D., Teitelbaum, P. and Golani, I. A different look at measurement and interpretation of drug-induced stereotyped behavior. Psychobiology, 16 (1988): 164-173.
    • Eilam, D., Golani, I. and Szechtman, H. D2 agonist quinpirole induces perseveration of routes and hyperactivity but no perseveration of movements. Brain Research, 490 (1989): 255-267.
    • Eilam, D. and Szechtman, H. Biphasic effect of D2 agonist quinpirole on locomotion and movements. European Journal of Pharmacology, 161 (1989): 151-157
    • Eilam, D. and Szechtman, H. Dosing regimen diffelocomotion and mouthing to D2 agonist quinpirole, Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior, 36 (1990): 989-991.
    • Eilam, D., Clements, K.V.A. and Szechtman, H. Differential effects of D1 and D2 dopamine agonists on stereotyped locomotion, Behavioural Brain Research, 45 (1991): 117-124.
    • Eilam, D., Talangayan, H., Canaran, G. and Szechtman, H. Dopaminergic control of locomotion, mouthing, snout contact, and grooming: opposing roles of D1 and D2 receptors, Psychopharmacology, 106 (1992): 447-454.
    • Eilam, D. Szechtman, H. and Spear, L.P. Quinpirole alters quadruped activity in rats from the second postnatal week, Developmental Psychobiology, 25 (1992): 275-289.
    • Szechtman, H., Talangbayan, H. and Eilam, D. Environmental and behavioral components of sensitization induced by dopamine agonist quinpirole. Behavioural Pharmacology, 4(1993): 405-410.
    • Eilam, D., Szechtman, H., Faigon, M., Dubovik, V., Feldon, J. and Michaelson, D.M. Disintegration of the spatial organization of behavior in Experimental Autoimmune Dementia (EAD). Neuroscience, 56 (1993): 83-91.
    • Szechtman, H., Talangbayan, H., Canaran, G., Dai, H. and Eilam, D. Dynamics of behavioral sensitization induced by dopamine agonist quinpirole and a proposed central energy control mechanism. Psychopharmacology, 155 (1994): 95-104.
    • Szechtman, H., Sulis, W. and Eilam, D. Compulsive checking behavior in the rat: chronic treatment with the dopamine agonist quinpirole as an animal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behavioral Neuroscience 112 (1998): 1475-1485.
    • Szechtman, H, Culver, K and Eilam D. Role of dopmaine systems in obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD): implications from a novel psychostimulant-induced animal model. Polish Journal of Pharmacology, 51 (1999): 55-61.
    • Szechtman, H., Eckert, M.J., Tse, W.S. Boersma, J.T., Bonura, C.A., McClelland, J.Z., Culver, K.E. and Eilam, D. Compulsive checking behavior of quinpirole-sensitized rats as an animal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): form and phenomenological experience. BMC Neuroscience 2 (2001): 4 (14p).
    Collaboration with Colin Hendrie

    Collaboration with Professor Ilan Golani (my M.Sc. and Ph.D. supervisor)
    • Golani, I., Bronchti, G., Moualem, D. and Teitelbaum, P. Warm-Up along dimensions of movement in the ontogeny of exploration in rats and other infant mammals. P.N.A.S. USA, 78 (1981): 7226-7229.
    • Eilam, D. and Golani, I. The ontogeny of exploratory behavior in the house rat (Rattus rattus) the mobility gradient. Developmental Psychobiology, 21 (1988): 679-710.
    • Eilam, D., Golani, I. and Szechtman, H. D2 agonist quinpirole induces perseveration of routes and hyperactivity but no perseveration of movements. Brain Research, 490 (1989): 255-267.
    • Cools, A.R., Scheenen, W., Eilam, D. and Golani, I. Evidence that apomorphine and-(+)- amphetamine produce different types of circling in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 34 (1989): 111-116.
    • Eilam, D. and Golani, I. Home base behavior of rats (Rattus norvegicus) exploring a novel environment. Behavioural Brain Research, 34 (1989):199-211
    • Eilam, D. and Golani, I. Home base behavior in amphetamine-treated tame wild rats (Rattus norvegicus). Behavioural Brain Research, 36 (1990): 161-170.
    • Golani, I. Benjamini, Y. and Eilam, D. Stopping behavior: constraints on exploration in rats (Rattus norvegicus), Behavioural Brain Research, 53 (1993): 21-33.
    • Eilam, D. and Golani., I. Amphetamine-induced stereotypy in rats: its morpho- genesis in locale space from normal exploration. In: S.J. Cooper and C.A. Hendrie (eds.), Ethology and Pharmacology, New York, John Wiley & Sons (1994), pp 241-266.
    Other Collaborations
    • Eilam, D. Szechtman, H. and Spear, L.P. Quinpirole alters quadruped activity in rats from the second postnatal week, Developmental Psychobiology, 25 (1992): 275-289.
    • Eilam, D., Szechtman, H., Faigon, M., Dubovik, V., Feldon, J. and Michaelson, D.M. Disintegration of the spatial organization of behavior in Experimental Autoimmune Dementia (EAD). Neuroscience, 56 (1993): 83-91.
    • Michaelson, D.M., Dubovik, V., Faigon, M., Eilam, D. and Feldon, J. Decreased density of forebrain cholinergic neurons and disintegration of the spatial organization of behavior in experimental autoimmune dementia (EAD). Annals of New-York Academy of Sciences, 695 (1993): 244-248.
    • Oren, L., Dubovik., V., Novitsky, L., Eilam, D. and Michaelson D.M. Animal models and in vitro studies of anti neurofialment antibodies mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease. J. Neural Trans. (1997) [Supp] 49: 77-84.
    • Eilam, D. and Smotherman, W.P. How the neonate rat pups get to the nipple? A glimpse on common modules in different motor behaviors. Developmental Psychobiology 32 (1998): 57-66.
    • Eilam, D., Goffman, D. and Smotherman, W.P. How the neonatal rat gets to the nipple II. Changes during development. Developmental Psychobiology 34 (1999): 217-226


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