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:

In my laboratory (without my students)

• Eilam, D. The mobility gradient from a comparative phylogenetic perspective, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15 (1992): 274-275.
• Eilam, D. Influence of body morphology on turning behavior in carnivores, Journal of Motor Behavior, 26 (1994): 3-12.
• Eilam, D. Comparative morphology of locomotion in vertebrates, Journal of Motor Behavior, 27(1995):100-111
• Eilam, D. Postnatal development of body architecture and gait in the postnatal development of several rodent species. J. Exp. Biol. 200 (1997):1339-1350.

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

• Hendrie, C.A., Weiss, S. and Eilam, D. Exploration and predation models of anxiety: evidence from laboratory and wild species. Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior, 54: (1996) 13-20.
• Hendrie, C.A., Eilam, D. and Weiss, S.M. Effects of diazepam and buspirone on the behaviour of wild voles (Microtus socialis) in two models of anxiety. Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior 58 (1997): 573-576.
• Hendrie, C.A., Weiss, S.M. and Eilam, D. Behavioural responses of wild rodents to the calls of an owl: A comparative study. Journal of Zoology (London) (1998) 245: 439-446.
• 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.

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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