Associate Professor
Mailing Address
235 Wellesley Street
Weston, MA 02493
About
About
Courses Taught
- Anatomy and Physiology I
- Anatomy and Physiology II
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin
Bachelor or Science in Cell and Structural Biology. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2000.
Awards Honors
Washington College Alumni Association Distinguished Teacher of the Year – awarded May 2021.
Grants
AD Instruments Equipment Grant. 2023. Six Intermediate Human Physiology Lt Sensors Data Acquisition kits for undergraduate A&P and physiology lab use.
Publications
A Comparison Between Chemical and Gas Hypoxia as Models of Global Ischemia in Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Marino KM, Silva ER, Windelborn JA. Animal Models and Experimental Medicine 3 (3): 256-263. August 2020.
Increasing student performance and engagement with interactive digital laboratory manuals and study guides in an introductory anatomy and physiology course. 2024 Human Anatomy and Physiology Society Annual Meeting. Windelborn JA.
Social design for conditioned color preference in zebrafish (Danio rerio). 2023 Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting. Cramer EC and Windelborn JA.
Object recognition tests for learning and memory deficits with Danio rerio. 2023 Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting. Somers M and Windelborn JA.
Conditioned place preference in zebrafish (Danio rerio) following cerebral hypoxia. 2018. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Marino KM and Windelborn JA.
Development of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) model of cerebral ischemia. 2017. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Silva ER and Windelborn JA.
Immortalized myogenic cells from congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A patients recapitulate aberrant caspase activation in pathogenesis: a new tool for MDC1A research. Yoon S, Stadler G, Beerman ML, Schmidt EV, Windelborn JA, Schneiderat P, Wright WE, Miller JB. Skeletal Muscle 3: 28. December 2013
Increased atypical PKC expression and activity in the phrenic motor nucleus following cervical spinal injury. Guenther CH, Windelborn JA, Tubon TC Jr, Yin JC, Mitchell GS. Experimental Neurology 234 (2): 513-520. April 2012
Glial activation in the spinal ventral horn caudal to cervical injury. Windelborn JA, Mitchell GS. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 180: 61-68. January 2012
Systemic inflammation impairs respiratory chemoreflexes and plasticity. Huxtable AG, Vinit S, Windelborn JA, Crader SM, Guenther CH, Watters JJ, Mitchell GS. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 178: 482-489. September 2011
Lipopolysaccharide attenuates phrenic long-term facilitation following acute intermittent hypoxia. Vinit S, Windelborn JA, Mitchell GS. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 176: 130-135. May 2011
Atypical protein kinase C expression in phrenic motor neurons of the rat. Guenther CH, Vinit S, Windelborn JA, Behan M, Mitchell GS. Neuroscience 169: 787-793. August 2010
NADPH oxidase activity is necessary for acute intermittent hypoxia-induced phrenic long-term facilitation. MacFarlane PM, Satriotomo I, Windelborn JA, Mitchell GS. Journal of Physiology 587: 1931-1942. May 2009
Lysosomal release of cathepsins causes ischemic damage in the rat hippocampal slice and depends on NMDA-mediated calcium influx, arachidonic acid metabolism, and free radical production. Windelborn JA, Lipton P. Journal of Neurochemistry 106: 56-69. July 2008
A Bax-induced pro-oxidant state is critical for cytochrome c release during programmed neuronal death. Kirkland RA, Windelborn JA, Kasprzak JM, Franklin JL. Journal of Neuroscience 22: 6480-6490. August 2002