Instructor/Laboratory Coordinator
Department of Biology
The University of Mississippi

Contact
Office: 310 Shoemaker Hall
E-mail: dkjones@olemiss.edu
Telephone: (662) 915-2002

Courses
BISC 336 Genetics

BISC 440 Cell and Molecular Biology

Education
M.S./Developmental Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology
New York University, Sackler Institute of Biomedical Sciences, New York, NY

B.A./Biology
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Publications/Presentations
Machold RP, Kittell DJ, Fishell GJ. Antagonism between Notch and bone morphogenetic protein receptor signaling regulates neurogenesis in the cerebellar rhombic lip. Neural Develop. 2007 Feb 23;2:5.

Mora FD, Jones DK, Desai PV, Patny A, Avery MA, Feller DR, Smillie T, Zhou YD, Nagle DG.  Bioassay for the identification of natural product-based activators of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma): the marine sponge metabolite psammaplin A activates PPARgamma and induces apoptosis in human breast tumor cells. J Nat Prod. 2006 Apr;69(4):547-52.

Zhou YD, Kim YP, Mohammed KA, Jones DK, Muhammad I, Dunbar DC, Nagle DG.  Terpenoid tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids emetine, klugine, and isocephaeline inhibit the activation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 in breast tumor cells. J Nat Prod. 2005 Jun;68(6):947-50.

Weickert CS, Kittell DA, Saunders RC, Herman MM, Horlick RA, Kleinman JE, Hyde TM.  Basic fibroblast growth factor and fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 in the human hippocampal formation.  Neuroscience. 2005;131(1):219-33.

D.A. Kittell, N. Gaiano, G. Fishell. Role of Lateral Signaling in the Developing Mouse Cerebellum. Poster presented Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA 2000.

D.A. Kittell, T.M. Hyde, M.M. Herman, and J.E. Kleinman. The Collection of Tissue at Autopsy: Practical and Ethical Issues in Molecules in Human Brain: A Practical Guide to the Use of Autopsy Tissue in Psychiatric Research. Eds: B. Dean, T. Hyde, and J. Kleinman. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1999.

D.A. Kittell, C.S. Weickert, T.M. Hyde, M.M. Herman, D.R. Weinberger, and J.E. Kleinman.  Reduced BDNF Expression in Cortex of Patients with Schizophrenia.  Poster presented American College Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Conference, Kona, HA 1997.

D.A. Kittell, T.M. Hyde, C. Shannon Weickert, M.M. Herman, and J.E. Kleinman.  bFGF and FGFRI mRNA Localization in the Human Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex:  Comparison Between Schizophrenics and Normals.  Poster presented Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA 1997.