PhD, Harvard University, 1976

Phone: (732) 235-4981
Fax: (732) 235-4029

email: rsn@umdnj.edu

Research interests:
Cell proliferation and neuronal migration in the developing and adult CNS of normal and mutant mice. Mathematical models and computer simulations of developing systems.

New Jersey Professor of Spinal Cord Research

Selected Publications 1

Nowakowski, R.S. and Hayes, N.L. 2000 New neurons: extraordinary evidence or extraordinary conclusion? Science, 288, 771a-773a.

Nowakowski, R.S. and Hayes, N.L. 2001 Stem cells: the promises and pitfalls (Commentary). Neuropsychopharmacology, 25, 799-804.

Gilmore, E., Nowakowski, R.S., Caviness, V.S., Jr. and Herrup, K. 2002 Cell birth, cell death, cell diversity and DNA breaks: how do they all fit together? Trends in Neuroscience, 23, 100-105.

Hayes, N.L. and Nowakowski, R.S. 2002 Dynamics of cell proliferation in the adult dentate gyrus of two inbred strains of mice. Dev. Brain Research, 134, 77-85.

Rachel, R.A., Dolen, G., Hayes, N.L., Lu, A., Erskine, L., Nowakowski, R.S. and Mason, C.A. 2002 Spatiotemporal features of earth neurogenesis differ in wild-type and albino mouse retina. J. Neuorosci., 22, 4249-4263.

Goto, T., Takahashi, T., Miyama, S., Bhide, P., Nowakowski, R.S. and Caviness, V.S., Jr. 2002 Development regulation of the effects of fibroblast growth factor-2 and 1-octanol on neuronogenesis: implications for a hypothesis relating to mitogen-antimitogen opposition. J. Neurosci. Res., 69:714-722.

Cai, L., Hayes, N.L., Takahashi, T., Caviness, V.S., Jr. and Nowakowski, R.S. 2002 Size distribution of retrovirally marked lineages matches prediction from population measurements of cell cycle behavior. J. Neurosci. Res., 69:731-744.

All publications available for review at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=PubMed&term=Nowakowski%20RS