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Kevin S. Kinney

Kevin Kinney

Associate Professor of Biology

 

Contact Information:
210 F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building
765-658-6399
kkinney@depauw.edu
Degree:
Ph.D. Neuroscience, University of Rochester  School of Medicine & Dentistry
Area of Specialty: 
Physiology, Immunology
Courses taught:
BIO 135: Organismal Biology
BIO 335: Animal Physiology
BIO 361: Immunology
Research Interest:

Comparative immunology, psychoneuroimmunology

Research projects:
Cytokine roles in lizard thermoregulatory response
Effects of sympathetic denervation on measures of immunity in Xenopus laevis (South African Clawed Frog)
Effects of sympathetic denervation on secondary antibody response in mice
Microglial interactions with inflammatory process and neurotoxicity in brain
Grants & Publications:

N. Cohen and K.S. Kinney. A phylogenetic history of neural-immune interactions. IN: R. Ader and N. Cohen, Eds., Psychoineuroimmunology, 4th edition, Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 1-38, 2006.

Dahlia Tawfik, Marisa Yochum, and Kevin S. Kinney (2006). Preliminary investigation of the role of IL-1 in the behavioral fever response of the green iguana, Iguana iguana. Presented in poster form at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, Miami Beach, FL, June 2006.

Marisa Yochum, Lauren Rakes, Phillip Mann, Jennifer Pasko, Emily Thornton, and Kevin Kinney (2006). Effects of Two Different Types of Denervation on Primary and Secondary Antigen-Specific Antibody Response in Mice. Presented in poster form at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, Miami Beach, FL, June 2006.

Lauren Rakes, Marisa Yochum, Kevin Kinney and Robert Stark (2006). Effects of Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate on Pupal Color Regulation in Papilio polyxenes. Presented by the students in poster form at the Midwest Ecology and Evolution Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 2006.

K. S. Kinney and N. Cohen. (2005). Increased splenocyte mitogenesis following sympathetic denervation in Xenopus laevis. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 29: 287-293.

K.S. Kinney, D. Scott, and R. Bezy. (2003). "Effects of norepinephrine and conditioned media on bacterial growth." Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 17: 184. Presented in poster form by KSK at the PNIRS conference, June 2003.

K.S. Jagger, E. Crouch*, and K. Kinney. (2003). "To reject or not to reject: skin grafting in Xenopus laevis as a project-based measure of cellular immune responses in an immunology course." Presented in poster form by KSJ and EC at the 10th Undergraduate Microbiology Education Conference, May, 2003.

External Grant:
NSF C-RUI Grant (DEB-0223089, $841,000, funded September 6, 2002, 4 years), "Theoretical and Empirical Studies of a Conditional Strategy: Environmentally Cued Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies." Project director and Principal Investigator: Wade Hazel, Co-Principal Investigators: Chet Fornari Bryan Hanson, Kevin Kinney, Rick Smock, Robert Stark, Gloria Townsend..Student researchers: Gabe Dunn, Matt Jones, Kate Marshall, Kristen Mellencamp, Qming Deng, Andie Wyatt.