Susanne Cappendijk Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
susanne.cappendijk@med.fsu.edu
850-645-1483
Appointment: Department of Biomedical Sciences
Courses: Pharmacology, Pathology, Physiology (Yr 1, 2), Directed Individual Studies
Research Lab Site
Job Description
Dr. Cappendijk is a scientist who is conducting research on the processes of song development, storage of song information, and identification of the underlying neural signaling pathways in the zebra finch brain. Dr. Cappendijk is also a teacher and facilitates small group sessions with medical students.
Biosketch
Dr. Cappendijk earned her Ph.D. at the Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). She received her postdoctoral training at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida). Dr. Cappendijk joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Medicine in August 2004.
Education
M.Sc. Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (1990)
Ph.D. Pharmacology, Dept. of Pharmacology, Erasmus Medical Center in cooperation with the Addiction Research Institute (IVO) Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1995)
Post-Doctoral Training:
Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1997)
Dept. Psychiatry, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1998-2002)
Dept. of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee (1999-2000)
Dept. of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee (2002)
Dept. of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee (2004)
Service
Scientific Review: European Neuropsychopharmacology, European Journal of Pharmacology (1995-present)

Editorial duties: Dutch Magazine “Biotechniek,” 1998-present.

Honors/Awards
First Year Assistant Professor Award, Summer 2009

Honors Thesis Mentor Award, Awarded for the Year 2007-2008

Memberships
American Society for Neuroscience, 1998-present

TriBeta Biological Honor Society, 2006-present

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2006-present

Publications
1. Meyer-Baese A, van Engelen RA, and Cappendijk SLT. Robust stability analysis of the heat shock response in E. coli, in the proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6979 Independent Component Analysis, Wavelets, Unsupervised Nano-Biomimetic Sensors, and Neural Networks VI, Harold H. Szu; F. Jack Agee, Editors, 2008.

2.Nieves W, Johnson E, Patzwald JR, and Cappendijk SLT, The effects of 2-deoxyglucose in the male zebra finch, Accepted for publication BIOS, Jan. 2008.

3.Miller GM, Cappendijk SLT and van Engelen R. Strategies in Song Stereotyping for the zebra finch. IEEE-BIOT Conference Proceedings, 2007.

4. Cappendijk SLT, and Johnson F, Inhibitors of carbohydrate metabolism reduced undirected song production at doses that do not alter food intake in singly-housed male zebra finches, Behavioural Brain Research, 159: 51-54, 2005.

5. deCarvalho A, Cappendijk SLT, Fadool JM, Developmental expression of the POU domain transcription factor Brn-3b (Pou4f2) in the lateral line and visual system of zebrafish, Developmental Dynamics, 229: 869-876, 2004.

6. Fekkes D, Bernard B, Cappendijk SLT, Norharman and alcohol dependency in male Wistar rats., European Neuropsychopharmacology, 14: 361-366, 2004.

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