Department of Biology

Millersville University

P O Box 1002

Millersville, PA 17551-0302

717-872-3425

Judy.Cebra-Thomas@millersville.edu

EDUCATION

1979-1986	Washington University, St. Louis, MO Ph.D. Biology and Biomedical Sciences
1975-1979	The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD B.A. Biology

APPOINTMENTS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Fall 2006 -present	Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Millersville University
Fall 2003 - 2006	Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Associate Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2001 -2003	Lecturer, Departments of Biology and Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1997 -2001	Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Jan-July 1997	Research Associate, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1995-1996	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1994- 1995	Lecturer, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1989- 1994	Research Staff Member, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1986-1989	Postdoctoral Fellow Supervisor: Lee M. Silver, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1979-1986	Graduate Research Assistant Advisor: Joseph M. Davie, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology,Washington University, St. Louis, MO

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1986-1989 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship

1979-1982 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2006-2007	Introductory Biology, Developmental Biology, Freshman Honors Seminar, Developmental Genetics
2003-2006	Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology, Developmental Genetics
Spring '03, '05	Immunology (U.Penn)
Spring '02	Developmental Biology (U. Penn)
Fall '97 -Th Spring '01	Physiology & Development of Plants & Animals, Developmental Biology (F&M)
Fall 1995- Fall 1996	Embryology, Developmental Genetics, Senior Evolution Seminar (Swarthmore)
1994- Spring 1995	Director, Senior Project Lab (Princeton)
Summer 1990, 1991	Session Leader, Summer Research Discussion Group (Princeton)
Fall 1989, 1990	Session Leader, Junior Tutorial (Princeton)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Member, American Society for Cell Biology

Member, Society for Developmental Biology

Member. Sigma Xi

Recent presentations at professional meetings

Cebra-Thomas, J. A., J. Bromer*, H. Sheipe*, and S.F. Gilbert (1997). Role of the Tbx gene family in mesenchymal control of lung epithelial branching. Developmental Biology 186: 332. Presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Developmental Biology, July 1997

Cebra-Thomas J.A., J. Bromer*, G.K. Lam*, H. Sheipe* and S. F. Gilbert (1998) Role of the Tbx gene family in mesenchymal control of lung epithelial branching. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 9: 308a. Presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Society for Cell Biology, Dec. 12-16, 1998.

Cebra-Thomas, J.A., R. Shearman*, and V.A. Oropeza* (1999). A feedback loop between SHH and FGF8 may be involved in craniofacial development in the chick, Molecular Biology of the Cell, presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Society for Cell Biology, Dec. 11-15, 1999.

Oropeza*, V.C., A.A. Ligas* and J.A. Cebra-Thomas (2000) SHH signaling is required for feather bud development, Developmental Biology, 222: 252, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Boulder, Co, June 7-11, 2000.

Ambeskovic*, I., J. Mendrola, J.A. Billet*, K. Huebner and J. A. Cebra-Thomas (2000) Protein tyrosine phosphatase gamma (PTPg) is required for primitive hematopoesis in the chick, Molecular Biology of the Cell, presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Society for Cell Biology, Dec. 9-13, 2000.

Rowan*, A.J., and J.A. Cebra-Thomas (2001) SHH and lung branching morphogenesis, presented at the Northeast Regional Meting of the Society for Developmental Biology, April 27-29, 2001. 

Cebra-Thomas, J.A., F.E. Tan*, and S.F. Gilbert, (2004) How the turtle gets its shell: a provisional outline, presented in the Symposium on Morphologial Innovations at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting, January 4-9, 2004.

Cebra-Thomas, J., F.Tan*, C. Kim*, and S. Gilbert (2004) The role of paracrine factors in the production of the turtle carapace: a hypothesis, presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Developmental Biology, July 23-28, 2004.

Cebra-Thomas, J.A., P.N. Riccio*, J.C. Simonet*, S.F. Gilbert (2005) The role of FGF signaling in the formation of the turtle carapace, presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Developmental Biology, July 27-Aug.1, 2005

Lewis*, K.K., J.A. Cebra-Thomas, S.F. Gilbert (2006) The expression of signaling molecules in the developing scute of the turtle Trachemys scripta, presentated at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 4-8, 2006.

Lewis*, K.K., J.A. Cebra-Thomas, S.F. Gilbert (2006) The expression of signaling molecules in the developing scute of the turtle Trachemys scripta, presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology, Jun 17-21, 2006.

Gilbert, S.F., J.A. Cebra-Thomas, E. Betters*, G. Bender*, M. Yin (2006) The contribution of neural crest cells to the turtle shell, presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology, Jun 17-21, 2006.

(* denotes undergraduate co-author)

Publications

1. Clevinger, B., Thomas, J., Davie, J., Schilling, J., Bond,M., and Hood, L. (1981). Anti-dextran antibodies: sequences and idiotypes, in Immunoglobulin Idiotypes , Janeway, C., Sercarz, E., and Wigzell, H. (Eds.). Academic Press, New York , pp.159-168.

2. Cebra-Thomas, J., and Davie, J. (1984). AL-2: a new marker of activated lymphocytes. J. Cell Biochem. Suppl. 8A: 133.

3. Cebra-Thomas, J., Wagman, I., and Davie, J.M. (1985). AL-2 expression is a marker of activation of T and B cells. Fed. Proc. 44:1527.

4. Fyfe, G., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Mustain, E., Davie, J.M., Alley, C.D., and Nahm, M.H. (1987). Subpopulations of B lymphocytes in germinal centers. J. Immunol. 139: 2187-2194.

5. Monafo, W.J., Greenspan, N.S., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., and Davie, J.M. (1987). Modulation of the murine immune response to streptococcal group A carbohydrate by inmmunization with monoclonal anti-idiotypes. J.Immunol. 139: 2702-2707.

6. Cebra, J.J., Cebra, E.R., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., George, A., Lebman, D.A., London, S.D., Rubin, D.H., and Schweitzer, P.A. (1988). Specific and nonspecific perturbations of B- and T-cell subsets in Peyer's patches. Monogr. Allergy 24: 173-180.

7. Cebra, J.J., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Cuff, C.F., George, A., Kost, S.I., London, S.D., and Rubin, D.H. (1988). Reoviruses as probes of the gut mucosal T cell population, in Immunology and Immunopathology of the Alimentary Canal.

8. Schimenti, J., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Decker, C.L., Islam*, S.D., Pilder, S.H., and Silver, L.M. (1988). A candidate gene family for the mouse t complex responder (Tcr) locus responsible for haploid effects on sperm function. Cell 55: 71-78.

9. Brown*, J., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Bleil, J.D., Wassarman, P.M., and Silver, L.M. (1989). A premature acrosome reaction is programmed by mouse t haplotypes during sperm differentiation and could play a role in transmission ratio distortion. Development 106: 769-773.

10. London, S.D., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Rubin, D.H., and Cebra, J.J. (1990). CD8 lymphocyte subpopulations in Peyer's patches induced by reovirus serotype 1 infection. J. Immunol., 144: 3187-3194.

11. Cebra-Thomas, J.A., and Silver, L.M. (1991). Genetic aspects of sperm differentiation and function in the mouse. Elements of Mammalian Fertilization, Vol.1, Wassarman, P. M. (editor), CRC Press, New York, pp. 29-56.

12. Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Snyder, L., Decker, C.L., Pilder, S.H., and Silver, L.M. (1991) Allele- and haploid-specific product generated by alternative splicing from a mouse t complex responder locus candidate. Nature 349: 239-241. 

13. Weinstein, P.W., Schweitzer, P. A., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., and Cebra, J.J. (1991) Molecular genetic features reflecting the preference for isotype switching to IgA expression by Peyer's patch germinal center cells. Int. Immunol. 3:1253-1263.

14. Platt, F.M., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Baum, C.M., Davie, J.M., and McKearn, J.P. (1992) Monoclonal antibodies specific for novel murine cell surface markers define subpopulations of germinal center cells. Cell. Immunol. 143:449-466.

15. Pilder, S.H., Decker, C.L., Islam*, S.D., Buck, C., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., and Silver, L.M. (1992) Concerted evolution of the mouse Tcp-10 gene family: implications for the functional basis of t haplotype transmission ratio distortion. Genomics 12: 35-41.

16. Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Tsai, J.-Y., Pilder, S.M., Copeland, N., Jenkins, N., and Silver, L.M. (1992) Localization of the Mas proto-oncogene to a densely marked region of mouse chromosome 17 associated with genomic imprinting. Genomics 13: 444-446.

17. Islam*, S., Pilder, S.H., Decker, C.L., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., and Silver, L.M. (1993). The human homolog of a candidate mouse t complex responder gene: conserved motifs and evolution with punctuated equilibria, Human Mol. Gen. 2:2075-2079.

18. Bollag, R. J., Siegfried, Z., Cebra-Thomas,J. A., Davidson*, E. M., and Silver, L M. (1994) An ancient family of embryonically expressed mouse genes with a shared T locus motif, Nature Gen. 7:383-389.

19. Chapman, D.L., Garvey, N., Hancock*, S., Alexiou, M., Agulnik, S., Gibson-Brown, J.J., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Bollag, R.J., Silver, L.M., and Papaioannou, V.E. (1996) T-box family gene expression during inductive interactions in early mouse development. Developmental Dynamics, 206: 379-390.

20. Cebra-Thomas J.A., Brommer*, J., Gardner*, R J., Lam*, G.K., Sheipe*, H.,A., and Gilbert, S.F. (2003) T-box gene products are required for mesenchymal induction of epithelial branching in the embryonic mouse lung, Developmental Dynamics, 226: 82-90.

21. Andl,T., Ahn, K., Kairo, A., Chu, E.Y., Wine-Lee, L., Reddy, S.T., Croft, N.J., Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Metzger, D., Chambon, P., Lyons, K.M., Mishina, Y., Seykora, J.T., Crenshaw III., E.B. and Millar, S.E. (2004) Epithelial Bmpr1a regulates differentiation and proliferation in postnatal hair follicles and is essential for tooth development, Development 131, 2257-2268.

22. Cebra-Thomas, J., Tan*, F., Sistla*, S., Estes, E., Bender*, G., Kim*, C., Riccio*, P., and Gilbert, S.F. (2005) How the turtle forms its shell: a paracrine hypothesis of carapace formation, J. Exp. Zool. (Mol Dev Evol) 304B

23. Gilbert, S.F., Cebra-Thomas, J., and Burke, A.C. How the turtle gets its shell, in Wyneken, J. (editor). Biology of Turtles: Structures to Strategies. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

24. Cebra-Thomas, J.A., Betters*, E., Yin, M., Plafkin*, C., McDow*, K. and Gilbert, S.F. A late-emerging population of trunk neural crest cells forms the plastron in the turtle Trachemys scripta, Evolution & Development, in press.

25. Gilbert, S.F., G. Bender*, E. Betters*, M. Yin, and J.A. Cebra-Thomas, The contribution of neural crest cells to the nuchal bone and plastron of the turtle shell, Integrative and Comparative Biology, in press.

(* denotes undergraduate co-author)