Education:

1987-1993 Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical School. Research field: "Signal Transduction Mechanisms induced by ganglioside GM1". Major Adviser: Dr. Sarah Spiegel

1984-1987 B.S. Texas A&I University, Kingsville, TX; Majors: Chemistry and Biology

1982-1983 Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico

Employment:

September 1998 -present Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA

1993-August 1998 Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellow, National Institutes of Health under the supervision of Dr. Éva Mezey in the Basic Neuroscience Program of NINDS.

1987 Summer job, National Institutes of Health under the supervision of Dr. Harvey Pollard, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD.

1984-1987 Minority Biomedical Research Systems Research Assistant in amino acid studies. Department of Biology, Texas A&I University.

Honors and Awards:

1998 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity mini-grant from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.

1991 First Prize Graduate Student Symposium, "Binding of the B subunit of Cholera Toxin to Endogenous Ganglioside GM1 of quiescent Swiss 3T3 Fibroblasts Enhances Phosphorylation", Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

1986 Texas Academy of Science, Nephrocytomegalia induced by Lysinoalanine and related amino acids, such as 2,3-Diaminopropionic acid. Texas A&I University, Kingsville, TX.

1986 Minority Research Intern Fellowship Course in Scanning Electron Microscopy and related equipment. Department of Geology, Texas A&I University, Kingsville, TX.

1985-1986 Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant based on academic performance.

1985 Appointment to Animal Board Care. Texas A&I University, Kingsville, TX.

Grant/Applications Reviewer:

Reviewed grant for the Health Research Council of New Zealand (2000).

Member of the Advisory Board for Minority International Research Training Program (MIRT)(2000).

Presentations:

Diep N. Burbridge and Nancy E. Buckley Investigating the Role of the Cannabinoid CB2 Receptor in THC-induced Shift of Th1/Th2 Cell Activity Using the Cb2 Knockout Mouse Model, International Cannabis Research Society Symposium, Hunt Valley, MD (2000).

Nancy E. Buckley, Kathleen L. McCoy, Éva Mezey, Tom Bonner, Anne Zimmer, Christian C. Felder, Michelle Glass and Andreas Zimmer, Mice Deficient for the Peripheral Cannabinoid Receptor were developed and demonstrated an immunomodulatory role for cannabinoid, International Cannabis Research Society Symposium, Acapulco, Mexico (1999).

Nancy E. Buckley, Eva Mezey, Stefan Hanson, Tom Bonner, Christian C. Felder, Michelle Glass, Kathleen L. McCoy, Andreas Zimmer, Cannabinoid receptors: Expression of their mRNAs during embryonic development, and the creation of a cannabinoid receptor knockout mice, Neurobehavioral Teratology Society Symposium, Keystone, CO (1999).

Nancy E. Buckley , Éva Mezey, Tom Bonner, Christian C. Felder, Michelle Glass, Anne Zimmer and Andreas Zimmer, Characterizing the CB2 knockout mouse, International Cannabis Research Society Symposium, Montpellier, France (1998).

Nancy E. Buckley , Éva Mezey, Tom Bonner, Christian C. Felder, Michelle Glass, Anne Zimmer and Andreas Zimmer, Development of a CB2 knockout mouse, International Cannabis Research Society Symposium, Atlanta, GA (1997).

Nancy E. Buckley and Éva Mezey, The central cannabinoid receptor mRNA is expressed in the rat kidney, International Cannabis Research Society Symposium, West Dennis, MA (1996).

Nancy E. Buckley and Eva Mezey, Cellular Localization of the mRNA Encoding the Peripheral Cannabinoid Receptor in Rat Spleen, International Cannabis Research Society Symposium, Scottsdale, AZ (1995).

Lectures/Debates:

Nancy E. Buckley, Rik Musty, Roger Pertwee, Eric Voth, Scott Imler, Tod Mikuriya and Christie MacDonald, Medical Use of Marijuana, participants in an on-line dialogue/debate sponsored by HMS Beagle (http://hmsbeagle.com) (1998).

Nancy E. Buckley, Stefan Hansson, Gyöngyi Harta and Éva Mezey, "Expression of CB1 and CB2 Receptor mRNAs During Embryonic Development in the Rat" lecture given at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA (1998).

Nancy E. Buckley , Éva Mezey, Tom Bonner, Christian C. Felder, Michelle Glass, Anne Zimmer and Andreas Zimmer, "Characterizing the CB2 knockout mouse", lecture given at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA (1998).

Nancy E. Buckley , Éva Mezey, Tom Bonner, Christian C. Felder, Michelle Glass, Anne Zimmer and Andreas Zimmer, "Characterizing the CB2 knockout mouse", lecture given at the National Institutes of Neurological Diseases and Stroke in Bethesda, MD (1998).