Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, 1990-1994
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Oral Anatomy, University of Illinois, College of Dentistry, Health Sciences Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1989-1990
- Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, University of Illinois, Health Sciences Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1989 (Dissertation Title: Incisal Biting in Marmota monax and Aplodontia rufa)
- A.M., Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 (Thesis Title: Shapes of the Dental Arcades of Primates)
- B.A., Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1976
Publications
- Druzinsky, R.E., and W.S. Greaves 1979 A model to explain the posterior limit of the bite point in reptiles. J. Morphology, 160: 165-168.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1985 Anatomy and EMG of the masseter muscle of Aplodontia rufa. In: Functional Morphology in Vertebrates. Fortschritte der Zoologie, Band 30, eds. H.-R. Duncker and G. Fleisher. Stuttgart and New York, Gustav Fischer Verlag, pp. 281-283.
- Davis, B.M., R.E. Druzinsky, and L.M. Mendell 1987 Distribution of potentiation following short high frequency bursts to motoneurons of different rheobase. Exp. Brain Res., 65: 639-648.
- Koerber, H.R., R.E. Druzinsky, and L.M. Mendell 1988 Properties of somata of spinal dorsal root ganglion cells differ according to peripheral receptor innervated. J. Neurophysiol., 60: 1584-1596.
- Dessem, D., and R.E. Druzinsky 1992 Jaw-muscle activity in ferrets (Mustela putorius furo). J. Morphology, 213:275-286.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1993 The time allometry of mammalian chewing movements: chewing frequency scales with body mass in mammals. J. theor. Biol., 160:427-440.
- Maltenfort, M.G., R.E. Druzinsky, C.J. Heckman, and W.Z. Rymer 1994 Lower boundaries of motoneuron desynchronization via Renshaw interneurons. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 6, Jack D. Cowan, Gerald Tesauro, and Joshua Alspector, eds. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 535-542.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1995 Incisal biting in the mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) and woodchuck (Marmota monax). J. Morphol., 226: 79-101.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1996 A method for the study of single jaw adductor muscle motor units. Archs. oral Biol. 41:607-611.
- Published Abstracts (selected)
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1980 Shapes of the dental arcades of primates. Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop., 52: 224.
- Druzinsky, R.E., and B.L. Manion 1982 Allometry of the limbs of South American rodents and McMahon's theory of elastic similarity. Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop., 57: 182.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1984 Incisal biting and the definitive features (synapomorphies) of the Order Rodentia. Amer. Zool., 24: 149A.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1987 What is a protrogomorph? Amer. Zool., 27: 106A.
- Druzinsky, R.E., S.W. Herring, T.J. Drolsum, and E.H. Polley 1990 Fluorescent dye labeling of neurons in the mesencephalic nucleus in pigs and ferrets. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 16: 730.
- Druzinsky, R.E., M. Maltenfort, and W.Z. Rymer 1993 Synchronization of motoneuron activity after Renshaw cell blockade. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 19: 993.
- Maltenfort, M.G., R.E. Druzinsky, C.J. Heckman, and W.Z. Rymer 1993 Simulation of Renshaw cell-mediated effects on motoneuron synchrony, force and EMG. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 19: 993.
- Maltenfort, M.G., R.E. Druzinsky, C.J. Heckman, and W.Z. Rymer 1994 Interactions between Renshaw cells and global inputs to motoneurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 20: 340.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1994 A technique for the study of single jaw muscle motor units. Amer. Zool., 34: 110A.
- Druzinsky, R.E., and L.E. Wineski 1995 Preliminary studies of motor units in the superficial masseter muscle in rats. Neurosci. Abstr., 21: 1436.
- Maltenfort, M.G., C.J. Heckman, R.E. Druzinsky, and W.Z. Rymer 1995 Decorrelation within and correlation between antagonist motor nuclei by recurrent inhibition. Neurosci. Abstr., 21: 1433.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 1997 The superficial masseter and zygomaticomandibularis muscles of the guinea pig (Cavia porcellus). Amer. Zool. 37(5):81A.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 2001 What is a sciuromorph? Sixth International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 2001 Sciuromorphy and protrogomorphy in extant and fossil Rodentia. Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Abstracts, p. 172.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 2002 The anatomy of the superficial masseter muscle of the guinea pig, Cavia porcellus: implications for the anatomy of hystricognathy. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists (Experimental Biology 2002), Abstract #9688.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 2005 The use of WebCT to provide online materials in a traditional anatomy course. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists (Experimental Biology 2005), Abstract #478.1
- Druzinsky, R.E. 2006 Anatomy outside of the medical school: teaching occupational and physical therapy students together. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists (Experimental Biology 2006), Abstract #251.40.
- Druzinsky, R.E. 2007 Feeding mechanisms in rodents. Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Abstract #30.5
- Druzinsky, R.E. 2007 The role of pennation in jaw adductor muscle specializations of rodents. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists (Experimental Biology 2007), Abstract #1812
Honors
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention, 1976
- Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, 1979-1980
Presentations
- NATO Symposium on the Evolution of the Rodentia, Paris, July, 1985 (Title: What, if anything, is a Protrogomorph?)
- Evolutionary Morphology Seminars, University of Chicago, March, 1989 (Title: Incisal biting in Sciuromorph and Protrogomorph Rodents)
Research
- Variation in human jaw muscles
- Evolution and functional anatomy of rodent feeding apparatus
Service
- Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team (IMERT) volunteer training
Professional Memberships
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Association of Anatomists
- American Society of Mammalogists
- Human Anatomy and Physiology Society
- International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology
- Sigma Xi
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Society for Neuroscience
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