Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Towson University
Towson, MD 21252 USA
Office: Smith 349
Phone: 410-704-2373
Fax: 410-704-2405
email: grobinson@towson.edu
Education:
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University
B.S. The Loch Haven State College
Courses Taught:
BIOL 213/214 Human Anatomy and Physiology I and II
BIOL 325 Environmental Animal Physiology
BIOL 470 Advanced Physiology
BIOL 604 Mechanisms in Animal Physiology
Research Interests:
The comparative physiology of animals ... particularly aspects of salt and water regulation in aquatic/semi-aquatic animals
Publications:
Savage, J.P. and G.D. Robinson 1983. Inducement of increased gill Na+ - K+ ATPaseactivity by a hemolymph factor in hyperosmoregulating
Callinectes sapidus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 75A: 65 - 66.
Kroll, R. and G.D. Robinson 1986. Reno-toxic screening of four trihalomethanes observed following chlorination. Toxicology Letters
31 S-115.
Robinson, G.D. 1993. Effects of reduced ambient pH on sodium balance in the red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens).
Physiological Zoology. 66(4): 602-618.
Robinson, G.D. 1994. Effects of acclimation salinity on sodium fluxes in the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus). Comparative Biochemistry and
Physiology. 108A(1): 69-73.
Ford, N.A. and G.D. Robinson 2003. Effects of hydrin 2 on cutaneous electrical properties of Rana pipiens. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.
134(2): 103-108.
Ross, J.T. and G.D. Robinson. A comparative study of the cutaneous electrical properties of anuran and urodele amphibians. In preparation.
Kugler, H.C. and G.D. Robinson. Effects of norepinephrine on cutaneous ion transport across Notophthalmus viridescens skin. In
preparation.
Robinson, G.D. and J. Baugh. Effects of acclimation salinity on transepithelial potential (TEP) in blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). In
preparation.
Students:
All of the co-authors listed in the papers listed above were either undergraduate or graduate students working in my lab. Jason Ross, Hattie Kugler, and Nikki Ford were here as part of the SURB program. Currently, I have one TU undergraduate student (Dorothy Borowy) working with me in a project involving effects of hydrin 2 and AVT on the electrical properties of frog skin.