Division of Science and Engineering - Faculty

Dr.  Leah Devlin
Associate Professor of Biology

Email:  cld5@psu.edu
Phone: 215-881-7560
Office: 218 Sutherland and 119 Sutherland

Educational Background:
Ph.D.   Biological Sciences, the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 
M.Sc    Biological Sciences, the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 
B.A.     Biology, English Literature, Environmental Science, American University, Washington, DC 

Research Interests and Innovations:
Comparative physiology of marine organisms; neural control of cardiac and smooth muscle; neuromuscular transmission; invertebrate neurotransmitters and their receptors; history of marine science

Selected book chapters and review articles:
Devlin, C. L. and Schlosser, W.   2001.   A Review: The pharmacology of GABA and ACh receptors at the echinoderm neuromuscular junction.   In The Physiology of Echinoderms and Decapod Crustaceans, a special volume of the Journal of Experimental Biology.   204(5): 887-896.

Devlin, C. L.  1992.  Electrophysiological and pharmacological properties of the ventricle of the mollusc, Mercenaria mercenaria.   In Phylogenetic Models in Functional Coupling of the CNS and the Cardiovascular System.  (R. B. Hill, ed.),  S. Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, Basel, Switzerland.  pp. 166-181.

Hill, R. B., Huddart, H. and Devlin, C. L.  1992.  Activation of a molluscan heart.
In Phylogenetic Models in Functional Coupling of the CNS and the Cardiovascular System.   (R. B. Hill, ed.),  S. Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, Basel, Switzerland.  pp. 149-165.

Hill. R. B., Devlin, C. L., Langton, P. D. and Smith, P. J. S.  1987.   The electrical membrane responses which accompany mechanical responses of molluscan buccal and cardiac muscle to FMRFamide:  comparison to serotonin and acetylcholine.  In Neurobiology:  Molluscan Models. (H. H. Boer, W. P. M. Geraerts and J. Josse, eds.)   North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, pp. 105 - 109.

Teaching Interests and Courses Taught:
Neurobiology, General Endocrinology, Advanced Mammalian Physiology, Introductory Human Physiology, Mammalian Anatomy, the Development and Physiology of Organisms

Selected awards, grants, patents, other honors:
Penn State Abington Outstanding Teaching Award 1997
Penn State Abington Scholar Award 2000