Erin E. Jobst, PT, PhD
Assistant Professor
Phone (503) 352-7259
Email jobste@pacificu.edu
A faculty member since 2005
Education
Ph.D. Oregon Health & Science University, 2003
Physiology and Pharmacology/ Integrated Biomedical Sciences
M.P.T. University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco State University, 1994
Physical Therapy
B.S. University of California, Riverside, 1992
Psychobiology
Teaching Responsibilities
DPT 540 Patient Care Assessment, Intervention and Therapeutic Exercise
DPT 550: Systems physiology: patient management & pharmacology
DPT 650: PT management of infectious, immune, & metabolic disorders
DPT 651: Patient management of integumentary conditions & differential diagnosis in PT
Areas of Interest
Exercise effects in the brain
Pediatric obesity
Research
Representative Publications
Pharmacology for the Physical Therapist (2008) 1st Edition. Peter C. Panus, Bertram Katzung, Erin E. Jobst, Suzanne Tinsley, Susan B. Masters, Anthony J. Trevor. McGraw-Hill.
Sinnayah P, Jobst EE, Rathner JA, Caldera-Siu AD, Tonelli-Lemos L, Eusterbrock AJ, Enriori PJ, Pothos EN, Grove KL and Cowley MA (2008). Feeding induced by cannabinoids is mediated independently of the melanocortin system. PLOS One, 3(5): e2202.
Scarlett JM, Jobst EE, Enriori PJ, Bowe DD, Batra AK, Grant WF, Cowley MA, Marks DL (2007). Regulation of central melanocortin signaling by interleukin-1b. Endocrinology, 148(9): 4217-25.
Enriori PJ, Evans AE, Sinnayah P, Jobst EE, Tonelli-Lemos L, Billes SK, Glavas MM, Grayson BE, Perello M, Nillni EA, Grove KL and Cowley MA (2007). Diet-induced obesity causes severe, but reversible, leptin resistance in arcuate melanocortin neurons. Cell Metabolism, 5(3): 181-194.
Munzberg H, Jobst EE, Bates SH, Jones J, Villanueva E, Leshan R, Bjornholm M, Elmquist J, Sleeman M, Cowley MA and Myers MG (2007). Appropriate inhibition of orexigenic hypothalamic arcuate nucleus neurons independently of leptin receptor/STAT3 signaling. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(1): 69-74.
Heisler, LK, Jobst, EE, Balthasar, N., Liu, HY, Zigman, J, Lee, CE, Aschkenasi, CJ, Zhang, CY, Yu, J, Boss, O, Kishi, T, Mountjoy, KG, Low, MJ, Smart, JL, Friedman, J, Lowell, B, Elmquist, JK, Cowley, MA (2006). Serotonin reciprocally regulates melanocortin neurons to modulate food intake. Neuron, 51(2): 239-249.
Jobst, EE, Enriori PJ, Sinnayah P and Cowley MA (2006). Hypothalamic regulatory pathways and potential obesity treatment targets. Endocrine, 29(1): 33-48.
Jobst EE, Enriori P and Cowley MA (2004). The electrophysiology of feeding circuits. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 15(10): 488-499.
Jobst EE and Allen CN (2002). Calbindin neurons in the hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus do not exhibit a circadian variation in spontaneous firing rate. European Journal of Neuroscience 16: 2469-2474.
Heinricher MM, Schouten JC, Jobst EE (2001). Activation of brainstem N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors is required for the analgesic actions of morphine given systemically. Pain 92: 129-138.
Jobst EE, Melnick MM, Byl NN, Dowling, GA, Aminoff, MJ (1997). A comparison of sensory perception between patients with Parkinson's disease and matched controls. Archives of Neurology 54: 450-454.
Recent Presentations
“Pharmacology for Physical Therapists”. School of Physical Therapy, Department of Medical Sciences, University of West Indies, Jamaica. Nov 30-Dec 2, 2007.