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 Applied Physiology
DPT 650 Medical Disabilities and Therapeutic Interventions I
DPT 651 Medical Disabilities and Therapeutic Interventions II

Areas of Interest

Exercise effects in the brain
Pain physiology
Research

Representative Publications

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

Jobst EE, Enriori PJ and Cowley MA. Exercise effects on food intake and arcuate nucleus circuitry. NAASO, The Obesity Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. October 2005.

Jobst EE, Enriori PJ and Cowley MA. Effects of voluntary exercise on body fat composition, leptin concentration and arcuate nucleus circuitry. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 2004.