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Physiology Adjunct Faculty

Dean Myers, PhD
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dean Myers, PhD

Professor

Vice Chair for Research (Basic)

John W. Records Chair in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Director of Research, MFM Fellowship

Member, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center

Education:

  • BS degree in Animal Science from Fort Hays State University (KS) in 1981
  • MS degree in Reproduction from University of Wyoming in 1983
  • PhD degree in Reproduction/Biochemistry from University of Wyoming in 1987
  • NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship at Laboratory for Pregnancy and Newborn Research at Cornell University from 1987-1990

Memberships:

  • Society for Reproductive Investigation
  • Perinatal Research Society
  • Endocrine Society
  • American Physiological Society
  • American Society for Microbiology

Clinical/Research Interests:

  • Impact of gestational hypoxia on fetal physiology, endocrinology and adipose development
  • Maternal obesity and Western diet epigenetic fetal programming for childhood and adult disease in the Non-human primate, Papio anubis (Olive baboon)
  • Maternal Zika virus infection and fetal CNS pathology in the Olive baboon

Select Honors & Accomplishments:

  • President’s Associates Presidential Professorship, OUHSC 2009-current
  • Core Member: Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, OUHSC 2014-current
  • Editorial Board, Frontiers in Endocrinology 2017-current
  • 2022 Ad hoc, NIH CSR, Infectious Disease and Reproductive Health (IRAP) study section
  • 2021  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Special Emphasis Panel: Immune Development In Early Life (IDEaL) (U19)
  • 2021  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Pregnancy and Neonatology (PN)
  • 2020  Chair and ad hoc, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Pediatric and Obstetric Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • 2020  Chair and ad hoc, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Neurodevelopment and Neurological Disorders
  • 2019  Ad hoc NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Endocrine and Reproductive Biology
  • 2019  Ad hoc, March of Dimes, Novel Discovery Review Panel
  • 2019  Chair and ad hoc NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Translational Research in Pediatric and Obstetrical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
  • 2018  Chair and ad hoc, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Translational Research in Pediatric and Obstetrical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • 2018  Chair and Ad hoc, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Neurobiology of brain degenerative disorders, autoimmune diseases and viral infection-2
  • 2018  Chair, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Neurobiology of brain degenerative disorders, autoimmune diseases and viral infection-1
  • 2018  Chair and ad hoc, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel:  Translational Research in Pediatric and Obstetrical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • 2017  Ad hoc, NIH CSR, NAIAD Program Project (ZIKA) Applications (P01)
  • 2017 Ad Hoc: NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel: Rapid assessment of Zika virus complications.
  • 2017  Ad hoc: NIH CSR Special Emphasis Panel: Dual Purpose with Dual Benefit: Research in Biomedicine and Agriculture Using Agriculturally Important Domestic Animal Species.
  • 2016  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Pregnancy and Neonatology (PN)
  • 2016  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Special Emphasis Panel, Translational Research in Pediatric and Obstetric Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • 2015  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Special Emphasis Panel
  • 2015  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Integrative, Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (ICER) Study Section,
  • 2014  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Pregnancy and Neonatology (PN)
  • 2014  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Endocrinology, Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproductive Sciences Small Business/Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
  • 2013 Chair and Ad hoc NIH CSR Endocrinology, Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproductive Sciences Small Business/Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
  • 2008-12 REGULAR MEMBER and ad hoc chair, NIH CSR Pregnancy and Neonatology (PN)
  • 2012  Chair, NIH CSR Special Emphasis Panel: Research in Biomedicine and Agriculture Using Agriculturally Important Domestic Animal Species.
  • 2011  Ad hoc, NIH CSR Special Emphasis Panel: Developmental Pharmacology
  • 2011  Member, NIH CSR NICHD Program Project Review
  • 2010  Member, NIH CSR NICHD Program Project Review
  • 2010  Ad Hoc, NIH CSR Neuroendocrinology, Neuroimmunology & Behavior (NNB)
  • 2009  Ad Hoc, NIH CSR Neuroendocrinology, Neuroimmunology & Behavior (NNB)
  • 2009  Ad Hoc, NIH CSR Neuroendocrinology, Neuroimmunology & Behavior (NNB)
  • 2008  Ad hoc, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel-Pregnancy and Developmental Biology
  • 2007  Ad hoc, NIH CSR, Special Emphasis Panel-Pregnancy and Neonatology
  • 2007  Ad Hoc, NIH CSR Pregnancy and Neonatology (PN)
  • 2005  Ad Hoc, oc mem HOc NIMH CSR Conte Centers for Neuroscience
  • 2002  Ad Hoc, NIH CSR Human Embryology and Development (HED-1)

Select Publications:

Complete List of Published Work in My Bibliography:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/47967746/?sort=date&direction=ascending

  • Sugino KY, Mandala A, Janssen RC, Gurung S, Trammel MJ, Day MW, Brush RS, Papin JF,  Dyer DW, Agbaga M-P, Friedman JE, Castillo-Castrajon M, Jonscher KR, Myers DA. Front Clin Diabetes Healthc 2022 (in press).
  • Gurung S, Reuter D, Norris A, Dubois M, Maxted M, Singleton K, Castillo-Castrajon M, Papin JF, Myers, DA. Early and mid-gestation Zika Virus (ZIKV) infection in the Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) leads to fetal CNS pathology by term gestation. PLOS Pathogens 2022 (in press).
  • Wild RA, Weedin E, Cox K, Zhao YD, Wrenn DS, Lopez D, Wooten CJ, Melendez QM, Myers D, Hansen KR. Proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin 9 (PCSK9) and nonHDL particles rise during normal pregnancy and differ by BMI. J Clin Lipidol 2002; Jun 6; S1933-2874(22)00173-8.
  • Subramaniyan B, Larabee JL, Bodas M, Moore AR, Burgett AWG, Myers DA, Georgescu C, Wren JD, Papin JF, Walters MS. Characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 host response in primary airway epithelial cells from aged individuals. Viruses 2021; 13:1603.
  • Gurung S, Nadeau H, Maxted M, Peregrine J, Reuter N, Norris A, Edwards R, Hyatt K, Singleton K, Marti A, Parks WT, Papin JF, Myers DA. Maternal Zika virus (ZIKV) infection following vaginal inoculation with ZIKV-infected semen in the timed pregnant olive baboon, J Virol 2020; 94:e00058-20.
  • Myers DA, Singleton K, Hyatt K, Kaushal KM, Ducsay CA. 2020. Long term hypoxia during gestation alters perirenal adipose tissue gene expression in the lamb. Adipocyte. 2020; 9:223-33.
  • Gurung S, Reuter N, Preno AN, Dubaut JP, Nadeau H, Hyatt K, Singleton K, Maxted M, Parks WT, Papin JF, Myers DA. Zika virus infection at mid-gestation results in fetal cerebral cortical injury and fetal death in the olive baboon. PLoS Pathogens 2019; 15: e1007507.  
  • Peregrine J, Gurung S, Lindgren MC, Husain S, Zavy MT, Myers DA, Papin JF. Zika virus infection, reproductive organ targeting, and semen transmission in the male olive baboon. J Virol 2019; 94:e01434-19.
  • Scifres CM, Mead-Harvey C, Nadeau H, Reid A, Pierce S, Feghali M, Myers D, Fields D, Stoner JA. Intensive glycemic control in gestational diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled clinical feasibility trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM 2019; 1:100050.
  • Gurung S, Preno AN, Dubaut JP, Nadeau H, Hyatt K, Reuter N, Nehete B, Wolf RF, Nehete P, Dittmer DP, Myers DA, Papin JF. Translational model of Zika virus infection in baboons. J Virol 2018; 92:e00186-18.
  • Pierce S, Bakker R, Myers DA, Edwards RK Clinical insights for cervical ripening and labor induction using prostaglandins. AJP Rep 2018; 8:e307-e314.