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David Hill

David Hill

Professor, Psychology

Primary Location
PO Box 400400
Gilmer 182
Primary Phone Number
982.472.8
Email
[email protected]
Website
https://uva.theopenscholar.com/david-hill/

Bio & Overview

Our lab studies the neurophysiological, morphological, and molecular biological development and plasticity of the taste system. Specific projects focus on environmental and physiological factors affecting the developing and regenerating taste system, salt taste transduction, matching of gustatory neurons with their targets, the role of immune function in modulating taste function and molecular biological approaches to the development and plasticity of the peripheral gustatory system

Academic Information

Department
Psychology
Academic Title
Professor and Chair of Psychology

Primary Education

  • BA, Zoology & Psychology, Western Illinois University, 1975
  • PhD, Experimental Psychology, Ohio University, 1979
  • Postdoc, Sensory Physiology, University of Michigan, 1982

Other Appointments

  • Professor, Neuroscience

Other Affiliations

  • Professor, BIMS

Research Interests

Development and plasticity of sensory systems

Research Disciplines

  • Neuroscience

Research Opportunities

  • Neuroscience

Selected Publications

Sun C, Dayal A, Hill DL, Expanded terminal fields of gustatory nerves accompany embryonic BDNF overexpression in mouse oral epithelia., 2015; The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 35(1) 409-21. PMID: 25568132 | PMCID: PMC4287156

Graham DM, Sun C, Hill DL, Temporal signatures of taste quality driven by active sensing., 2014; The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 34(22) 7398-411. PMID: 24872546 | PMCID: PMC4035510

Reddaway RB, Davidow AW, Deal SL, Hill DL, Impact of chorda tympani nerve injury on cell survival, axon maintenance, and morphology of the chorda tympani nerve terminal field in the nucleus of the solitary tract., 2012; The Journal of comparative neurology. 520(11) 2395-413. PMID: 22237830 | PMCID: PMC3905605

Corson SL, Hill DL, Chorda tympani nerve terminal field maturation and maintenance is severely altered following changes to gustatory nerve input to the nucleus of the solitary tract., 2011; The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 31(21) 7591-603. PMID: 21613473 | PMCID: PMC3117282

Guagliardo NA, West KN, McCluskey LP, Hill DL, Attenuation of peripheral salt taste responses and local immune function contralateral to gustatory nerve injury: effects of aldosterone., 2009; American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology. 297(4) R1103-10. PMID: 19675282 | PMCID: PMC2763818

Mangold JE, Hill DL, Postnatal reorganization of primary afferent terminal fields in the rat gustatory brainstem is determined by prenatal dietary history., 2008; The Journal of comparative neurology. 509(6) 594-607. PMID: 18546275 | PMCID: PMC2596193

May OL, Erisir A, Hill DL, Modifications of gustatory nerve synapses onto nucleus of the solitary tract neurons induced by dietary sodium-restriction during development., 2008; The Journal of comparative neurology. 508(4) 529-41. PMID: 18366062 | PMCID: PMC2596877