Jeremy Teissere
Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience; Director, Neuroscience Program | Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA, UNITED STATES
Professor Teissere directs Muhlenberg's Neuroscience program
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Biography
Jeremy Alden Teissere is a neuroscientist with a longstanding interest in the biochemical basis of drug action in the central nervous system.
He is particularly interested in resolving the molecular architecture and ‘choreography’ of drug-receptor interactions, particularly for anxiety-reducing and sleep-promoting drugs, hormones, and plant extracts.
His research uses a multi-level physiological approach to expand and more fundamentally describe tranquil states of consciousness and their therapeutic regulation. His interests in neuroscience also broadly center on the relationship of experimental abstraction to empirical studies of consciousness, particularly the role of implicit action and pre-reflective selfhood in constructing behavior and identity.
Teissere received a BA in English from Willamette University and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (from which he was recently the recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award).
He has held a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Pharmacology at Emory University.
His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Mellon Foundation and the Sentience Foundation.
He is the inaugural Stanley Road Endowed Chair in Neuroscience at Muhlenberg College and chairs the Neuroscience Department.
Areas of Expertise (7)
Neuroscience
Anxiety
Drugs
Sleep
Pain
Anesthesia
Consciousness
Accomplishments (12)
Distinguished Alumnus, Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison (professional)
2015
Student Government Award for Outstanding Student Mentorship, Muhlenberg College (professional)
2014
Paul C. Empie Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching, Muhlenberg College (professional)
2010
Sherman Fairchild Foundation Grant (professional)
2010
Creative Pedagogy Grant Award (professional)
Awarded by the Faculty Center for Teaching at Muhlenberg College 2009
Merck - AAAS Grant (professional)
2008
Lectures & Forums Award (Occupied Territories; $500), Muhlenberg College (professional)
2007
Mellon Grant (professional)
2006
Henry Award, People’s Choice for Faculty, Muhlenberg College (professional)
2006
Faculty Summer Research Grant, Muhlenberg College
2005
Lectures & Forums Award, The Politics of Identity (professional)
2004
Creative Pedagogy Award, Faculty Center for Teaching, Muhlenberg College (professional)
2004
Education (3)
Emory University: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Pharmacology
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ph.D., Neuroscience 2001
Willamette University: B.A., English 1997
Affiliations (2)
- Society for Neuroscience : Member
- Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience : Member
Media Appearances (2)
All-Stars of Academia
Lehigh Valley Magazine online
2015-05-15
What is it about Muhlenberg College that brought you and keeps you there? Muhlenberg is a place that really values community and says – I always think of Mark di Suvero’s sculpture, red and larger than life, on our front lawn – this is a place where we grapple with difficult and beautiful ideas, where we, the community, will offer you a safe place to take a big, scary risk. Students, faculty and staff implicitly feel this community feeling when they first step foot on campus. To feel that my colleagues are working alongside me to help construct this experience and to push students to take that risk – that’s worth everything to me as an educator...
Muhlenberg College in Allentown receives $1 million donation from anonymous family
Lehigh Valley Live online
2014-03-31
The inaugural endowed chair will go to Jeremy Teissere, associate professor of biology and neuroscience and director of the college's neuroscience program. Teissere was hired in 2003 to start the development of Muhlenberg's neuroscience major, which is the school's sixth-largest and fastest-growing major. "Endowed chairs are one of the highest honors a college or university can bestow on a faculty member," Muhlenberg College President Randy Helm said in a statement...
Research Focus (1)
Teaching and Research Interests
Structure and function of the GABA(A) receptor, biophysics of receptor signaling, molecular pharmacology, states of consciousness, cultural studies of neuroscience and pharmacology, and scientific imagery and metaphor
Courses (9)
NSC 401
Advanced Seminar in Neuroscience
NSC 311
Neurons and Networks
NSC 304
Receptors and Channels
NSC 302
States of Consciousness
NSC 201
Mind and Brain
NSC 115
Drug Science
DNA 116
Speak My Language
DNA 108
First Year Seminar: Other Bodies
States of China
MILA (Muhlenberg Integrated Learning Abroad)
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