function member(firstName, lastName, title, research) {
	this.firstName = firstName; 	//first name, used for img src.
	this.lastName = lastName;	  	//last name,  used for img src.
	this.title = title; 			//text: professional title
	this.research = research; 		//text: research theme.
	this.workStr = "images/member_name_" + lastName.toLowerCase() + ".gif";
	this.imgSrc = this.workStr.replace(' ','_');
}

function loadObjs() {
	ambron = new member ('Richard', 'Ambron', 'Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology',
	'Signals that regulate gene transcription during nerve regeneration');
	
	axel = new member('Richard','Axel',
	'University Professor, Investigator, '+
		'Howard Hughes Medical Institute',
	'');

	caddick = new member('Sarah','Caddick', 
	'Executive Director, Columbia University Center for Neuroscience Initiatives (CNI)',
	'');

	chung = new member('Wendy', 'Chung', 'Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics',
	'Human Genetic Disorders');
	
	dauer = new member ('William','Dauer',
	'Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology',
	'');
	
	de_vivo = new member('Darryl','De Vivo','Co-Director, Motor Neuron Center, Sidney Carter Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pediatrics',
	'Mitigating the clinical consequences of genetic mutations that affect the developing nervous system');
	
	dimauro = new member('Salvatore','DiMauro','Lucy G. Moses Professor of Neurology','');
	
	doetsch = new member('Fiona','Doetsch',
	'Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology, Neurology and the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior',
	'Neural stem cells and the niche in the adult mammalian brain');

	fischbach = new member('Gerald','Fischbach', 'John E. Borne Professor of Medical and Surgical Research','');
	
	goldberg = new member('Daniel','Goldberg', 
		'Professor, Department of Pharmacology','');

	gooch = new member('Clifton','Gooch',
		'Clinical Professor of Neurology',
		'')
		
	gordon = new member('Paul','Gordon',
	'Associate Medical Director of the ALS Research Center',''); 

	greene = new member('Lloyd','Greene',
	'Professor of Pathology',
	'The overarching theme of the research in my laboratory is to understand the molecular mechanisms that govern the differentiation, normal developmental death and disease-associated degeneration of neurons');
	
	hays = new member('Arthur','Hays',
	'Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology',
	'');
	
	henderson = new member('Christopher','Henderson',
	'Co-Director, Motor Neuron Center, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology in Neurology',
	'');
	
	hirano = new member('Michio','Hirano',
	'Associate Professor of Neurology, Co-Director, Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic',
	'Mitochondrial and Other Neuromuscular Diseases');
	
	hobert = new member('Oliver','Hobert',
	'Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics',
 	'Genetic Analysis of the development of neural circuits in C. elegans');

	jessell = new member('Thomas','Jessell',
	'Professor, '+
		'Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, '+
		'Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute',
	'The Assembly of Sensory-Motor Circuits');
	
	kaufmann = new member('Petra','Kaufmann',
	'Co-Director, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease Center, '+
		'Associate Director, Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research Network for SMA, '+
		'Assistant Professor of Neurology',
	'Experimental Therapeutics and Neuromuscular Disease Clinical Research');
	
	kottmann = new member('Andreas','Kottmann',
	'Assistant Professor of Neuroscience',
	'Regulation of Cellular Responses to Physiological Stress in Motor Neurons');
	
	krakauer = new member('John','Krakauer',
	'Assistant Professor of Neurology',
	'');
	
	laufer = new member('Ed','Laufer',
	'Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Development',
	'');
	
	leyden = new member('David','Leyden', 
	'Administrative Manager, Columbia University Center for Neuroscience Initiatives (CNI)',
	'');
		
	liem = new member('Ronald','Liem',
	'Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology<br />Professor, Department of Pathology',
	'');

	manley = new member('James','Manley',
	'Julian Clarence Levi Professor of the Life Sciences',
	'');
	
	mann = new member('Richard','Mann',
	'Professor of Biology',
	'');
	
	martin = new member('John','Martin',
	'Professor of Clinical Neurobiology and Behavior',
	'Motor control development and motor recovery after spinal cord injury',
	'');

	
	mason = new member('Carol','Mason',
	'Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology',
	'Cell-cell interactions during circuit development in the visual system and cerebellum');
	
	mccabe = new member('Brian','Mccabe',	
	'Assistant Professor Dept. of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics',
	'');
	
	mentis = new member('George','Mentis',
	'Assistant Professor, Department  of Pathology and Cell Biology ',
	'');
	
	mitsumoto = new member('Hiroshi','Mitsumoto',
	'Medical Director, Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Professor of Neurology',
	'');
	
	monani = new member('Umrao','Monani',
	'Assistant Professor of Neurology',
	'Spinal muscular atrophy - translating basic findings into a potential treatment');

	pascual = new member('Juan','Pascual',
	'Director of Molecular Biophysics Unit, Colleen Giblin Research Laboratories'+
	'Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics',
	'Molecules that set brain, nerve and muscle in action');

	pedley = new member('Timothy','Pedley',
	'Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Neurology, Department Chairman of Neurology',
	'');
	pellizzoni = new member('Livio','Pellizzoni',
	'Assistant Professor, College of Physicians and Surgeons',
	'');

	przedborski = new member('Serge','Przedborski',
	'Co-Director, Motor Neuron Center, Professor of Neurology and Pathology',
	'');
		
	role = new member('Laura','Role',
	'Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology',
	'');
	
	rowland = new member('Lewis','Rowland','Professor of Neurology','');
	
	scheiffele = new member('Peter','Scheiffele',
	'Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics',
	'');
		
	schon = new member('Eric','Schon',
	'Professor of Genetics and Development (in Neurology)',
	'Mitochondrial genetics and disease');
	
	shapiro = new member('Lawerence','Shapiro',
	'Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,'+
	'Jules and Doris Stein Professor of Research to Prevent Blindness',
	'');
		
	shelanski = new member('Michael','Shelanski',
	'Professor and Chair Department of Pathology',
	'');
		
	solomon = new member('Robert','Solomon',
	'Byron Stookey Professor of Neurological Surgery, '+
	'Department Chairman of Neurological Surgery',
	'');
	
	siegelbaum = new member('Steven','Siegelbaum',
	'Professor, Department of Pharmacology<br />Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute',
	'');
		
	stockwell = new member('Brent','Stockwell',
	'Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemistry',
	'');
	
	troy = new member('Carol','Troy',
	'Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Neurology',
	'Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Death');

	vallee = new member('Richard','Vallee',
	'Professor of Pathology; Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology',
	'Function of Cytoplasmic Dynein');
	
	wichterle = new member('Hynek','Wichterle',
	'Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology',
	'Use of embryonic stem cells to study motor neuron development and function');

} // caps loadObsj


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}
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return;
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document.getElementById('writeme1').style.display = "none";
document.getElementById('writeme2').style.display = "none";
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alert("This function doesn't work with this browser!");
return;
	}

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