AKHLAQ FAROOQUI is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Ohio State University. He is author of over 180 peer-reviewed research articles, and author/editor of eight books and an expert in fields of glycerophospholipid metabolism, excitotoxicity, bioactive ether lipids, and phospholipases A2 in brain. TAHIRA FAROOQUI is a Research Scientist in the Department of Entomology at Ohio State University. She is the author of 40 peer-reviewed research articles and several monographs and an expert on glycerophospholipid and sphingolipid metabolism, biogenic amines, and neural plasticity.