NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
The nervous system is the basis of all behavior. The Neurobiology and Behavior faculty in the Department of Biology use behavioral, cellular, and molecular approaches to study the nervous system. These approaches are used to investigate the design of motor control networks, the cellular substrates of circadian rhythms, the functional organization of neuroendocrine and sensory systems and various aspects of neural development. Some of these faculty use invertebrate or nonmammalian vertebrate models to elucidate how organisms sense their environment or how such animals coordinate motor programs in response to external stimuli. Several Neurobiology and Behavior faculty are also members of the Center for Biological Timing who investigate various aspects of rhythmic biological processes that recur every 24 hours. The role of the 24-hour circadian clock that drives these processes is studied within the context of behavior, physiology, and metabolism.
FACULTY MEMBERS (and their research groups)
- Xiaolan Fang (postdoc)
- Justin Nussbaum (grad)
- Matthew Seward (grad)
- Antonia Silva (postdoc)
- Eric Swanson (grad)
- Horst Wallrabe (lab staff)
- Malcom Augat (grad)
- Lelena Avila (grad)
- Vincent Formica (postdoc)
- Joel McGlothlin (postdoc)
- Helen Vasaly (grad)
- Corlett Wood (grad)
- David Ariew (grad)
- Nella Solodukhina (lab staff)
- Elizabeth Daubert (post-doc)
- Kazusa Edamura (grad)
- Kanchana Gamage (grad)
- Stuart Cauley (lab staff)
- Dong Suo (grad)
- Pam Neff (lab staff)
- Olivia Mullins (grad)
- William Brasher (lab staff)
- Karol Cichewicz (grad)
- Emile Hughes (lab staff)
- Grace Pyon (grad)
- Silvia Barrett (lab staff)
- Jenna Eckardt (grad)
- Jessica Kennett (lab staff)
- Pam Neff (lab staff)
- Vannina Suarez (grad)
- Pinar Pezuk (grad)
- Didem Goz (grad)
- Daniel Warthen (grad)
- Tadahiro Goda (postdoc)
- Karolina Mirowska (grad)
- Neethi Rao (grad)
- Brandi Sharp (grad)
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