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Department of Biology Research
 

Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior

primary faculty

Ted Abel
molecular mechanisms of long-term memory storage

Nancy Bonini
role of the eyes absent gene in eye formation; transgenic models for human neurodegenerative disease

Dorothy Cheney
primate behavior

Arthur Dunham
individually based, physiologically structured population modeling; life history evolution

Peter S. Petraitis
ecology of marine intertidal communities

Dejian Ren
molecular and cellular physiology, ion channels and calcium signaling

Lawrence C. Rome
design and function of muscular systems for locomotion and sound production

Marc F. Schmidt
encoding of complex motor behaviors; auditory feedback and vocal learning

Ingrid Waldron
social and behavioral causes of socioeconomic, ethnic and sex differences in health and mortality

Eric S. Weinberg
genetic control of embryonic pattern, brain development and organogenesis in the zebrafish embryo



adjunct faculty

Marra, Peter - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Influence of behavior on regulation of vertebrate population dynamics of migratory birds; modeling of vertebrate population dynamics; ecological theory and conservation issues.

McNair, James - Academy of Natural Sciences
Physiologically structured population models; stochastic models of turbulent particle transport; models of animal behavior; models of structured populations subject to stressors.

 


Research
Department of Biology
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

last updated May 22, 2007