Behavior is adaptive and the ultimate determinant of survival, both at the level of the individual as well as the species. Understanding the physiological basis of how behavior is produced and modified requires a multidisciplinary approach at both the individual and group level that is ultimately of great benefit for human health. Here in the Department of Biology, researchers use a diversity of experimental and conceptual approaches that range from work in the field studying primate social cognition to the molecular dissection of neural networks for memory storage.
Erol Akçay
Associate Professor of Biology
Katie Barott
Assistant Professor of Biology
Leidy 327A
Nancy M. Bonini
Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Biology Secondary Faculty, Cell & Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, Secondary Faculty, Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine
nbonini@sas.upenn.edu215-573-9267
204G Lynch Laboratory
Yun Ding
Assistant Professor
221 Leidy Labs
Junhyong Kim
Patricia M. Williams Term Professor and Chair, Biology Co-Director, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, Adjunct Professor, Computer and Information Science
junhyong@sas.upenn.edu215-746-5187
Yoichiro Mori
Calabi-Simons Professor of Mathematics and Biology
Levin 352
Dejian Ren
Professor of Biology
dren@sas.upenn.edu215-898-9271
Marc Schmidt
Professor of Biology Co-Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
marcschm@sas.upenn.edu215-898-9375
Paul Schmidt
Professor of Biology Undergraduate Chair
schmidtp@sas.upenn.edu215-898-8289