Biology department Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) workshops provide the opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to discuss a variety of teaching topics and pedagogy with faculty in our department. These workshops encourage participants to reflect on teaching and to enhance their…
Hosted by Dr. Marc Schmidt
Home institution: Biology Department, University of Massachusetts in Amherst
GABAA receptors mediate rapid responses to the neurotransmitter GABA and are robust regulators of the brain and spinal cord neural networks that control locomotor behaviors, such as walking and…
Social experiences can have lasting changes on behavior and affective state. In particular, repeated wins and losses during fighting can facilitate and suppress the likelihood of future aggressive behavior, leading to persistent high aggression or low aggression states. We combine quantitative…
On March 15, 2017, Undergraduate Chair Dr. Mecky Pohlschröder hosted an informal discussion for students interested in the Biology major.Students feasted on fajitas while new faulty member Dr. Mia Levine talked about her journey from Penn undergraduate to Assistant Professor. Faculty advisors from…
The incredible diversity of neurons in the brain is born from a small population of neural progenitors that generate each cell type in a stereotyped birth order. While neural progenitors can make many different cell types over the course of development, at any given moment in time their potential,…
Seminar with Dr. Mark Laidre
Dartmouth University
Host: Marc Schmidt
Architecture and social behavior might appear to occupy different worlds: one the physical world, the other the social world. Yet for many animals these two worlds are intimately connected, having reciprocally shaped one…
