 These faculty members share a common interest in the early development and later function of the nervous system with an emphasis on the neural control of behavior. They approach this central theme from a wide variety of perspectives including sensory physiology, sensory-motor integration and regeneration, neuroethology, developmental neurobiology, molecular neurobiology and neurogenetics. Their research interests include the neural basis of communication, neuroendocrine control of sexual differentiation and behavior, and neural pathways that control movement. Much of the power of their work is the result of their unique evolutionary, physiological and behavioral perspectives.
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Mechanisms regulating neuronal development and physiology |
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Molecular and cellular analysis of axon-glial interactions; neurodegenerative and demyelinating diseases. |
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Sound pattern recognition and localization in frogs and toads: neurobiology, sexual selection and speciation |
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Neuroethology, auditory physiology, sound localization, corticofugal system, echolocating bats, genetic mutant mice |
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Stem cell biology and therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors |
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Adult neurogenesis |
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Cellular studies of functional neural regeneration after spinal cord injury; factors that promote neurite outgrowth and synapse formation of neurons in cell culture; operation of neural network on the brain and spinal cord that control locomotor behavior |
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Evolution and neuroethology of acoustic communication systems |
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How do individual neurons balance plasticity and stability in the nervous system? |
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Reproductive system development, estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals, fetal origins of adult disease |
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Molecular and genetic analysis of transcriptional regulators during neural development |
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Mechanisms of learning and memory in Drosophila |
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Troy Zars works to localize memory in Drosophila