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Chair
Matthew Kurtz
Associate Professor of PsychologyShow Bio and Photo
Associate Professor of Psychology
Judd Hall 314
860-685-2072
Associate Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
Judd Hall 314
860-685-2072
Chair, Neuroscience & Behavior Program
BA Reed College
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University
NS&B213 - 01
Behavioral Neurobiology
PSYC200 - 01
Stats: Activity-Based Approach
PSYC316 - 01
Schizophrenia & Its Treatment
Personal Homepage:
http://schizophrenia.research.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30PM-2:30PM
Research Interests: Identification and treatment of neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia. History and current status of ideas regarding treatment of the severely mentally ill.
Scholarly Keywords: Clinical Neuropsychology
Faculty
Gloster Aaron
Associate Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo
Associate Professor of Biology
Shanklin Laboratory 211
860-685-3197
Associate Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
860-685-3197
BA Oberlin College
PHD University of Pennsylvania
BIOL509 - 01
Neuroscience Journal Club I
NS&B213 - 01
Behavioral Neurobiology
BIOL299 - 01
Waves, Brains, and Music
BIOL510 - 01
Neurosciences Journal Club II
Personal Homepage:
http://gaaron.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3pm. Other meetings are available by appointment
Hilary Barth
Associate Professor of PsychologyShow Bio and Photo
Associate Professor of Psychology
Judd Hall 204
860-685-2468
Associate Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
Judd Hall 204
860-685-2468
BA Bryn Mawr College
PHD Massachusetts Institute Techno
PSYC230 - 01
Developmental Psychology
Personal Homepage:
http://hbarth.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: by appointment
Lab URL:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/cdl
Publications:
http://hbarth.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
David Bodznick
Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo
Professor of Biology
Shanklin Laboratory 316
860-685-3489
Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
860-685-3489
BS University of Illinois Urbana
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Washington
Personal Homepage:
http://dbodznick.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:
Spring 2012: On sabbatical leave but available at times by appointment
Scholarly Keywords:
Neuroethology, sensory information processing in vertebrate brains.
Stephen Devoto
Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo
Professor of Biology
Shanklin Laboratory 306
860-685-3461
Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
860-685-3461
BA Haverford College
PHD Rockefeller University
DU
BIOL343 - 01
Muscle and Nerve Development
BIOL505 - 01
Cell & Devel Journal Club
BIOL218 - 01
Developmental Biology
BIOL506 - 01
Cell & Develop Journal Club
Personal Homepage:
http://sdevoto.web.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring, 2013: Tuesday 3-4. This semester I am also holding 3 other hours every week for meeting with groups of students in Biology 182 and 194 (Wednesday 11-12 and 4:15-5:15, and Thursday 4-5). Please email to schedule other times
Scholarly Keywords: Muscle Fiber Type Development, Muscle Growth, Somite Patterning, myogenic stem cells, zebrafish
Lab URL:
http://sdevoto.web.wesleyan.edu/
Barbara Juhasz
Associate Professor of PsychologyShow Bio and Photo
Associate Professor of Psychology
Judd Hall 508
860-685-4978
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
Judd Hall 508
860-685-4978
BA Binghamton University
MA University Mass Amherst
PHD University of Mass Amherst
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wednesdays 1:30pm-3:30pm (starting 1/30)
Lab URL:
https://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu/labs/eyelab/web/index.htm
http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/people/2006/0706juhasz.html
John Kirn
Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo
Professor of Biology
Shanklin Laboratory 409
860-685-3494
Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
860-685-3494
BA University of Denver
MA Bucknell University
PHD Cornell University
BIOL254 - 01
Animal Behavior
BIOL254 - 02
Animal Behavior
BIOL509 - 01
Neuroscience Journal Club I
BIOL182 - 01
Principles of Biology II
BIOL194 - 01
Biology II: Advanced Topics
BIOL510 - 01
Neurosciences Journal Club II
Personal Homepage:
http://jrkirn.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: M:4-5pm, F:10-11am or by appointment
Research Interests: I'm interested in how the brain acquires and stores information. I am pursuing these interests by studying song learning and song maintenance in birds, who constantly replace neurons throughout life. Two basic questions of interest are (1) is neuronal replacement related to song learning, and (2) How can the brain preserve information when neurons are constantly being replaced?
Scholarly Keywords: Animal Behavior, Learning and Memory, Neuroethology, Neuroendocrinology
Grants: NIH RO1, 2004-09 (P.I.: Kirn; $880,000 Direct Costs) "Avian vocal experience and adult neuron replacement".
Lab URL:
http://jrkirn.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Publications:
http://jrkirn.faculty.wesleyan.edu/selected-publications/
Janice Naegele
Professor of BiologyShow Bio and Photo
Professor of Biology
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 254
860-685-3232
Director, Center for Faculty Career Development
Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
860-685-3232
BA Mount Holyoke College
PHD Massachusetts Institute Techno
BIOL250 - 01
Neurobiology Lab
BIOL509 - 01
Neuroscience Journal Club I
BIOL345 - 01
Developmental Neurobiology
BIOL510 - 01
Neurosciences Journal Club II
Personal Homepage:
http://naegelelab.research.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: SPRING 2013: On Sabbatical; no regularly scheduled office hours. Meetings by appointment only.
Research Interests: Deficits in GABAergic interneuron populations have been found to underly a number of neuropsychiatric disorders as well as epilepsy. In our research, we study the origins and functions of forebrain interneurons in rodent models of Fragile X syndrome and epilepsy. We are also investigating GABAergic interneuron replacement in temporal lobe epilepsy using different stem cell sources - fetal telencephalon and mouse and human embryonic stem cells. We have discovered that GABAergic progenitor grafts suppress spontaneous seizures for extended periods of time in the rodent brain. We have also demonstrated long-term survival, migration, and integration of ES cell-derived neurons in the adult hippocampus. The questions we are now pursuing are: 1) what are the molecular mechanisms regulating functional integration GABAergic interneuros; 2) what are the major differences in neural repair capacity of GABAergic neural progenitors derived from ES cells vs. fetal brain for treating temporal lobe epilepsy?
Scholarly Keywords: Neural stem cells, mouse models of epilepsy, electroencephalography (EEG recordings), immunohistochemistry, neurodegeneration, apoptosis, gene expression, synapse formation, adult neurogenesis
Academic Associations: International Society for Stem Cell Research; Society for Neuroscience; AAAS American Epilepsy Society; American Epilepsy Society
Grants: Connecticut Stem Cell Initiative
Lab URL:
http://naegelelab.research.wesleyan.edu/
Publications:
http://naegelelab.research.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Editorial Boards: Epilepsy CurrentsFrontiers in NeurogenesisBrain and Development
Board Memberships: Epilepsy Foundation of Connecicut
Andrea Patalano
Associate Professor of PsychologyShow Bio and Photo
Associate Professor of Psychology
Judd Hall 401
860-685-2310
Associate Professor, Neuroscience & Behavior
860-685-2310
Chair, Psychology
BA Brown University
MA University of Michigan
PHD University of Michigan
PSYC200 - 01
Stats: Activity-Based Approach
PSYC200 - 03
Stats: Activity-Based Approach
Personal Homepage:
http://apatalano.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:
Wed 2-4 pm in Judd 401 when classes are in session
Research Interests:
Categorization; planning; decision making; neuroscience of reasoning.
Scholarly Keywords:
Cognition
Lab URL:
http://patalanolab.research.wesleyan.edu/
Publications:
http://apatalano.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Helen Treloar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and BiologyShow BioVisiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Biology
860-685-2403
BS University of Melbourne
PHD University of Melbourne
NS&B328 - 01
Chemical Senses
NS&B353 - 01
Neurobiology of Disease
NS&B353 - 02
Neurobiology of Disease
Office Hours: Shanklin 305 Spring 2013: Th 12.00 - 1.00 PM -- Other times by appointment, or just stop by and see if I am in (note, I am not on campus on Mondays)
Scholarly Keywords: Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology
Publications:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=treloar%20h%20olfactory
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