Faculty List
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Jeffrey R. Alberts (Founding Member)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral development and parental care in rodents, sensory capabilities of young rats, the transition from sucking to independent feeding, and parent/offspring interactions
- alberts@indiana.edu
- Animal Behavior Lab
Colin Allen
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Cognitive Science Program
- Philosophy of biology, psychology, and cognitive science, especially animal cognition and evolution (cognitive ethology), and artificial moral agents
- colallen@indiana.edu
Farrah Bashey-Visser
Department of Biology
Human Biology Program
- Evolutionary ecology of life-history and social strategies, evolution of virulence, phenotypic plasticity
- fbasheyv@indiana.edu
Randall D. Beer
School of Informatics
Department of Computer Science
Cognitive Science Program
- Evolution and analysis of dynamical "nervous systems" for model agents, robotics, and neuromechanical modeling in animals
- rdbeer@indiana.edu
Heather B. Bradshaw
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Kinsey Institute
- The effects of endogenous cannabinoids on uterine and vaginal neurophysiology as well as the loss of regulation due to chronic pain.
- hbbradsh@indiana.edu
- Bradshaw Lab of Reproductive Neuroscience
Peter Cherbas
Department of Biology
Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Genetics, molecular biology, nuclear receptors, Drosophila development
- cherbas@indiana.edu
Jonathon Crystal
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Comparative Cognition, episodic memory, metacognition, time perception, circadian rhythms, learning and memory, disorders of memory (e.g., Alzheimer's)
- jcrystal@indiana.edu
Robert de Ruyter van Steveninck
Department of Physics
Biocomplexity Institute
Neuroscience Program
- Sensory Mechanisms
- deruyter@indiana.edu
Greg E. Demas (Director 2007-2012)
Department of Biology
Neuroscience Program
- Neuroendocrine and immune mechanisms underlying behavior, effects of sickness on food-related behavior and neuroendocrine bases for agression in Siberian hamsters
- gdemas@indiana.edu
- The Demas Lab
Preston E. Garraghty
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience Program
- Electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analyses of adult neural plasticity
- pgarragh@indiana.edu
Jim Goodson
Department of Biology
- Neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behavior, comparative neuroanatomy and evolution of avian sociality
- jlgoodso@indiana.edu
- Goodson-Kingsbury Lab
Julia R. Heiman
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Kinsey Institute
- Psychology and clinical psychiatry
- jheiman@indiana.edu
Kevin D. Hunt
Department of Anthropology
- Social organization, feeding behavior and functional anatomy of chimpanzees, early human evolution and origins of bipedalism
- kdhunt@indiana.edu
- Semliki Chimpanzee Project
Laura Hurley
Department of Biology
Neuroscience Program
- Interactions between behavior and brain function, the effects of serotonin on the auditory abilities of echolocating bats
- lhurley@indiana.edu
- Hurley Lab
Richard Janda
Department of Linguistics
- Language change and variation, parallels between language and biology, interfaces of sound-, word-, and sentence-structure, systems of human and non-human animal communication, language and music
- rjanda@indiana.edu
Ellen D. Ketterson (Founding Member, Co-director 1990-2002)
Department of Biology
Gender Studies Department
- Physiological underpinnings of evolutionary trade-offs in reproductive behavior and migration in birds
- ketters@indiana.edu
- The Ketterson Lab
Andrew P. King
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Social competence and communication in birds
- apking@indiana.edu
Marcy Kingsbury
Department of Biology
- The role of lipid molucules called lysophospholipids and their G-protein coupled receptors in regulating cerebral cortical formation during development.
- mk24@indiana.edu
Curtis M. Lively
Department of Biology
- Ecological, genetic and behavioral factors underlying the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction
- clively@indiana.edu
- Lively Lab
Elisabeth Lloyd
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Department of Biology
- Evolutionary theory
- ealloyd@indiana.edu
Ken Mackie
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid production; Role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid receptors
- kmackie@indiana.edu
Emilia P. Martins
Department of Biology
- Evolution of communication, how short-term forces lead to species differences, and mathematical and computer approaches to studying behavior and evolution
- emartins@indiana.edu
- Martins Lab
Armin P. Moczek
Department of Biology
Indiana Molecular Biology Institute
- Evolution, development and endocrinology of insects
- armin@indiana.edu
- Moczek Lab
Michael P. Muehlenbein
Department of Anthropology
- Biology and ecology of infectious diseases, including human and primate physiological adaptations to disease and hormone mediated immunity
- mpm1@indiana.edu
- Evolutionary Physiology and Ecology Lab
Craig E. Nelson (Emeritus)
Department of Biology
- Evolutionary ecology, amphibian communities
- nelson1@indiana.edu
Milos Novotny
Department of Chemistry
Institute for Pheromone Research
- Biochemistry and protoeomics of pheromones and chemical signals used in animal communication
- novotny@indiana.edu
- Novotny Group
Rudolf Raff
Department of Biology
Indiana Molecular Biology Institute
- Evolutionary developmental biology and evolution of animal body plans
- raffr@indiana.edu
J.C. Randolph (Emeritus)
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Ecosystem ecology and natural resource management
- randolph@indiana.edu
George V. Rebec
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience Program
- Neural mechanisms underlying drug abuse and the neural dysfunction associated with Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases
- rebec@indiana.edu
- Preclinical Pharmacology Laboratory
Kimberly Rosvall
Department of Biology
- Evolution of behavior; neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior; sexual selection; ecological genomics.
- krosvall@indiana.edu
Stephanie Sanders
Kinsey Institute
- Female sexual arousal processes, socioenvironmental factors relating to development and menstrual cyclicity.
- sanders@indiana.edu
Laura L. Scheiber
Department of Anthropology
- Long-term social dynamics on the North American Plains
- scheiber@indiana.edu
- William R. Adams Zooarchaeology Lab
Kathy D. Schick
Department of Anthropology
Stone Age Institute
- Human culture and technology
- kaschick@indiana.edu
Whitney M. Schlegel
Department of Biology
- Ontogeny and plasticity of thermoregulatory mechanisms
- wreilly@indiana.edu
Tom Schoenemann
Department of Anthropology
Stone Age Institute
- Coevolution of brain and behavior, evolution of language, functional morphology of the brain, human variation, modeling evolutionary hypotheses, mathematical image analysis
- toms@indiana.edu
Dale R. Sengelaub
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience Program
- Regulation of growth and development of the adult nervous system , hormonal control of sex differences in neural development and neural plasticity in rats
- sengelau@indiana.edu
- Sengelabs
Sima Setayeshgar
Department of Physics
Biocomplexity Institute
- Cellular biophysics and sustained nonequilibrium systems
- simas@indiana.edu
G. Troy Smith
Department of Biology
Neuroscience Program
- Neuroendocrine control of sex differences and sexual differentiation and sexually-dimorphic communication signals of weakly electric fish
- getsmith@indiana.edu
- Smith Lab
S. Holly Stocking (Emeritus)
School of Journalism
- Science and environmental writing
- stocking@indiana.edu
Roderick A. Suthers (Founding Member)
School of Medicine
Medical Sciences Department
Neuroscience Program
- Motor control of bird song, the functional lateralization of both nervous system and motor anatomy and their accociation with vocal learning
- suthers@indiana.edu
William Timberlake (Founding Member, Co-director 1990-2002)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience Program
Cognitive Science Program
- Animal behavior and learning, ethological analysis of associative learning procedures, associative and mapping processes in spatial and temporal learning, and cercadian cycles related to drug digestion
- timberla@indiana.edu
- Behavior Systems and Learning Lab
Peter M. Todd
School of Informatics
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Cognitive Science Program
- Adaptive behavior, decision making and evolutionary psychology
- pmtodd@indiana.edu
- Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Lab
Nicholas Toth
Department of Anthropology
Stone Age Institute
- Early stone age technology
- toth@indiana.edu
Suresh Viswanathan
School of Optometry
- Techniques for assessment of retinal ganglion cell function
- suviswan@indiana.edu
Virginia J. Vitzthum
Department of Anthropology
Kinsey Institute
- The determinants of variation in human female reproductive functioning
- vitzthum@indiana.edu
Michael J. Wade
Department of Biology
- Mating systems, social behavior and parental care in the context of genetically structured populations, kin selection and maternal effects
- mjwade@indiana.edu
- Wade Lab
Cara Wellman
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience Program
- Neurobiology of aging and stress and expression of behavioral pathology
- wellmanc@indiana.edu
- Wellman Lab
Meredith J. West (Founding Member)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of Biology
- Development of communicative behavior in birds
- mewest@indiana.edu
- Animal Behavior Farm
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