Core Facilities

Research & Funding Opportunities

IU Library links to AB journals

Professional Societies in AB

Animal Behavior Bulletin

Video Library of Distinguished Guest Speakers

The Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB) brings together core faculty from several Indiana University Departments (including Biology, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience and Anthropology) to promote research in neuroscience, animal learning, development, ecology, and evolutionary biology. CISAB supports integrative and collaborative behavioral research by providing access to shared core facilities (Animal Behavior Lab, Behavioral Informatics Center, and main office building), funding opportunities, and a Behavior Colloquium Series of distinguished guest speakers from other institutions.

CISAB also fosters interactions among our community members by hosting gatherings such as the annual Spring Conference, by moderating a mailing list of local events and by publishing the quarterly Animal Behavior Bulletin which reports on local research efforts. We manage the Program in Animal Behavior which offers a variety of student opportunities including minors in Animal Behavior, applied internships and summer programs, and we maintain this Web site which serves as a powerful recruiting tool for future members of our community.

Some Current Major Research Themes:

• Reproductive Diversity - sex differences in behavior, mechanisms of sexual differentiation, evolution of sexual reproduction. This theme brings together researchers from Biology, Neuroscience, Gender Studies, and the Kinsey Insitute and is supported by an NIH Training grant.
• Animal Cognition - theoretical, psychological, ethological and computational approaches. This theme brings together researchers from Psychology, Informatics, History and Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science.