Ph.D. 1992 Indiana University (Psychology | Neural Science)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Neurobiology Unit)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Dr. Eisthen is interested in the evolution of the nervous system and the effects of such evolutionary changes on behavior. Her research focuses on changes in the olfactory system over the course of vertebrate evolution, and the origin and function of the accessory olfactory (vomeronasal) system in tetrapods. She work mostly with axolotls, Ambystoma mexicanum, a nonmetamorphosing salamander.  |more info|

Ph.D. 1993 Indiana University (Biology)
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, U.K. 1994
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California-Davis 1995 (Animal Behavior)

Behavior and conservation of migratory birds; food storing and memory; foraging |more info|

Ph.D. 1992 Indiana University (Psychology | Neural Science)
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health

Ph.D. 1992 Indiana University (Psychology)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

M.A. 1992 Indiana Univeristy (Biology)

Ph.D. 1993 Indiana University (Psychology)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California

Age-related changes in neural plasticity and their relationship to cognition; neurochemical and morphological correlates of uncontrollable and controllable stress and learned helplessness; biology and behavior

M.A. 1993 Indiana University (Psychology)

Ph.D. 1993 University of Indiana (Biology)
Posdoctoral Fellow, Nebraska Behavioral Biology Consortium

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Ph.D. 1994 Indiana University (Psychology)
Researcher, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado

Ph.D. 1994 Indiana University (Biology)

Ph.D. 1995 Indiana University (Psychology)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Monell Chemical Senses Center

Ph.D. 1996 Indiana University (Biology)

Research interests : predator/prey dynamics and the evolution of defensive behavior and morphology of fish.
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Ph.D. 1996 Indiana University (Biology)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Davidson College, NC

Behavioral ecology and sexual selection

Ph.D. 1996 Indiana University (Biology)
Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Skidmore College

The evolution of arthropod parental investment; temperature-dependent parental investment in two heteropterans, Sehirus cinctus (Cydnidae) and Belostoma flumineumSay (Belostomatidae); natural selection on characters associated with parental investment in the terrestrial isopod, Porcellio laevis |more info|

Ph.D. 1996 Indiana Univeristy (Psychology)

M.A. 1996 Indiana University (Biology)

Bird population studies   |more info||still more info|

Defended Ph.D. 1996 Indiana University (Medical Sciences)

Ph.D. 1997 Indiana University (Biology)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Indiana Univeristy
Assistant Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Hawaii - Hilo

Speciation and evolutionary genetics:   genetic architecture of species boundaries; genetic mapping of quantitative traits in natural hybrid zones; generalized computer models of multilocus genetics; distribution of genetic variation among populations of special conservation status   |more info|

Ph.D. 1997 Indiana University (Biology)

Ph.D. 1997 Indiana University (Psychology)

Ph.D. 1997 Indiana University (Biology)

Behavioral ecology, especially mating behavior in fish |more info|

Ph.D. 1997 Indiana University (Biology)

Defended Ph.D. 1997 Indiana University (Biology)

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Ph.D. 1998 Indiana University (Biology)
1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biology, University of Victoria, British Columbia
1998 Visiting Scholar, University of Technology at Sydney, Australia

magnetic orientation in amphibians and birds  

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Ph.D. 1998 Indiana University (Biology)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Bucknell University

Ph.D. 1998 Indiana University (Biology)
1999 Temporary Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Coastal Carolina University

I am studying the hormonal correlates of colony size and parasite load in Cliff Swallows, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota. This work is being done in collaboration with Dr. John Wingfield at the University of Washington, and Drs. Charles Brown and Mary Bomberger-Brown at the University of Tulsa. |more info|sraouf@alumni.indiana.edu|

Ph.D. 1998 Indiana University (Biology)
1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Defended Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Biology)
1999 Visiting Assistant Professor, DePauw University
2000 Lab Technician, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University

My research addressed how offspring sex and potential conflict between parents and offspring affect resource allocation between offspring. I combined field observations with detailed video analyses, genetic analyses, and statistical analyses to study wild Mountain Bluebirds (Sialia currucoides) at their nesting boxes in Colorado. I found that a high proportion of young are sired by males other than the male that cares for them. I also found that female parents provision young more than males and that male parents provision broods at a higher rate if they contain more male offspring. The characteristics of nestlings that are most important predictors of which one will be fed by a parent are the intensity at which a nestling begs the nestling's position in the nest.

Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology)

My major interest is perinatal influences on the development of postnatal behavior, including learning and memory. Currently, I am investigating brain injury following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia (H-I) and its effect on spatial learning and memory in rat and mouse models. In addition, I am investigating possible therapeutic interventions that might decrease brain injury resulting from apoptotic cell death following neonatal H-I and maximize functional outcome.

Defended Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Psychology)

I am interested in the neural basis of auditory perception of communicative signals. My research is attemting to illuminate the relationship between structure and function in a nucleus of the song control system in song birds.
Study Species:  Brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)

Defended Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Psychology)

I study the effects of social interaction on the development of song. My research suggests that social interaction and exposure to a complex acoustic environment are both necessary for starlings to develop a full sized song repertoire, however, the source of stimulation may be heterospecific.
Study Species:  European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Defended Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Biology)

I am currently interested in the relationship between the production and perception of learned vocalizations, specifically in songbirds. I have also studied dialects in House Finches and syntax patterns of agonistic vocalizations in Black-chinned Hummingbirds.
Study Species:  Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), black-chinned hummingbird (Archilocus alexandri)

Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Biology)
Lecturer, University of Oklahoma (Normal)
Affiliated Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma (Edmond)

I am interested in how ecological variables affect the expression and evolution of reproductive behavior. My doctoral work has focused on the territorial aggression of male threespine stickleback. What proximate stimuli (external and internal) influence aggression and how is aggression modified by experience?   |more info|
Study species:  Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

M.A. 1999 Indiana University (Biology)

One of the main research intrests of the lab is how animals use the earth's magnetic field for orientation. The current model being investigated postulates that the animals being tested (Eastern red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens) use the direction of the magenetic force lines and the direction of gravity to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic field. My work is centered on determining how accurate is the gravity sensing system in the newts.
Study Species: Eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)

Defended Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Psychology | Neural Science)

I am interested in studying the neurobiological correlates of learning and memory. I am specifically interested in the interaction of affective process with learning and memory. |more info|

Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology)

My research interests include the development of parental responsiveness to young, and the development of mammalian thermoregulation.

Defended Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Biology)

Phenotypic plasticity

Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology | Neural Science)
2001 NIH Clinical-Neuroscience Post-Doctoral Training Grant

I am interested in the neural substrates of simple forms of associative learning and have focused on model system research.

Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Biology)

My research is directed toward the investigation of steroid hormones in avian eggs, including the mechanisms involved in their deposition and their relationship to the behavioral and physiological development of the offspring.    |more info|

Defended Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology)

I do research on interval timing. My special topics of interest include neural and metabolic clocks; modulation of the rate of subjective time by pharmacological agents and increased levels of activity; mathematical models of interval timing.

Defended Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology | Program in Neural Science)

I am investigating the role of androgen in both sexually dimorphic and non-dimoprhic motoneurons. Using morphological and electromyographical methodologies I am attempting to learn something about the relationship between the structure of both the motoneurons and the target muscles they innervate and the electrophysiological behavior of these neuromuscular systems.

M.A. 2000 Indiana University (Biology)

I pursued two interests while studying at IU. First, I investigated how elevated levels of the hormone testosterone during the non-breeding season affect the annual cycle and influence the survival of male dark-eyed juncos. Second, I asked whether races of the dark-eyed junco are reproductively isolated such that they act as incipient species. The races differ in plumage coloration, bill coloration, and body size -- each of which may serve as a premating isolating mechanisms. By conducting female mate choice studies, I tested the significance of these 3 features and a suite of courtship behaviors.  |more info| Premier Research

Defended Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology)

The relation of pre-existing behavioral organization to performance in classical conditioning paradigms; behavioral neurochemistry of predatory behavior; theories of conditioned inhibition

Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology)

My research interests are in three different areas of animal learning and behavior. The three areas are, in no particular order, numerical competence, timing behavior, and choice behavior in pigeons.   |more info|

Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Psychology)

Research interests : feeding motives and circadian rhythms of rats

Ph.D. 2000 Indiana University (Psychology | Neural Science)

Defended Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Biology)

Research interests : Microhabitat choice (background color matching behavior) as a possible mechanism for the evolution of assortative mating in a color polymorphic treefrog.

Defended Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Biology)

I am interested in behavioral development, and how developmental variation among individuals affects the short-term evolution of behavior. I have studed antipredator behavior in tadpoles, and have also worked on the development of chemical defense in garter snakes.
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Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Biology)

My research concerns copulatory and post-copulatory choice mechanisms in female flies which mate with more than one male, and store sperm in four different storage locations within the female reproductive tract. I am interested in how females may differentially store, and use ejaculates from different mates, ultimately biasing paternity outcomes.

Defended Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Psychology)

Research interests : Prelinguistic vocal development; social development and learning; developmental psychobiology; comparative approaches to the development of communication.

Defended Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Psychology)

Research interests : I am interested in the effects of social environment on behavioral development. With cowbirds, I am examining how patterns of association within a group effect an individual's environment and development.
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Defended Ph.D. 2001 Indiana University (Biology)

I'm interested in communication and assessment in aggressive interactions, and in the role of costs in maintaining signal reliability. I study variation among individuals in visual displays of lizards. I am trying to determine whether variability in the displays is important in individual recognition and in advertising fighting ability, and whether threat displays function as strategic handicaps by reducing locomotor performance.
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Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 1987
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, George Mason University

Behavioral ecology / ornithology |more info|c.v.|

Ph.D. Brown University 1992

Ph.D. State University of New York - Albany 1993
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Evolutionary behavioral ecology; utilizes research techniques from molecular biology, genetics, and physiology to study several species of birds living in the Northern United States and Australia |more info |+|

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1993

Behavior of fishes; life-history strategies; sexual selection in natural populations; search tactics and mate choice; bumble bee and honey bee cognition |more info|

Ph.D. University of Maine-Orono 1995

Vector biology, foraging ecology, science communication and education, public health communication and education, cost/benefit analysis.

Ph.D. University of Chicago 1991

Research interests include how complex group and social behaviors emerge from relatively simple rules of individual behavior; how these rules change in organisms as a consequence of development and social experience; individual-based modeling tools; historical and conceptual issues in the life sciences |more info|

Ph.D. Duke University 1990
1999 Staff Scientist, Star Enterprises, Inc., Bloomington, IN

Understanding how historical, ecological, physical (morphology/physiology), and social factors shape the evolution of visual and vocal signals in animals.

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 1995

Comparative studies of color vision, specifically why some rodents have photoreceptors that are primarily sensitive to ultra-violet radiation |more info|

Ph.D. University of Korea 1998

The neurobiology of the learning and memory, behavioral and electrophysiological study with classical / instrumental conditioning, Korean medicine and neuroscience.   |MORE INFO|
E-MAIL:  sunyoung@nms.kyunghee.ac.kr

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1998

I am interested in the reproductive behavior of birds, particularly parental investment, extra-pair paternity, and brood parasitism. My past research has used several model species to address the following topics: (1) the possibility that females can manipulate offspring sex ratios, (2) the effects of brood parasitism on host reproductive success, (3) the ecological, behavioral, and demographic factors that influence patterns of brood parasitism within host populations, and (4) the factors that select for parental investment to unrelated offspring (e.g., cases of extra-pair paternity or brood parasitism). Currently, I am using testosterone manipulations to examine constraints on male parental behavior in free-living birds.
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Ph.D. University of Kansas 1987

I am interested in acoustic communication and sexual selection. I used the lesser wax moth, Achroia grisella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) to study variation and heritability of female mate preference. Results indicate that females A. grisella choose mates based on three signal characters that are both repeatable and heritable. Playback experiments indicated that some females consistently chose one stimulus over the other, demonstrating repeatable variation in female preference within the population. Subsequent half-sib/full-sib breeding experiments revealed that female preference is heritable.