CISAB | Dale R. Sengelaub - Curriculum vitae

C E N T E R F O R T H E I N T E G R A T I V E S T U D Y O F A N I M A L B E H A V I O R

Dale R. Sengelaub
Professor
Department of Psychology
Program in Neural Science
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA

EDUCATION | PUBLICATIONS | HONORS & AWARDS | ABSTRACTS | PNS SENGELAUB PAGE

R E S E A R C H & T E A C H I N G I N T E R E S T S

Research:
Development of the nervous system;
biology and behavior;
plasticity of neural structure and function

Teaching (sample courses):
Behavioral Neuroscience, with lab
Development of the Brain and Behavior
Neural Bases of Human Behavior
Various undergraduate and graduate seminars in
development of the nervous system, cellular bases
of behavior, neuroethology, neuroanatomy,
hormones and behavior, sex differences

Class Act: Neuroscience Course Puts Brains to Work

E D U C A T I O N

Postdoctoral Fellow 1983-1986

University of California - Los Angeles

Ph.D. 1983

Psychology (Biopsychology)

Cornell University

B.A. 1978

Psychology / Biology

State University of New York at Stony Brook

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Books
Finlay, B.L., Sengelaub, D.R. (Eds.) Development of the Vertebrate Retina, Volume II in the "Perspectives in Vision Research" Series. Plenum, New York, 1989.

Chapters
Arnold, A.P., Bottjer, S.W., Nordeen, E.J., Nordeen, K.W., Sengelaub, D.R. (1987) Hormones and critical periods in behavioral and neural development. In: Imprinting and Cortical Plasticity, J.P. Raushecker and P. Marler (Eds.), Wiley, New York, pp. 55-97.

Sengelaub, D.R. (1989) Cell generation, migration, death, and growth in neural systems mediating social behavior. In: Advances in Environmental and Comparative Physiology: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Social Behavior in Vertebrates, J. Balthazart (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 239-267.

Journal Articles
Finlay, B.L., Sengelaub, D.R., Berg, A.T., Cairns, S.J. (1980) A neuroethological approach to hamster vision. Behavioral Brain Research, 1:479-496.

Finlay, B.L., Sengelaub, D.R. (1981) Toward a neuroethology of mammalian vision: Ecology and anatomy of rodent visuomotor behavior. Behavioral Brain Research, 3:133-149.

Sengelaub, D.R., Finlay, B.L. (1981) Early removal of one eye reduces normally occurring cell death in the remaining eye. Science, 213:573-574.

Sengelaub, D.R., Finlay, B.L. (1982) Cell death in the mammalian visual system during normal development. I. Retinal ganglion cells. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 204:311-317.

Finlay, B.L., Berg, A.T., Sengelaub, D.R. (1982) Cell death in the mammalian visual system during the normal development. II. Superior colliculus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 204:318-324.

Sengelaub, D.R., Windrem, M.S., Finlay, B.L. (1983) Increased cell number in the adult hamster retinal ganglion cell layer after early removal of one eye. Experimental Brain Research, 52:269-276.

Sengelaub, D.R., Jacobs, L.F., Finlay, B.L. (1985) Regional differences in normally occurring cell death in the developing hamster lateral geniculate nuclei. Neuroscience Letters, 55:103-108.

Nordeen, E.J., Nordeen, K.W., Sengelaub, D.R., Arnold, A.P. (1985) Androgens prevent normally occurring cell death in a sexually dimorphic spinal nucleus. Science, 229:671-673.

Kurz, E.M., Sengelaub, D.R., Arnold, A.P. (1986) Androgens regulate dendritic length of sexually dimorphic mammalian motoneurons in adulthood. Science, 232:395-398.

Sengelaub, D.R., Dolan, R.P., Finlay, B.L. (1986) Cell generation, death, and retinal growth in the development of the hamster retinal ganglion cell layer. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 246:527-543.

Sengelaub, D.R., Arnold, A.P. (1986) Development and loss of early projections in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 6:1613-1620.

Finlay, B.L., Sengelaub, D.R., Berian, C.A. (1986) Control of cell number in the developing visual system: I. Monocular enucleation. Developmental Brain Research, 28:1-10.

Finlay, B.L., Wikler, K.C., Sengelaub, D.R. (1987) Regressive events in brain development and scenarios for vertebrate brain evolution. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution, 30:102-117.

Kelling, S.T., Sengelaub, D.R., Wikler, K.C., Finlay, B.L. (1989) Differential elasticity of the immature retina: A contribution to the development of the area centralis? Visual Neuroscience, 2:117-120.

Bottjer, S.W., Sengelaub, D.R. (1989) Cell death during development of a forebrain nucleus involved with vocal learning in Zebra Finches. Journal of Neurobiology, 20:609-618.

Sengelaub, D.R., Arnold, A.P. (1989) Hormonal control of neuron number in sexually dimorphic nuclei in the rat spinal cord. I. Testosterone-regulated death in the dorsolateral nucleus (DLN). The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 280:622-629.

Sengelaub, D.R., Jordan, C.L., Kurz, E.M., Arnold, A.P. (1989) Hormonal control of neuron number in sexually dimorphic nuclei in the rat spinal cord. II. Development of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus in androgen insensitive (Tfm) rats. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 280:630-636.

Sengelaub, D.R., Nordeen, E.J., Nordeen, K.W., Arnold, A.P. (1989) Hormonal control of neuron number in sexually dimorphic nuclei in the rat spinal cord. III. Differential effects of the androgen dihydrotestosterone. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 280:637-644.

Beversdorf, D.Q., Kurz, E.M., Sengelaub, D.R. (1990) Sexual activity and the morphology of steroid-sensitive rat spinal motoneurons. Physiology and Behavior, 47:11-17.

Kurz, E.M., Bowers, C.A., Sengelaub, D.R. (1990) Morphology of rat spinal motoneurons with normal and hormonally altered specificity. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 292:638-656.

Goldstein, L.A., Kurz, E.M., Sengelaub, D.R. (1990) Androgen regulation of dendritic growth and retraction in the development of a sexually dimorphic spinal nucleus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 10:935-946.

Goldstein, L.A., Sengelaub, D.R. (1990) Hormonal control of neuron number in sexually dimorphic nuclei in the rat spinal cord. IV. Masculinization of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus with testosterone metabolites. Journal of Neurobiology, 21:719-730.

Wellman, C.L., Sengelaub, D.R. (1991) Cortical neuroanatomical correlates of behavioral deficits produced by lesion of the basal forebrain in rats. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 56:1-24.

Kurz, E.M., Brewer, R.G., Sengelaub, D.R. (1991) Hormonally mediated plasticity of motoneuron morphology in the adult rat spinal cord: a cholera toxin-HRP study. Journal of Neurobiology, 22:976-988.

Steinmetz, J.E., Sengelaub, D.R. (1992) Potential CS pathway for classical eyelid conditioning in rabbits: I. Anatomical evidence for direct projections from the pontine nuclei to the cerebellar interpositus nucleus. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 57:103-115.

Goldstein, L.A., Sengelaub, D.R. (1992) Timing and duration of dihydrotestosterone treatment affect the development of motoneuron number and morphology in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 326:147-157.

Kurz, E.M., Cover, A.R., Sengelaub, D.R. (1992) Testosterone fails to save androgen-sensitive rat motoneurons following early target removal. Developmental Brain Research, 70:181-189.

Gubernick, D.J., Sengelaub, D.R., Kurz, E.M. (1993) A neuroanatomical correlate of paternal and maternal behavior in the biparental California mouse, Peromyscus californicus. Behavioral Neuroscience, 107:94-201.

Goldstein, L.A., Kurz, E.M., Kalkbrenner, A., Sengelaub, D.R. (1993) Changes in dendritic morphology of rat spinal motoneurons during development and after unilateral target deletion. Developmental Brain Research, 73:151-163.

Mills, A.C., Sengelaub, D.R. (1993) Sexually dimorphic neuron number in lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia of the rat: Development and steroid regulation. Journal of Neurobiology, 24:1543-1553.

Goldstein, L.A., Sengelaub, D.R. (1993) Motoneuron morphology in the dorsolateral nucleus (DLN) of the rat spinal cord: Normal development and androgen regulation. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 338:588-600.

Eisthen, H.L., Sengelaub, D.R., Schroeder, D.M., and Alberts, J.R. (1994) Anatomy and forebrain projections of the olfactory and vomeronasal organs in axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum). Brain, Behavior, and Evolution, 44:108-124.

Goldstein, L.A., Sengelaub, D.R. (1994) Differential effects of dihydrotestosterone and estrogen on the development of motoneuron morphology in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus. Journal of Neurobiology, 25:878-892.

Heidenreich, B.A., Trytek, E., Schroeder, D.M., Sengelaub, D.R., Rebec, G.V. (1994) A methodology for determining the patch-matrix compartmental location of extracellular single-unit recordings in the striatum of freely moving rats. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 52:169-174.

Wellman, C.L., Sengelaub, D.R. (1995) Alterations in dendritic morphology of frontal cortical neurons after basal forebrain lesions in adult and aged rats. Brain Research, 669:48-58.

Wellman, C.L., Logue, S.F., Sengelaub, D.R. (1995) Maze learning and morphology of frontal cortex in adult and aged basal forebrain-lesioned rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 109:837-850.

Goldstein, L.A., Mills, A.C., Sengelaub, D.R. (1996) Motoneuron development after deafferentation: I. Dorsal rhizotomy does not alter the growth of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB). Developmental Brain Research, 91:11-19.

Hays, T.C., Goldstein, L.A., Mills, A.C., Sengelaub, D.R. (1996) Motoneuron development after deafferentation: II. Dorsal rhizotomy does not block estrogen-supported growth of the dorsolateral nucleus (DLN). Developmental Brain Research, 91:20-28.

Burke, K.A, Widows, M.R., Sengelaub, D.R. (1997) Synergistic effects of testosterone metabolites on the development of motoneuron morphology in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus. Journal of Neurobiology, 33:1-10. (Abstract)

Muja, N., Mills, A.C., Myers, W.A., Sengelaub, D.R., Garraghty, P.E. (1997) Denervation-induced sprouting of intact peripheral afferents into the cuneate nucleus of adult rats. Brain Research, 769:256-262.

Hamilton, K.S., King, A.P., Sengelaub, D.R., West, M.J. (1997) A brain of her own: A neural correlate of song assessment in a female songbird. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 68:325-332. (Abstract)

Glicksman, M.A., Chiu, A.Y., Dionne, C.A., Harty, M., Kaneko, M., Murakata, C., Oppenheim, R.W., Prevette, D., Sengelaub, D.R., Vaught, J.L., and Neff, N.T. (1998) CEP-1347/KT7515 prevents motor neuronal programmed cell death and injury-induced dedifferentiation in vivo. Journal of Neurobiology, 35:361-370.

Hamilton, K.S., King, A.P., Sengelaub, D.R., West, M.J. (1998) Visual and song nuclei correlate with courtship skills in brown-headed cowbirds. Animal Behaviour, 56:973-982. (Abstract)

Isgor, C., Sengelaub, D.R. (1998). Prenatal gonadal steroids affect adult spatial behavior, CA1 and CA3 pyramidal cell morphology in rats. Hormones and Behavior, 34:183-198. (Abstract)

Burke, K.A., Kuwajima, M., Sengelaub, D.R. (1999) Aromatase inhibition reduces dendritic growth in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus. Journal of Neurobiology, 38:301-312. (Abstract)

Tanzer, L., Sengelaub, D., Jones, K.J. (1999) Estrogen receptor expression in the facial nucleus of adult hamsters: Does axotomy recapitulate development? Journal of Neurobiology, 39:438-446.

Verhovshek T., Sengelaub, D. (1999) Studying the forest, not the trees: Dendritic morphology in populations of neurons. Kopf Carrier, 51:1-7.

Raouf, S., Van Roo, B., Sengelaub, D. (2000) Adult plasticity in hormone-sensitive motoneuron morphology: Methodological/behavioral confounds. Hormones and Behavior, 38:210-221.

Hebbeler, S.L., Verhovshek, T., Sengelaub, D.R. (2001) Ovariectomy attenuates dendritic growth in hormone-sensitive spinal motoneurons. Journal of Neurobiology, 48:301-314.

Sengelaub, D.R. Neural development. In press 2001, Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences.

Hebbeler, S.L., Verhovshek, T., Sengelaub, D.R. NMDA receptor blockade inhibits estrogenic support of dendritic growth in a sexually dimorphic rat spinal nucleus. Submitted 2001.

Freeberg, T.M., West, M.J., King, A.P., Duncan, S.D., Sengelaub, D.R. Cultures, genes, and neurons at the nexus of female influence on the development of brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) vocal communication. Submitted 2001.

Coleman, A.M. Sengelaub, D.R. Patterns of dye coupling in lumbar motor nuclei of the rat. Submitted 2001.

Manuscripts in preparation
Coleman, A.M., Harty, M., Sengelaub, D.R. Changes in neuromuscular junctions underlie androgen mediation of excitability in a rat hindlimb system.

Fargo, K.W., Harty, M.W., Clark-Phelps, M.C., Iwema, C.L., Widows, M.R., Finn, A.K., Sengelaub, D.R. Androgen-mediated plasticity in an aging rat spinal nucleus.

Kalkbrenner, A.E., Sengelaub, D.R. Development of altered motoneuron-to-muscle specificity in androgen-sensitive rat spinal nuclei.

Mills, A.C., Sengelaub, D.R. Masculinization of motoneuron number in a sexually dimorphic neuromuscular system after reduction of afferent input.

Sengelaub, D.R., Finlay, B.L., Fouts, L. Neurogenesis in the retinal ganglion cell layer of rodents with disparate developmental durations.

Widows, M.R., Sengelaub, D.R. Development of estrogen accumulation in rat lumbar spinal cord.

Sengelaub, D.R. Development of motoneuron morphology in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus after spinal transection.

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S E L E C T E D H O N O R S & A W A R D S

1981    Three Year Teaching Fellowship, Cornell University
1982    Dallenbach Fellowship, Cornell University
1982    Sigma Xi, elected full member
1983    Dallenbach Fellowship, Cornell University
1983    Grants in Aid of Research, Sigma Xi
1983-84 Postdoctoral Traineeship, Brain Research Institute, UCLA
1989    Outstanding Young Faculty Award, Indiana University
1990    Early promotion to Associate Professor, Indiana University
1997-99 Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA)
2000    Outstanding Mentor, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience