REU Mentors
The REU is sponsored by the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, a group which represents more than 40 Indiana University faculty members with primary homes in departments of biology, psychological and brain sciences, anthropology, neural science, and medical sciences. Many of these researchers and their postdocs, technicians and graduate students are available each year to REU interns as possible summer mentors. Previous REU interns have studied the behavior of a wide variety of animals including birds, bats, hamsters, lizards and insects.
If none of our faculty's research areas interest you, you can explore other REU Programs across the country on the National Science Foundation website.
Faculty Seeking Interns | Faculty Considering Interns
Faculty Seeking Interns
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Curtis M. Lively
Department of Biology
- Ecological, genetic and behavioral factors underlying the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction
- clively@indiana.edu
- Lively Lab
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
Kimberly Rosvall
Department of Biology
- Evolution of behavior; neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior; sexual selection; ecological genomics.
- krosvall@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
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
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
Faculty Considering Interns
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
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
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
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
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
Stephanie Sanders
Kinsey Institute
- Female sexual arousal processes, socioenvironmental factors relating to development and menstrual cyclicity.
- sanders@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
Virginia J. Vitzthum
Department of Anthropology
Kinsey Institute
- The determinants of variation in human female reproductive functioning
- vitzthum@indiana.edu
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
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