Faculty List

 

Alberts

* Jeffrey R. Alberts (Founding member) (alberts (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
o Behavioral development and parental care in rodents, sensory capabilities of young rats, the transition from sucking to independent feeding, and parent/offspring interactions

Allen

* Colin Allen (colallen (at) indiana.edu)

Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Cognitive Science Program

o Philosophy of biology, psychology, and cognitive science, especially animal cognition and evolution (cognitive ethology), and artificial moral agents

* Randall D. Beer (rdbeer (at) indiana.edu)

Cognitive Science Program
Department of Computer Science
School of Informatics

o Evolution and analysis of dynamical "nervous systems" for model agents, robotics, and neuromechanical modeling in animals

* John Beggs (jmbeggs (at) Indiana.edu)

Department of Physics
Biocomplexity Institute
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o Biophysics

* Heather B. Bradshaw (hbbradsh (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
The Kinsey Institute

o The effects of endogenous cannabinoids on uterine and vaginal neurophysiology as well as the loss of regulation due to chronic pain.

 

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* Peter Cherbas (cherbas (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics

o Genetics, molecular biology, nuclear receptors, Drosophila development

* Jonathon Crystal (jcrystal (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
o Comparative Cognition, episodic memory, metacognition, time perception, circadian rhythms, learning and memory, disorders of memory (e.g., Alzheimer's)

* Greg E. Demas (Director 2007-present) (gdemas (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
Neuroscience Program

o Neuroendocrine and immune mechanisms underlying behavior, effects of sickness on food-related behavior and neuroendocrine bases for agression in Siberian hamsters

* Robert Devoe (Emeritus) (devoe (at) indiana.edu)

School of Optometry
o Flicker vision, spectral sensitivity.

* Preston E. Garraghty (pgarragh (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Neuroscience Program

o Electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analyses of adult neural plasticity

* Jim Goodson (jlgoodso (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behavior, comparative neuroanatomy and evolution of avian sociality

 

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* Richmond Harbaugh (riharbaugh (at) indiana.edu)

Kelly School of Business
o Game theory and economics

* Julia R. Heiman (jheiman (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director: Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction

o Psychology and clinical psychiatry

* Kevin D. Hunt (kdhunt (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Anthropology
o Social organization, feeding behavior and functional anatomy of chimpanzees, early human evolution and origins of bipedalism

* Laura Hurley (lhurley (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
Neuroscience Program

o Interactions between behavior and brain function, the effects of serotonin on the auditory abilities of echolocating bats

 

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* Daniel Kearns (dbkearns (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Bacterial multicellular behavior

* Ellen D. Ketterson (Founding Member, CISAB Co-director 1990-2002) (ketterso (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
Gender Studies Department

o Physiological underpinnings of evolutionary trade-offs in reproductive behavior and migration in birds

Andrew P. King

* Andrew P. King (Founding Member)(apking (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
o Social competence and communication in birds

* Marcy Kingsbury (mk24 (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o The role of lipid molucules called lysophospholipids and their G-protein coupled receptors in regulating cerebral cortical formation during development.

 

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* Curtis M. Lively (clively (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Ecological, genetic and behavioral factors underlying the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction

* Elisabeth Lloyd (ealloyd (at) indiana.edu)

Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences
Department of Biology

o Evolutionary theory

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Ken Mackie

* Ken Mackie (kmackie (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
o Regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid production; Role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid receptors

* Emilia P. Martins (CISAB Director 2002-2007) (emartins(at)indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Evolution of communication, how short-term forces lead to species differences, and mathematical and computer approaches to studying behavior and evolution

* Armin P. Moczek (armin (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
Indiana Molecular Biology Institute
o Evolution, development and endcrinology of insects

* Michael P. Muehlenbein (mpm1 (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Anthropology
o Biology and ecology of infectious diseases, including human and primate physiological adaptations to disease and hormone mediated immunity

 

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* Craig E. Nelson (Emeritus)(nelson1 (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Evolutionary ecology, amphibian communities

* Milos Novotny (novotny (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Chemistry
Director: Institute for Pheromone Research

o Biochemistry and protoeomics of pheromones and chemical signals used in animal communication

* Rudolf Raff (raffr (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
Director: Indiana Molecular Biology Institute

o Evolutionary developmental biology and evolution of animal body palns

* J. C. Randolph (randolph (at) indiana.edu)

School of Public and Environmental Affairs
o Ecosystem ecology and natural resource management

* George V. Rebec (rebec (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Neuroscience Program

o Neural mechanisms underlying drug abuse and the neural dysfunction associated with Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases

 

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* Stephanie Sanders (sanders (at) indiana.edu)

Kinsey Institute for Reseach in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
o Female sexual arousal processes, socioenvironmental factors relating to development and menstrual cyclicity.

* Laura L. Scheiber (scheiber (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Anthropology
o Long-term social dynamics on the North American Plains

* Kathy D. Schick (kaschick (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Anthropology - Stone Age Institute
o Human culture and technology

 

* Whitney M. (Reilly) Schlegel (wreilly (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Ontogeny and plasticity of thermoregulatory mechanisms

 
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* Tom Schoenemann (toms (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Anthropology - Stone Age Institute
o Coevolution of brain and behavior, evolution of language, functional morphology of the brain, human variation, modeling evolutionary hypotheses, mathematical image analysis

* Dale R. Sengelaub (Founding Member) (sengelau (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience Program

o Regulation of growth and development of the adult nervous system , hormonal control of sex differences in neural development and neural plasticity in rats

* Sima Setayeshgar (simas (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Physics
Biocomplexity Institute

o Cellular biophysics and sustained nonequilibrium systems

* G. Troy Smith (getsmith (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
Neuroscience Program

o Neuroendocrine control of sex differences and sexual differentiation and sexually-dimorphic communication signals of weakly electric fish

* Robert de Ruyter van Steveninck (deruyter (at) Indiana.edu)

Department of Physics
Biocomplexity Institute
Neuroscience Program

o Sensory Mechanisms

* S. Holly Stocking (Emeritus) (stocking (at) indiana.edu)

School of Journalism
o Science and environmental writing

* Roderick A. Suthers (Founding Member)(suthers (at) indiana.edu)

Medical Sciences Department
Neuroscience Program

o Motor control of bird song, the functional lateralization of both nervous system and motor anatomy and their accociation with vocal learning

 

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* William Timberlake (Founding Member, Co-director 1990-2002) (timberla (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Neuroscience Program and Cognitive Science Program

o 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 ingestion

* Peter M. Todd (pmtodd (at) indiana.edu)

School of Informatics
Cognitive Science Program
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

o Adaptive behavior, decision making and evolutionary psychology

* Nicholas Toth (toth (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Anthropology
Stone Age Institute

o Early stone age technology

* Gregory Velicer (gvelicer (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Ecology and evolution of bacterial social behavior

* Suresh Viswanathan (suviswan (at) indiana.edu)

School of Optometry
o Techniques for assessment of retinal ganglion cell function

* Virginia J. Vitzthum (vitzthum (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Anthropology
Kinsey Institute for Reseach in Sex, Gender and Reproduction

o The determinants of variation in human female reproductive functioning

 

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* Michael J. Wade (mjwade (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Biology
o Mating systems, social behavior and parental care in the context of genetically structured populations, kin selection and maternal effects

* Cara Wellman (wellmanc (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Program in Neuroscience

o Neurobiology of aging and stress and expression of behavioral pathology

* Meredith J. West (Founding Member) (mewest (at) indiana.edu)

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of Biology

o Development of communicative behavior in birds

 

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