May 29, 2012 journal club

• When:  Tuesday, May 29, 12:15 PM
• Where:  Room E6519, BSPH

Melvin Rouse from Greg Ball's lab will be presenting -- come out and support him because he has been a real trooper coming over from Homewood campus for our journal club meetings!  (And what the heck, go for some gusto here in the last RBJC of the academic year.)


We'll get to hear something fun and a little different this week.  For those of you who aren't familiar with Greg Ball's lab's work, the general area is behavioral neuroendocrinology, namely, "the interrelation of hormones, brain, and behavior." (and FYI, Greg also has an appointment in Neuroscience).  The work has multiple implications:  how hormones affect the brain, how hormones affect the learning of behaviors, and how various stimuli (including behaviors) can regulate seasonal reproduction.  


Melvin will present two papers related to their work: 

Estradiol-dependent modulation of serotonergic markers in auditory areas of a seasonally breeding songbird. 
Behav Neurosci 126:110-122, Matragrano et al.  [Maney lab website]


Individual differences in the motivation to communicate relate to levels of midbrain and striatal catecholamine markers in male European starlings.
Horm Behav 60:529-539, Heimovics et al. [Riters lab website]