Biological Basis of Behavior Program

BBB CALENDAR- FALL 2009

November 9-22: Advanced Registration period for Spring 2010 classes

November 12: 3-4 p.m. Kids Judge! Neuroscience Organizational Meeting in The Forum, Stiteler Hall. RSVP to Miss Hobson

December 4: 12-1 p.m. BBB 399 meeting- writing a research paper: Dr. Abel

December 10: Last day of Fall semester classes

December 15-22: Fall semester final exam period

Students interested in pursuing a major in BBB should register for BBB 109

BBB IN THE NEWS

Read about the research conducted by BBB Director, Dr. Ted Abel:

Why Sleepyheads Forget: a ScienceNOW article about sleep deprivation http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1021/1

Read about the research conducted by BBB majors:

Benjamin Laitman researches the microarchitecture of sleep with fear conditioning:http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/laitman.html

Rebecca Sternschein researched the neural pathways involved in the perception of art: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/sternschein.html

Lauren Rosenberg worked in the laboratory of Dr. Thompson-Schill on the neural correlates of visual and verbal cognitive styles:: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/thompson-schill.html

Students may review a list of published papers co-authored by BBB student researchers here.

Read about the research of BBB professors Dr. Robert Seyfarth and Dr. Dorothy Cheney, featured recently in the New York Times:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903EFDB113AF93AA35753C1
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BBB hosts the annual Kids Judge! Neuroscience Fair at Penn

BBB AWARDS

Congratulations to this year's BBB award winners!

Pugh award: Hayley Walker
Stellar Award: Allison Rao
Fluharty Award: Joan Btesh

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kaplan, who won the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty! Dr. Kaplan has taught BBB 109, 251 and 492.

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Heerding, who won the BBB Society Teaching Award! Dr. Heerding has taught BBB 269, 350 and 481.

Congratulations to Hayley Walker and Benjamin Laitman, BBB majors who have been named Dean's Scholars for 2009!

Congratulations to Rachel-Marie Gittelman, Andrew Kibert and Anish Mehta, BBB majors who have received undergraduate research awards through the Center for Undergraduate Research Funding (CURF).

Read about Penn Veterinary Researcher Tracy Bale who received a Career Development Award from Society for Neuroscience. In recent work, Dr. Bale demonstrated epigenetic changes in the hypothalamus, a brain area involved in the control of feeding behaviour, which affect the eating behavior of second-generation mice.

BBB congratulates Dr. David Dinges, professor of psychology in psychiatry and chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, on receiving the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (non-Government personnel). According to NASA, this award is, “The highest honor NASA awards to anyone who was not a Government employee when the service was performed. The award is granted only to individuals whose distinguished accomplishments contributed substantially to the NASA mission. The contribution must be so extraordinary that other forms of recognition would be inadequate.”

Research Talks are funded by the Provost's Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund, University of Pennsylvania

The Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences presents the 2009-2010 Neuroscience Colloquium Series. Click here for a list of neuroscience seminars coming to the Penn campus in the Fall.

Do you have a question for BBB? Check out the FAQ page for answers to commonly-asked questions!

Dr. Ted Abel, Director
Dr. Jennifer Heerding, Associate Director
Ms. Maxine Hobson, Program Coordinator

B-1 Solomon Psychology Laboratories, 3720 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6241
Phone: (215)573-3163 Fax: (215)898-8911