Ted Abel | University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology

Professor

Department:

Biology

Address:

Solomon Labs, 3720 Walnut St., Room B28

Phone:

215-746-1122

Email:

abele@sas.upenn.edu

Personal Page

Research Themes:

Behavioral Neuroscience

Specific Research Areas:

Molecular mechanisms of long-term memory storage

Research Synopsis:

Dr. Abel will not be accepting psychology graduate students for admission in fall 2012.

Appointments:

Biology Graduate Group; Psychology Graduate Group

Representative Publications:

Huang, T., McDonough, C. and Abel, T. (2006). Compartmentalized PKA signaling events are required for synaptic tagging and capture during hippocampal LTP. European Journal of Cell Biology 85: 635-642.

Wood, M. A., Kaplan, M. P., Park, A., Blanchard, E. J., Oliveira, A. M. M., Lombardi, T. L. and Abel, T. (2005). Transgenic mice expressing a truncated form of CREB-binding protein (CBP) exhibit deficits in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory storage. Learning & Memory 12: 111-119.

Lattal, K. M. and Abel, T. (2004). Behavioral impairments caused by injections of the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin after contextual retrieval reverse with time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101: 4667-4672.

Graves, L., Heller, E., Pack, A. and Abel, T. (2003). Sleep deprivation selectively impairs memory consolidation for contextual fear conditioning. Learning & Memory 10: 168-176.

Bucan, M. and Abel, T. (2002). The mouse: Genetics meets behavior. Nature Reviews Genetics 3:114-123.

Abel, T. and Lattal, K. M. (2001). Molecular mechanisms of memory acquisition, consolidation and retrieval. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 11: 180-187.