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Song, C.K., Bartness, T.J., Petersen,S.L., Bittman, E.L. Co-expression ofmelatonin (MEL1a) receptor and argi-nine vasopressin mRNAs in the Siber-ian hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus.Journal of Neuroendocrinology 12:627-634.

Davis, M. and Walker, D.L.Involvement of NMDA receptorswithin the amygdala in short- versuslong-term memory for fear condition-ing as assessed with fear-potentialstartle. Behavioral Neuroscience114:1019-33.

de Waal, F.B.M. The Ape and the SushiMaster: Cultural Reflections by aPrimatologist. New York: Basic Books.

Insel, T.R. and Young, LJ.Neuropeptides and the evolution ofsocial behavior. Current Opinions inNeurobiology 10:784-789.

Insel, T.R. and Young, L.J. The neuro-biology of attachment. NatureNeuroscience Review 2:129-136.

Jasnow, A.M., Huhman, K.L.,

Bartness, T.J., Demas, G.E. Short-dayincreases in aggression are inverselyrelated to circulating testosterone con-centrations in male Siberian hamsters(Phodopus sungorus). Hormones andBehavior 38:102-110.

Plunkett, S., Fine, J.B., Bartness, T.J.Photoperiod and gender affect adi-pose tissue growth and cellularity injuvenile Syrian hamsters. Physiologyand Behavior 70:1-9.

Edwards, D.H. Modulatory and com-mand interneurons for behavior. In:The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences,Managing Editor, Sarah Robertson.Macmillan Reference Ltd. Londonand at http://www.els.net/elsonline/fr_homepage.html.

Clemens, S. and Katz, P.S. IdentifiedSerotonergic Neurons in the TritoniaSwim CPG Activate Both Ionotropicand Metabotropic ReceptorsJournal of Neurophysiology 85 (1):476-479.

Katz, P.S. and Clemens, S.Biochemical networks in nervous sys-

tems: expanding neuronal informa-tion capacity beyond voltage signals.Trends in Neuroscience 24 (1):18-25.

Kaufman, J. and Plotsky, P.M. Effectsof early adverse experiences on brainstructure and functions: clinical impli-cations. Biological Psychiatry 48:778-90.

Smith, M., Pencea, V., Wang, Z.,Luskin, M., Insel, T.R. IncreasedNumber of BrdU-Labeled Neurons inthe Rostral Migratory Stream of theEstrous Prairie Vole. Hormones andBehavior 39 (1):11-21.

Rilling, J.K, Winslow J.T., O’Brien D.,Hoffman, J.M., Kilts, C. Effect ofmaternal separation stress on regionalcerebral glucose metabolism in juve-nile rhesus monkeys. BiologicalPsychiatry 49 (2): 146-157.

Bruce S. Cushing, Julia O. Martin,Larry J. Young, C. Sue Carter. TheEffects of Peptides on PartnerPreference Formation are Predicted byHabitat in Prairie Voles. Hormones andBehavior 39 (1):48-58.

“Effect of neuropeptides on matesize discrimination thresholds infemale sailfin mollies.”

P.I.s: Dr. Lawrence S. Blumer,Dept. of Biology, Morehouse College;Dr. Christopher Beck, Department ofBiology, Emory University

“Functional neuroanatomy ofhuman sexual arousal: an fMRIstudy.”

P.I.s: Dr. Stephan Hamann, Dept.of Psychology, Emory University; Dr.Kim Wallen, Dept. of Psychology,Emory University

“Neurophysiology of vasopressinreceptor neurons involved in socialattachment.”

P.I.s: Dr. Larry J. Young, Dept. ofPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,

Emory University; Dr. DonaldRainnie, Dept. of Psychiatry andBehavioral Sciences, EmoryUniversity; Dr. Kelly Suter, researchassociate, Division of Psychobiology,Yerkes Regional Primate Center

“Aggression, serotonin and neu-rogenesis in the crayfish CNS.”

P.I.s: Dr. Donald H. Edwards,Dept. of Biology, Georgia StateUniversity; Dr. Charles D. Derby,Dept. of Biology, Georgia StateUniversity

“Behavioral Function ofHomologous Serotonergic Neurons.”

P.I.s: Dr. Paul S. Katz, Dept. ofBiology, Georgia State University; Dr.Duane R. McPherson, Dept. of Biology,SUNY Geneseo

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Selected Recent Publications

Upcoming CBN Seminarsand SymposiaThursday, March 8, 7 p.m.Dr. Elliott Rose, Univ. of Oklahoma“Differential HemisphericLateralization of Primary and SocialEmotions”

Tuesday, March 13, 7 p.m.Dr. David F. Clayton, Dept. of Cell and Structural Biology,Univ. of Illinois-Urbana“From Song Learning to Senility:Genomic Mechanisms of NeuronalAdaptation and Change”

A reception will be held at 6:30 p.m.prior to each talk. A light buffet follows.

Mark your calendars for Saturday,May 5 when the CBN and the AtlantaChapter of the Society forNeuroscience will host a one-daysymposium on “Olfactory Coding,Plasticity, and Memory.”

CBN investigator Dr. PeterMacLeish was installed Feb. 5 as

the first George H.W. Bush andBarbara P. Bush Chair of Neuroscienceat Morehouse School of Medicine.

MacLeish, who is director of theMorehouse School of MedicineNeuroscience Institute and chair ofthe Department of Anatomy andNeurobiology, is a councilor of theSociety for Neuroscience. He is well-known for his research in visual sci-ence, especially retinal signalling.

In accepting the endowed chair,MacLeish noted that it gives newimpetus to Morehouse’s mission tobecome a center of excellence.

On hand forthe ceremonywere the chair’snamesakes, whodescribed theestablishment ofthe chair as “oneof the nicestthings” that any-one has done forthem since leav-ing White House.

The neuro-science chair was established with a$1.5-million gift from the WilliamStamps Farish Foundation ofHouston, Tex. ■

Winter 2001A quarterly publication of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience

CBNMacLeish Honored With BushChair of Neuroscience

SynapseVol. 2, No. 1

Former First Lady Barbara Bush and herhusband were on hand for the installation ofDr. Peter MacLeish (right). Photo courtesy ofMorehouse School of Medicine.

On Saturday, Feb. 10, more than 60faculty, post-docs, and students

from the CBN attended a half-dayretreat to discuss current projects fromthe collaboratories.

Elliott Albers began the presenta-tions by emphasizing the need forinput from the diverse group of inves-

tigators within the Center. He notedthat the CBN executive committeehad discussed focusing the researchefforts to be more coherent within thecollaboratories.

Tom Insel (for Mike Davis), DonEdwards, Larry Young, and KimWallen described the major ques-tions under investigation in each col-laboratory and presented progressreports from venture grants and

post-doc projects.Most of the discussion clustered

around issues of inclusion—how toattain the ambitious scientific goalsof the Center while providingopportunities for faculty with manylevels of expertise to participate.Each of the collaboratory heads willbe meeting with smaller groups tocomplete detailed strategic plans byMarch 15.■

Retreat Surveys CurrentResearch Projects

First CBN Graduate Class FormedThe first Intro to CBN class for graduate students has been

formed. Flanked by CBN Director Tom Insel (left), it includes

(top row, from left to right) Miranda Lim, Silke von Esenwein,

Matia Banks, Michelle Foster, Aaron Jasnow, and Sally

Seraphin. On the bottom row, from left to right, are Heather

Caldwell, Elizabeth Hammock, and Alicia Faruzzi. Students

have been meeting with CBN cores and collaboratories to learn

about new technologies for neuroscience research.■

The CBN is sponsoring a series ofeducational programs this month

in recognition of International BrainAwareness Week, March 12-18.

On Feb. 21, the CBN held its firstAtlanta Brain Bee, a brain trivia com-petition for high school students.Brittany Dukes, a ninth grader fromStephenson High School, was award-ed the title of Atlanta Brain Bee cham-pion and will represent the city at theInternational Brain Bee, March 13-14,in Baltimore.

Throughout March, students fromEmory and Georgia State are makinga series of visits to secondary schoolsaccompanied by the BioBus, a 30-footmobile laboratory designed to exposestudents to neuroscience research.

On March 24 from noon to 5 p.m.,the CBN will sponsor the first AtlantaBrainStorm! Brain Awareness Fair atSciTrek. Admission is free for the first500 who respond to Jordan Rose at404-712-9242. Anyone interested inorganizing a booth should also con-tact Rose.

The CBN caps off its brain aware-

ness programs with a series ofneuroscience lectures at Emoryand GSU:

Wednesday, March 21, 7 p.m.“Novel Surgical Therapies forParkinson's Disease andRelated Movement Disorders”Dr. Mahlon R. DeLong, chair,Department of NeurologyEmory UniversityRoom 230, 1462 Clifton Road(Dental School/MedicalLibrary building), EmoryUniversity

Thursday, March 22, 7 p.m.“Social Dominance, Serotonin, andthe Brain”Dr. Donald Edwards, professor,Department of Biology, Georgia StateUniversitySciTrek: Georgia's Science andTechnology Center

Monday, March 26th, 7 p.m.“Little pitchers have big ears, but dobabies hear the pitches of music?”Dr. Marsha Clarkson, associate profes-sor, Department of Psychology,

Georgia State UniversitySpeaker's Auditorium, New StudentCenter, Georgia State University

Monday, April 2, 7 p.m.“The Ape and the Sushi Master: DoOther Animals Have Culture?”Dr. Frans DeWaal, professor, YerkesPrimate Center, Emory UniversityRoom 230, 1462 Clifton Road (DentalSchool/Medical Library building),Emory University

For more information about the lec-tures, call 404-727-7519 or visithttp://biology.gsu.edu/atlanta-neuro. ■

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At its December 2000 meeting, theEmory University Board of

Trustees approved a proposal for a new34,000-sq. ft. building on the Yerkescampus to house several CBN labs.

In addition to providing space forCBN administration and many of thelabs currently at Yerkes, the neuro-science building will support CBNinvestigators located elsewhere on theEmory campus. An entire floor of thefacility will be dedicated to primatehousing.

The National Institutes of Health

awarded the initial $2-million con-struction grant. Another $2-millionNIH proposal, currently underreview, will expand this new facilityfor behavioral research with rodentsas well as provide wet labs. EmoryUniversity and the Woodruff HealthSciences Center have appropriated$5.5 million for construction.

An architect and contractor will beselected in the next several months,with construction planned to beginlater this year. The facility should becompleted by the spring of 2003. ■

New Neuroscience Building To Help Ease Space Crunch

This rendering illustrates one of severaldesigns under consideration for the newneuroscience building at Yerkes.

Brain Bee Kicks OffBrain Awareness Programs

Winners of the first Atlanta Brain Bee were, from leftto right, Ezral Jackson (10th grade, Booker T.Washington High School, 3rd place); NyamezelaThandiwe (11th grade, Mays High School, 2nd place);and Brittany Dukes (9th grade, Stephenson HighSchool, 1st place).

CBN faculty members are neededagain this summer to participate

in two educational outreach pro-grams—the Georgia IndustrialFellowships for Teachers (GIFT) pro-gram and the Summer UndergraduateResearch Experience, or SURE, pro-gram.

The GIFT program provides eightweeks of hands-on immersion formath and science teachers from theAtlanta Public Schools with the goal ofhelping them to integrate the experi-ence into curricula. The SURE pro-gram brings rising college sopho-mores, juniors, and seniors into labswhere they will take part in neuro-science research with CBN faculty.

For more information abouteither program, contact Drs. Cathy

Quinones or Pat Marsteller at 404-727-9696 or via email at pmars@learn-link.emory.edu. ■

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Seminar Series Exposes Students to Science Careers

The education component of theCBN has kicked off the second

phase of The Introduction to ScienceSeminar Series (ISS) with a series ofevening seminars designed to intro-duce students from all eight CBNmember institutions to opportunitiesand careers in the sciences, particular-

ly behavioral neuroscience.The evening seminars rotate

among all the schools and cover thegamut of research programs in theCenter and the diverse cultures ofthe member institutions. Studentsdiscuss primary articles authored byCenter scientists and take part in lab-

oratory tours.Under the direction of Dr.

Danielle Gray, ISS involves more than30 students this semester.

The closing banquet will be heldThursday, April 26, from 6 to 10 p.m.All CBN members are invited toattend.■

Ford Joins MSM, CBN

The latest addition to the CBN family is Dr. Byron Ford, who recentlyjoined the Morehouse School of Medicine as an assistant professor

in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience.Ford previously spent three years at the National

Institutes of Health, where he worked with Dr. GerryFischbach on the cell and molecular biology of ather-osclerosis and stroke. At the CBN, he will collabo-rate with the Molecular Core to conduct geneticanalyses of neural development using knockout miceand human cell cultures.

A native of Grambling, La., Ford earnedhis undergraduate degree from GramblingState University and his doctorate degreein neuroscience from Meharry MedicalCollege in Nashville, Tenn. Ford beganhis post-doc research with Fischbach atHarvard University Medical School.

In his free time, Ford enjoys watch-ing and participating in a variety ofsports, cooking, and board games. ■

Dr. Byron Ford

The CBN UndergraduateCommittee recently recruited its

first candidate pool for the CBNundergraduate fellows distinction(CBNuf).

The students are well on theirway to completing all of the CBNufrequirements, which include partici-pating in a laboratory or science edu-cation internship, cross-enrollment ina neuroscience or behavior course at a

member institution other thantheir home institution, and takingpart in an extracurricular coursedeveloped by the CBN.

The CBNuf candidates willdebut their research posters at theMay 10th symposium when theywill also be officially recognized asCBNuf fellows during a candle-light ceremony.■

First Pool of CBN Undergrad Fellows Recruited

Faculty Mentors Needed

CBNuf class members include (top, from left toright) Christie Vu, Kimmy Pham, and AmitRhagavan, (bottom, from left to right) CharlesGunawan, Christine Berenguer, Jason Paquin,and Melissa Arellano.