LAB NEWS

Miscellaneous, 2008

May: Congrats to recent undergrad graduates from the lab, Josemine, Hank and Jordan!

Josemine was selected as the student speaker at graduation.

Hank was awarded the I.L. Chaikoff Award from MCB (outstanding achievement in Cell & Developmental Biology and Neurobiology emphases).

Jordan was nominated for an IB Department Citation (best "all-around" student).

April:  Becca Calisi receives an Honorable Mention from the Ford Fellowship Program

April: Nicolette McGuire receives an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship ($90,000)

April: Becca Calisi is awarded the Mentor Research Award ($14,000)

Conference Schedule, 2008

12-15 Aug 2009:

American Ornithologists' Union

University of Pennsylvania

• Calisi, R.M., Ubuka, T., Bentley, G.E.  Social stress, neuroendocrinology and reproductive behavior in European starlings. Invited symposium, "From phylogeny to physiology: integrative studies of starlings and mockingbirds"

22-26 June 2009:

Animal Behavior Society Meeting,

Pirenópolis, Brazil

3-7 Jan 2009:

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston, MA.

• McGuire, N.L., Ubuka, T., Perfito, N. and Bentley, G.E.. A novel neuropeptide system within the gonads: GnIH and GnIH-R in passerine songbirds

• Bentley, G.E., Ubuka, T., McGuire, N.L., Calisi, R.M., Perfito, M.N., Tsutsui, K., Wingfield, J.C. Regulation of vertebrate reproduction by GnRH and GnIH.

• Perfito, N., Zann, R.A., Hau, M., Bentley, G.E. Physiological control of non-seasonal reproduction: opportunistic breeding.

2-6 Jan 2008:

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Antonio, TX.

• Bentley, G.E., McGuire, N.L., Calisi, R.M., Perfito, N. and Ubuka, T. Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone: A synopsis.

• Calisi, R.M., Rizzo, N.O. and Bentley, G.E. Capture-handling stress and its effects upon hypothalamic EGR-1 and GnIH expression in House sparrows (Passer domesticus).

• McGuire, N.L., Ubuka, T., Tsutsui, K. and Bentley, G.E. Evidence for a Gonadotropin-Inhibitory Hormone (GnIH) system within the vertebrate gonads.

• Ubuka, T. and Bentley, G.E. Mechanisms of Action of Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in birds and mammals.

• Ubuka, T. Margulis, J., Clegg, S. and Bentley, G.E. Differential expression of melatonin receptor subtypes in the song control system of European starlings.
  

Lab Meetings

Fridays, high noon

VLSB 5192

The Bentley crest:

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