How and why do the brains and behaviors of different species vary?
Faculty
Paola Arlotta
Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Randy Buckner
Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Benjamin de Bivort
Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Michael Do
Associate Professor of Neurology, HMS
Sean Eddy
Ellmore C. Patterson Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics
Carolyn Elya
Assistant Professor
Rachelle Gaudet
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Erin Hecht
Assistant Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology
Hopi Hoekstra
Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Naomi Pierce
Hessel Professor of Biology
Janet Song
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Mansi Srivastava
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
News and Publications
- A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesisAllard CAH, Thies AB, Mitra R, Vaelli PM, Leto OD, Walsh BL, Laetz EMJ, Tresguerres M, Lee ASY, Bellono NW….
- Bellono lab back-to-back Nature articles covered in GazetteThe story includes striking photos and a video. Photo credit: Anik Grearson…
- Structural basis of sensory receptor evolution in octopusAllard CAH, Kang G, Kim JJ, Valencia-Montoya WA, Hibbs RE, Bellono NW Nature. 2023. Apr;616(7956):373-377. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05822-1. Epub 2023 Apr 12. PMID: 37045920…
- Sensory specializations drive octopus and squid behaviourKang G, Allard CAH, Valencia-Montoya WA, van Giesen L, Kim JJ, Kilian PB, Bai X, Bellono NW, Hibbs RE Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7956):378-383. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05808-z. Epub 2023 Apr 12. PMID: 37045917…
- Encoding of environmental illumination by primate melanopsin neuronsLiu A, Milner ES, Peng YR, Blume HA, Brown MC, Bryman GS, Emanuel AJ, Morquette P, Viet NM, Sanes JR, Gamlin PD, Do MTH
Science. 2023 Jan 27;379(6630):376-381. doi: 10.1126/science.ade2024….
- Temporally divergent regulatory mechanisms govern neuronal diversification and maturation in the mouse and marmoset neocortex
Wen Yuan, Sai Ma, Juliana R. Brown, Kwanho Kim, Vanessa Murek, Lucia Trastulla, A. Meissner, S. Lodato, Ashwin S. Shetty, J. Levin, J. Buenrostro, M. Ziller, P. Arlotta
Nature Neuroscience volume 25, pages 1049–1058 (2022)
… - Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus miceNicole L Bedford, Jesse N Weber, Wenfei Tong, Felix Baier, Ariana Kam, Rebecca A Greenberg, Hopi E Hoekstra
Evolution Letters 6, 330-340 (2022)….
- A chromosomal inversion contributes to divergence in multiple traits between deer mouse ecotypesEmily R Hager, Olivia S Harringmeyer, T Brock Wooldridge, Shunn Theingi, Jacob T Gable, Sade McFadden, Beverly Neugeboren, Kyle M Turner, Jeffrey D Jensen, Hopi E Hoekstra
Science 377, 399-405 (2022). DOI: 10.1126/science.abg071…
- Retinal ganglion cells expressing CaM kinase II in human and nonhuman primates
Alyssa K. Baldicano, Subha Nasir-Ahmad, Mario Novelli, Sammy C S Lee, M. H. Do, P. Martin, U. Grünert
J. Comp. Neurol. 2022 Jun;530(9):1470-1493. doi: 10.1002/cne.25292. Epub 2022 Jan 14.
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