Professional
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Department
of Biological Sciences at Bowling
Green State University where I work with research
groups in Aquatic
Ecology, Molecular
Biology, and Neuroscience. -
Research
interests include biogenic amine control of fighting,
drug-sensitive reward in invertebrates, brain evolution
in fishes, and quantitative behavioral data analysis
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Associate
Editor for Invertebrate Behavior and Neuroethology - “Acta
Ethologica”, Executive Editor for Special Issue on
“Aggression”
for Volume 25 - “Advances
in Genetics”, Associate Editor for Invertebrate
Neuroscience = “Frontiers
in Physiology”, and Topic Editor for special issue
on "Invertebrate
models of Natural and Drug-sensitive Reward" in
Frontiers in Physiology
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I
develop freeware software for the analysis of behavioral
data using Java applets and applications. I maintain a
website for the use of the JavaGrinders
library.
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I
am developing a public-domain, free, online textbook for
teaching a course in Animal
Behavior and have been awarded the University
System of Ohio Faculty Innovator Award for this.
Check out the videoblog
that summarizes my work.
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I
enjoy teaching Animal
Behavior, Prep
Seminar for Advanced Statistics, Grant Writing,
Neuroethology, and Advanced
Statistics.
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For
the 2015/16 academic year I was appointed Fellow of the
Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard - see Article
in BGNews
