Biology of Behavior Institute at the University of Houston

Thanks to everybody who made the 2018 BoBI Retreat great! We met once again at the beautiful Arboretum. Many excellent and diverse talks - good science and great people, what more could one want!

I am so sorry to have missed the Annual BoBI retreat this year. It is famous for great scientific discussions, new ideas, camaraderie, and lots of generous and interesting people. I hope everyone had a great time and learned some important things about the mechanisms, ontogeny, adaptive value, and evolution of behavior!

A great Retreat at the Arboretum yesterday! A big Thank You to everybody who contributed!

Reserve the date:
May 13 : BoBI Retreat at the Arboretum!

The retreat Haikus have been posted on the Biology of Behavior website! http://behave.uh.edu/news/bobi-retreat-at-the-arboretum-may-07

Biology of Behavior Institute | Another successful BoBI scientific retreat at the Arboretum,... University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

What a great day we had last Saturday May 7! The seventh annual BoBI Scientific Retreat at the Arboretum was once again a day filled with great talks, posters and meeting other people interested in the biology of behavior.

The winner of the competitive 2016 BoBI Graduate Summer Scholarship is Emily Barton from Leigh Leasure’s lab. Emily will continue her research into how binge-alcohol exposure impacts the positive effects of exercise on learning and memory and neural activation in regions involved in spatial learning. Congratulations Emily!

This past Saturday was the 57th Annual Houston Science and Engineering Fair for area high school students, held at the University of Houston. Devanshi Udeshi, shown below, presented her poster on experiments that she performed working alongside BoBI graduate student Jennifer Myers. Devanshi won the Grand Prize in Life Sciences and will now present her poster at both the Texas State Science Fair Competition in San Antonio and at the Intel International Science Fair in Phoenix, AZ. Congratulations to Devanshi Udeshi for performing so exceedingly well, and congratulations to Jen Myers for being such a terrific mentor!

BoBI will again support undergraduate research at the University of Houston this summer. If you are a UH undergraduate interested in behavioral and neuroscience research, please see the following announcement:
http://www.uh.edu/honors/undergraduate-research/uh-research/BoBIScholar.php

BoBI Summer Research Program - University of Houston BoBI Summer Research Program BoBI Undergraduate Scholarship Program: Deadline March 28 The Biology of Behavior Institute (BoBI) and the Office of Undergraduate Research are offering a summer scholarship to one continuing UH sophomore, junior, or senior student to participate in a 10-week research pr…

Many Thanks to Cathy Rankin, a Professor from the University of British Columbia. On this past Wednesday, Dr. Rankin visited with BoBI members and gave a seminar on the genetic dissection of habituation mechanisms using Caenorhabditis elegans, a free living soil nematode. The talk was very exciting. Dr. Rankin also provided wonderful insight and career advice for our students. We all had a great time talking science.

Our spring semester neurobiology journal club will begin with an organizational meeting on Friday January 22nd at noon in rm 201, SR2. Themes for the semester include non-associaitive memory formation in invertebrates (with a focus on habituation) and metabotropic regulation of presynaptic activity. All BoBI members are encouraged to participate.