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"Mechanism of Parental Care in Poison Frog," Eva K Fischer, PhD, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Neuroscience Program
Date
Mar 2, 2021   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Eva K Fischer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Contact
Neuroscience Program
E-Mail
nsp@life.illinois.edu
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How can nervous systems be both strikingly flexible and remarkably robust, and how do these phenomena simultaneously give rise to widespread similarity and incredible diversity in animal behavior? We are using charismatic poison frogs as model system to ask these questions across levels of organization (from genes, to neurons, to hormones, to behavior) and timescales (from immediate, to developmental, to evolutionary). 

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