Abel Bult-Ito's Home Page Academic Background and Degrees: Employment Teaching Experience Master's and Ph.D. Studies Undergraduate Research Student Awards Peer-Reviewed Publications Published Meeting Abstracts Invited Seminars and Symposia Research Funding Awards Honors Public Service University Service Scholarly Service Memberships Research Interests Peer-Reviewed Publication Abstracts
 Abel Bult-Ito, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology Behavioral and Evolutionary Neuroscience Laboratory Alaskan Basic Neuroscience Program Institute of Arctic Biology & Department of Biology and Wildlife University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757000 Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 Tel: 907-474-7158 Fax: 907-474-6967 E-mail: ffab@uaf.edu
Honors:

13. Recognition Award from the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force for my service as a finals judge for the Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium 2006.
12. Received the 2005 fourteenth annual Emil Usibelli Distinguished Service Award ($10,000).
11. Recognition Award from the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force for my service as a finals judge for the Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium 2005.
10. Received membership of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 2004.
9. Recognition Award from the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force for my service as a session judge for the Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium 2004.
8. Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding leadership as 2002-2003 Chairperson of the UAF Faculty Senate Faculty Development, Assessment, & Improvement Committee. Awarded 21 April 2003.
7. Recognition Award from the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force for my service as a session judge for the Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium 2003.

6. One of eight founding Charter Members of the UAF Phi Nu Chapter of the Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor's Society, installed 25 November 2002. (2002-present)
5. Recognition Award from the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force for my service as a session judge for the Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium 2002.

4. NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellow in the Psychology Department at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. (1996-1997)
3. NIMH Postdoctoral Training Fellow in the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. (1995-1996)
2. Thompson Memorial Award received for a paper entitled: "Directional selection for nesting behavior results in a correlated response for vasopressin (VP) and protein kinase-Cab (PKCab) immunoreactivity in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN)," at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. Behavior Genetics 21:563, 1991.
1. Received the "Doctorandus" Degree with Cum Laude honors (equivalent to Summa Cum Laude in the U.S.A.) from the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. (1988)
Testing for Nest-Buidling Behavior in House Mice ......WOW...... 

A. Bult (1993) An analysis of quantitative genetic, neural, and circadian aspects of thermoregulatory nest-building behavior in the house mouse, Mus domesticus. Ph.D. Dissertation, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.

F. Sluyter, A. Bult, C.B. Lynch, G.A. van Oortmerssen and J.M. Koolhaas (1995) A comparison between house mouse lines selected for attack latency or nest-building: evidence for a genetic basis for alternative behavioral strategies. Behavior Genetics 25:247-252.

A. Bult and C.B. Lynch (1996) Multiple selection responses in house mice bidirectionally selected for thermoregulatory nest-building behavior: crosses of replicate lines. Behavior Genetics 26:439-446.

A. Bult and C.B. Lynch (1997) Nesting and Fitness: Lifetime reproductive success in house mice bidirectionally selected for thermoregulatory nest-building behavior. Behavior Genetics 27:231-240.

F. Sluyter, A. Bult, F. Meeter, G.A. Van Oortmerssen, and C.B. Lynch (1997) A comparison between Fl reciprocal hybrids of house mouse lines bidirectionally selected for attack latency or nest-building behavior: no Y chromosomal effects on altcrnative behavioral strategies. Behavior Genetics 27:477-482.

A. Bult and C.B. Lynch (2000) Breaking through artificial selection limits of an adaptive behavior in mice and the consequences for correlated responses. Behavior Genetics 30:193-206.