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 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

Invited Seminars and Symposia:

20. A. Bult-Ito (2006) Of mice and (hu) man, UAF Life Sciences Seminar Series, 29 September 2006, Fairbanks, Alaska.
19. A. Bult-Ito, M.R. Castillo, K.J. Hochstetler, R.J. Tavernier, Jr., D.M. Greene  (2006) Scheduled feeding entrains the master circadian clock. 6th Annual Arctic Health Science Seminar, 27 January 2006, Anchorage, Alaska.
18. A. Bult-Ito, M.R. Castillo, K.J. Hochstetler, R.J. Tavernier, Jr., and D.M. Greene (2004) Entrainment of the Master Circadian Clock by Scheduled Feeding - An Alternative Signal for Entrainment in Extreme Arctic Light-Dark Cycles. UAF Physiology and Neuroscience Seminar, Host: Barbara Taylor, 25 September.
17. A. Bult-Ito (2004) Of mice and voles: behavioral neuroscience of adaptive behaviors. Host: Dr. Tim Hinterberger, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, 30 January 2004.

16. A. Bult-Ito (2003) Circadian rhythms in laboratory and wild rodents. Host: Professor Hitoshi Okamura, Department of Brain Sciences, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, 13 June.
15. A. Bult-Ito (2002) Rodent models to study the "master" circadian pacemaker. EPSCoR Symposium: Integrative Approaches to Environmental Physiology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 9 November.
14. B.A.M. Biemans, E.A. Van der Zee, M.P. Gerkema, A. Bult, S. Daan (2001) A double role for vasopressin in the SCN? Chronobiology Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rode Island, August 5-10.
13. M.P. Gerkema, B.A.M. Biemans, E.A. Van der Zee, K. Jansen, D.R. Van der Veen, and A. Bult (2001) Memory and the circadian system: a role for vasopressin? Chronobiology Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rode Island, August 5-10.
12. Neural regulation of circadian and thermoregulatory behavior. Host: Dr. Paul Lombroso, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. (2001)
11. Neural regulation of circadian and thermoregulatory behavior. Host: Dr. Fred Cohan, Chair, Department of Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. (2001)
10. Alaskan Basic Neuroscience Program, Lawrence K. Duffy; The Function(s) of AVP and PKC beta I in the SCN of Mice, Abel Bult; Mechanisms of Neuroprotection in Hibernation and Arousal, Kelly L. Drew; The Role of rac-1 Mediated Superoxide Signaling in Neurons, Thomas B. Kuhn. Life Sciences Seminar, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. (2000)
9. The quest for adaptive behavior: selected house mouse lines as a model. Hosts: Drs. S. Daan, M.P. Gerkema, and E.A.van der Zee, Department of Animal Behavior, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. (1999)
8. A. Bult and L. Smale (1997) Arvicanthis niloticus: A model to study the neural mechanisms that control whether a circadian rhythm in locomotor activity will be diurnally or nocturnally expressed. Chronobiology Gordon Research Conference, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, August 10-15.
7. Central nervous system regulation of adaptive behaviors: selected lines as a model. Host: Dr. U. Redlin, Physiophest Seminar Series, Zoology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (1997)
6. Central nervous system regulation of adaptive behaviors: selected lines as a model. Host: Dr. C.L. Sisk, TGIF/Behavioral Biology Seminar Series, Psychology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. (1996)
5. Quantitative Genetic analysis of nest-building behavior in selected house mouse lines: evolutionary implications for natural populations. Host: Dr. K. Holekamp, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. (1996)
4. Central nervous system regulation of adaptive behaviors: selected lines as a model. Host: Dr. S.C. Maxson, Biobehavioral Sciences Graduate Degree Program and Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. (1996)
3. A. Bult, E. A. Van der Zee, C. B. Lynch, and P. J. Lombroso. Using bidirectional selection, behavioral analyses, and neuroanatomical and molecular biology techniques to study the mechanisms underlying the regulation of an adaptive behavior in mice. Symposium organizer: Dr. W.E. Crusio, 1994 Behavior Genetics Association meeting, Barcelona, Spain. Abstract in Behav. Genet. 24:507. (1994)
2. Mice strains that are selected on differences in nest building, also differ in body temperature regulation, circadian rhythms, and vasopressin neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. Host: Dr. G.J. de Vries, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. (1992)
1. Quantitative genetic analysis of thermoregulatory nest-building behavior in the house mouse, Mus domesticus. Hosts: Drs. P.G.M. Luiten and E.A. van der Zee, Department of Animal Physiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. (1990)

 

Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) Transplants

gSCN: grafted SCN; hSCN: host SCN; 3V: third ventricle; OC: optic chiasm