Abel Bult-Ito's Research Funding Awards


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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

Research Funding Awards:
2006-2011 Five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) Specialized Neuroscience Research Programs grant entitled: "Advancing UAF SNRP" (NINDS, NIMH: 2 U54 NS041069-06A1; PI: Lawrence K. Duffy; $5,228,121; start date: May 1, 2006). Title of Subproject: Peripheral and Central Neural Pathways Controlling Entrainment of the SCN to Scheduled Feeding ((PI: Abel Bult-Ito; $332,874 for 2 years). active
2001-2003 Sixteen-month Research Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities (PA-99-104) to NIH-SNRP grant 1U54NS41069 to support undergraduate student Stephanie I. Marks (PI: Larrence K. Duffy; Project Leader: Abel Bult-Ito, $20,714; start date: February 5, 2001). Active

2000-2002 University of Alaska President's Special Projects Fund Proposal entitled: "Serotonin and vasopressin in the Suprachiasmatic nucleus of selected mice lines: Do we have an animal model for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?" (PI: Abel Bult; Co- PI: Daní Raap; Student Researcher: Micki E. Kobylk; start date October 1, 2000; $4,955). Active

2001-2005 Five-year National Institute of Health (NIH) Specialized Neuroscience Research Programs grant entitled: "Alaskan Basic Neuroscience Program" (NINDS, NIMH, NCRR: 1 U54 NS41069-01; PI: Lawrence K. Duffy; $7,632,121 ($1,546,820 for first year); start date: September 30, 2000). Title of Subproject (PI: Abel Bult-Ito, Co-PI: Rae Silver): The function(s) of AVP and PKC beta I in the SCN of Mice ($300,000 direct costs/year). Active

1998-2002 Four-year National Institute of Mental Health Academic Research Enhancement Award grant entitled: "Model to study the role of AVP, PKC and Fos in the SCN" (Rl5MH58453 [01, 02 & 02S1]; PI: Abel Bult, $110,437; start date: April 1, 1998). Supports one student each summer.
2000-2002 Eleven-month Research Supplement for Individuals with Disabilities (PA-99-105) to NIH-AREA grant 1R15MH058453 (02S1) to support undergraduate student Micki Kobylk (PI: Abel Bult, $23,803; start date: May 1, 2000).
1999-2001 University of Alaska Natural Resources Fund Award entitled: "Arctic Circadian Rhythm Adaptations of the Tundra Redback Vole (Clethrionomys rutilus)" (PI: Abel Bult, $2,603).

1997-1999 Middlebury College Competitive Institutional Support for Teaching and Research Total: $12,975

1996 NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellow in the Psychology Department at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

1995 NIMH Postdoctoral Training Fellow in the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

1991 Thompson Memorial Award received for a paper entitled: "Directional selection for nesting results in a correlated response for vasopressin and protein kinase-C2+-immunoreactivity in the suprachiasmatic nuclei," at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting in St. Louis, Missouri

1988 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
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.