NBB’s 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2014

• Location: Auditorium (Room G–10), Biotechnology Building •

Drinks and snacks will be available in the atrium outside the auditorium throughout the day’s program. Lunch will be available in the small auditorium (Room G–01) on the opposite side of the atrium, beginning at about 11:45 AM. The men’s and women’s washrooms are along the south wall of the atrium, opposite the auditorium.

PROGRAMOpening Ceremonies8:30 AM Welcome from the Department: Chairman Robert Raguso8:40 Welcome and Remarks: President David Skorton8:50 Welcome and Remarks: Dean Gretchen Ritter, College of Arts and Sciences9:00 Audiovisual Tribute to the NBB Faculty: Charles Walcott

Scientific Program*9:15 AM Introduction: Harold Zakon, moderator.9:15 Ronald Rutowski PhD 1976 (Eisner)**

Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe9:30 Avis Cohen PhD 1977 (Capranica/Gans)

Professor Emerita, University of Maryland, College Park9:45 Eliot Brenowitz PhD 1982 (Capranica)

Professor, University of Washington, Seattle10:00 Michael Ryan PhD 1982 (Adler)

Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Break 10:15–10:30 AMSnacks and drinks are available in the atrium outside the auditorium

50NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Cornell’s Sesquicentennial Year 2014–2015

* The Scientific Program was organized by Harold Zakon, PhD 1981 (Capranica), chair; Patty Brennan, PhD 2005 (Sherman/Emlen), and Kit Murphy, PhD 1992 (Emlen/Sherman).

** The former doctoral student’s chair’s name (or names) is indicated in parentheses.

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Scientific Program (continued)10:30 Deborah Smith PhD 1982 (Eickwort)

Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence10:45 David Knaack PhD 1984 (Podleski)

Director, Technology Transfer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA

11:00 Susan Volman PhD 1985 (Camhi) Program Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda

11:15 Rachel Levin PhD 1988 (Emlen) Associate Professor, Pomona College, Pomona

11:30 Paul Katz PhD 1989 (Harris-Warrick) Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Lunch 11:45–1:15 PMGo to the small auditorium across the atrium to select your food. Drinks are available in the atrium. Limited seating in the atrium.

1:15 Sharon Birks PhD 1996 (Emlen/Sherman) Manager, Genetics Resources, Burke Museum of Natural History, University of Washington, Seattle

1:30 LaReesa Wolfenbarger PhD 1996 (Emlen/Sherman) Associate Professor, University of Nebraska, Omaha

1:45 Christy Foran PhD 1998 (Bass) Research Biologist, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS

2:00 Lauren French PhD 2001 (Harris-Warrick) Associate Professor, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

2:15 Mark Hauber PhD 2002 (Emlen/Sherman) Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York

Break 2:30–2:45 PMSnacks and drinks are available in the atrium outside the auditorium

2:45 Bruce Carlson PhD 2003 (Hopkins) Associate Professor, Washington University, St. Louis

3:00 Bernard Brennan PhD 2005 (Clark/Reeve) Organic farmer, Amethyst Farm, Amherst, MA

3:15 Luke Remage-Healey PhD 2006 (Bass) Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

3:30 Juliana Rangel-Posada PhD 2010 (Seeley/Reeve) Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station

3:45 Margaret Wray PhD 2011 (Seeley) Founder, Creating Positive Futures, Atlanta, GA

Break-out Discussions4:00–5:00 PM NBB doctoral graduates will re-assemble into small groups in the auditorium to discuss NBB’s programs and to make possible recommendations for the department’s future. Rob Raguso will lead off with a short presentation covering the department’s strategic plans for these next years. Kit Murphy, moderator.

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• Location: Mudd Hall, Tower Road at Garden Avenue •

POSTER SESSION5:00–7:00 PM NBB graduate students and postdocs will be exhibiting posters about their research projects on the ground floor of the atrium. The posters of those persons associated with the six lab tours (see below) are displayed on the walls outside their lab. The graduate student posters (only) will be judged for a prize from the Cornell chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi.

Name Lab Poster Title

Matthew Abbinanti* Harris-Warrick Spinal cord transection causes widespread changes in quantity of channel and receptor mRNA below the injury site

Irene Ballagh Bass postdoc Regulation of call type by distinct midbrain vocal sites

Elizabeth Bergen* Reeve Variable female preferences for multiple male traits

Geoffrey Broadhead* Raguso How do the physical properties of odorants affect our interpretation of sensory assays?

Dawnis Chow Fetcho postdoc In vivo kinetics of glycine receptor re-distribution

Joseph DiPietro* Fetcho Dendritic filopodial dynamics of motoneurons in larval zebrafish during the day and night

Jenélle Dowling* Webster What is the function of duetting in the moderately promiscuous Red-backed Fairy-Wren?

Jenny Feng* Bass Daily and seasonal gene expression patterns in a hindbrain vocal motor nucleus: insights into the molecular basis of vocal patterning

Kristin Hook* Dickinson/Reeve

Female multiple mating in the Seed Beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus

McKenna Kelly* Adkins-Regan Bird brains and counting: the role of social environment in determin-ing quantity discrimination in New World Scrub Jays

Callum Kingwell* Raguso Chemical signaling in a flexibly so-cial Halictid bee (Megalopta genalis)

* Graduate student posters. The judges for the Sigma Xi prize will be: Chris Boake, PhD 1982 (Capranica), Patty Brennan, PhD 2005 (Sherman/Emlen), Ham Farris, PhD 2000 (Hoy), Sarah Pallas, PhD 1988 (Finlay), and Matt Xu-Friedman, PhD 1997 (Hopkins).

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Joshua LaPergola* Koenig/Sherman

Preliminary findings in the study of sexual size dimorphism and coloniality in the Hispaniolan Woodpecker

Kevin Loope* Seeley Why do yellowjacket wasps com-mit matricide?

Kimberly McArthur Fetcho postdoc Ties between development and function in migrating branchiomo-tor neurons

Gil Menda, Paul Shamble, Eyal Nitzany, James Golden

Hoy Visual perception in the brain of a jumping spider

Julie Miller* Reeve/Seeley Mechanisms of collective decision-making reflect the costs and ben-efits of raids in a slave-making ant

Esther Niemasik* Dickinson Cooperative breeding provides benefits in interspecific competi-tion for Brown-headed Nuthatches (Sitta pusilla)

Shane Peace* Cleland GABA(a) receptor independent gamma oscillations in olfactory bulb slices

Michael Smith* Seeley A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers invest-ment in reproduction

Glenn Stamps* Shaw Chemical communication in the rapidly speciating Hawaiian Swordtail Cricket (Genus Laupala)

Melissa Warden Lab Warden Research in the Warden Lab by Andrew Recknagel, Dave Bulkin, Cangwoo Seo, Ryan Post, Akash Guru and Yi-Yun Ho (plus Jungsoo Kim and Cristina Boada, undergraduates)

LAB TOURS5:00–7:00 PM NBB’s most recently appointed faculty will be conducting tours of their laboratories throughout Mudd Hall, as follows:

• Joseph Fetcho, Professor, room W102.• Jesse Goldberg, Assistant Professor and Robert Capranica Fellow, room

W121.• Christiane Linster, Professor, room W249.• Robert Raguso, Professor, room W355.• Kerry Shaw, Professor, room W317. • Melissa Warden, Assistant Professor and Miriam Salpeter Fellow, room

W201.Simply appear at the room number listed and join the tour.

Name Lab Poster Title

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Transportation To and From the Lab of OrnithologyWe encourage visitors to use their own transportation, if available, to the Lab of Ornithology, but we will have vans for those without cars. The vans will take visitors, with the first van departing at 6:50 PM. The vans will depart from directly in front of Corson-Mudd Hall. They will make round trips every 15–20 minutes until all visitors are accommodated. (See below for details about the return trips to campus.) For those driving to the Lab of O, see the map (page 6).

• Location: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology • 159 Sapsucker Woods Road

RECEPTION IN HONOR OF NBB DOCTORAL GRADUATES7:00–11:00 PM Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (Note: Doors will open promptly at 7:00 PM). This event is private and intended only for members of the NBB community. Dress is casual; be comfortable!

Displays • A 75-foot-long poster covering the 50-year history of the department will be

displayed along the west wall of the lobby.• A continuous slide show featuring our doctoral graduates may be viewed in

the Fuertes Auditorium.

Behind-the-Scenes Tours of Research FacilitiesTour groups should meet at the last door behind the stone fireplace in the lobby of the lab (there is a sign). Tours will begin at the times indicated below. If the groups turn out to be too large, a second tour will be arranged on the spot.

• Tour 1: Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds (Mike Webster, host): 7:45 PM. • Tour 2: Bioacoustics Program (Aaron Rice, host): 8:30 PM.• Tour 3: Cornell Museum of Vertebrates (Carl Hopkins, host): 9:15 PM.

Transportation After the ReceptionThere will be vans to take visitors back to campus from the Lab of O, with the first van departing at 9:30 PM and leaving every 20–30 minutes. You may meet the van in the parking lot, at the end of the walk from the front door of the Lab. The vans will make round trips until everyone is accommodated. The reception will end at 11:00 PM.

After This Weekend’s EventsIn a month or so we will make available on-line to all members of the NBB community all of the images in the continuous slide show, the posters illustrating the 50-year history of NBB, several interviews of former graduate students and faculty, and various reference documents relating to the celebration. These may be downloaded for your personal use.

We would like this celebration to be an opportunity for all of us, and certainly for those of us here in Ithaca, to be better connected to the NBB community throughout the world. We know that our grads have a keen interest in what we do here at Cornell, as we do in what they are doing. We also hope that our grads will continue to send some of their best students to NBB for graduate work or postdoctoral research.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe appreciate the generous financial support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. We thank Harold Zakon and his associates, Patty Brennan and Kit Murphy, for organizing the scientific program. Chris Boake, Patty Brennan, Ham Farris, Sarah Pallas, and Matt Xu-Friedman kindly served as judges for the graduate student posters. Saundra Anderson was the main event coordinator and arranged for the lunch and evening reception. Terri Natoli administered all the record keeping for the event and accumulated the portraits of our grads. Charlie Walcott created the AV shows; Marshall Hopkins provided valuable advice. Carl Hopkins supervised the poster session and Jesse Goldberg the lab tours in Mudd Hall. Mike Webster and Carl Hopkins organized the tours at the Lab of O. Kraig Adler and Tim Perry created the giant poster. Dawn Potter helped with publicity. Howie Howland provided some historical resources. Several of our grad students—Maria Modanu, Mickey Pardo, Jenny Feng, Kristin Hook, and Matt Lewis—are serving as van drivers. Tom Seeley and Rob Raguso provided chairmanly advice and assistance. We thank all of these persons for their essential contributions. We are grateful to the several members of the Alpha Phi Omega service sorority who assisted at events. We are also indebted to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology for various courtesies.

—The Local Committee: Kraig Adler, Saundra Anderson, Jesse Goldberg, Carl Hopkins, Howie Howland, Terri Natoli, Charlie Walcott, and Mike Webster.

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Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

23 October 2014 Dear Friends of NB&B, This year the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior celebrates its 50th anniversary – a major milestone that invites both reflection and a look to the future. Looking to the future, we have an ambitious plan to establish an NB&B Graduate Student Research Endowment Fund. This fund will provide a solid base of support for our grant program for NB&B graduate students (both behavior and neuro-science). In the past, these grants have been funded by the income from NB&B’s Summer School courses, in particular the summer version of BioNB 2210, Introduction to Behavior. Our income from the Summer School, however, will be smaller in future years, because of a change in the university’s budget model that affects how tuition dollars from summer courses will be disbursed. Last June, two of our PhD grads—Bing Zhang and Stephen Pratt—proposed establishing an endowment fund for NBB as part of our 50th anniversary celebration. Their idea is to solicit funds from our PhD grads and others to build an endowment that will generate, in perpetuity, funds to be devoted exclusively to supporting our research grant program, an idea that matches our need perfectly. Our goal is to raise at least $100,000, the minimum required for establishing a true endowment fund at Cornell. So far, several members of the NB&B faculty have made donations totaling nearly $30K, so we have made a good start, but we have a ways to go. We hope you will want to support this endeavor with a gift. Cornell University is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your contribution is fully tax deductible. If you’d like to make a contribution by credit card, you can do so by using the following link: http://tinyurl.com/NBBGradFund. Donations made through this link are credited directly to NB&B’s Grad Student Research Endowment Fund. If, however, you’d prefer to send a check, then make this payable to “Cornell University” and mail it to NB&B’s business manager, Sara Eddleman (Department of NB&B, Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853), with a note indicating that the funds are to endow the NBB Graduate Student Research Endowment Fund. Either way, you will receive an official acknowledgment of your gift, from the Cornell Development Office. We hope that you will want to join in this endeavor, which will benefit the PhD students of NB&B for many years to come. Yours truly,

Robert A. Raguso Thomas D. Seeley