{"id":1961,"date":"2011-03-28T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:14:42","slug":"neurobiology-and-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/neurobiology-and-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurobiology and Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-55-1024x512.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Neurobiology and Behaviour\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Neurobiology and Behaviour is an exciting intellectual environment that optimizes our research and teaching missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fundamental questions about how the brain and nervous system work in the expression of behaviour are explored.&nbsp; These areas include learning and memory, sensory and integrative neuroscience (at molecular, genetic, synaptic and systems levels), neuronal development, neurocomputation, and the neurobiology of substance abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"biology-professors\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biology Professors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=576]\">Dr. Susan Bertram<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Animal Behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/steven-j-cooke\/\">Dr. Steven Cooke<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aquatic Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conservation Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physiological Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animal Behaviour <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/roslyn-dakin\/\">Dr. Roslyn Dakin<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Animal Behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=604]\">Dr. Jeffrey Dawson<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neuroethology&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Biomechanics of Insect Flight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=679]\">Dr. Tom Sherratt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jayne-yack\/\">Dr. Jayne Yack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neuroethology <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bioacoustics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurobiology and Behaviour is an exciting intellectual environment that optimizes our research and teaching missions. 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