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BioNB 4240 1. NEUROETHOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION Carl D. Hopkins Dept. Neurobiology & Behavior Aug. 24, 2011 1 2 BioNB 4240 Name____________________________________________ Carl D. Hopkins NetID____________________________________________ 263 Mudd Hall Major ________________Concentration________________ CDH8 Class Schedule (place an X on existing classes) Wednesdays 2-4 PM or when door is Mon Wed Fri open. 9:05 10:10 11:15 12:20 1:25 3 4 L01. Introduction to Neuroethology 1. Course organization and policy 2. Standing on the shoulders of giants 3. Nervous systems Background courses in Neurobiology or related fields 4. Neuroethology example: behavior and neurobiology of the star-nose mole Career goals 5 6 1

Reading Assignments Writing Assignments Simmons, P. and Young, D. (2010) Nerve Instead of Weekly take home exams: Cells and Animal Behaviour (3rd edition). Cambridge University Press, New Due usually on Mondays when schedule permits. York. Problem sets over the previous week’s material. 25% of course grade. Late policy Original reprints on course website courses.cornell.edu/bionb4240 7 8 Discussion and Oral Website Presentation http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb4240/index.htm Wednesdays 9 AM • Attendance. User____________ • Journal Club format: original papers from scientific literature. Password________ Student presentations: 13 Wednesdays x 2 students = 26 Discussions 4, 7, 11, 15, 26 (assigned paper) Discussions 19, 23, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 52 (student pick) • Written summary: respond to questions. • Participation 25% 9 10 The trail is not a trail DISCUSSIONS Gary Snyder SEE COURSE CALENDAR for open dates. I drove down the Freeway Contact C. Hopkins by email to reserve a date. And turned off at an exit Discussion leaders picks Reading Selection and Assignment for that day And went along a highway Emphasis on current research, important papers, original results (usually Til it came to a sideroad not review papers): a “Journal Club” Drove up the sideroad Student signup starts Monday, Aug 29. Til it turned to a dirt road Full of bumps, and stopped. Walked up a trail But the trail got rough And it faded away — Out in the open, Everywhere to go. 11 12 2

PROJECTS Final Exam No final exam for students who complete 9 of 12 written assignments. NEUROETHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS First Draft Due: November 18, 2011 FINAL DRAFT: December 5, 2011 13 14 WEBSITE Neuroethology http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb424 A comparative and evolutionary approach to the study of the nervous system and its role in behavior. A biological approach to the study of behavior and its neural basis. “Levels of analysis” 15 16 Erich von Holst Nico Tinbergen Karl von Frisch Hermann Konrad Lorenz von “Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of Helmholtz those who have lighted the flame within us.” ---Albert Schweitzer Fernando Robert Mark Konishi Capranica Catherine Carr Peter Marler Nottebohm “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the Walter Heiligenberg shoulders of Giants.” -- Isaac Newton Nobuo Suga Theodore H. Bullock 17 18 Donald Griffin Kenneth Roeder Darcy Kelly 3

N E U R O E T H O L O G Y BRAINARD http://neurotree.org/neurotree/index.php DOUPE CARR CARLSON CAREW KAWASAKI ETHOLOGY ROSE METZNER GILBERT VOLMAN HARRIS-WARRICK BASS RYAN FRIEDMAN CRAWFORD Konrad LORENZ NARINS CLAYTON KNUDSEN MARDER BURROWS SEELEY MENZEL WINE An early interest in natural history, evolution & palentology KELLY BARLOW LAND KRASNE COLLETT Medical training: comparative anatomy & embryology. DEVOOGD ARNOLD HOY KRAVITZ NEUWEILER Oskar Heinroth (comparative studies of behavior of ducks) SELVERSTON KANDEL KREBS HOPKINS KNIGHT EMLEN SIMMONS RATLIFF WILLIAMS PEARSON BELL NORTHCUTT KRISTAN PAYNE SUGA KEETON GOULD KUFFLER Fixed action patterns: spontaneous, internally generated WILSON SCHNITZLER CAMHI SZABO NOTTEBOHM KENNEDY HOWLAND behavior (not a reflex chain) KONISHI CAPRANICA MARLER BULLOCK HORRIDGE HUBEL/WIESEL HINDE MANNING Theory of drives: psychohydraulic model HEILIGENBERG ROEDER HOYLE REICHERT LETVIN GRIFFIN HARTLINE EWERT ECCLES Behavior as an inherited trait, used for taxonomy, phylogenetic MITTLESTEADT IMMELMAN LINDAUER FESSARD ALCOCK analysis. LISSMANN AUTRUM HUBER HUXLEY THORPE MAYR BAERENDS VON FRISCH Social imprinting in geese. HODGKIN VON HOLST TINBERGEN ASCHOFF LORENZ ETHOLOGY CAJAL SHERRINGTON EVOLUTION CELLULAR THORNDIKE WATSON PAVLOV LOEB NEUROBIOLOGY DARWIN 20 ETHOLOGY ETHOLOGY Niko TINBERGEN Karl von Frisch Fixed action pattern (with Lorenz) A study of Instinct (1951) Comparative physiology Herring Gull Behavior: ethogram of action patterns Dance language of honeybee Release mechanisms. Hearing in fish Four questions for research on behavior: Sensory biology • immediate causation • development • evolution • function 21 22 Where do nervous systems occur? Tree of Life image from www.tolweb.org tree of life web project 4

Nerve nets in hydra and jellyfish (Cnidaria) Single cells colony Nerve net in hydra Neurons in jellyfish polyp Centralization Mizunami, M. Yokohari, Takahata, (2004) bilateral nerve cords Further exploration into the adaptive nerve cords primitive brain significance of the arthropod “microbrain”. Zool. Sci. 21: 1141. Cephalization Ventral nerve tract Cephalization ganglia Mizunami, M. Yokohari, Takahata, (2004) Further exploration into the adaptive significance of the arthropod “microbrain”. Zool. Sci. 21: 1141. 5

Star Nose Mole Condylura cristata 34 Ken Catania 35 36 6