Research Resources
Each tenure-track faculty member in the Neuroscience Program has dedicated individualized research space for conducting professional research and engaging students in collaborative research during the academic year and summers.
Animal Housing Facilities
The Billie Tisch Center for Integrative Sciences (CIS) now houses an excellent animal facility for rodents. Faculty also maintain individual facilities for research with zebrafish and fruit flies. The college operates an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, has an active New York State License for care and use of animals, and an active Public Health Service Animal Welfare Assurance.
Skidmore College Microscopy Imaging Center (SMIC)
Skidmore possesses an impressive microscopy facility for faculty and students, including confocal, scanning electon, and transmission electron microscopes. Click here to learn more about SMIC. Below left is a scanning electron microscopy image of a fruit fly eye taken by student Esther Carrera as part of an imaging course, and below right is a confocal microscopy image of fluorescent staining of neuropeptide neurons in the fruit fly brain, produced by NS major, Elizabeth Roy '22.
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Faculty Research Spaces
- Jennifer Bonner (Biology), maintains hemp plants and zebrafish colonies.
- David Domozych (Biology), the Director of the Skidmore College Microscopy Imaging Center (SMIC), maintains a scanning and transmission electron microscope facility, a light microscope laboratory equipped with a micromanipulator, two research phase contrast microscopes, and an imaging system for routine and fluorescent imaging analysis and the confocal facility.
- Denise Evert (Psychology) maintains a Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory that includes software and hardware for stimulus generation, presentation, and manipulation of visual images, including words, pictures, and faces. The facilities include Macintosh computers, display multiscan monitors, PsyScope response button boxes, and related software for divided-visual field studies to assess hemispheric specialization of function.
- Corey Freeman-Gallant (Biology) maintains a DNA fingerprinting laboratory in conjunction with his avian field research.
- Pablo G贸mez (Psychology)
- Rebecca Johnson (Psychology) maintains a cognition and neuropsychology laboratory where she examines the processes that underlie reading. She and her students utilize sophisticated eye-tracking equipment towards this end.
- Sarita Lagalwar (Neuroscience) studies the cell and molecular signaling pathways in human neurodegenerative disease, using mouse and human cell line models.
- Hassan Lopez (Psychology) directs a neuroscience laboratory involving behavioral testing equipment for the analysis of sexual behavior and motivation in rats and a wet-lab for preparation and delivery of pharmacological agents.
- Lucy Oremland (Mathematics)
- Bernard Possidente (Biology) maintains a laboratory equipped for automated monitoring and analysis of up to 64 rodents in running wheels under controlled photoperiods for circadianrhythm analysis, and has eight "Actiwatches" for automated recording of human activity.
- Monica Raveret-Richter (Biology) maintains a small aviary, and an animal behavior lab with resident bee colonies, Madagascan Hissing Cockroaches, and other insects, Anolis lizards, and a variety of tropical fish; she also conducts field research on insects and birds.
- Chris Vecsey (Neuroscience) maintains colonies of many genetic varieties of fruit flies, and his lab consists of separate rooms for sleep studies, fluorescent imaging/electrophysiology, and other behavioral and molecular analysis.
- Dominique Vuvan (Psychology)