The Griffith lab behavior studies can be grouped into five separate topics.

Courtship Conditioning

How experience influences behavior is a central question in neuroscience. The ability to manipulate CaMKII activity in vivo is a prerequisite for the study of the role of the enzyme in behavior. (more information)

Anatomical Mapping of Behavioral Circuits

One of the most powerful techniques available for the study of the molecular basis of behavior is the ability to generate animals with tissue-specific disruptions of second messenger pathways (more information).

Bidirectional Modulation of Behavior with CaMKII

More recently, we have developed a system that enables us to control transgene expression in both spatial and temporal domains (Mehren and Griffith, 2004) (more information).

Dissection of the Chemical Cues Underlying Courtship Learning

The conditioned stimulus (CS) for courtship conditioning has been assumed for many years to be a component of the female's cuticular hydrocarbon (more information).

Motor Behaviors

We are also interested in the generation of larval motor behaviors (more information).

 

 

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