A belated welcome to AREAC's newest researcher, Dr. Paul Forlano. Paul is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department. His specialty is neuroethology, the evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying mechanistic control by the nervous system. Paul uses the the plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus, in his research. This fish has become a well established model system for studying the neural and hormonal mechanisms of vocal-acoustic communication among vertebrates. Or, in other words, Paul studies the inner workings of the brain of this "talking" fish. We are scheduled to have some midshipman fish in our tanks in the near future.
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