Recent CBN Grants
Dr. Alexandra Bentz received a new CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, " Developmental programming of behavior by maternal hormones" (2025-2030).
Dr. Michael Wenger and colleagues received funding from the Federal Aviation Administration, "Leveraging EEG and ECG to examine the stress response and self-regulation processes in complex skill learning" (2024-2026).
Dr. Ari Berkowitz was awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation, "Pharmacological investigation of sharing vs. specialization of spinal cord central pattern generators for leg movements" (2024-2028).
Dr. Shanteri Singh was awarded a new RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health, "A chemoenzymatic approach to accessing novel isoprenoid scaffolds" (2022-2026).
Recent CBN Awards/Honors
Dr. J.P. Masly was named a 2025-2026 Fellow of the Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program and was appointed Associate Dean for Infrastructure and Operations for the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences in 2026.
Dr. Alexandra Bentz received the Irene Rothbaum Award for Outstanding Assistant Professor of 2025 from the Dodge Family College of Arts & Sciences.
Dr. Michael Markham became Dean of the Dodge Family College of Arts & Sciences in 2025.
Dr. Jordan Norris, then a CBN student in the lab of Dr. Lauren Ethridge, received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health in 2025 for her dissertation research.
Dr. Lauren Ethridge received the 2025 University of Oklahoma Vice President for Research and Partnerships Award for Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences.
Peniel Simon, a CBN student in the lab of Dr. Ari Berkowitz, was accepted into the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA for summer 2025.
Selected Recent CBN Publications
Liphardt, S., Bautista, M. N., Quiroga-Carmona, M., Herrera, N. D., Blumer, L. M., Opazo, J. C., Hoffmann, F. G., Saleem, R., Somo, D., Del Basto Llancaqueo, F., Thurman, T. J., Wheeler, T. B., Shaw, D. E., Walt, H. K., Harter, T. S., McClelland, G. B., Scott, G. R., Sabat, P., Cheviron, Z. A., D'Elia, G., Good, J. M., and Storz, J. F. (2026) Adaptation across an extreme elevational gradient in the world’s highest-dwelling mammal. Science (in press).
Kornfeld-Sylla, S., Gelegen, C., Norris, J. E., Chaloner, F., Lee, M., Kela, M., Heinrich, M. J., Finnie, P. S. B., Ethridge, L. E., Schmitt, L. M., Cooke, S. F., Wilkinson, C., and Bear, M. F. (2026). A human electrophysiological biomarker of Fragile X Syndrome is shared in V1 of Fmr1 KO mice. Nature Communications 17: 1497.
Berkowitz, A. (2026) The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes. Beacon Press, Boston, MA.
Lipshutz, S. E., Hibbins, M. S., Bentz, A. B., Buechlein, A., Empson, T. A., George, E. M., Hauber, M. E., Rusch, D. B., Schelsky, W. M., Thomas, Q. K., Torneo, S. J., Turner, A. M., Wolf, S. E., Woodruff, M. J., Hahn, M. W., and Rosvall, K. A. (2025) Repeated behavioural evolution is associated with convergence of gene expression incavity-nesting songbirds. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9: 845-856.
Ghosh, B., Kafle, P., Mukherjee, R., Welles, R., Herndon, D., Nicholas, K. M., Shao, Y., and Sharma, I. (2025) Sulfenylnitrene-mediated nitrogen-atom insertion for late-stage skeletal editing of N-heterocycles. Science 387: 102–107.