
Yehuda Ben-Shahar
Assistant Professor
Faculty Member
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri USA
Website
benshahary@wustl.edu
Assistant Professor
Faculty Member
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri USA
Website
benshahary@wustl.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Genetics, genomics, behavior
Research Organisms:
Fruit fly; Honey bee
Research Focus:
We are interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying behavioral plasticity on three major time scales: evolutionary, Developmental and Physiological. We address these questions with the powerful genetic model Drosophila melanogaster (the fruit fly), and the emerging model for complex social behaviors, the European honey bee, Apis mellifera. Research approaches in the lab include behavior, genetics, genomics, molecular and cellular biology, and neurophysiology.