A. Don Murphy Lab, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Department of NeurobiologyGraduate School ApplicationsUIC Neurobiology GroupUIC Laboratory of Integrated NeuroscienceContact Don Murphy
buccal ganglia of Helisoma Whole mount of buccal ganglion of Helisoma trivolvis stained for SCPb immunoreactivity.
Research
Biography
Directions
Snail Images
Sites of Neurobiological Interest:

Annual Review of Neuroscience
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection
Flybrain
History of Neuroscience
How Grasshoppers Jump
International Society for Neuroethology
Jeff Camhi's Lab
NIH
NSF
Neuroscience For Kids
Neuroscience Laboratory and Classroom Activities
Neuroscience Web Search
Neurosciences on the Internet
Probe the Brain
Serendip
Society for Neuroscience
Topics in Neuroethology
Tree of Life
Virtual Neurophysiology Lab
WWW Virtual Library: Neuroscience

Journals: 
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Experimental Biology Online
Harvard BRAIN
Journal of Comparative Physiology
Journal of Experimental Biology
Journal of Neuroscience
Nature
Neuroscience - Net
Neuroscientist Online
Science
Scientific American

Neuroscience Sources:
Experimental Biology Online
Journal of Neurochemistry
Physiology, Biophysics
Society for Neuroscience
Aplysia Hometank
Axon instruments (useful for electrophysiologists)
Fly Brain
Insect Vision: B-eye: compound eye imaging
Virtual Fly Lab

 
What's New?
Undergraduate Teaching: Biology of the Brain (intro. survey); Cell and Molecular Neurobiology; Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory; Comparitive Animal Behavior; Animal Physiology and Neurophysiology; Neuroetholgoy. 
Murphy's Graduate Seminars: 
Model Neural Networks and Behavior; Neuropeptides and Behavior; Neural Control of Molluscan Feeding; Ion Channels and Neuronal Excitability; Neurobiology of Feeding and Appetite; Non-Classical Effects and Mechanisms 
of Action of Classical Neurotransmitters.
Quinlan, EM, Arnett, BC, and Murphy AD.  (1997). Feeding stimulants activate an identified dopaminergic interneuron that induces the feeding motor program in Helisoma. J. Neurophysiol.  78.(2): 812-824. [PubMed Abstract] /
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email: dmurphy@uic.edu
back to top Technical Contacts: Chris Brannen, University of Illinois at Chicago; Department of Biological Sciences (1999).
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