Justin S Rhodes
Associate Professor
Division of Nutritional Sciences
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Biography
Justin S. Rhodes received his undergraduate BS degree in Biology from Stanford University in 1995, an MS in Fisheries at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1998, another MS in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. He then was a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon & Health & Science University and an instructor at Lewis & Clark College until 2005 until he joined the Department of Psychology, Biological Division at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2005. Dr. Rhodes is currently affiliated with the Neuroscience Program, Program for Ecology and Evolution and Conservation Biology, the Institute for Genomic Biology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute NeuroTech Group at UIUC.
Research Interest
His fields of research interests are behavior genetics and neurobiology of motivation and addiction, effects of exercise on brain function and cognition using mice as a model organism, and the social impact driving neurbiological sex change in clownfish.
Publications
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Dabe, E.C., Majdak, P., Bhattacharya, T.K., Miller, D.S., and Rhodes, J.S. 2013. Chronic d-amphetamine administered from childhood to adulthood dose-dependently increases the survival of new neurons in the hippocampus of male C57BL/6J mice. Neuroscience. 213:125-135.
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Kohman, R.A., Bhattacharya, T.K., Kilby, C., Bucko, P., and Rhodes, J.S. 2013. The effects of minocycline on spatial learning, hippocampal learning and microglia in aged and adult mice. Behavioural Brain Research. 242:17-24.
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Kohman, R.A. and Rhodes, J.S. 2013. Neurogenesis, inflammation and behavior. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 27: 22-32.
