Steven Reppert

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts Medical School

EDUCATION:
• BS, University of Nebraska 1973
• MD with Distinction, University of Nebraska 1973
• MS, Harvard University (Honorary) 1993
• Residency, Massachusetts General Hosp /Harvard Medical School 1973-1976

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
From 2002 to 2004, Dr Reppert served as president of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms. He has been a recipient of the E Mead Johnson Award for Outstanding Research and the NIH-NICHD MERIT Award.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
In an integrated set of studies, our laboratory is using anatomical, cellular, molecular, electrophysiological, genetic and behavioral approaches to more fully understand the biological basis of monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) migration, with a focus on the butterfly's navigational abilities and its ancestral circadian clock.

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