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Jeanne M. Wehner
Institute for Behavioral Genetics; Psychology; Member of
the Center for Neuroscience
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Campus Box 447
Life Sci Bldg (RL#4) Rm 36
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0447
email: wehner@ibg.colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-5663
FAX: 303-492-8063
Website: http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/~wehner
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Dr. Wehner is a professor of the Institute for Behavioral
Genetics and the Department of Psychology. She received her
Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota in
1976. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dight Institute
for Human Genetics and Assistant Professor of Medicine at
the University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty of the
University of Colorado in 1982. She is the co-scientific director
of the Colorado Alcohol Research Center and received a Research
Career Award from the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism from 1991-1996 and 1997-2002. She has served
on the Neuropharmacology Research Review Committee for the
National Institutes of Health. She currently serves on the
"Mouse Sequencing Priority" committee for the National
Institutes of Health. Dr. Wehner has published over 114 research
papers. She serves as an Associate Editor of Behavioral Neurosciences
and on the editorial board for Behavior Genetics, and Pharmacology,
Biochemistry, and Behavior. She received the 2001 Wiersma
Visiting Professorship in Neurobiology from California Institute
of Technology.
Her research interests include: the genetic and biochemical
regulation of sensitivity and tolerance to alcohol, and genes
that regulate learning and memory processes. Her studies use
behavioral, biochemical, and molecular methods to study the
regulation of complex behaviors. She also uses a wide variety
of genetic animal models in her work including inbred strains,
selected lines and knock-out and transgenic mice. Previous
funding for this research was awarded by the Air Force Office
of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation, National
Institute for Mental Health, National Institute for Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism, and National Institute for Drug Abuse.
Selected Publications:
Wehner JM, Radcliffe RA, Bowers BJ: Quantitative genetics
and mouse behavior. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience, 24: 845-67,
2001.
Bowers BJ, Wehner JM: Ethanol consumption and behavioral
impulsivity are increased in PKCg null mutant mice. Journal
of Neuroscience, 21:RC180 (1-5), 2001.
Smith AM, Wehner JM: Aniracetam improves contextual fear
conditioning and increases hippocampal gPKC in DBA/2J mice.
Hippocampus, 12: 76-85, 2002
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