Bernard P. Possidente
Professor of Biology
@ Skidmore since 1983
Address:
Dana Science Center Room 343
Department of Biology
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York 12866
Telephone: (518) 580-5082
Fax: (518) 580-5071
E-mail: bposside@skidmore.edu
Research Interests:
Dr. Possidente's general research area is genetic analysis of behavioral mechanisms. His research focuses on the function of biological clocks in controlling circadian (daily-endogenous) rhythms using mice and fruitflies as model systems: manipulation of rhythms in mice and fruitflies with genetic, pharmacological, and photoperiod treatments inorder to identify functional properties of circadian system components and their physiological mechanisms.
Tiffany Benway '08 and Bernard Possidente
Project: "Biological Clock Function in a Drosophila
Model of Alzheimer's Disease"
This research is a collaboration with Dr. Damian Crowther, Cambridge University, UK Department of Genetics,
who made transgenic fly lines with copies of mutant human genes associated with Alzheimer's.
(Photo by Mark McCarty)
Recent Publications: (*Indicates student co-author):
McGinnis, M.Y., Lumia, A.R., Tetel, M., Molenda-Figuiera, H., and B. Possidente (2007). Effects of anabolic androgenic steroids on the development and expression of activity and circadian rhythms in male rats. In press. Physiology & Behavior.
Possidente, B. (2007) Genetic Dialogs in The Sopranos in VI Parts. The Science Creative Quarterly (Commentaries): www.scq.ubc.ca/ , Issue 3, September 7-April 8.
Possidente, B. (2007) Genetics and The Sopranos. Letters, Science 317:596.
Bullough, J.D., Figueiro, M.G., Possidente, B.P., Parsons, R.H., Rea, M.S. (2005) Univariance in Murine Circadian Phototransmission. Zoological Science, 22:223-227.
McGinnis, M.Y., Lumia, A.R. and B. Possidente. (2002) Effects of Withdrawal from Anabolic Androgenic Steroids on Aggression in Adult Male Rats. Physiology & Behavior, 75:541-549.
McGinnis, M.Y., Lumia, A.R., Breuer, M.E. and B. Possidente. (2002) Physical Provocation Potentiates Agression in Male Rats Receiving Anabolic Androgenic Steroids. Hormones and Behavior, 41:101-110.
Breuer, M.E., McGinnis, M.Y., Lumia, A.R. and B. Possidente. (2001) Aggression in Male Rats Receiving Anabolic Androgenic Steroids: Effects of Social and Environmental Provocation. Hormones and Behavior, 40:409-418.
Gotter, A.L., Manganaro, T., Weaver, D.R., Kolakowski, L.F., Possidente, B., Sathyanarayanan, S., MacLaughlin, D.T., and S.M. Reppert. (2000) A Time-less Function for MouseTimeless. Nature Neuroscience, 3:775-776..
Possidente, B., Lumia, A.R., McGinnis, M.Y., *Pratt, C. and *C. Page. (2000) Chronobiological Dimensions of an Olfactory Bulbectomized Rodent Animal Model for Agitated Depression. Biological Rhythm Research, 31:416-434.
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