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Robert Gerlai is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience, with a significant body of work dedicated to subfields such as Cell Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of Robert Gerlai's research include:

  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations

The scientist has published extensively on zebrafish as a model organism in behavioral neuroscience, investigating translational relevance and evolutionary conservation. Recent papers include:

  • Evolutionary conservation, translational relevance and cognitive function: The future of zebrafish in behavioral neuroscience (2020) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Zebrafish (Danio rerio): A newcomer with great promise in behavioral neuroscience (2022) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Frequent publication venues for Robert Gerlai consist of:

  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Zebrafish
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Behavior Research Methods

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Robert Gerlai's work, with frequent co-authors including Benjamin Tsang, Amanda Facciol, Amira Abozaid, Alexis Buatois, and Carla Denise Bonan. These collaborations have contributed to advancing research in the behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of zebrafish and related biomedical topics.

Overall, Robert Gerlai's research outputs reveal a focus on behavioral neuroscience using zebrafish models, with interdisciplinary approaches spanning molecular biology to cognitive neuroscience. Their publications contribute insight into prenatal substance exposure effects, neurobiological mechanisms underlying memory, and physiological adaptations in aquatic organisms.

Best Publications

  • Zebrafish as an emerging model for studying complex brain disorders.

    Allan V. Kalueff;Adam Michael Stewart;Robert Gerlai

  • Towards a Comprehensive Catalog of Zebrafish Behavior 1.0 and Beyond

    Allan V Kalueff;Michael Gebhardt;Adam Michael Stewart;Adam Michael Stewart;Jonathan M Cachat

  • Gene-targeting studies of mammalian behavior : is it the mutation or the background genotype ?

    Robert Gerlai

  • Drinks like a fish: zebra fish (Danio rerio) as a behavior genetic model to study alcohol effects

    R. Gerlai;M. Lahav;S. Guo;A. Rosenthal

  • Mice Lacking Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Show Impaired Learning and Reduced CA1 Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) But Normal CA3 LTP

    You-Ming Lu;Zhengping Jia;Christopher Janus;Jeffrey T. Henderson

  • Zebrafish models for translational neuroscience research: from tank to bedside.

    Adam Michael Stewart;Oliver Braubach;Jan Spitsbergen;Robert Gerlai

  • Enhanced LTP in Mice Deficient in the AMPA Receptor GluR2

    Zhengping Jia;Nadia Agopyan;Peter Miu;Zhigang Xiong

  • VEGF antagonism reduces edema formation and tissue damage after ischemia/reperfusion injury in the mouse brain.

    Nicholas van Bruggen;Harold Thibodeaux;James T. Palmer;Wyne P. Lee

  • Alarm substance induced behavioral responses in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Natasha Speedie;Robert Gerlai

  • Myelination in the absence of myelin-associated glycoprotein

    Chumei Li;Michael B. Tropak;Robert Gerlai;Susan Clapoff

  • The social zebrafish: behavioral responses to conspecific, heterospecific, and computer animated fish.

    Cristina Saverino;Robert Gerlai

  • Quantification of shoaling behaviour in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Noam Miller;Robert Gerlai

  • Behavioral phenotyping in zebrafish: Comparison of three behavioral quantification methods

    Rachel Blaser;Robert Gerlai;Robert Gerlai

  • Sight of conspecifics as reward in associative learning in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Lina Al-Imari;Robert Gerlai

  • Shoaling develops with age in Zebrafish (Danio rerio).

    Christine Buske;Robert Gerlai

  • Zebra fish: an uncharted behavior genetic model.

    Robert Gerlai

  • Associative learning in zebrafish (Danio rerio) in the plus maze.

    Margarette Sison;Robert Gerlai

  • Effects of acute and chronic ethanol exposure on the behavior of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio).

    Robert Gerlai;Vallent Lee;Rachel Blaser

  • Zebrafish (Danio rerio) responds differentially to stimulus fish: The effects of sympatric and allopatric predators and harmless fish

    Stephanie L.S. Bass;Robert Gerlai

  • Behavioral tests of hippocampal function: simple paradigms complex problems.

    Robert Gerlai

  • Phenomics: fiction or the future?

    Robert Gerlai

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim E. Crusio
Wim E. Crusio University of Bordeaux
Vilmos Csányi
Vilmos Csányi Eötvös Loránd University
Allan V. Kalueff
Allan V. Kalueff Ural Federal University
David R. Hampson
David R. Hampson University of Toronto
Adam Stewart
Adam Stewart Tulane University
Nicola S. Clayton
Nicola S. Clayton University of Cambridge
Denis B. Rosemberg
Denis B. Rosemberg Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Elissa J. Chesler
Elissa J. Chesler University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Robert W. Williams
Robert W. Williams University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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