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William Conner

by January 24, 2013

Professor of Biology
AAAS Fellow
 
B.A. University of Notre Dame
M.S. Cornell University
Ph.D. Cornell University
30 Winston Hall
(336) 758-5315
conner@wfu.edu
Go to my lab website [link]
Areas of Interest
Animal Communication, Chemical Ecology, Insect Physiology and Behavior, Bioacoustics
Research
My laboratory studies animal communication. We are interested in how communicative signals are produced, travel through the environment, how they are Read more »

Child Abuse in Birds?

by September 29, 2011

WFU News Service, August 2011
For one species of seabird in the Galápagos, the child abuse “cycle of violence” found in humans plays out in the wild.
The new study of Nazca boobies by Wake Forest University researchers provides the first evidence from the animal world showing those who are abused when Read more »

Neuroscience and Behavior

by December 15, 2010 » Add the first comment.

 
The Neuroscience and Behavior Focus Group includes faculty interested in organismal form and function.  Research interests span a wide range of problems, but emphasize the mechanistic analysis of behavior.  A particular strength of the group is common faculty interest in neuroethology, the neural basis of naturally occurring animal behavior.  The faculty Read more »