Yehuda Ben-Shahar

Title:	Assistant Professor of Biology
Degree:	PHD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign MS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign BSc, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dept:	Biology
Office:	Monsanto 411
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1137 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-3484
Web site:	http://biology4.wustl.edu/faculty/ben-shahar/
E-mail:	benshahary@wustl.edu

Research Interests
Molecular and genetic analyses of behavior

Selected publications
Ben-Shahar Y, Robichon A, Sokolowski MB and Robinson GE. (2002) Influence of gene action across different time scales on behavior. Science, 296:741-744.

Robinson GE and Ben-Shahar Y. (2002) Social behavior and comparative genomics: new genes or new gene regulation? Genes Brain and Behavior, 1:197-203.

Ben-Shahar Y, Dudek N and Robinson GE. (2004) malvolio, manganese, and division of labor in honey bee colonies: deconstructing a complex phenotype. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207: 3281-3288.

Ben-Shahar Y (2005) The foraging gene, behavioral plasticity, and honey bee division of labor. Journal of Comparative Physiology [A] 191:987-994.

Ben-Shahar Y, Nannapaneni K, Casavant TL, Scheetz TE and Welsh MJ. (2007) Eukaryotic operon-like transcription of functionally related genes in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 222­227.