Laboratory for Neurobehavior

The largest of its kind in academia, this state of the art 9,000-square-foot facility provides fundamental behavior testing, training and consultation services for the analysis of behavioral phenotypes in rodents.

 

The Vanderbilt Mouse Neurobehavior Lab  (MNL) is a shared resource, available for all researchers with appointments at Vanderbilt University. The MNL is supported by the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, the Kennedy Center, and by fees charged for usage. Non-VU/VUMC personnel also may use the facility.

Mouse Neurobehavioral Core

Faculty and Staff

Mouse Behavior

Fiona Harrison, Ph.D., Scientific Director
John Allison, Ph.D., Core Manager
Krista Paffenroth, Research Assistant 

Animal Care Staff

Carlotta Brooks, Animal Care Facility Manager

Supporting Centers

Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Lisa Monteggia, Ph.D., Director 
Bruce Carter, Ph.D., Associate Director for Education and Training

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center 

Jeffrey Nuel, Ph.D., Director
Laurie Cutting, Ph.D., Associate Director

Acknowledgements

VU/VUMC Investigators: Our funding is justified in part upon your citing the Murine Neurobehavior Core when you publish data that was acquired in our facility. This would include results of behavior tests, training in the use of hardware/software, and any data analysis done, etc. The minimum acceptable acknowledgement should read:

Experiments/Data analysis/presentation [include what you use] were performed in part through the use of the Murine Neurobehavior Core lab at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Please let us know when you publish and send us a reprint of the manuscript. This is how we justify our existence.

Kennedy Center Investigators: The Behavior Core receives support from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center U54.

If you make use of these services or other VKC IDDRC Core services, please acknowledge this support in publications as required by the EKS NICHD. Sample: “Research supported in this publication was supported by the EKS NICHD of the NIH under Award #U54HD083211. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.”