THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
B.A., Psychology, 1993
University of California, Berkeley, California
Ph.D., Psychology (Biological), 1998.
Johns Hopkins University / Ohio State University
Post-doctoral Fellow, 1999-2003.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Psychoneuroimmunology
- Bidirectional interactions between biological clocks and the immune system
- Neural mechanisms of sickness behavior, motivational changes, and depression
- Chronic disease and brain function: neuroinflammatory processes and HPA axis
Behavioral neuroendocrinology
- Neuroendocrine, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of biological timing
Recent Research / Recent Publications
Nelson, Randy J., A. Courtney DeVries, and Brian J. Prendergast. "Researchers need to better address time-of-day as a critical biological variable."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, no. 30 (2024): e2316959121.
Leone, Vanessa A., Kenneth G. Onishi, Megan Kennedy, Jonathan P. Riggle, Joseph F. Pierre, Andrew C. Maneval, Melanie N. Spedale, Betty R. Theriault, Eugene B. Chang, and Brian J. Prendergast. "Atypical behavioral and thermoregulatory circadian rhythms in mice lacking a microbiome." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 14491
Zucker, Irving, and Brian J. Prendergast. "Sex differences in pharmacokinetics predict adverse drug reactions in women." Biology of sex differences 11, no. 1 (2020): 32.
Prendergast, Brian J., Kenneth G. Onishi, and Irving Zucker. "Female mice liberated for inclusion in neuroscience and biomedical research." Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews40 (2014): 1-5.