Brian J. Prendergast | Department of Psychology

Professor

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

Behavioral biology

Seasonal behavior and ecology of migratory animals
Molecular mechanisms of migration and behavior

Behavioral neuroendocrinology

Neuroendocrine, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of biological timing

Psychoneuroimmunology and microbiology

Bidirectional interactions between biological clocks and the microbiome
Chronic disease and the brain: neuroinflammation, brain mechanisms of sickness

Recent Research / Recent Publications

Representative 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.