Sunday, November 16, 2003

 

Meet the Faculty: Neurobiology

Dr. Shelley Tishkau shows a student the habenula stria on a sheep brain.

Dr. Tischkau does research on Circadian rhythms for the Department of Veterinary Biosciences, and she's a great teacher. She's the type who doesn't need to use the little clip-on microphone during lectures. I think most of the class likes her because she no longer makes us come in on 9 a.m for Friday lectures--since we are done with our practical part of the course, we have an hour less of class each week, and she decided that she'd rather not lecture for three straight hours about spinal tracts and pathways. (She also admitted that she doesn't mind the extra hour of sleep on Friday mornings.)

Dr. T explained to us that there are no good texbooks written for veterinary neurobiology, so we don't use any texbook for the course, but Dr. T has put together a very comprehensive set of lecture notes that pretty much serves as our textbook. When I asked her when she is going to author the definitive texbook of Vet neurobiolgy, she replied "When I get tenure."

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