Laurel A. Beck

Ph.D., Neuroscience, Michigan State University (2008)
B.S., Biological Sciences, Colorado State University (2003)

I've been in the Integrative Biology department at UC Denver since January of 2011 and have taught a variety of lower and upper division courses including Gen Bio I, Human Phys, General Genetics, and Neurobiology.

Though I am no longer active in research, my work focused on the role of gonadal steroid hormones in both the maintenance and establishment of sexual and seasonal dimorphisms within the reproductive forebrain.

Beck LA, Wade J. (2009) Effects of estradiol, sex, and season on ER-alpha mRNA expression and forebrain morphology in adult green anole lizards. Neuroscience. 160:577-586.

Beck LA, Wade J. (2009) Sexually dimorphic estrogen receptor α mRNA expression in the preoptic area and ventromedial hypothalamus of green anole lizards. Horm Behav. 55:398-403.

Beck LA, Wade J. (2009) Morphology and estrogen receptor alpha mRNA expression in the developing green anole forebrain. J Exp Zool. 311A:162–71.

Beck LA, O’Bryant EL, Wade J. (2008) Sex and seasonal differences in morphology of limbic forebrain nuclei in the green anole lizard. Brain Res. 1227:68-75.

Beck LA, Wade J. (2008) Steroid receptor expression in the developing copulatory system of the green anole lizard. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 157:70-4.

Zhao L, Kim KW, Ikeda Y, Anderson KK, Beck LA, Chase S, Tobet SA, and Parker KL. (2008) CNS-specific Knockout of Steroidogenic Factor 1 Results in Increased Anxiety-like Behavior. Mol. Endocrinol. 22:1403-15.

Ottem EN, Beck LA, Jordan CL, Breedlove SM. (2007) Androgen-dependent regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and tyrosine kinase B in the sexually dimorphic spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus. Endocrinology. 148:3655-65.

BIOL 2051, General Biology I
BIOL 3225, Human Physiology
BIOL 3611, General Cell Biology
BIOL 3832, General Genetics
BIOL 3939, Biology Internship
BIOL 4165/5165, Neurobiology