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Dr Tom Smulders

Director of Education and Reader in Evolutionary Neuroscience

  • Email: tom.smulders@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5790
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  • Address: 缅北禁地
    School of Psychology
    The Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology
    Framlington Place
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE2 4HH
Background

Background

Tom Smulders was born near Antwerp, Belgium and grew up in Brecht, Belgium. 


Qualifications

2003-2005 Post-Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, 缅北禁地, UK

1992-1998 Ph.D. in Biopsychology at Cornell University, USA. (Supervisor: Prof. Timothy J. DeVoogd)

1990-1992 MSc in Zoology at Antwerp University, Belgium

1988-1990 BSc in Biology at Antwerp University, Belgium


Roles and Responsibilities

2024-present Director of Education, School of Psychology

2018-2023 Coordinator of the 

2019-2022 Deputy Theme Lead for the Behavioural Science and Psychology Theme

2016-2019 Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Institute of Neuroscience

2014-2022 Director of the

2008-2015 Chair of the Seminar Committee of the Institute of Neuroscience


Esteem Indicators

2023-2024: Guest Editor of an Article Collection on "Telencephalic Control of the Stress Response" in Brain, Behavior and Evolution

2018: Plenary speaker at the Swedish Animal Welfare meeting

2017: Keynote address at the UFAW International Animal Welfare Symposium

2016-2017: Guest Editor of a Special Issue on "The Hippocampus: Questions of Homology" in Brain, Behaviour and Evolution

2016: Keynote address at the 50th meeting of the International Society for Applied Ethology

2012-2014: Grant panel member of the (Flanders, Belgium)-Biodiversity & Ecology (Bio3)

2010-present: Editorial Board of

2008-present: Reviewing Editor of

2008-2009 Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Integrating Ecology, Psychology, and Neurobiology Within a Food-hoarding Paradigm” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

2008-2009 Guest Editor of a Special Feature on “Brain Evolution” in Biology Letters

2008-2013 Editorial Board of (Royal Society of London)

2007 Invited participant in the INCF Workshop on Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and Taxonomy

2006-present Fellow of the

1992-1993 Philips Fellow of the (BAEF)


Previous Positions

2000-2002 Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, USA (Supervisor: Prof. Erich D. Jarvis)

1998-2000 Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA (Supervisor: Prof. Robert E. Hampson)


Memberships

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

British Neuroscience Association

Experimental Psychology Society

International Society for Neuroethology

J.B. Johnston Club (Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy)

Natural History Society of Northumbria


Languages

Fluent in spoken and written Dutch

Fluent in spoken and written English

Fluent in spoken and written French

Reading and conversational skills in German

Notions of Italian and Latin


Google Scholar: .


Informal Interests

Ballroom Dancing; Science Fiction and Fantasy

Research

Research Interests

I am interested in how evolution modifies the brain (or particular brain areas), and how this relates to the behaviours in which these areas are involved. We study this at two levels: macro-evolutionary and micro-evolutionary.


On the macro-evolutionary level, we are interested in how brain areas conserve their function (or converge on similar functions) over deep evolutionary time. In particular, we study the hippocampal formation of birds and mammals, and investigate how two very differently-organized structures (at least at first glance) perform such similar functions. We are also applying what we learn about these similarities to developing novel animal welfare measures.


On a more micro-evolutionary level, we are interested in how brain structures change in closely related species with the evolution of novel behaviours. For this, we compare food-hoarding birds to closely-related non-hoarding birds. We are interested in two aspects of this brain/behaviour system: how did hoarding behaviour evolve and how did spatial memory mechanisms adapt to a food-hoarding life style.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

PSY2007 Biological Psychology: Sex, Drugs, Rhythms and Blues

PSY3049 Evolution of Brain and Behaviour

PSY3097 Undergraduate Research Projects in Psychology


Postgraduate Teaching

MMB8003 The Biological Study of Behaviour

Publications

  • Articles

    • Foka K, Hunt H, Constantinescu S, Choudhury T, Walker TJ, Black-Dominique A, Lai D, Bhoopathy R, Sanderson O, Wray L, McAllister-Williams RH, Gallagher P, Smulders TV. . Memory 2024, 32(7), 924-934.
    • Smulders TV, Douglas LJ, Reza D, Male LH, Prysce A, Alix A, de Guzman Dodd A, Read JCA. . Animal Cognition 2023, 26, 1929-1943.
    • Dumontier L, Janczak AM, Smulders TV, Nordgreen J. . Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2023, 260, 105878.
    • Armstrong EA, Richards-Rios P, Addison L, Sandilands V, Guy JH, Wigley P, Boswell T, Smulders TV. . Scientific Reports 2022, 12(1), 15505.
    • Dumontier L, Janczak AM, Smulders TV, Moe RO, Vas J, Nordgreen J. . Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2022, 256, 105750.
    • Lange H, Walker L, Orell M, Smulders TV. . Learning & Behavior 2021, 50, 113-124.
    • Armstrong EA, Rufener C, Toscano MJ, Eastham JE, Guy JH, Sandilands V, Boswell T, Smulders TV. . Scientific Reports 2020, 10, 3007.
    • Henderson LJ, Smulders TV, Roughan JV. . PLOS One 2020, 15(4), e0231454.
    • Armstrong EA, Voelkl B, Voegeli S, Gebhardt-Henrich SG, Guy JH, Sandilands V, Boswell T, Toscano MJ, Smulders TV. . Frontiers in Veterinary Science 2020, 7, 587.
    • Henderson LJ, Dani B, Serrano EMN, Smulders TV, Roughan JV. . Scientific Reports 2020, 10(1), 14562.
    • Poirier C, Bateson M, Gualtieri F, Armstrong EA, Laws GC, Boswell T, Smulders TV. . Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2019, 101, 113-121.
    • Gualtieri F, Armstrong EA, Longmoor GK, D'Eath RB, Sandilands V, Boswell T, Smulders TV. . Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 7129.
    • Smulders TV. . Learning and Behavior 2019, 47(4), 275-276.
    • Smulders TV, Boswell T, Henderson LJ. . Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2019, 42, e51.
    • Henderson LJ, Cockcroft RC, Kaiya H, Boswell T, Smulders TV. . Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2018, 285(1879), 20180417.
    • Robertson BA, Rathbone L, Cirillo G, D'Eath RB, Bateson M, Boswell T, Wilson PW, Dunn IC, Smulders TV. . PLoS ONE 2017, 12(12), e0189158.
    • Gualtieri F, Brégère C, Laws GC, Armstrong EA, Wylie NJ, Moxham TT, Guzman R, Boswell T, Smulders TV. . Frontiers in Neuroscience 2017, 11, 488.
    • Atkinson BM, Smulders TV, Wallenberg JC. . Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017, 79, 9-12.
    • Smulders TV, Black-Dominique A, Choudhury TS, Constantinescu SE, Foka K, Walker TJ, Dick K, Bradwell S, McAllister-Williams RH, Gallagher P. . Journal of Visualized Experiments 2017, (123), e55646.
    • Dheerendra P, Lynch NM, Crutwell J, Cunningham MO, Smulders TV. . European Journal of Neuroscience 2017, 48(8), 2807-2815.
    • Read J, Godfrey A, Bohr I, Simonotto J, Galna B, Smulders T. . Ergonomics 2016, 59(8), 1073-1088.
    • Craig M, Butterworth K, Nilsson J, Hamilton CJ, Gallagher P, Smulders TV. . Learning and Memory 2016, 23(11), 648-659.
    • Longmoor GK, Lange CH, Darvell H, Walker L, Rytkönen S, Vatka E, Hohtola E, Orell M, Smulders TV. . Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2016, 87(4), 265-274.
    • Hands P, Smulders TV, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2015, 15(5), 6.
    • Smulders TV. . Behavioral Ecology 2015, 26(6), 1461-1462.
    • Mazurek A, Bhoopathy R, Read JCA, Gallagher P, Smulders TV. . Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2015, 7, 74.
    • Martin-Ordas G, Smulders TV. . Frontiers in Comparative Psychology 2015, 6, 826.
    • Read JCA, Simonotto J, Bohr I, Godfrey A, Galna B, Rochester L, Smulders TV. . Royal Society Open Science 2015, 2, 140522.
    • Kareklas K, Nettle D, Smulders TV. . Biology Letters 2013, 9(2), 20120999.
    • Dunn IC, Wilson PW, Smulders TV, Sandilands V, D'Eath RB, Boswell T. . Journal of Neuroendocrinology 2013, 25(10), 920-928.
    • Smulders TV, Jarvis ED. . Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 2013, 106, 163-176.
    • Feenders G, Smulders TV. . Animal Cognition 2011, 14(2), 235-243.
    • Holland SM, Smulders TV. . Animal Cognition 2011, 14(1), 95-102.
    • Smulders TV, Gould KL, Leaver LA. . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2010, 365(1542), 883-900.
    • Roth TC, Brodin A, Smulders TV, LaDage LD, Pravosudov VV. . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2010, 365(1542), 915-931.
    • Pravosudov VV, Smulders TV. . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2010, 365(1542), 859-867.
    • Smulders TV. . Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2010, 75(1), 8.
    • Echtermeyer C, Smulders TV, Smith VA. . Journal of Computational Neuroscience 2010, 29(1-2), 231-252.
    • Smulders TV. . Biology Letters 2009, 5(1), 138-140.
    • Smulders TV. . Biology Letters 2009, 5(1), 105-107.
    • Zinkivskay A, Nazir F, Smulders TV. . Animal Cognition 2009, 12(1), 119-125.
    • Male L, Smulders T. . Journal of Avian Biology 2008, 39(2), 170-177.
    • Male LH, Smulders TV. . Behavioral Ecology 2007, 18(2), 456-459.
    • Male LH, Smulders TV. . Behaviour 2007, 144(6), 693-710.
    • Male LH, Smulders TV. . Animal Behaviour 2007, 73(4), 717-726.
    • Ferreira ARJ, Smulders TV, Sameshima K, Mello CV, Jarvis ED. . Auk 2006, 123(4), 1129-1148.
    • Smulders TV, Lisi MD, Tricomi E, Otter KA, Chruszcz B, Ratcliffe LM, DeVoogd TJ. . Journal of Neurobiology 2006, 66(9), 991-1001.
    • Smith VA, Yu J, Smulders TV, Hartemink AJ, Jarvis ED. . PLoS Computational Biology 2006, 2(11), 1436-1449.
    • Reiner A, Perkel DJ, Bruce LL, Butler AB, Csillag A, Kuenzel W, Medina L, Paxinos G, Shimizu T, Striedter G, Wild M, Ball GF, Durand S, Guturkun O, Lee DW, Mello CV, Powers A, White SA, Hough G, Kubikova L, Smulders TV, Wada K, Dugas-Ford J, Husband S, Yamamoto K, Yu J, Siang C, Jarvis ED. . Journal of Comparative Neurology 2004, 473(3), 377-414.
    • Reiner A, Perkel DJ, Bruce LL, Butler AB, Csillag A, Kuenzel W, Medina L, Paxinos G, Shimizu T, Striedter G, Wild M, Ball GF, Durand S, Guturkun O, Lee DW, Mello CV, Powers A, White SA, Hough G, Kubikova L, Smulders TV, Wada K, Dugas-Ford J, Husband S, Yamamoto K, Yu J, Siang C, Jarvis ED. . Journal of Comparative Neurology 2004, 473(3), 337-414.
    • Shiflett MW, Smulders TV, Benedict L, DeVoogd TJ. . Hippocampus 2003, 13(4), 437-444.
    • Shiflett MW, Gould KL, Smulders TV, DeVoogd TJ. . Journal of Neurobiology 2002, 51(3), 215-222.
    • Smulders TV. . Hormones and Behavior 2002, 41(2), 156-169.
    • Jarvis ED, Smith VA, Wada K, McElroy M, Smulders TV, Rivas MV, Carninci P, Hayashisaki Y, Dietrich F, Wu X, Yu J, Wang PP, Hartemink AJ. . Journal of Comparative Physiology A 2002, 188(11-12), 961-980.
    • Smulders TV, Shiflett MW, Sperling AJ, DeVoogd TJ. . Journal of Neurobiology 2000, 44(4), 414-422.
    • Smulders TV, DeVoogd TJ. . Behavioural Brain Research 2000, 114(1-2), 39-49.
    • Smulders TV, Casto JM, Nolan V, Ketterson ED, DeVoogd TJ. . Journal of Neurobiology 2000, 43(3), 244-253.
    • Van der Linden A, Verhoye M, Vanaudekerke J, Peeters R, Eens M, Newman SW, Smulders TV, Balthazart J, DeVoogd TJ. . Journal of Neuroscience Methods 1998, 81(1-2), 45-52.
    • Smulders TV. . American Naturalist 1998, 151(4), 356-366.
    • Smulders TV, Sasson AD, Devoogd TJ. . Journal of Neurobiology 1995, 27(1), 15-25.

  • Book Chapters

    • Feenders G, Smulders T. . In: Dere, E; Easton, A; Nade, L; Huston, JP, ed. Handbook of Episodic Memory. London: Elsevier Science, 2008, pp.197-216.
    • Smulders TV, DeVoogd TJ. . In: Bolhuis, JJ, ed. Brain, Perception, Memory. Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.127-148.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Henderson LJ, Cockcroft RC, Kaiya H, Boswell T, Smulders TV. . In: SICB Annual Meeting 2016. 2016, Portland, Oregon: Oxford University Press.
    • Smith LS, Austin J, Baker S, Borisyuk R, Eglen S, Feng J, Gurney K, Jackson T, Kaiser M, Overton P, Panzeri S, Quian Quiroga R, Schultz SR, Sernagor E, Smith VA, Smulders TV, Stuart L, Whittington M, Ingram C. . In: Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting. 2007, Nottingham, UK: National e-Science Centre.

  • Notes

    • Smulders TV, Read JCA. . Learning and Behavior 2024, 52, 293-295.
    • Darlington RB, Smulders TV. . Animal Behaviour 2001, 62(3), 599-602.
    • Smulders TV, Dhondt AA. . Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1997, 12(11), 417-418.

  • Reviews

    • Madison FA, Bingman VP, Smulders TV, Lattin CR. . Hormones and Behavior 2024, 157, 105451.
    • Smulders TV. . Neurobiology of Stress 2021, 15, 100351.
    • Smulders TV. . Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2021, 36(10), 883-884.
    • Smulders TV. . Journal of Anatomy 2018, 232(2), 356-357.
    • Smulders TV. . Brain Behavior and Evolution 2017, 90, 81-91.
    • Smulders TV. . Reviews in the Neurosciences 2006, 17(1-2), 53-69.
    • Jarvis ED, Güntürkün O, Bruce LL, Csillag A, Karten HJ, Kuenzel W, Medina L, Paxinos G, Perkel DJ, Shimizu T, Striedter GF, Wild JM, Ball GF, Dugas-Ford J, Durand S, Hough G, Husband S, Kubikova L, Lee DW, Mello CV, Powers A, Siang C, Smulders TV, Wada K, White SA, Yamamoto K, Yu J, Reiner A, Butler AB. . Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2005, 6(2), 151-159.
    • Smulders TV. . Animal Behaviour 2004, 86(2), 433-434.
    • Smulders TV, Hampson RE. . Quarterly Review of Biology 2000, 75(4), 491-492.