Resume

• 2009

  Advanced Facility for Avian Research

  Western University

  London ON

  Canada

  Principal Investigator

  Advanced Facility for Avian Research

• 1990

  Western University

  Western University

• 1978

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  Zoology

  University of Oxford

• 1974

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Psychology

  University of Toronto

• 1968

  Animal Behaviour Society

  Ornithological Societies of North America

  Canadian Association for Neuroscience

  Society for Neuroscience

  Royal Canadian Institute

  Bachelor’s Degree

  Psychology

  McMaster University

• Behavioural Neuroscience

  Animal Cognition

  Animal Behaviour

  Behavioural Ecology

  Imidacloprid slows the development of preference for rewarding food sources in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)

  Andrzej Posyniak

  Tomasz Sniegocki

  Malgorzata Gbylik-Sikorska

  Caroline G. Strang

  Jordan D. Phelps

  Imidacloprid slows the development of preference for rewarding food sources in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)

  Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  Mélanie F. Guigueno

  PLOS ONE 2015

  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0128302

  Sex differences in spatial memory in brown-headed cowbirds: Males outperform females on a touchscreen task

  Caroline G. Strang

  Contrasting styles in cognition and behaviour in bumblebees and honeybees

  Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  Seasonal change in the avian hippocampus

  Decreased neurogenesis increases spatial reversal errors in chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

  Nicole A. Guitar

  Decreased neurogenesis increases spatial reversal errors in chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

  Shauna Delaney

  Zachary J. Hall

  Developmental Neurobiology 2014

  74:1002-1010

  Inhibition of cell proliferation in black-capped chickadees suggests a role for neurogenesis in spatial learning

  Mélanie F. Guigueno

  Cognition and the brain of brood parasitic cowbirds

  David F. Sherry is Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Biology at Western University

  London ON

  Canada. He studied at McMaster University (BSc 1972)

  the University of Toronto (PhD 1978)

  and the University of Oxford where he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology. He joined the faculty of the University of Toronto as an NSERC University Research Fellow in 1980. He has been at Western University since 1990. David Sherry served as Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience 2005-2011

  co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Development Initiative in Neuroscience 2007-2010 and Director of the undergraduate specialization in Neuroscience 2011-2015. He has been an editor of Behaviour

  Animal Behaviour

  associate editor of Animal Learning & Behaviour

  and member of the Editorial Board of the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research program in Brain

  Mind & Consciousness and has given invited lectures at Harvard

  Princeton

  Rockefeller

  Oxford

  Cambridge

  Zurich

  Basel

  Utrecht

  Leiden and the McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. His research has been continuously funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada since 1980 and he has served on grant selection panels for NSERC and the US National Science Foundation. He is a principal investigator at Western`s Advanced Facility for Avian Research

  a $9.2 million project funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund. David Sherry has conducted research on behavioural development

  spatial memory

  orientation

  the avian brain

  and the evolution of learning and memory. His current research examines memory

  cognition and the brain of food-storing birds

  avian brood parasites

  and bumblebees.

  David