Dr. Greg Engel has taught at the VTSU Castleton campus since 2016. His specialty is behavioral genetics, and his scholarly work has used fruit flies to study genes that impact the behavioral response to alcohol.
In the classroom he tries to bridge the gap that is sometimes mistakenly perceived between psychology and biology, by placing mental and behavioral phenomena in the context of the brain.
- Behavioral Genetics
- Neurobiology
- Psychopharmacology
- Drosophila
- Drugs and Behavior
- Abnormal Psychology
- Nature and Nurture
- Psychological Research I
- Psychological Research II
- Biopsychology
- Health Psychology
- Engel, G. L., Taber, K., Vinton, E., & Crocker, A. J. (2019). Studying alcohol use disorder using Drosophila melanogaster in the era of ‘Big Data’. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 15(1), 1-16.
- Engel, G. L., Marella, S., Kaun, K. R., Wu, J., Adhikari, P., Kong, E. C., & Wolf, F. W. (2016). Sir2/Sirt1 links acute inebriation to presynaptic changes and the development of alcohol tolerance, preference, and reward. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(19), 5241-5251.
- Engel, G. L., & Rand, M. D. (2014). The Notch target E (spl) mδ is a muscle-specific gene involved in methylmercury toxicity in motor neuron development. Neurotoxicology and teratology, 43, 11-18.
- Engel, G. L., Delwig, A., & Rand, M. D. (2012). The effects of methylmercury on Notch signaling during embryonic neural development in Drosophila melanogaster. Toxicology in vitro, 26(3), 485-492.