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Nationality
  
Australian

Institution
  
University of New England

Name
  
Lesley Rogers

Lesley Joy Rogers httpswwwuneeduaudataassetsimage001731
Born
  
31 July 1943 (age 80) Brisbane (
1943-07-31
)

Institutions
  
University of New England

Known for
  
discovery of lateralisation of the chick brain

Notable awards
  
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) Fellow of the Australian Institute of Biology Clarke Medal Academic Women's Special Achievement Award

Alma mater
  
University of Adelaide, University of Sussex

Fields
  
Neuroscience, Ethology, Physiology

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Lesley Joy Rogers B.Sc. (Hons) (Adel), D.Phil., D.Sc. (Sus), FAIBiol., FAA (Australian, born 31 July 1943) is a neurobiologist and emerita professor of neuroscience and animal behaviour at the University of New England (Australia).

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Education

Professor Rogers studied a Bachelor of Science at the University of Adelaide obtaining a first class honours in 1964. After three years as teaching fellow at Harvard University and research assistant at the New England medical centre hospital in Boston she studied for a PhD at the University of Sussex. Professor Rogers obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 and was also awarded a Doctor of Science from the University of Sussex in 1987 for the body of research accumulated after the completion of her PhD compiled in her thesis entitled for her thesis entitled "Neuroethological Studies of Brain Development and Behaviour".

Awards

Professor Rogers was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2000, is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Biology and has been awarded many accolades including the Clarke Medal in zoology in 2003 from the Royal Society of New South Wales. She is the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research, the Academic Women's Special Achievement Award and also the Centenary Medal in 2003.

Professional activities

  • Professor Rogers is a member of the Voiceless Scientific Expert Advisory Panel 2009-.
  • Co-ordinator of the Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England (Australia).

    • Selected publications

    Professor Rogers has published over 200 journal articles and 14 books predominantly focussing on the brain and development.

    Books
  • Rogers, Lesley J; Vallortigara, Grigorio; Andrew, Richard J (2013). "Divided Brains: The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries". Cambridge University Press . ISBN 9780521183048.
    • Journal articles
  • Rogers L.J, Rigosi E, Frasnelli E, Vallortigara (June 2014). "A right antenna for social behaviour in honeybees". Scientific Reports 3. doi:10.1038/srep02045. 
  • Frasnelli E, Vallortigara G, Rogers LJ (2012). "Left-right asymmetries of behaviour and nervous system in invertebrates" (PDF). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 36: 1273–1291. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.02.006. 
  • Rogers L.J (2012). "The two hemispheres of the avian brain: their differing roles in perceptual processing and the expression of behaviour". Journal of Ornithology 153 (1): 61–74. doi:10.1007/s10336-011-0769-z. 
  • MacNeilage PF, Rogers L.J, Vallortigara G (2009). "Origins of the Left & Right Brain". Scientific American 301: 60–67. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0709-60. 

    • References

    Lesley Joy Rogers Wikipedia
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