Joel Levine
Professor
Campus
UTM
CSB Appointment
Full
Education
Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993
Titles and Honors
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mechanisms and Features of Social Behaviour
Senior Fellow in the CIFAR program on Child and Brain Development
Primary Undergraduate Department
Biology, UTM
Graduate Programs
Cell & Systems Biology
Academic or Administrative Appointments
Chair of Biology
Research Description
Contact Information
Lab: (905) 828-5387
Email
Mailing Address
Department of Cell & Systems Biology
University of Toronto
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
Canada
Publications
2014
Neural circuits: anatomy of a sexual behavior
Krupp JJ, Levine JD
2014, Current biology : CB, 24, R327-9, 24735858
2013
Regulation of onset of female mating and sex pheromone production by juvenile hormone in Drosophila melanogaster
Bilen J, Atallah J, Azanchi R, Levine JD, Riddiford LM
2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, 18321-6, 24145432
Pigment-dispersing factor modulates pheromone production in clock cells that influence mating in drosophila
Krupp JJ, Billeter JC, Wong A, Choi C, Nitabach MN, Levine JD
2013, Neuron, 79, 54-68, 23849197
Socially synchronized circadian oscillators
Bloch G, Herzog ED, Levine JD, Schwartz WJ
2013, Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 280, 20130035, 23825203
2012
Drosophila melanogaster males increase the number of sperm in their ejaculate when perceiving rival males
Garbaczewska M, Billeter JC, Levine JD
2013, Journal of insect physiology, 59, 306-10, 23178803
Who is he and what is he to you? Recognition in Drosophila melanogaster
Billeter JC, Levine JD
2013, Current opinion in neurobiology, 23, 17-23, 23010098
Social structures depend on innate determinants and chemosensory processing in Drosophila
Schneider J, Dickinson MH, Levine JD
2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 Suppl 2, 17174-9, 22802679
Carotenoid based bio-compatible labels for third harmonic generation microscopy
Tokarz D, Cisek R, Garbaczewska M, Sandkuijl D, Qiu X, Stewart B, Levine JD, Fekl U, Barzda V
2012, Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 14, 10653-61, 22744726
Drosophila melanogaster females change mating behaviour and offspring production based on social context
Billeter JC, Jagadeesh S, Stepek N, Azanchi R, Levine JD
2012, Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 279, 2417-25, 22298851
One, two, and many–a perspective on what groups of Drosophila melanogaster can tell us about social dynamics
Schneider J, Atallah J, Levine JD
2012, Advances in genetics, 77, 59-78, 22902126
2011
Hierarchical chemosensory regulation of male-male social interactions in Drosophila
Wang L, Han X, Mehren J, Hiroi M, Billeter JC, Miyamoto T, Amrein H, Levine JD, Anderson DJ
2011, Nature neuroscience, 14, 757-62, 21516101
2010
Pheromonal and behavioral cues trigger male-to-female aggression in Drosophila
Fernández MP, Chan YB, Yew JY, Billeter JC, Dreisewerd K, Levine JD, Kravitz EA
2010, PLoS biology, 8, e1000541, 21124886
Dissection of oenocytes from adult Drosophila melanogaster
Krupp JJ, Levine JD
2010, Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 20689503
Biological rhythms: the taste-time continuum
Krupp JJ, Levine JD
2010, Current biology : CB, 20, R147-9, 20178756
2009
Specialized cells tag sexual and species identity in Drosophila melanogaster
Billeter JC, Atallah J, Krupp JJ, Millar JG, Levine JD
2009, Nature, 461, 987-91, 19829381
Chemical signalling: laser on the fly reveals a new male-specific pheromone
Levine JD, Millar JG
2009, Current biology : CB, 19, R653-5, 19674549
2008
Social experience modifies pheromone expression and mating behavior in male Drosophila melanogaster
Krupp JJ, Kent C, Billeter JC, Azanchi R, So AK, Schonfeld JA, Smith BP, Lucas C, Levine JD
2008, Current biology : CB, 18, 1373-83, 18789691
Social context influences chemical communication in D. melanogaster males
Kent C, Azanchi R, Smith B, Formosa A, Levine JD
2008, Current biology : CB, 18, 1384-9, 18789689
2007
Generalization of courtship learning in Drosophila is mediated by cis-vaccenyl acetate
Ejima A, Smith BP, Lucas C, van der Goes van Naters W, Miller CJ, Carlson JR, Levine JD, Griffith LC
2007, Current biology : CB, 17, 599-605, 17363250
2006
Sex cells: dissecting the functions of fruitless isoforms
Douglas SJ, Levine JD
2006, Current biology : CB, 16, R405-7, 16753550
2005
Sequential learning of pheromonal cues modulates memory consolidation in trainer-specific associative courtship conditioning
Ejima A, Smith BP, Lucas C, Levine JD, Griffith LC
2005, Current biology : CB, 15, 194-206, 15694302
2004
Flies by night: Effects of changing day length on Drosophila’s circadian clock
Shafer OT, Levine JD, Truman JW, Hall JC
2004, Current biology : CB, 14, 424-32, 15028219
2003
Drosophila free-running rhythms require intercellular communication
Peng Y, Stoleru D, Levine JD, Hall JC, Rosbash M
2003, PLoS biology, 1, E13, 12975658
Constructing a feedback loop with circadian clock molecules from the silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi
Chang DC, McWatters HG, Williams JA, Gotter AL, Levine JD, Reppert SM
2003, The Journal of biological chemistry, 278, 38149-58, 12869551
2002
Resetting the circadian clock by social experience in Drosophila melanogaster
Levine JD, Funes P, Dowse HB, Hall JC
2002, Science (New York, N.Y.), 298, 2010-2, 12471264
Advanced analysis of a cryptochrome mutation’s effects on the robustness and phase of molecular cycles in isolated peripheral tissues of Drosophila
Levine JD, Funes P, Dowse HB, Hall JC
2002, BMC neuroscience, 3, 5, 11960556