Associate Professor
Building 6S - Room 320A
College of Staten Island/CUNY
2800 Victory Blvd.
Staten Island, NY 10314
phone: (718) 982-3936
fax: (718) 982-3852
email: balaban@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
 
 

B.S., Michigan State University, 1979
Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, 1986

Research Interests:

•      Developmental Neurobiology
•      Human Speech Perception - Neural Correlates
•      Neurobiology of Innate Behavioral Differences Between Populations and Species
•      Neuronal Transplantation
•      Structure and Function of Neural Circuits Underlying Behavior

Balaban, E., Avian brain chimeras as a tool for studying species behavioral differences. In: N. LeDouarin, F. Dieterien-Lièvre,
and J. Smith (eds.), The Avian Model in Developmental Biology: From Organism to Genes, CNRS Press, Paris (1990).

Park, T. and Balaban, E. Relative salience of species maternal calls in neonatal Gallinaceous birds: A direct comparison of
Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) and domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus). Journal of Comparative
Psychology 105: 45-54 (1991).

Fausto-Sterling, A. and Balaban, E. Genetics and male sexual orientation, Science 261: 1257 (1993).

Balaban, E. Sex differences in sounds and their causes. In: short, R. and Balaban, E. (Editors) The Differences Between the
Sexes, Cambridge University Press, pp. 243-272 (1994).

Balaban, E. A few chromosomal differences among friends. In: Short, R. and Balaban, E. (Editors), The Differences Between
the Sexes, Cambridge University, pp. 457-460 (1994).

Balaban, E. Reflections on Wye Woods: Crime, biology, and self-interest. Politics and the Life Sciences 15:86-88 (1996).

Gahr, M. and Balaban, E. The development of a species difference in the local distribution of brain estrogen receptive cells.
Developmental Brain Research 92: 182-189 (1996).

Balaban, E., Alper, J.S. and Kasmon, Y.L., Mean genes and the biology of aggression: A critical review of recent animal and
human research. Journal of Neurogenetics 11: 1-43 (1996).