BALTHAZART Jacques
Chargé de cours émérite
Faculté de Médecine
Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques
- ULiège address
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Bât. B36 Pharmacologie
Quartier Hôpital
avenue Hippocrate 15
4000 Liège 1
Belgique
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- Personal website (s)
- Groupe de Recherches en Neuroendocrinologie
- University degrees
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1977 : Docteur en Sciences (Université de Liège)
Biography
After finishing his degree in zoology (1971), Jacques Balthazart immediately became interested in the subject that was to mark out his entire career as a researcher: the endocrinology of behaviour. His work, which is focused on the control of reproductive behaviour, is almost exclusively based on avian models.
After obtaining a PhD in zoological science from the University of Liège in 1977, Jacques Balthazart spent a year at the Rutgers University, New Jersey. In the United States, his studies focused on the Barbary dove or Ring dove. When he returned to Liège in 1979, he created a research group in behavioral neuroendocrinology at the University of Liège that he led until his admission to emeritus in September 2014. However, he still continues his scientific activity very actively within this group now directed by Dr. Charlotte Cornil. His research focuses on the hormonal mechanisms that control the sexual differentiation and the activation in adulthood of sexual behavior, as well as the plasticity of the brain associated with these effects of hormones on behavior. These studies are mainly carried out on avian models, in particular Japanese quail and canary, but the group's research also uses now genetically modified mice.
Jacques Balthazart is the author of more than 450 articles and scientific reviews that have been cited more than 23,000 times. He also created in 1983, on a European scale, a series of conferences on the topic Hormones, brain and behavior, of which he ensured the publication of the proceedings. He was elected president, from 2003 to 2005, of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals and was Chief Co-editor of the journal Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology from 2006 to 2016. He is currently Associate Editor of the journal Hormones and Behavior. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Biological Sciences section. He received in 2016 the Donald Farner medal for distinguished work in Avian Neuroendocrinology and in 2017 the Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime achievement award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology for his entire career.
Research field
- Biologie
- Physiologie générale [animale]
- Zoopsychologie
Duties or mandates
- Chargé de Cours
Scientific distinctions
- Prix des amis de l'Université de Liège (1984)
- Prix de la Fondation Léon et Henri Fredericq (1990)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016)
- Donald Farner medal for distinguished work in Avian Neuroendocrinology (2016)
- Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime achievement award of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (2017)
