Simone Helluy

Simone Helluy is an Instructor in the Biological Sciences Laboratory at Wellesley College. Trained as a general zoologist and a parasitologist, she received a Maîtrise es Sciences and a Doctorat de 3ème cycle from the Université de Montpellier, France, and a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Canada. She joined the laboratory of Professor Barbara Beltz at Wellesley College in 1988 as a postdoctoral fellow before becoming a lab instructor in 1995.

Most of Dr. Helluy’s research efforts have stemmed from a fascination with larval parasites that alter the behavior of their invertebrate intermediate hosts. This interest has led her to explore various disciplines in invertebrate neurobiology from amines and behavior, to ontogeny and phylogeny of crustacean brains. Simone Helluy has taught the laboratory sections of Organismal Biology (Bisc 111), Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology (Bisc 203), Marine Biology (Bisc 210), Brain and Behavior (Bisc 213), Developmental Biology (Bisc 216), and Tropical Ecology (Bisc 308) with a Wintersession in Belize and Costa Rica.

Dr. Helluy has published research articles on parasitic manipulation in various journals, including Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparées, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, and B, and on the developmental neurobiology of lobsters in Biological Bulletin, Journal of Neurobiology, and Journal of Comparative Neurology.

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Profile last updated: 12/04