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Wednesdays at noon
Biopsychological Sciences Building, 940 East 57th Street
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Fall Quarter 2007

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

September 26

Katherine Wynne-Edwards

Queen's University

Hormone dynamic indices as links between lifestyle and the endocrine system

October 3

Julienne Rutherford

Northwestern University

Litter size effects on placental structure and
function in the common marmoset monkey: implications for intrauterine resource allocation
strategies

October 10

Karen Parker

Stanford University

The psychobiology of stress inoculation-induced resilience in primates

October 17

Angela Grippo

University of Illinois - Chicago

Depression and broken hearts: neurobiological mechanisms and the link between mood and cardiovascular function

October 25 Thursday 4pm* BSLC 109

Robert Sapolsky

Stanford University

Stress and health: studies of wild baboons

November 1* Thursday 12pm BSLC 205

Brian Prendergast

University of Chicago

Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal timing

November 7

Rachel Bowden

Illinois State University

Love 'em and leave 'em: Maternal effects in turtles

November 14

Drew Rendall

University of Lethbridge

Primate communication, the adaptive unconscious, and the perils of metaphornication

November 21

Thanksgiving - no seminar

November 28

Nadja Wielebnowski

Brookfield Zoo

Applying behavioral endocrinology to in situ and ex situ wildlife conservation efforts

December 5

 

 

 

Winter Quarter 2008

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

January 9

January 16

Daniel Fessler

UCLA

Baby steps toward the evolved psychology of a culture-dependent organism

January 22 Tuesday*-12pm

Benjamin Campbell

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Androgenic exposure and impulsivity in young men

January 30

 

 

 

February 6

February 13

Lissa Patterson

University of Chicago

Inflammation and behavior in 57-85 year old humans living in the United States

February 20

David Wheatcroft

University of Chicago

Participation in a cooperative anti-predator behavior varies with context

February 27

Theresa Lee

University of Michigan

A test of lifespan social modulation of prenatal steroid exposure

March 5

Kerry Fanson

Purdue University

Studying stress and reproduction in reintroduced Canada lynx

March 12

 

 

 

March 19

Melissah Rowe

University of Chicago

Sexual selection and sperm competition in the Australian Maluridae

 Spring Quarter 2008

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

April 2

Matt Heintz

University of Chicago

Cortisol and behavior in chimpanzees

April 9

Moshe Hoffman

University of Chicago

2D:4D digit ratio indicates risk preferences are partly predetermined

*Monday, April 14, noon

Christy Wolovich

Bucknell University

Dads don't pay for sex but do buy the milk: food sharing in owl monkeys

April 23

Nicho Hatsopoulos

University of Chicago

Propagating waves in motor cortex:
A mesoscopic view of motor cortical encoding

April 30, 4pm

David Freedman

University of Chicago

Brain mechanisms of visual category recognition

May 7
     
May 14
     
May 21
     

May 28

     
       
*Note the different day