Almost the entire Dantzer Lab was at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology in Tampa, FL in January of 2019. It was a meeting of big accomplishments for all the lab members. Tricia, Mena, Matt, and Charlotte attended their first SICB while Sarah Westrick, Sarah Guindre-Parker, and I kept up…
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Biology of sex differences course
This semester I’m really excited to organize a graduate seminar course about sex/gender from perspectives of evolutionary & neuroscience research (a vast topic!). Topics range from how we should talk about sex/gender in biological research, the evolution of sexual reproduction, the origins of a supposedly binary world, sexual conflict, development of sex or gender differences,…
Special UM symposium on animal behavior
We are excited to announce that the Dantzer Lab will be hosting a special symposium at UM titled At the Crossroads of Evolution & Neuroscience. The symposium will invite a range of exciting speakers to talk about the evolution of animal behavior and the mechanisms that underlie it. See the full schedule below. Thanks to the Evolution…
Two new papers
I am happy to report the publication of two new pieces of original research from the Dantzer Lab. The first manuscript (here) that just came out in Ecology & Evolution was the result of a fun collaboration with Michael Sheriff (Penn State), John Orrock (Univ Wisconsin, Madison), and Oliver Love (Univ Windsor). The aim of this manuscript…
New paper: stress induced by invasive species
When a species is introduced to a new area, it often can have detrimental effects on the native ecosystem. The causes of those negative impacts are often unknown. The grey squirrel from North America was introduced to Europe in ~1948 and has had devastating impacts on the native Eurasian red squirrel (pictured above). With our…
New Preprints
The Dantzer Lab believes in openly and quickly sharing results, data, and methods from our research. As a step in this direction, we are now posting all submitted manuscripts to bioArxiv using the CC-BY license. We’ve just started this process with two preprints that are currently available at bioArxiv. The first preprint was authored by former Dantzer…
Awarded NSF CAREER Award!
Thrilled and humbled to announce that the lab has received an NSF CAREER Award (NSF IOS 1749627)! There will be opportunities for lab/field assistants and a post-doc so please contact me if you are interested.
Lab at SICB Conference!
The Dantzer Lab was fully represented at the annual meeting of the Society for Comparative and Endocrinology in San Francisco. Anne presented a poster on some of the exciting results from her first field season studying the social behavior and microbiome of prairie voles. Sarah Westrick presented her latest findings about maternal stress and maternal…
Sarah Westrick featured in Discover Magazine
Sarah Westrick had her interesting encounter with a lynx while she was doing field work in the Yukon featured in Discover Magazine!
Kluane Red Squirrel Workshop
Each year members of the Kluane Red Squirrel Project meet to discuss the field season from the previous year, plans for the upcoming field season, and ongoing manuscripts and research projects. Everyone gives a presentation and gets detailed feedback from all participants. As a group, we discuss “the next big experiments” and what lingering important…