B IOLOGY S EMINAR
AUBREY GORBMAN ENDOWED LECTURE
4:00 PM S E M I N A R
H I T C H C O C K H A L L 132
R E F R E S H M E N T S I N F O Y E R 3:45 PM
AND FOLLOWING SEMINAR
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
“The Hormone in the Middle:
Integrative Behavior as Learned
from an Adaptable Songbird”
Dr. Ellen Ketterson
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biology
University of Indiana
© J Burcher
Ellen Ketterson is a biologist whose research combines mechanistic and evolutionary
approaches to the study of behavior of animals living in the wild. In the mid-1980s she
became deeply interested in hormones and behavior and began to study the impact of
experimental phenotypic manipulations in the field, using hormones to simultaneously
modify the expression of numerous traits related to lifespan and reproduction. During
more recent years, she has studied natural variation in hormonal phenotypes, exploring
the impact of hormone-mediated characters on performance (survival and reproduction).
By extending this approach across populations, she and her students have broken new
ground in understanding the role of hormones in rapid behavioral evolution.
Host: Anya Illes
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