Research Interests
My research is integrative and multidisciplinary in that it combines the fields of endocrinology, immunology, and molecular biology to answer broad evolutionary and ecological questions. My primary interest lies in maternal effects, particularly how females can modify the phenotype of offspring prior to parturition or hatch. Specific interests include the mechanisms underlying sex ratio manipulation by female birds and mammals and the deposition of yolk hormones by female birds.

 

Ongoing projects in my lab include:

Effects of progesterone and corticosterone treatment on avian sex ratio manipulation in domestic chickens and zebra finches
Seminal plasma hormone content and effects on sperm quality and fertility in leghorn roosters
Effects of maternal stress on embryonic growth and yolk corticosterone concentrations in zebra finches and chickens.
Effects of weighing protocol on yolk and plasma corticosterone concentrations in leghorn hens.

 
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