Elizabeth Adkins-Regan - US grants
Affiliations: | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States |
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According to our matching algorithm, Elizabeth Adkins-Regan is the likely recipient of the following grants.Years | Recipients | Code | Title / Keywords | Matching score |
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1977 — 1982 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Gonadal Hormones and Avian Differentiation @ Cornell University |
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1978 — 1981 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Undergraduate Laboratory in Biopsychology @ Cornell University |
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1982 — 1986 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth Ottinger, Mary Ann (co-PI) [⬀] |
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Hormones and Behavioral Development in An Altricial Bird @ Cornell University |
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1984 — 1988 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Avian Reproductive Behavior @ Cornell University |
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1986 — 1988 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
U.S.-Industrialized Countries Exchange For Scientists and Engineers, 1986/1987 Competition @ Cornell University |
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1988 — 1992 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Spinal Mechanisms of Avian Reproduction @ Cornell University Great progress is being made on understanding exactly how sex steroids act on the nervous system to yield adaptive behavior and physiology that serves to promote reproductive success. Dr. Adkins-Regan is performing experiments on birds which investigates the spinal level neuroendocrine processes. This work will contribute to our understanding of the role of testosterone metabolites in androgenic actions on the nervous system. Dr. Adkins-Regan has data that show that these sex steroids change the dendritic arborizations of motor neurons. This finding has ramifications for neuronal plasticity in the adult. This work is important because there is increasing recognition that in addition to specific reproduction related effects on the nervous system such as the production of sexual dimorphism, sex hormones may have more general trophic effects on neural development. Neuroendocrinology is a tremendously fast moving field, and its study should yield many new findings regarding the physiology of human behavior. |
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1990 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | R03Activity Code Description: To provide research support specifically limited in time and amount for studies in categorical program areas. Small grants provide flexibility for initiating studies which are generally for preliminary short-term projects and are non-renewable. |
An Animal Model For Specific Anosmia @ Cornell University Ithaca The proposed project is an investigation of a potentially valuable animal model for the study of specific anosmia to androstenone, a steroid derivative of testosterone. Specific anosmia to androstenone occurs in approximately 40% of human adults tested, and age and sex differences in sensitivity have been reported. Investigation of responses to androstenone in the pig is of particular interest because previous work has indicated that androstenone plays a role in chemical communication in swine and that pigs' behavioral responses to the steroid vary with age and sex. Specific questions to be addressed by the study are whether the lack of behavioral response to androstenone in certain groups of pigs reflects an inability to detect the chemical, analogous to specific anosmia in humans, and if the developmental shift in sensitivity to androstenone during adolescence noted in humans also occurs in swine. Pigs' ability to detect androstenone will be determined using a discrete trials, "go, no-go" successive discrimination task. The animals will be trained to discriminate between an odor and a blank, opening a reward box in the presence of one, but not in the presence of the other. In order to investigate effects of age and sex on detection of androstenone, the study will include 6 groups of 8 pigs: mature females, intact and castrated mature males, prepubertal females, and intact and castrated prepubertal males. Measuring and comparing the ability of pigs of different ages and sexes to detect androstenone will indicate whether the sensitivity shift in humans and the dimorphic behavioral responses in swine are analogous, and whether further study of the pigs' psychophysical responses to the steroid can increase understanding of specific anosmia in particular, and of coding in olfaction in general. |
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1996 — 2002 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Developmental Mechanisms of Reproductive Choice @ Cornell University Abstract Adkins-Regan 9514088 The goal of the proposed research is to analyze developmental processes leading to adult mate choice and mate preferences, especially preferences that are sexually dimorphic (different in males and females). The project will focus on a particularly robust and widespread aspect of mate choice, preference for opposite-sex partners (sexual partner preference), and a species well-suited to the goal, the zebra finches treated with estrogen during the first two weeks posthatch and housed in an all-female zebra finches treated with estrogen during the first two weeks posthatch and housed in an all-female environment from 40 days (independence from the parents)to 100 days (young adulthood) then prefer to pair with other females. In order to address important questions raised by this discovery, a series of experiments will be conducted in which annals are exposed to different hormonal or social environment manipulations during development and then tested for sexual partner preference--organizational effects of hormones produce early in development, and sexual imprinting--and will elucidate the manner in which hormonal and experiential influences interact during development. This work will advance our understanding of mate choice and of reproductive behavior development. |
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2001 — 2003 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Cornell University Dissertation Research: A Functional and Mechanistic Investigation of Yolk Androgens in the European Starling (Sturnus Vulgaris) |
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2002 — 2008 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Mechanisms of Long-Term Monogamous Relationships in Zebra Finches @ Cornell University PI: Elizabeth Adkins-Regan |
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2012 — 2017 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Abr: Socially Monogamous Pairing: Mechanisms and Memory @ Cornell University Exclusive male-female pairbonds (socially monogamous mating systems) are seen in only a few kinds of mammals and in some humans, but are a very common reproductive arrangement in birds. Yet almost nothing is known about the internal mechanisms (neurohormones, brain systems) for pairing in birds. Using a common laboratory species, the zebra finch, that forms long-lasting pair relationships, the project aims to discover these mechanisms as they operate at three different life stages to promote socially monogamous pairing: (1) early in life in nestlings when the strong tendency to form close affiliations with family members begins, (2) during juvenile life when the birds first become more interested in the opposite sex than in the parents, and (3) following adult loss of the mate (through death) when a new pair relationship with a new partner can occur. The project is aimed at determining the physiological mechanisms that promote these pair bonding behaviors. Experiments are designed to specifically test the potential involvement of neuropeptides, such as oxytocin, and the adrenal "stress" hormone, corticosterone, in facilitating pair bonding. The project will also investigate the role of corticosterone in the ability of the birds to remember and prefer their first partner even after a long period of separation. Overall, the project will solve a long-standing mystery "what makes birds like zebra finches form strong pair bonds?" It will suggest mechanisms that might apply to the thousands of other socially monogamous birds and more generally to other vertebrates. It will provide new information on mechanisms acting in birds that can be compared with mechanisms operating in socially monogamous mammals, and thus, has the potential to increase understanding of how brains and hormones produce close relationships in all animals, including humans. The project will provide training of students at all levels and will include specific activities to recruit and train women and underrepresented minorities for scientific research careers. The work will be disseminated to the public through general audience publications, a web site, and through outreach programs to middle school girls and local K-12 biology teachers. |
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2013 — 2015 | Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth Baran, Nicole (co-PI) [⬀] |
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Dissertation Research: Developmental Mechanisms Organizing Affiliative Behavior and Pair Bonding @ Cornell University Long-term pairing (selective affiliation) between males and females is rare in mammals, but is a very common reproductive arrangement in birds. Selective affiliation begins with parents and family early in development and switches to the opposite-sex pair partner as the individual reaches adulthood. Using a common laboratory species that forms lifelong close cooperative pair relationships, the zebra finch, this project investigates the development of such selective affiliative behavior and its neural and hormonal mechanisms. The goal of the research is to test the hypothesis that the brain nonapeptide arginine vasotocin (AVT, avian homolog of vasopressin) plays an important role in the organization of affiliative behavior at two critical periods in development in the zebra finch: 1) early in life prior to leaving the nest and 2) during the transition from juvenile to adult life. This research aims to establish a causal link between changes in the nervous system and changes in affiliative behavior by using an advanced technique that measures the expression of a hormone receptor gene and neural activity in the same neurons in the brain. The research will provide new information on the mechanisms of selective affiliation in birds, which can then be compared to the mechanisms operating in socially monogamous mammals. Thus, this study has the potential to increase understanding of how brains and hormones produce close relationships in all animals, including humans. This research project will contribute to the training of undergraduates, including women and underrepresented minorities, who will be working in the laboratory. Additionally, the results from this work will be promptly published in journals accessed by a broad audience of researchers and presented at national meetings. The results will be disseminated to the public through a website and outreach programs for middle school girls. |
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2015 — 2017 | Smiley, Kristina (co-PI) [⬀] Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth |
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Dissertation Research: Hormonal Regulation of Avian Biparental Care @ Cornell University Parental care is an important component of reproduction that is observed in a diverse range of animals and is especially common in birds. The neural and hormonal basis of avian parental care is not well understood, especially in the many birds where young are raised by both mothers and fathers working together. The hormone prolactin has a well-established role in maternal care in mammals, and so prolactin and its brain receptors are a promising candidate mechanism of parental care to investigate in birds. The goal of this research is to experimentally test for a causal role of prolactin in promoting the onset of parental behavior in a biparental songbird, the zebra finch. This research will provide new insight into the mechanisms of avian parental care, allowing the integration of this important group into the comparative framework that will provide the predictive power for understanding how these mechanisms may function and evolve in other animals, including humans. The project will contribute to the scientific training of undergraduates, including women and underrepresented minorities. Additionally, the results will be promptly published in journals accessed by a broad audience of researchers, presented at national meetings, and disseminated to the public through a website and outreach programs for middle school girls. |
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