Selected Presentations & Appearances
Public Lecture, “Brain Awareness Week,”
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University
Symposium on “Ears, eyes, and noses: revisiting the evolution and ecology of the primate special Senses.”
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Minneapolis, MN
Research Seminar
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
Systems & Integrative Neuroscience Group, Duke University
Integrative Biology Seminar
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Research seminar: Systems and Integrative Neuroscience Group
· September 1, 2013
Lecture
Duke University
Public Lecture, “Brain Awareness Week,”
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University
Symposium on “Ears, eyes, and noses: revisiting the evolution and ecology of the primate special Senses.”
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Minneapolis, MN
Research Seminar
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
Systems & Integrative Neuroscience Group, Duke University
Integrative Biology Seminar
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Research seminar: Systems and Integrative Neuroscience Group
· September 1, 2013
Lecture
Duke University
Using next-generation sequencing to investigate genetic health in a threatened primate
· July 1, 2013
Lecture
Baltimore, MD
5th Annual Conference of Collaborators on the Kalahari Meerkat Project
· July 1, 2013
Lecture
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Research Seminar
· December 1, 2012
Lecture
Kuruman River Reserve, Van Zylsrus, South Africa
Langford Lecture
· October 1, 2012
Lecture
Duke University
4th Annual Conference of Collaborators on the Kalahari Meerkat Project
· July 1, 2012
Lecture
University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
Plasticity in primate olfactory signals: Testing the hormonal modulation of scent via natural and controlled experiments
· July 1, 2012
Lecture
Vilnius, Lithuania
Symposium on "Chemosensory-initiated behavior": The olfactory mediation of mate choice in lemurs, 16th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste
· June 1, 2012
Lecture
Stockholm, Sweden
Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) recognize familiar individuals by matching odors and vocalizations
· June 1, 2012
Lecture
Albuquerque, NM
Graduate Student Distinguished Speaker Series
· March 1, 2012
Lecture
University of Colorado, Bouler, CO
Research Seminar
· December 2011
Lecture
Kuruman River Reserve, Van Zylsrus, South Africa
Lecture
Biology Seminar
· August 2011
Lecture
North Carolina State University
Lecture
Sight or scent: Sensory reliance in detecting food quality by foraging lemurs reflects differing feeding ecologies
· August 1, 2011
Lecture
Austin, TX
Symposium on "Does social complexity influence communicative complexity?"
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
Bloomington, IN
Symposium on "Female Competition for breeding resources: traits, mechanisms, and modes of selection"
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
Bloomington, IN
Sending mixed signals: olfactory communication in Coquerel's sifakas, Propithecus coquereli
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
Bloomington, IN
Behavioral neuroendocrinology in female-dominant versus co-dominant Eulemur
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
Bloomington, IN
3rd Annual Conference of Collaborators on the Kalahari Meerkat Project
· July 2011
Lecture
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Lecture
Prospecting for urinary chemical signals in binturongs (Arcticits binturong)
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
Anaheim, CA
Smelling wrong: hormonal contraception alters critical female odor cues
· July 1, 2010
Lecture
Williamsburg, Virginia
Message 'scent': lemurs detect honest olfactory ornaments in females
· July 1, 2010
Lecture
Williamsburg, Virginia
Phylogenetic and socioecological patterns in the urinary cues of prosimians
· July 1, 2010
Lecture
Williamsburg, Virginia
Seasonal variation of characteristic scent compounds in Eulemurs using gc/ms analysis
· April 1, 2010
Lecture
San Francisco, CA
Mammalian chemical communication: comparative investigation of urinary signals in prosimian primates
· April 1, 2010
Lecture
San Franscisco, CA
Ecology Seminar
· December 1, 2009
Lecture
Duke University, Durham, DC
Duke Lemur Center Seminar Series. "The sweet smell of success: Scent marks advertise the genetic quality of lemurs"
· December 29, 2008
Lecture
Durham, NC
Invited Speakers Program. "Sexual differentiation in unconventional mammals"
· December 29, 2008
Lecture
88th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA
Symposium on Cooperation, Reciprocity and Responses to Inequity. "Cooperation in carnivores: Implications for primate cooperation studies"
· December 29, 2008
Lecture
22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society, Edinburgh, UK
Joint EvMorph and BEAST Seminar. Seeing red, smelling red: Sensory mechanisms of foraging in strepsirrhine primates
· January 2, 2008
Lecture
Duke University
Behavior, Population, and Community Ecology Seminar. Sensory mechanisms of foraging in lemurs: seeing and smelling red
· January 2, 2008
Lecture
Duke University