Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, PI

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Adkins-Regan

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA

The Adkins-Regan lab studied hormonal and neural mechanisms of behavior from a comparative and evolutionary perspective. A major focus was the reproductive and other social behavior of birds, including courtship, mate choice, pair formation, mating behavior, parental behavior and aggression. The integrative research program was at the intersection of behavioral neuroscience (especially behavioral neuroendocrinology) and animal behavior/behavioral ecology. The research was supported by NSF.

Click here for Elizabeth’s CV with a complete publication list

To request articles, data sets, or images, email the PI: er12@cornell.edu

RECENT NEWS

Elizabeth’s Fulbright Fellowship-supported experience studying sexual partner preference in pigs in France has been published (titled “Pigging  Out in France”) in a recent issue of Fulbright Chronicles . A-R2023Fulbright

Her research career has been presented in a beautifully written chapter by Richmond Thompson in Biographical History of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (eds. Nelson, R. J. and Weil, Z. M., 2022). In the same volume is her chapter about her PhD mentor Norman Adler.

Elizabeth was awarded the Donald S. Farner Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Avian Endocrinology in 2022 and the Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.

Lab alum Kristina Smiley (PhD 2017, Psychology) published her exciting work on prolactin receptor and pSTAT in zebra finches in General and Comparative Endocrinology and earned the cover photo. Smiley2021