Ophir Lab

When you get to work with fun people! 🤣 Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 #Halloween2024

What if you lesion the hippocampus of male #PrairieVoles and put them in the field? @BioBookworm @LindsaySailer Will they bond (yes) Will homerange size change (no) Will it affect monogamous males (not really) Will it affect non-monogamous males (yup!) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Starting soon! Join us for @JesusEMadrid's talk, "Early rearing environment influences prairie vole reproductive success," at 11:00 am in room B114. Come learn about a fascinating experiment combining lab and field methods! #ABS2023

Starting soon! Join us for @RikkiSLaser's talk, "Hot parents in your area: Ambient temperature affects parental behavior in a biparental rodent," at 10:45 am in room B114. Come learn about how and why temperature changes parental behavior! #ABS2023

Starting soon! Join us for @alexophir's talk, "What's love got to do with it? Parental care impacts social behavior and monogamous decision making," at 3 pm in B110-111. Come learn about our lab's exciting work! #ABS2023

Finally, post doc @EhrenBentz will be giving his talk, "Volatile and non-volatile chemical profiles of urine from the Southern giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei)" at 8 am on Saturday! (5/5)

At 11:00, post doc @JesusEMadrid will be giving his talk, "Early rearing environment influences prairie vole reproductive success." (4/5)

We have an exciting lineup of Ophir lab members this year at #ABS2023! (1/5)

Also, check out @LindsaySailer's poster (#20) to hear about the impacts of paternal deprivation and chronic social defeat stress on prairie vole social development #SBN2023

SBNers! Come check out @EhrenBentz's poster (#7) today, entitled: Differential gene expression in chemosensory epithelia of the Southern giant pouched rat as a mechanism modulating sensory perception

Congrats to @SusannaZheng1 for presenting her poster today at SBN on “The Effects of Early Life Social Experiences on Oxytocin Receptor Density” & for getting the SBN Abstract Award! #SBN2023

@LindsaySailer, @rachnbeau, @RikkiSLaser, and @JesusEMadrid have been catching meadow voles for a collab. Besides voles, they've caught and released quite a few cute critters! It's a lot of hard work but it's so fun working together! #fieldwork

Welcome to my #TwitterTakeover!!! My name is @JesusEMadrid, and I’m a postdoctoral associate in the @OphirLab @CornellPsychDpt. Today I’ll be taking you through some highlights of my research on #PrarieVoles, #development, #matingdecisions, and some of our exciting #outreach.

I'm so proud of my student Amit Hanadari-levy, who was awarded the @CornellNBB Robert R. Capranica Award (for an outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neuroethology)! She'll be studying capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica this summer. What a rockstar!! 🎉

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