Group 1 : Transcription
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1. Florian Duclot - Florida State University - Transcriptomic regulations underlying pair-bond formation and maintenance in the socially monogamous male and female prairie vole
2. Joel Tripp - University of Texas-Austin - Comparative neurogenomics of bonding in voles
3. Joshua Danoff - University of Virginia, UC Davis - Effects of sex and early life experience on gene expression and ultrastructure in the nucleus accumbens
4. Julie Sadino - University of Colorado Boulder - Prolonged partner separation erodes nucleus accumbens transcriptional signatures of pair bonding in male prairie voles
Group 2 : Early Life
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1. Gina Williams - UCSF - Understanding the juvenile antecedents of social attachment behaviors — only available live - no permission to record
2. Jesus Madrid - Cornell University - Early rearing environment influences male prairie vole mating tactics and the female partner’s decision to form pair bonds
3. Rikki Laser - Cornell University - Huddling in the neonatal prairie vole
Group 3 : Gene Expression & BNST
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1. Erika Vitale - University of Kansas - Nucleus accumbens DRD1 expression is associated with aggression but not partner preference in female prairie voles under trio housing conditions
2. Maria Tickerhoof - University of Kansas - Corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis promote pair bond formation in male and female prairie voles
3. Erin Kastar - University of Virginia - The Prairie Vole Brain Atlas: A Web-Based Open Resource
1. Ruchira Sharma - UCSF - Behavioral and development consequences of loss of OxtR function — only available live - no permission to record
2. Santiago Forero - Cornell University - Pair Bond Strength Variation in the Female Prairie Vole
3. Amelie Borie - Emory University - Social experience alters oxytocinergic modulation in the nucleus accumbens of female prairie voles
4. Lindsay L. Sailer - Cornell University - Chemogenetic activation of the lateral septum alters sociality but not pair bonding behaviors in male prairie voles
Group 4 : Pair Bond Behavior Varitation
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1. Charles Ford - Emory University - Threat to a social bond in the socially monogamous prairie vole: toward a new model of psychosocial stress
2. Eileen Chun - Florida State University - Behavioral, Neurochemical, and Neuroimmune Changes Associated with Social Buffering and Stress Contagion
3. Lina Karina Nerio Morales - University of Kansas - Social defeat regulation of oxytocin-related signaling proteins in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)
4. Meghan Donovan - Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Florida State University - Social isolation alters the gut-immune-brain axis in male and female prairie voles
Group 5 : Stress I
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1. Forrest Rogers - Princeton University + UC Davis - Comparative characterization of reproductive behaviors and neuroendocrine correlates in endangered Amargosa voles (Microtus californicus scirpensis)
2. Phoebe Edwards - University of Toronto - Is social density associated with chronic stress in voles? Reconciling the evidence
3. Sheena Potretzke - Oregon Health & Science University - Targeting the oxytocin system for Alcohol Use Disorder in socially-housed prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) — only available live - no permission to record
4. W. Tang Watanasriyakul - Northern Illinois University - The role of central oxytocin antagonism in promoting affective behaviors and cardiac dysfunction in socially paired and isolated female prairie voles
Group 6 : Stress II
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1. Arjen Boender - Emory University - Using functional genomics and AAV-CRISPR/Cas9 to identify non-coding regulatory elements in the prairie vole genome that influence Oxtr expression
2. Kyle Gossman - University of Kansas - Structural connectivity of the fore- and mid- brain in prairie voles
3. Melissa Curtis - University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences - Multiomics Approach Elucidates Altered Pathways Contributing to Autism Related Behaviors Resulting from Developmental Pesticide Exposure in Mouse
4. Emma Whelan - University of Virginia - iGONAD use in prairie vole to examine DNA methylation dependent gene expression
Group 7 : Molecular Tech
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1. Annie Dobroth - Smith College - Machine learning approaches to multi-animal behavioral analysis
2. Shuyu Wang - UCSF - Computational neuroethology in prairie voles: Toward unbiased, systematic detection of social behavior and attachment
3. Mena Davidson - University of Michigan + Miami University - Is radio frequency identification technology suitable for recording social behavior in free-living animals?