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***REMINDER***

 
KILLAM LECTURE


Speaker:	Martha McClintock, Ph.D.
		Division of Biological Sciences

Title:	Human Scents and Pheromones:  Effects on Fertility, Sexuality
and Emotions

Place:	de Grandpre Communications Centre

Date:		Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Time:		4:00 pm



Martha McClintock's lecture title is "Human scents and pheromones:
Effects on fertility, sexuality and emotions".
      
Martha McClintock is a professor in the Department of Psychology and
Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology at the University of
Chicago. Her research focuses on the interaction between behavior and
reproductive endocrinology. Due to the reciprocal link between behavior
and endocrine functions, she focuses uniquely on the behavioral control
of endocrinology, in addition to the hormonal and neuroendocrine
mechanisms of behavior. McClintock is currently working with a broad set
of questions involving parallel processes in both experimental animals
and humans. These questions range from genetic influences on cancer
development to psychobiological factors behind life expectancy; however,
she is perhaps best known for her work on human pheromones and how they
regulate sexual selection. McClintock is known as an enthusiastic
speaker with great pedagogical skills.

Representative publications:
Cavigelli SA, Yee JR, McClintock MK. (2006). Infant temperament predicts
life span in female rats that develop spontaneous tumors.Hormones and
Behavior 50(3):454-62.

Cavigelli, S.A. and McClintock, M.R. (2003). Fear of novelty in infant
rats predicts adult corticosterone dynamics and an early death. PNAS
100(2): 16131-16136.

Jacob, S., McClintock, M.R., Zelano, B. and Ober, C. (2002). Paternally
inherited HLA alleles are associated with women's choice of male odor.
Nature Genetics 30: 175-179.

Stern, K., & McClintock, M. K. (1998). Regulation of ovulation by human
pheromones. Nature, 392(6672), 177-179.