Broadly, my research focuses on how environmental context, including social and seasonal cues, is integrated via the brain and endocrine system to drive adaptive social behavior. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Alward lab at the University of Houston, where I am studying the neural and molecular regulation of subordinate social status by androgens in the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni. Prior to starting my postdoc, I received my Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at Indiana University. As a Ph.D. student in the Demas lab, I examined how the hormone melatonin regulates seasonal aggression in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) using molecular genetic, biochemical, pharmacological, and behavioral approaches.
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Mailing Address:
Department of Psychology
University of Houston
Health and Biomedical Sciences Building 1
Room 336
4349 Martin Luther King Boulevard
Houston, TX 77204
E-mail: kmmunley@central.uh.edu
Kathleen M. Munley 