The University of Nebraska at Kearney Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society is hosting their next science cafe, titled “Hormones: The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Life’s Problems.”
The seminar will be presented by Associate Professor in the UNK Department of Biology, Nick Hobbs.
The presentation will provide a brief history of the field of endocrinology, the study of hormones, including its successes and missteps.
Nick Hobbs received his bachelor’s degree in organismal biology from the University of Kansas in 2004 and completed his doctorate in 2012 at the University of Memphis, where he studied how food availability and food quality affected sexual behaviors in meadow voles. He then went on to a postdoctoral position in the Breedlove/Jordan Lab in the neuroscience program at Michigan State University, where he studied how androgens, such as testosterone, affect the brain and behavior of mice lacking the androgen receptor. His lab is currently investigating the role of androgens in mediating the effects of food availability on olfactory and anxiety-like behaviors in mice.
The seminar will be held Monday February 6, at 5:30 p.m. It will be at The Loft in Cunningham’s Journal, 15 W. 23rd St., Kearney
For more information contact UNK Associate Professor of Chemistry Allen Thomas 308.865.8452 or at thomasaa@unk.edu.