Ph.D. (2001) Univ. of Texas at Austin. B.A. (1994) New College of Florida.
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 10%-24%
Languages:
• Spanish (elementary proficiency)
Specialization:
Neurobiology and behavior.
Relevant Experience:
Biological field research in Panama and Costa Rica. Work involves neurobiology and behavior experiments on frog communication. We import live animals and tissue in the US for our ongoing research at UNC-CH.
• 2016 Chakraborty M, Burmeister SS. 2015. Effects of estradiol on neural responses to social signals in female túngara frogs. Journal of Experimental Biology 218:3671-3677.
• 2016 Wilczynski W, Burmeister SS. in press. Effects of Steroid Hormones on Hearing and Communication in Frogs. In: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research: Hearing and Hormones. (A. Bass, J. Sisneros, A. Popper, & R. Ray, eds).
• 2016 Liu Y, Day LB, Summers K, Burmeister SS. 2016. Learning to learn: advanced behavioural flexibility in a poison frog. Animal Behaviour 111:167-172.
• 2015 Garcia NW, Pfennig KS, Burmeister SS. 2015. Leptin manipulation reduces appetite and causes a switch in mating preference in the Plains spadefoot toad. PLoS One. in press.
• 2009 Chakraborty, M. & S.S. Burmeister. 2009. Estradiol induces sexual behavior in female túngara frogs. Hormones and Behavior 55:106-112
• 2008 Mangiamele, L.A. & S.S. Burmeister. 2008. Acoustically evoked immediate early gene expression in the pallium of female túngara frogs. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 72(3):239-250
• 2008 Burmeister, S.S., L.A. Mangiamele, & C.L. Lebonville. 2008. Acoustic modulation of immediate early gene expression in the auditory midbrain of female túngara frogs. Brain Research, 1190:105-114.
• 2007 Burmeister, S.S. 2007. Genomic responses to behavioral interactions in an African cichlid fish: mechanisms and evolutionary implications. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 70:247.
• 2007 Burmeister, S.S., V. Kailasanath, & R.D. Fernald. 2007. Social dominance regulates expression of androgen and estrogen receptor genes. Hormones and Behavior 51:164-170.
• 2007 Burmeister, S.S., V. Kailasanath, & R.D. Fernald. 2007. Social dominance regulates expression of androgen and estrogen receptor genes. Hormones and Behavior 51:164-170.
• 2005 Burmeister, S.S., E.D. Jarvis, & R.D. Fernald. 2005. Rapid behavioral and genomic responses to social opportunity. Public Library of Science Biology 3(11):e363.
• 2005 Burmeister, S.S., & R.D. Fernald. 2005. Evolutionary conservation of the egr-1 immediate-early gene response in a teleost. Journal of Comparative Neurology 481(2):220-232.
• 2004 Hoke, K.L, S.S. Burmeister, R.D. Fernald, S. Rand, M.J. Ryan, & W. Wilczynski. 2004. Functional mapping of the auditory midbrain during mate call reception. Journal of Neuroscience 24(50):11264-11272.
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