PhD Student, Cornell University (2016 – 2021)

BS (2016), Indiana University

Email: cjf225@cornell.edu

 

 

 

Research Interests:

Interactions between environment, neurobiology, and behavior; prosocial and affiliative behaviors; behavioral ecology; differences in male and female behavior.

 

Specific Interests:

I am interested in how environmental factors influence neurobiology and behavior, particularly prosocial and affiliative behaviors. These environmental factors could be specifically related to the physical environment, such as the density of food resources, or they could be the social environment of the individual. In addition, I am interested in investigating female behavior as it relates to affiliative behaviors, socio-spatial memory, and reproductive decisions. My lab approach is a mixture of field and laboratory studies.

 

Papers (from the lab):

Finton CJ, Ophir AG. (2022) Developmental exposure to intranasal vasopressin impacts adult prairie vole spatial memory. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 141, 105750.

 

Finton CJ, Kelly AK, Ophir AG (2022). Support for the parental practice hypothesis: Subadult prairie voles exhibit similar behavioral and neural profiles when alloparenting kin and non-kin. Behavioural Brain Research. 417, 113571.

Finton CJ, Ophir AG (2020) Prairie vole pups prefer mothers only when they are a unique resource, but fathers are the main source of variable care. Behavioural Processes. 171, 104022.

 

Finton CJ, Kelly AM, Ophir AG (2018) Cannulation and microinjection stereotaxic surgeries in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster).  Kopf Carrier.#94. (Non-peer reviewed)

 

Undergrads	Date Joined
Shalini Gundamraj	2018-2021
Rebecca Horowitz	2019-2020
Mary Slavinsky	2019-2020
Gogoate Lemea	2018-2019
Pooja Patel	2018-2020
Ryan Wang	2018
Josh Roman	2017-2018
Samuel Chauvin	2017
Jintana Cunningham	2016-2017
Hallie Malina (High School Student)	2016-2017

 

 

Found that one lost transmitter… in owl poop!	Even when visiting home, you can’t stop the science
Hard at work at SCIB 2019	Actually hard at work at SCIB 2019
Pooja at CUP 2019