Marissa Participates in S3

Published on August 23, 2017

Marissa recently served on the Mastering Your Transition into Graduate School panel during the Summer Success Symposium (S3), which took place August 16.

The program was organized by the Office of Inclusion & Student Engagement (OISE). Marissa was able to share her insights and perspectives with incoming graduate students from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds.

Some key topics discussed included:

Obstacles or challenges (personal, academic, professional) that you have faced as a PhD candidate
Strategies that have enabled your success (meeting milestones, publishing, collaborations, connecting with committee/mentors etc.)
Defining your own success – Being proactive in managing your graduate career
Striving for balance- self care & mental wellness

Sailer LL, Finton CJ, Patel PP, Bogdanowicz SM, Ophir AG (2024) Dorsal CA1 lesions of the hippocampus impact mating tactics in prairie voles by shifting non-monogamous males’ use of space to resemble monogamous males. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 18,1355807 (Sailer and Finton share 1^st authorship)

Elson MR, Prior NH, Ophir AG (2024) Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying reproductive decision making across taxa. In: Neuroendocrinology of Behavior and Emotions. (eds: Caldwell HK, Albers HE). Switzerland: Springer Nature. in press. (Prior and Ophir share last authorship).

Forero SA, Ophir AG (2023) Bonding against the odds: Male prairie vole response to the “widow effect” among females. Behavioural Processes. 213, 104968.

Haghani A, Li, CZ, Robeck, TR, Zhang J, Lu AT, et al. … Ophir AG … Sailer LL … Horvath S (2023) DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits. Science. 381, eabq5693.

Lu AT, Fei Z, Haghani A, Robeck TR, Zoller JA, et al. … Ophir AG … Sailer LL … Horvath S (2023) Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues. Nature Aging. 3, 1144-1166.

Hiura LC, Lazaro VA, Ophir AG (2023) Plasticity in parental behavior and vasopressin: Responses to co-parenting, pup age, and an acute stressor are experience-dependent. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 17, 1172845.

Wallace KJ, Chun EK, Manns JR, Ophir AG, Kelly AM (2023) A test of the social behavior network reveals differential patterns of neural responses to social novelty in bonded, but not non-bonded, male prairie voles. Hormones and Behavior. 152, 105362. (Wallace and Chun share 1^st authorship; Ophir and Kelly share last authorship)

Forero SA, Sailer LL, Girčytė A, Madrid JE, Sullivan N, Ophir AG (2023) Motherhood and DREADD manipulation of the nucleus accumbens weaken established pair bonds in female prairie voles. Hormones and Behavior. 151, 105351.

Freeman AR, Lee DN, Allen JJ, Blank B, Jeffery D, Lerer A, Singh B, Southard T, Cheong SH, Ophir AG (2023) Extreme plasticity of reproductive state in a female rodent. Current Biology. 33, R203-R218.

Wu W-Y, Yiu E, Ophir AG, Smith DM (2023) Effects of social context manipulation on dorsal and ventral hippocampal neuronal responses. Hippocampus. 33, 830-843.

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Marissa Participates in S3