The Earley Lab

Academic Experience

2008 - present: Assistant Professor - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama
2006 - 2008: Assistant Professor - Department of Biology, California State University Fresno
2004-2006: NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Georgia State University.
2005-2006: Visiting professor of Biology at Morehouse College - Atlanta, GA.
2002-2004: National Science Foundation Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Postdoc Fellow, GSU
1997-2002: Ph.D. in Biology, University of Louisville (Advisor: Dr. Lee Alan Dugatkin).
1997-2001: Masters in Environmental Biology, University of Louisville (Advisor: Dr. Lee Alan Dugatkin).
1993-1997: BS in Biology with Honors, Syracuse University, (Advisors: Dr. Larry Wolf & Dr. Yuying Hsu).
1996: School for International Training, Wildlife Conservation and Ecology Program, Program Location: Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa (Advisor: Saba Douglas-Hamilton).

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Current Research Funding

Grants pending at the National Science Foundation, Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (AL), National Geographic

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Past Research Funding of Note

2008-2009: Whitehall Foundation, Inc. (Grants-in-Aid), Exploring behavioral variability through neuro-epigenetics
2007-2008: California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology, Receptor-mediated shifts in serotonin metabolism: implications for aggressive behavior
2004-2006: National Institutes for Health, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Regulatory effects of stress on reproductive behavior
2004: American Museum of Natural History - Lerner Gray Fund, A conundrum for sex-changing fish: how to achieve dominance and preserve future reproductive opportunity?

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Peer Reviewed Publications and Book Chapters

See publication list here

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Synergistic Activities

Academic Editor of PLoS ONE (October 2008 - present)

Solicited Manuscript Reviews (104 total)

Acta Ethologica, Animal Behaviour, Animal Biology, Aquaculture, Behaviour, Behavioural Processes, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, Biology Letters, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology, Copeia, Current Zoology, Ethology, Hormones & Behavior, Integrative & Comparative Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Ethology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Fish Biology, Marine & Freshwater Research, Oikos, Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Quarterly Review of Biology, The Open Reproductive Science Journal, Zebrafish

Solicited Grant & Book Reviews (15 total)

National Science Foundation (ad hoc), University of Florida, Elsevier Life Sciences, California Polytechnic University, Cambridge University Press, National Geographic Society, Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council UK

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Field Experiences: Past & Present

2009-present	Lake Xiloa, Nicaragua: field observations of the convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) in collaboration with Dr. Ethan Clotfelter
2009-present	Florida mangroves to investigate natural history and behavior of the mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus)
2002-present	USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Santa Catalina Island, CA: field observations and manipulations of bluebanded goby (Lythypnus dalli) social groups in collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. Matthew Grober

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Collaborators

Yuying Hsu - National Taiwan Normal University
Ethan Clotfelter - Amherst College
Matthew Grober - Georgia State University
Gordon Schuett - Georgia State University
Julie Desjardins - Stanford University
Kristin Bonnie - Beloit College
Carlos Bustamante - Stanford University School of Medicine
Gita Kolluru - California Polytechnic University
Victoria Braithwaite & Gabrielle Archard - Pennsylvania State University
Andre Fernandez - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Omar Attum - Indiana University Southeast

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Invited Seminars, Symposia & Workshops Organized

Invited Seminars

Texas State University; Auburn University; Valdosta State University; University of Alabama Center for Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems; National Taiwan Normal University; Pennsylvania State University; Lehigh University; Indiana University Southeast; Cafe Scientifique (Fresno); California Polytechnic State University; University of Alabama; Stanford University; University of California Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology; Modesto Junior College; Fresno City College (Biology Club); California State University Fresno; University of California Davis; Contests in Biology and Economics Workshop (Berlin, Germany); Florida Atlantic University; University of Lethbridge (Canada); University of Idaho; University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Wrigley Institute for Environmental Science; University of Minnesota; Emory University; University of Louisville; University of Montana; WM Keck Center - North Carolina State University; Indiana University; University of Kentucky

Symposia & Workshops Organized

2007	International Ethological Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia (organized symposium on Integrative Perspectives on Animal Contests); participants (Mark Briffa, Yuying Hsu, Domhnall Jennings, Oyvind Overli & Albert Ros)
2006	National Taiwan Normal University (organized workshop on Methods for Hormone Extraction and Assay)

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Conference & Symposium Presentations (last 3 years)

Undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. student presenters in green

2010

32nd Annual Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, CO	*Earley RL*. Wormholes and reaction norms: probing the environmental (and genetic) roots of phenotypic variation
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, Seattle, WA	Luzania RR, Upton, KR, *Earley RL* & Riley LG. The effects of fasting and re-feeding on the neuroendocrine control of appetite in tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus

2009

Frontiers in Biology Research Colloquium, University of Alabama	Wong SC, Hanninen A, Sivaraman B, Roberts E & *Earley RL*. Carotenoids: more than just color?
Frontiers in Biology Research Colloquium, University of Alabama	Sivaraman B, Zelickson A, May M, Nuttall M, Brown B & *Earley RL. Neural mechanisms of territorial aggression in the convict cichlid Amatitlania nigrofasciata*
Frontiers in Biology Research Colloquium, University of Alabama	Garcia M, Sivaraman B, Wong SC & *Earley RL*. Win, lose, or draw: does fighting experience affect future contest success?
Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists; Portland, OR	Graham S, *Earley RL*, Mendonca M & Sewell L. Interactions between the endocrine and immune system during reproduction in snakes
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; East Lansing, MI	Lorenzi V, *Earley RL* & Grober MS. Steroids, sex change and social status: different tissues have different perspectives
Champalimaud Foundation Neuroscience Program Symposium on Social Modulation of Behavior; Lisbon, Portugal	*Earley RL. Victory and defeat fuel future contest behavior: powering forward by integrating across disciplines and levels of analysis (invited*)
Central California Research Symposium; Fresno, CA	Campbell JM, Roth TL, Riley L & *Earley RL. Variation in aggressive behavior within a clonal killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus*: investigations into gene expression and epigenetic modifications of monoamine oxidase.
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology; Boston, MA	Graham SP, Sewell LM, *Earley RL* & Mendonca M. Complement bacterial killing in a snake: differences between reproductive conditions of female cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorous)
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology; Boston, MA	*Earley RL, Campbell JM & Hsu Y. Consistent behavioral and life history variation within clones of the killifish Kryptolebias marmoratus*
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology; Boston, MA	Copeland DL & *Earley RL. Fighting is costly for both winners and losers in the convict cichlid fish (Amatitlania nigrofasciata*)

2008

Bama Grad Expo; Tuscaloosa, AL	Garcia MJ, Sivaraman B & *Earley RL. The effects of fighting experience on future contest performance in the territorial lizard, Anolis carolinensis*
Society for the Study of Evolution; Minneapolis, MN	Campbell JM, Janzen W, Medichetti S, Wong S & *Earley RL. Phenotypic variation in the clonal mangrove killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus*
LSAMP Symposium; Fresno, CA	Luzania R, Cheah A, *Earley RL* & Riley LG. Identification of NPY-containing neurons in the brain of the tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus.
Central California Research Symposium; Fresno, CA	Medichetti S, Wong S & *Earley RL. Does challenging convict cichlids with ACTH manipulate the stress axis? ( won best poster presentation*)
Central California Research Symposium; Fresno, CA	Campbell J, Janzen W, Medichetti S, Wong S & *Earley RL. Relationships between steroid hormones and aggression in the clonal mangrove killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus*
Western Groundfish Conference; Santa Cruz, CA	Barnett LAK, Ebert DA, Cailliet GM & *Earley RL. Maturity, fecundity, and the reproductive cycle of the white-spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei* (Lay & Bennett 1839')
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology; San Antonio, TX	Copeland DL, Rodnick KJ, *Earley RL* & Secor SM. Cardiac enzyme and energetic compensation during post-prandial metabolism in Burmese pythons (Python molurus)
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology; San Antonio, TX	Ma J, Wong S & *Earley RL. Social deprivation triggers increased stress responsiveness and aggression in convict cichlid fish (Cryptoheros nigrofasciatus*)
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology; San Antonio, TX	Wong S, Ma J & *Earley RL. Stressed out? Novel methods and experimental assessment of the interaction between social stress and aggression in convict cichlid fish (Cryptoheros nigrofasciatus*)