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Education:
2008 B.A.,
Biological Anthropology, Duke University
2010
M.A., Comparative Human Development, The
University of Chicago
2010-present Ph.D. Student,
Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago
Relevant Employment:
2007-2008 Research
Assistant, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke
University
2005-2006 Research
Assistant, Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy,
Duke University
2003
Lab technician, Dept. of Oral Biology, The Ohio
State University
Grants & Fellowships:
2010-2011 Hinds Fund Seed Grant,
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
2010-2011 Rynerson Research
Grant, Dept. Comp. Human Development
2009-2012 NSF Graduate
Research Fellowship
2008-2013 Graduate Fellowship,
Dept. of Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago
2008-2009 Social, Behavioral,
and Economic Sciences Fellowship
2007-2008 Trinity College
Research Forum Scholar in the Biological
Sciences
2007
Undergraduate Research Studies grant
2007
Vertical Integration Program summer fellowship
in Psychology
2005-2006 Institute for Genome
Sciences and Policy summer fellowship
Research Experience:
2011-present Cognitive and social
development of infant rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago,
Puerto Rico and how genetic, emotional,
physiological, and environmental factors affect
variation in infant social competence
2009
Behavioral endocrinology of female reproductive
behavior in rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago,
Puerto Rico
2007-2009 Risk assessment and
decision making in human and non-human primates,
Duke University, Center for Cognitive
Neuroscience
2005-2006
Investigating primate X-inactivation through
creation of a gene map of UBE1 in prosimians,
Duke University, Institute for Genome Sciences
and Policy
2003
Investigation of the immunosuppressive effects of
chronic stress, The Ohio State University, Dept.
of Oral Biology
Teaching Experience:
2010-2011
Seminar on Animal Behavior workshop
co-coordinator, The University of Chicago,
Council on Advanced Studies
2010 Teaching Assistant for "Primate Evolution",
Instructor: Robert Martin
2009, 2010 Teaching
Assistant for "Primate Behavior and Ecology",
Instructor: Dario Maestripieri
Conference Presentations:
Mandalaywala, T.M., MacLean,
E.L., Brannon, E.M. (2011). Risk aversion
in lemurs. Animal Behavior Society
Conference, Bloomington, IN.
Mandalaywala, T.M., Higham, J.P.,
Heistermann, M., Maestripieri, D. (2010).
Relationships between reproductive hormones and
female behavior in rhesus macaques on Cayo
Santiago. International Primatological
Society Congress, Kyoto, Japan.
Publications:
E. L. MacLean, T. M.
Mandalaywala, E. M.
Brannon.
Variance-sensitive choice in lemurs: Constancy trumps
quantity.
Animal Cognition, in press.
T. M. Mandalaywala, J. P. Higham, M. Heistermann, D. Maestripieri.
The presence of infant bystanders modulates the influence of
ovarian hormones on female
socio-sexual behavior in free-ranging rhesus macaques.
Behaviour, 148: 1137-1155, 2011.
J. P. Higham, C. S. Barr, C. L. Hoffman, T. M. Mandalaywala, K. J. Parker, D. Maestripieri.
Mu-opioid receptor (OPRM1) variation, oxytocin levels, and maternal
attachment in free-ranging rhesus macaques.
Behavioral Neuroscience,
152: 131-136, 2011.
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