MaLinda Henry
Advisor: Dr.
James Dietz
Previous Education:
M.S. Zoology - Miami University, Oxford, OH
B.S. Biology - Doane College, Crete, NE
Research Interests:
I am interested in primate behavioral
ecology and have experience working with New and Old World
Primates in both captive and field environments. My
MS examined competition for plant food resources between bonobos
and a local community in the DemRep of Congo. For my
Ph.D. I am investigating how plant and insect resource availability
changes reproductive cyclicity and conception in endangered
golden lion tamarins in two Brazilian tropical forest reserves.
I am utilizing current enzyme immunoassay techniques for urine
and feces to document cyclical changes in reproductive hormones
such as estrogen and progesterone. By doing so I hope
to identify a level of resource availability that must be
maintained in order to support reproducing populations of
these cooperatively breeding monkeys.
Location of Research:
Poço das Antas Biological Reserve, Rio de Janeiro State,
Brazil
Publications:
Boinski S, Quatrone R, Sughrue K, Selvaggi L, Henry M, Stickler
C, Rose L. 2003. Do brown capuchins socially learn foraging
skills? In; The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence
(eds. Perry S, Fragaszy DM). pp. 365-390. Cambridge University
Press.
Boinski S, Sughrue K, Selvaggi L, Quatrone R, Henry M, Cropp
S. 2002. An expanded test of the ecological model of primate
social evolution: competitive regimes and female bonding in
three species of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri oerstedii,
S. boliviensis, and S. sciureus ) Behaviour
139: 227-261.
Henry M, Triplett A, Oh K, Smith G, Wagner K. 2004. Parity-induced
mammary epithelial cells facilitate tumorigenesis in MMTV-neu
transgenic mice. Oncogene 23:6980-6985.
Krempler A, Henry M, Triplett A, Wagner K. 2002. Targeted
deletion of the Tsg101 gene results in cell cycle arrest at
G1/S and p53-independent cell death. Journal of Biological
Chemistry 277(45): 43216-43223.
Wagner K, Krempler A, Qi Y, Park K, Henry M, Triplett
A, Riedlinger G, Rucker E, Hennighausen L. 2003. Tsg101 is
essential for cell growth, proliferation, and cell survival
of embryonic and adult tissues. Molecular and Cellular
Biology 23(1): 150-162.
Wagner K, Boulanger C, Henry M, Sgagias M, Hennighausen L,
Smith G. 2002. An adjunct mammary epithelial cell population
in parous females: its role in functional adaptation and tissue
renewal. Development 129: 1377-1386.
Funding:
2003 UM Center for Biodiversity Grant
2003 UM Darwin Fellowship
2002 UM Darwin Fellowship
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