Disputas - Xi Chu. Tittel på avhandlingen: “Sociosexual behaviors and reproductive success in a group of rats housed in seminatural environment”

Master of Science in Medical biology Xi Chu disputerer for ph.d.-graden i helsevitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:

“Sociosexual behaviors and reproductive success in a group of rats housed in seminatural environment”

Kort sammendrag

People may always doubt whether they choose their sexual partners carefully enough. A PhD project undertaken from 2010 at the Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø may help us to discover the fact of partner selection in sex. By observing the behavior of group of rats in a seminatural environment, a great amount of useful information is provided which may help us to understand the possible partner selection pattern and whether this pattern may influence the fertility.

(Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig for utlån hos Seksjon for forskningstjenester frem til disputasdato)

Veiledere

Professor Anders Ågmo, Institutt for psykologi, hovedveileder.

Professor Magne Arve Flaten, Institutt for psykologi, biveileder.

Bedømmelseskomiteen

Professor Sonoko Ogawa, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. 1. opponent

Professor Robert Murison, Forskningsgruppe for eksperimentell og klinisk stress (RECS), Institutt for biologisk og medisinsk psykologi, Det psykologiske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen. 2. opponent

Førsteamanuensis Frank Siebler, Institutt for psykologi, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

Disputasleder

Professor Ingunn Skre, Institutt for psykologi, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes kl. 10.15, samme sted: «Two biobehavioral responses to stress: "Fight or flight" and "tend and befriend"»