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Dr. Caitlin Gabor

  • Professor - Biology
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Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology

Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1997

Master's Degree

MS in Biology

Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1993

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Aquatic Biology

Univ of California, Santa Barbara, 1990

Research Interests

  • Gabor, Caitlin (Principal), Irwin, Kyndal Brook (Co-Principal). Implications of Land Use Change on Fish and Amphibian Health and Cognition, Texas Ecolab, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $7088. (Submitted: 2025, Funded: 2026 - Present). Grant.
  • Gabor, Caitlin (Co-Principal). Advancement of the Xiphophorus Model for Studying Disease, NIH, Federal, $2784846. (Submitted: 2021, Funded: 2022 - 2025). Grant.
  • Gabor, Caitlin, Walls, Dr. Susan. Amphibian and Research and Monitoring Initiative, USGS ARMI, $317927. (Funded: 2014 - 2017). Grant.
  • Gabor, Caitlin, Gabor (Principal), Nice (Co-Principal), Aspbury (Co-Principal). The maintenance of unisexuality: Behavior, hormones, and genetic diversity in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex, NSF –IOS, Animal Behavior, $350000. (Funded: 2010 - 2014). Grant.
  • Gabor, Caitlin. Ecolab, $5722. (Funded: 2017). Grant.
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  • Irwin, K. B., Aspbury, A., Bonner, T. H., & Gabor, C. (2024). Habitat structural complexity predicts cognitive performance and behaviour in western mosquitofish. Biology Letters, 20(7), 20230394.
  • Barough, S. P. H., Suárez-Rodriguez, Monserrat, Aspbury, A., Zúñiga-Vega, José Jaime, & Gabor, C. (2024). Hormonal dynamics of matrotrophy vs. lecithotrophy in live-bearing fish reproduction. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular \& Integrative Physiology, 296, 111699.
  • Monroe, D. J., Gabor, C., & Veronica, B. (2024). Physiological and behavioral variation by urbanization and climate in an urban-tolerant toad. Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/famrs.2024.1444580
  • Bryant, A. R., & Gabor, C. (2024). Lack of glucocorticoid flexibility is indicative of wear-and-tear in Hyla versicolor tadpoles from agricultural environments. Environmental Pollution, 356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124265
  • Irwin, K. B., Andrea  Aspbury, S. ., Bonner, T. H., & Gabor, C. (2024). Habitat structural complexity predicts cognitive performance and behaviour in western mosquitofish. Biology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0394
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Mariel M. Muir Excellence in Mentoring Award, Texas State University. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Animal Behavior Society Fellow, Animal Behavior Society. July 2020 - 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Scholar, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. February 2019 - June 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities (Associate/Professor). 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Specialist Program award, Hungary. 2015
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  1. Co-Chair

    Institute for Molecular Life Sciences

  2. Member

    Animal Care and Use (IACUC)

  3. Secretary

    Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

  4. Editorial Review Board Member

    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

  5. Chair

    Federal Demonstration Partnership

  6. Member

    Institutional Faculty Representative to the Federal Demonstration Partnership

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