Research Interests
Featured grants
- 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.
- Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth, Gabor, Caitlin. Planning: CREST Center in Bioinformatics, National Science Foundation, Federal, $199960. (Submitted: June 2023, Funded: September 2023 - August 2025). 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.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- 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/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
Featured awards
- 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

Featured service activities
- Co-Chair
Institute for Molecular Life Sciences
- Member
Animal Care and Use (IACUC)
- Secretary
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Editorial Review Board Member
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Chair
Federal Demonstration Partnership
- Member
Institutional Faculty Representative to the Federal Demonstration Partnership
