Matthew Fuxjager Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology and Laboratory of Neuroendocrinoloy, Brain Research Institute University of California, Los Angeles Email: mfoxhunter at gmail dot com Research Interests I study the physiological basis of animal behavior, with a particular emphasis on mechanisms by which steroid hormones mediate complex social phenotypes. Currently, I am investigating how activation of the androgen receptor regulates the acrobatic courtship and competitive behavior of golden-collared manakins. Education Ph.D.     University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dep. of Zoology M.S.    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Dep. of Biology B.A.    Pomona College Selected Publications M.J. Fuxjager, J.D. Schultz, J Barske, N.Y. Feng, L. Fusani, A. Mirzatoni, L.B. Day, M. Hau and B.A. Schlinger. (2012). Spinal motor and sensory neurons are androgen targets in an acrobatic bird. Endocrinology, 153: 3780-3791. M.J. Fuxjager, T.O. Oyegbile, and C.A. Marler. (2011). Independent and additive contributions of post-victory testosterone and social experience to the development of the winner effect. Endocrinology, 152: 3422-3429. M.J. Fuxjager, R.L. Forbes-Lorman, D.J. Coss, C.J. Auger, A.P. Auger, and C.A. Marler. (2010). Winning territorial disputes selectively enhances androgen sensitivity in neural pathways related to motivation and social aggression. PNAS, 107: 12393-12398.     M.J. Fuxjager and C.A. Marler. (2010). How and why the winner effect forms: influences of contest environment and species differences. Behav. Ecol., 21: 37-45.