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My primary interests include the developmental etiology and expression of
cross-cultural metabolic and reproductive diseases such as, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS),
human behavioral endocrinology, and evolutionary perspectives on human behavior.
To address these issues, I adopt a bio-cultural perspective incorporating the developmental etiology,
underlying hormone mechanisms, and associated transgenerational and developmental behaviors. Other interests include
cross-cultural psychosocial and psychosexual correlates of sex-typed behaviors,
gender identity, gender roles, and evolutionary medicine.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
2008 Manlove, H., Guillermo, C., Gray, P.B., Do women with polycystic ovary
syndrome (PCOS) report differences in sex-typed behavior as children and
adolescents?: Results of a pilot study, Annals of Human Biology (in press).
HONORS AND AWARDS
2008-Spring UNLV Libraries Award for Undergraduate Research
$1,000 Award for research paper: Hyperandrogenemia, Obesity and PCOS: Consequential Health, Reproductive Success and Behaviors from their Fetal Environment to their Granddaughter
2008-Spring Margaret Lyneis Undergraduate Scholarship for Travel Funds
UNLV Anthropology Society
$100.00 award for written essay on travel plans to present at the Western Psychological Conference poster session in Irvine, California in spring 2008
2006 Spring/Fall Dean’s Honor List
2007 Spring/Fall Dean’s Honor List
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2007 PCOS, Hormones and Behaviors
I designed the research, recruited the participants, administered questionnaires via mail, data collection, entered the data into spreadsheet, analyzed that data and am the first author of the manuscript.
The primary investigator and advisor was Dr. Peter Gray, Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2007-2008 Hormones, Mood, and Cognition
As a research assistant, I administered cognitive tests and mood questionnaires, recruited participants and collected biological samples, as well as a co-author of the manuscript
Dr. Douglas Ferraro (Department of Psychology) and Dr. Peter Gray (Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies) of University of Nevada Las Vegas are the co-primary investigators and advisors.
Dr. Chandler Marrs and Chrisalbeth Guillermo are co-secondary investigators
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present Graduate Assistant- UNLV Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies
As the department Biological Collections Curator, I am responsible for organizing and updating the master inventories for the human remains and the biological anthropology teaching lab.
Job duties also include assisting in class preparation, lab organization and grading.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2007- Fall Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Report Differences in Sex-Typed Behavior as Children and Adolescents
Hormones and Disease Research as Resource Group, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
ACADEMIC CLUB MEMBERSHIPS
UNLV Anthropology Society
Spring 2006 Student member
Fall 2006 Secretary
Fall 2007 President
Spring 2008 President
Fall 2008 Fundraising Committee Chair
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