{"429811":{"#nid":"429811","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Tristram Wyatt, Oxford University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESuccess of the Smelliest: How Pheromone Signals Evolve\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPheromones are evolved signal molecules produced, for example, by all female moths in a species. Aquatic animals like fish and lobsters also use pheromones. Pheromones offer remarkable opportunities to study the evolution of signals and changes in signal and receiver during speciation, from enzyme pathways to receptors and neurons, at every level from genes to populations. But do humans have pheromones?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETristram Wyatt is a senior researcher at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. He was an undergraduate and postgraduate in Zoology at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Oxford\u2019s Department for Continuing Education as a lecturer (Associate Professor) in 1989, he was based at the University of Leeds, UC Berkeley, and the University of Wales. Tristram has been a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford since its foundation in 1990.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe second edition of his single-author book Pheromones and Animal Behavior (Cambridge University Press) won the Royal Society of Biology\u2019s prize for the Best Postgraduate Textbook in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tristram Wyatt, Oxford University"}],"uid":"27964","created_gmt":"2015-07-30 13:12:01","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:59","author":"Jasmine Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-01T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-01T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-01T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-01 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-01 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-01 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/tristram_wyatt_the_smelly_mystery_of_the_human_pheromone?language=en","title":"TED Talk: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone"}],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"65601","name":"Marc Weissburg"},{"id":"137011","name":"Tristram Wyatt"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you have questions about logistics or would like to set up an appointment with the speaker, please contact the School of Biology\u0027s administrative office at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bio-admin@biology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebio-admin@biology.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}