Faculty Profile for Dr. Caitlin Gabor

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Dr. Caitlin Gabor
Professor — Biology
SUPP 438
phone: (512) 245-3387

Biography Section

Research Interests

Our research program spans conservation physiology to behavioral ecology. We focus on the consequences of anthropogenic stressors on live-bearing fish and amphibian declines using a holistic framework that evaluates mechanisms (e.g., genetic and physiology) through function (e.g., evolutionary and conservation implications). We have also studied the historical forces of natural and sexual selection on speciation in a unisexual-bisexual species complex of live bearing fish from a behavioral and physiological standpoint.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Gabor, C. (2023). Does stress make males? An experiment on the role of glucocorticoids in anuran sex reversal. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological and Integrative Physiology. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2772
  • Gabor, C. (2023). An integrated physiological perspective on anthropogenic stressors in the Gulf coast toad (Incilius nebulifer). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1112982
  • Kolonin, A., Bokony, V., Bonner, T. H., Jaime Zuniga-Vega, J., Aspbury, A., Guzman, A., … Gabor, C. (2022). Coping With Urban Habitats Via Glucocorticoid Regulation: Physiology, Behavior, and Life History in Stream Fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62(1), 90–103. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac002
  • B\’okony, Veronika, Ujhegyi, N., Hamow, Kamir\’an \’A, Bosch, J., Thumsov\’a, Barbora, V\"or\"os, Judit, … Gabor, C. (2021). Stressed tadpoles mount more efficient glucocorticoid negative feedback in anthropogenic habitats due to phenotypic plasticity. Science of the Total Environment, 753, 141896.
  • Gabor, C. (2020). Changes in physiology and microbial diversity in larval ornate chorus frogs are associated with habitat quality. Conservation Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaa047

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Mariel M. Muir Excellence in Mentoring Award, Texas State University. 2020 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Animal Behavior Society Fellow, Animal Behavior Society. July 2020 - Present
  • 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: Texas State University Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities. 2005

Selected Grants

  • 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. Fulbright Scholar Program, Fulbright, Federal. (Submitted: 2017, Funded: February 2019 - June 2019). Grant.
  • Gabor, Caitlin, Walls, Dr. Susan. Amphibian and Research and Monitoring Initiative, USGS ARMI, $317927. (Funded: 2014 - 2017). Grant.
  • Gabor, Caitlin, Blake, Chelsea. NSF – GRFP, $132000. (Funded: 2013 - 2016). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Board Member
South Austin Creek Association
2022-Present
Secretary
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Division of Animal Behavior
2024-2026
Member
Animal Care and Use (IACUC)
2013-2024
Reviewer / Referee
Journal Reviewer for: Acta Ethologica, Animals, African Journal of Wildlife Research, Amphibia-Reptilia, Animal Behaviour, Animal Cognition, Animal Conservation, American Naturalist, Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Behavioral Processes, Biology, Biology Letters, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, Biology Biosphere, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Chemosphere, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Conservation Physiology, Copeia (now Ichthyology and Herpetology), Current Zoology, Diversity, Ethology, Environmental Biology of Fish, Ethology, EcoHealth, Ecology and Evolution, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Freshwater Biology, Frontiers in Biology, Frontiers in Evolution and Ecology, Functional Ecology, General and Comparative Endocrinology, Global Ecology and Conservation, Herpetologica, Herpetological Review, Hormones and Behavior, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Integrative and Organismal Biology, International Journal of Zoology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Journal of Environmental Biology, Journal of Ethology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Experimental Zoology, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Herpetology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Naturwissenschaften, Oecologia, Parasitology, PeerJ, PlosONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Physiology and Behavior, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Scientific Reports – Nature, Science of the Total Environment, Series B Biological Science, Southwest American Naturalist, Zoo Biology
1993-2024
Member
President's Council for Women in Higher Education committee
2018-2022