Associate Professor
My research investigates how primates integrate behavioral and physiological adaptations to overcome ecological challenges in their natural environment. I aim to integrate how these different facets of animals’ biology work together at the organismal level.
Within this framework, my research program focuses on understanding how wild animals thermoregulate, including how thermal pressures from climate change impact this process. My research in this area has covered behavioral mechanisms such as microhabitat choice and use of postures, hormonal mechanisms of thermoregulation, and non-invasive assessment of body temperature via infrared thermography.
My research also investigates the sensory ecology of foraging decisions. I am interested in how primates use olfactory signals to select foods and communicate information about resources. This research has covered exudate feeding by common marmoset monkeys and seeding eating in pithecids.
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About Cynthia Thompson
My research investigates how primates integrate behavioral and physiological adaptations to overcome ecological challenges in their natural environment. I aim to integrate how these different facets of animals’ biology work together at the organismal level.
Within this framework, my research program focuses on understanding how wild animals thermoregulate, including how thermal pressures from climate change impact this process. My research in this area has covered behavioral mechanisms such as microhabitat choice and use of postures, hormonal mechanisms of thermoregulation, and non-invasive assessment of body temperature via infrared thermography.
My research also investigates the sensory ecology of foraging decisions. I am interested in how primates use olfactory signals to select foods and communicate information about resources. This research has covered exudate feeding by common marmoset monkeys and seeding eating in pithecids.
| Present | Professor, Grand Valley State University ‐ Biomedical Sciences Department | |
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| 2011 - 2013 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Northeast Ohio Medical University ‐ Anatomy and Neurobiology | |
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Disciplines
Physiology and Anatomy
Research Interests
Courses
- BMS 208 - Human Anatomy
- BMS 301 - Introduction to Research in the Biomedical Sciences
- BMS 309 - Laboratory in Human Anatomy
- BMS 460 - Regional Human Anatomy
- BMS 495 - Concepts in Wellness
- BMS 561 - Prosected Regional Anatomy
| 2011 | Ph.D., Kent State University ‐ Biological Anthropology | |
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| 2006 | M.A., Kent State University ‐ Anthropology | |
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| 2004 | B.S., University of California, Davis ‐ Evolutionary Anthropology | |
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Contact Information
Office: 220 Padnos Hall
Phone: (616) 331-2818
Email: thompscy@gvsu.edu
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