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Biography

I am originally from Ecuador, where I developed my love for nature, animal behavior, and the brain. I did my PhD in Neuroscience at Georgia State University, studying the evolution of high-frequency vocalizations in hummingbirds. Then, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Hofstra University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, investigating the conserved neural mechanisms of maternal care in birds and mammals.

I love birding, hiking, yoga, listening to podcasts, and playing with my dogs!

Current Courses

BSC 499.017 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

BSC 599.017 Research In The Biological Sciences

BSC 327.001 Hormones, Brain And Behavior

BSC 427.001 Hormones, Brain And Behavior

BSC 499.017 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

BSC 499.217 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis Last Term

BSC 290.011 Research In Biological Sciences

BSC 599.017 Research In The Biological Sciences

Teaching Interests & Areas

Neurobiology / Animal behavior / Hormones and behavior / Neuroethology / Neuroendocrinology / Animal communication / Scientific writing

Research Interests & Areas

Multimodal communication and social behavior
/ Vocal communication and sensory adaptations
/ Neural processing of multimodal signals
/ Neural mechanisms of social behaviors
/ Evolution of communication signals
/ Behavioral plasticity in social contexts
/ Changing environments and stress response
/ Adaptations to extreme environments

PhD Neuroscience

Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA, USA

BA Psychology

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Quito, Ecuador

Journal Article

Divergent neural nodes are species- and hormone-dependent in the brood parasitic brain

Fernanda G Duque, Asma Azam, Amanpreet Kaur, Rachel Pao, Kathleen S Lynch.

Genes, Brain and Behavior, (2024)

La voz de nuestras aves: contribuciones de la bioacústica a la ornitología colombiana

Ronald A Fernández-Gómez, William Ku-Peralta, Daniela Botero-Restrepo, Nelsy Niño Rodríguez, Oscar Laverde-R, Hoover E Pantoja-Sánchez, Gustavo A Bravo, Mauricio Álvarez-Rebolledo, Oscar H Marín-Gómez, Fernanda G Duque, Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela.

Ornitología Colombiana, (23), 3-30, (2023), 10.59517/oc.e555

Precise and nonscalar timing of intervals in a bird vocalization

Carlos A Rodriguez Saltos, Fernanda G Duque, Julia Clarke.

Animal Behaviour, 191, 165-177, (2022), 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.06.004.

Vocal Communication in Hummingbirds

Fernanda G Duque, Laura L Carruth.

Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 97 (3-4), 241-252, (2022), 10.1159/000522148

Transmission of high-frequency vocalizations from hummingbirds living in diverse habitats

Fernanda G Duque, Carlos A Rodriguez Saltos, Marco F Monteros, Walter Wilczynski.

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132 (1), 148-160, (2021), 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa180

High-frequency hearing in a hummingbird

Fernanda G Duque, Carlos A Rodriguez Saltos, Shivaanii Uma, Isbah Nasir, Marco F Monteros, Walter Wilczynski, Laura L Carruth.

Science Advances, 6 (29), (2020), 10.1126/sciadv.abb9393

High-frequency vocalizations in Andean hummingbirds

Fernanda Duque, Carlos A Rodriguez Saltos, Walter Wilczynski.

Current Biology, 28 (17), PR927-R928, (2018), 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.058

Presentations

Song Dialects in a Bird with Highly Precise Timing of Notes (Microcerculus marginatus)

Tara Geyer, Fernanda Duque, Carlos Rodriguez Saltos.

University Research Symposium, Normal, Illinois, April 12, 2024

Song Dialects in a Bird with Highly Precise Timing of Notes (Microcerculus marginatus)

Tara Geyer, Fernanda Duque, Carlos Rodriguez Saltos.

Phi Sigma Annual Research Symposium, Normal, Illinois, April 5, 2024

Evolution of high-frequency vocalizations and hearing in hummingbirds

Fernanda G Duque.

Evolution, Ecology and Behavior seminar, Urbana, IL, December 1, 2023

Evolution of high-frequency hearing in hummingbirds