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Dr Laura Sirot is an Associate Professor of Biology at the College of Wooster. Her qualifications include a B.S. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, as well as an M. Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida.\u00a0 The courses she teaches include Foundations of Biology; <\/span>Gateway to Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology; Animal Behavior; Experimental Design; and Natural History of Invertebrates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Sirot\u2019s research focuses on the ways in which females and males influence reproductive success of their mates before, during, and after copulation, focusing on these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Currently, her main study systems are Aedes aegypti<\/em> mosquitoes and humans. Current projects include investigating:<\/p>\n In January of 2020, at the Symposium S4: Reproduction: the Female Perspective from an Integrative and Comparative Framework at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Austin, Texas, Dr. Sirot will present her paper on opportunities for female modulation of seminal fluid molecules. She will be speaking at Session 1: The reproducing female: theory to practice.<\/span><\/p>\n Dr Laura Sirot is an Associate Professor of Biology at the College of Wooster. Her qualifications include a B.S. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, as well as an M. Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida.\u00a0 The courses she teaches include Foundations of Biology; Gateway to Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology; Animal… Read More Dr. Laura Sirot– Insects and Interactions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-female-scientists","category-sicb-2020-symposium"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSirot, L. Modulation of seminal fluid molecules by males and females (Current Opinion in Insect Science)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nUpper Photo from L Sirot.<\/div>\nSirot, L. (2019). Laura Sirot. Retrieved November 26, 2019, from https:\/\/www.wooster.edu\/bios\/lsirot\/.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"