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Gregory M. Kohn Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington 1101 E 10th St., Bloomington, IN, 47405 (845)-227-4056 gmkohn@indiana.edu

Education

Ph.D., Psychology, 2015, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Dissertation: “Social niche construction in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater).” Supervisors: Meredith J. West & Andrew P King MSc., Neuroscience and Cognition, 2009, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Thesis: “Directed Social Learning in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulate)”, and ‘The influence of food type on the early development of personality in a natural population of Great Tits (Parus major)’

Supervisors: Simon Reader & Kees van Oers B.A., Zoology and Ecology, 2006, University of Montana, USA Academic Employment Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015-current, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Mentors: Meredith J. West & Andrew P. King

Research: I am investigating the social contributions to developmental and reproductive outcomes in both infants and birds. In infants, I am investigating how the sequential structure of early interactions with caregivers predicts later communicative development. My cowbird research follows previous findings to explore the relationship between social networks, behavioral consistency, and reproductive competence over ontogeny

Visiting Research Assistant, 2006, Konrad Lorenz Research Station, Austria, Mentors: Christine Schwab

Research: Participated in social learning experiments on jackdaws (Corvus monedula), and cognitive experiments on carrion crows (Corvus corone).

Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2005, Douglas Emlen’s Lab, University of Montana Mentors: Alex Trillo & Douglas Emlen

Research: Assisted with behavioral studies on sexual selection in tortoise beetles (Acromis sparsa).

Grants, Funding and Awards - Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences, 2013-2015, National Science Foundation, Indiana University

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- Graduate Scholar Fellowship, 2014, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University

- Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2011-2013 Training Program in Integrative Developmental Process, Indiana University

- Best Poster Award, 2014, Conference for the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington D.C.

- Travel Award, 2013- & 2014, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Peer Reviewed Publications - van Oers, K., Kohn, G. M., Hinde, C. A., Naguib, M., (under review), Parental food choice

affects the expression of personality in a natural bird population, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

- Kohn, G. M., Meredith, G. R., Magdaleno, F. R., King, A. P., & West, M. J., (under revision)

Sex differences in Familiarity Preferences within Fission-Fusion Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) Flocks, Animal Behavior

- Kohn, G. M., King, A. P., Pott, U. & West, M. J., (2013) Robust fall social displays predict spring reproductive behavior in Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater ater), Ethology, 511-521

- Kohn, G. M., King, A. P., Dohme, R., Meredith, G. R. & West, M. J., (2013) Robust autumn social attributes predict spring courtship skills in juvenile female Brown-headed Cowbirds Molothrus ater, Animal Behaviour, 727-732

- Kohn, G. M., King, A. P., Dohme, R., Meredith, G. R. & West, M. J., (2012) In the company

of cowbirds, Molothrus ater ater: Robust patterns of sociability predict reproductive performance, Journal of Comparative Psychology, 40-49

- Kohn, G. M., King, A. P., Scherschel, L. L. & West, M. J., (2011) Social niches and sex

assortment: uncovering the developmental ecology of brown-headed cowbirds, Molothrus ater, Animal Behaviour, 1105-1022

- West, M., King, A. & Kohn, G., (2011) Developmental Ecology: Platform for designing a communication system, Interaction Studies, 350-370

Manuscripts in preparation - Kohn, G. M., Dohme, R., Meredith, G. R., King, A. P. & West, M. J., (in prep) Fell familiarity

preferences and reproductive output in female Brown-headed Cowbirds - Kohn, G. M., Dohme, R., Meredith, G. R., King, A. P. & West, M. J., (in prep) Social

networks during the breeding season: Paired cowbirds form preferential associations Invited Talks - Kohn, G. M. (2014) Social personality traits and niche picking: how individuals construct their

social experience, Presentation at 21st Century Naturalists, a conference of the American

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Society of Naturalists, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA.

- Kohn, G. M. (2014) Ontogeny of social skills in female brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), Topics in Animal Behavior Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Teaching Experience - P211: Methods in Experimental Psychology, 2011, Indiana University, USA (2011)

- Behavioural Biology & Cognition and Behaviour, 2008, Utrecht University, Netherlands (2008)

Undergraduate thesis mentored - Meredith, G. R., 2013, Social integration and fission-fusion dynamics in Brown-headed

Cowbirds. IU Hutton Honors college thesis - Allen, S., 2012, Social interaction networks in Brown-headed Cowbirds, Harmony School

Senior honors project. Other skills: - Programming languages: R (both analysis and package design), Processing (Interactive data

visualization, agent based simulations), Arduino, Mathematica, Statnet (Social network analysis, matrix permutations, Social network visualization), SPIN (for programming propeller micro-controllers), Python

- Electronic design: Amtel, Pic, and Propeller microcontrollers, soldering, RFID sensor webs,

custom design of data loggers for ethological applications, field programmable gate arrays