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School of Biological Sciences

Dr. Fernanda Duque

Assistant Professor of Neuroethology
School of Biological Sciences
Office
SLB Science Laboratory Building 426
Office Phone
(309) 438-2641office
phone
Email
fgduque@ilstu.eduemail
Website
www.fduque.comwebsite
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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 327.001 Hormones, Brain And Behavior

BSC 427.001 Hormones, Brain And Behavior

BSC 499.017 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

BSC 290.011 Research In Biological Sciences

BSC 599.017 Research In The Biological Sciences

BSC 499.017 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

BSC 499.117 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis Last Term

BSC 343.001 Introduction To Neurobiology

BSC 443.001 Introduction To Neurobiology

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

Duque, F., Azam, A., Kaur, A., Pao, R., & Lynch, K. Divergent neural nodes are species- and hormone-dependent in the brood parasitic brain. Genes, Brain and Behavior (2024)
Fernández-Gómez, R.A., Ku-Peralta, W., Botero-Restrepo, D., Niño-Rodríguez, N., Laverde-R, O., Pantoja-Sánchez, H.E., Álvarez-Rebolledo, M., Marín-Gómez, O.H., Duque, F.G., and N. Ocampo-Peñuela (2023). La voz de nuestras aves: contribuciones de la bioacústica a la ornitología colombiana. Ornitología Colombiana. 23:3-30.
Duque, F.G., and L.L. Carruth (2022). Vocal communication in hummingbirds [Review]. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution. 97:241-252.
Rodriguez-Saltos, C.A., Duque, F.G., and J.A. Clarke (2022). Precise and non-scalar timing of intervals in a bird vocalization. Animal behaviour. 191:165-177.
Duque, F.G., Rodriguez-Saltos, C.A., Monteros, M.F., and W. Wilczynski (2021). Transmission of high-frequency vocalizations from hummingbirds living in diverse habitats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 132(1):148-160.

Presentations

Song Dialects in a Bird with Highly Precise Timing of Notes (Microcerculus marginatus). University Research Symposium. Illinois State University. (2024)
Song Dialects in a Bird with Highly Precise Timing of Notes (Microcerculus marginatus). Phi Sigma Annual Research Symposium. Illinois State University. (2024)
Evolution of high-frequency hearing in hummingbirds. Sensorium 2023. Universtiy of Chicago, American Society of Naturalists. (2023)
Evolution of high-frequency vocalizations and hearing in hummingbirds. Evolution, Ecology and Behavior seminar. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (2023)