Many of the areas Dr. McClintock's lab focuses on include the various aspects between behavior and reproductive endocrinology, as well social modulation of aging and how it affects immune functions and susceptibility to disease. The McClintock labs work with parallel clinical process analysis in both animals and humans. Her laboratory is on the third floor of the BPSB building.
Some of the current research areas the McClintock labs are engaged in are listed below.
Part of a multi-project research program
Uses an animal model to identify vulnerability to social isolation and disruption as an individual trait, and relates this trait to the specific hormonal and immunological sequelae that increase risk for infectious and malignant disease during aging.
Funding Agency - National Institutes on Aging
Part of a multi-project research program
Based on an animal model of social regulation of mammary tumor biology developed in her laboratory, Dr. McClintock will compare the gene regulation in mammary tumors and the ovarian function of socially isolated and group-living rats. Read the abstract for this project (PDF).
Funding Agency - National Institutes of Health