Jon Levine, PhD
Email: levine@primate.wisc.edu
Title: Professor; Director - Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Department: Physiology
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Education
BA 1976 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
PhD 1982 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1st Postdoctoral position: Oregon National Primate Research Center & Oregon Health Sciences University
Research Focus
For the past 30 years I have studied the neuroendocrine regulation of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons, in part by developing and utilizing physiological methods to monitor and analyze GnRH neurosecretion in awake animals. My research has also focused on the mechanisms by which ovarian steroids exert their effects in the brain, the latter including the negative feedback mechanisms that maintain homeostatic control within the reproductive axis, as well as the positive feedback actions of steroids that culminate in release of preovulatory gonadotropin surges. My recent work has made use of newly developed mutant mice to analyze the cell signaling mechanisms that mediate negative and positive feedback actions of estradiol.
Program Activities
- Joined ERP Program: 2010
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