Published and under review (please to not hesitate emailing me for reprints!)
  • Lopes PC, Madeleine Chang, Faith Holloway, Biola Fatusin, Sachin Patel, Chandler Siemonsma, Morgan Kindel (2024) The effect of acute isolation on neural molecular responses in the social decision-making network. BMC Genomics 25, 771. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10653-z
  • Chloe Josefson, ..., Lopes PC, et al (2024) Balancing act: An interdisciplinary exploration of trade-offs in reproducing females. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae092​
  • Harris BN, ..., Lopes PC, et al (2024) COVID-19 as a chronic stressor and the importance of individual identity: A data-driven look at academic productivity during the pandemic. General and Comparative Endocrinology 345:114394 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2023.114394​
  • Lopes PC (2023) Responding to infection affects more than just the host. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.05.018
  • French SS, Demas GE, Lopes PC (2023) From mechanism to ecosystem: building bridges between ecoimmunology, psychoneuroimmunology and disease ecology. Journal of Experimental Biology; 226 (14): jeb245858. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245858
  • Lopes PC,  Faber-Hammond JJ, Siemonsma C*, Patel S*, Renn SCP (2023) The social environment alters neural responses to a lipopolysaccharide challenge. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (In Press) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2023.03.004​ 
  • Stockmeier S, Ulrich Y, Albery, G, Cremer S, Lopes PC (2023) Behavioural defenses against parasites across host social structures. Functional Ecology (In Press) https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14310​
  • Gormally BMG, Lopes PC (2023) The effect of infection risk on female blood transcriptomics. General and Comparative Endocrinology 330:114139 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114139​
  • Lopes PC (2022). Anticipating infection: How parasitism risk changes animal physiology. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14155
  • Lopes PC, French SS, Woodhams DC, Binning SA (2022) Infection avoidance behaviors across vertebrate taxa: Patterns, processes, and future directions. In: Ezenwa VO, Altizer S, Hall RJ, editors. Animal Behavior and Parasitism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895561.003.0014 
  • Lopes PC, Gormally BMG, Emmi A, Schuerman D, Liyanage C, Beattie UK, Romero ML (2022) Maternal responses in the face of infection risk. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icac082, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac082
  • Gormally BMG, Bridgette K, Emmi A, Schuerman D, Lopes PC (2022) Female presence does not increase testosterone but still ameliorates sickness behaviours in male Japanese quail. Royal Society Open Science 9 (5), 220450. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220450
  • Lopes PC, de Bruijn R (2021) Neurotranscriptomic changes associated with chick-directed parental care in adult non-reproductive Japanese quail. Scientific Reports. 11, 15481. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94927-6
  • Lopes PC, French SS, Woodhams DC, Binning SA (2021) Sickness behaviors across vertebrate taxa: proximate and ultimate mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224, jeb225847. doi:10.1242/jeb.225847 
  • Lopes PC, König B (2020) Wild mice with different social network sizes vary in brain gene expression. BMC Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-06911-5
  • Lopes PC (2020) We are not alone in trying to be alone. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00172 
  • Lopes PC, Carlitz E, Kindel M, König B (2020) Immune-endocrine links to gregariousness in wild house mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00010
  • De Bruijn R, Wright-Lichter JX, Khoshaba E, Holloway F, Lopes PC (2020) Baseline corticosterone is associated with parental care in virgin Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Hormones and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104781
  • Lopes PC, Lindholm AK (2020) A selfish genetic element linked to increased lifespan impacts metabolism in female house mice. Accepted. Journal of Experimental Biology. doi: 10.1242/jeb.212704
  • Lopes PC (2019) An Ode to Sex Hormones. Medium. https://tinyurl.com/v2yy263
  • Lopes PC, Block P, Pontiggia A, Lindholm AK, Konig B (2018) No evidence for kin protection in the expression of sickness behaviors in house mice. Scientific Reports 8:16682 https://rdcu.be/bbOvm
  • Calisi R.M., Working Group of Mothers in Science (2018) How to tackle the childcare–conference conundrum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201803153 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803153115
  • Bentley, G.E., Wilsterman, K.,  Ernst, D., Lynn, S., Dickens, M., Calisi, R.M., Kaufer, D., Geraghty, A., Kangas, K., McGuire, N., Lopes, P.C., Tsutsui, K. (2017) Neural versus gonadal GnIH: are they independent systems? A mini-review. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 57:1194–1203 https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx085
  • Patricia C. Lopes (2017) ​Why are behavioral and immune traits linked? Hormones and Behavior (Special Issue: Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions: Implications for Integrative and Comparative Physiologists) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.09.008
  • Nicola Harrison*, Barbara König and Patricia C. Lopes (2017) Oxytocin administration during early pair formation delays communal nursing in female house mice. Animal Behaviour. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.10.030
  • Patricia C. Lopes, Per Block and Barbara König (2016) Infection-induced behavioural changes reduce connectivity and the potential for disease spread in wild mice contact networks. Scientific Reports. ​doi.org/10.1038/srep31790
  • Patricia C. Lopes (2016) LPS and neuroinflammation - a matter of timing. Inflammopharmacology. doi.org/10.1007/s10787-016-0283-2 . Can also be accessed here: http://rdcu.be/kqeS
  • Nicola Harrison*, Patricia C. Lopes and Barbara König (2016) Oxytocin and Social Preference in Female House Mice (Mus musculus domesticus) Ethology, 122: 571–581. doi.org/10.1111/eth.12505
  • Patricia C. Lopes and Barbara König (2016) Choosing a healthy mate: sexually attractive traits as reliable indicators of current disease status in house mice Animal Behaviour. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.10.011 
  • Barbara König, Anna K. Lindholm, Patricia C. Lopes, Akos Dobay, Sally Steinert and Frank J.U. Buschmann (2015) A system for automatic recording of social behavior in a free-living wild house mouse population Animal Biotelemetry.  http://dx/doi.org/10.1186/s40317-015-0069-0 
  • Mark S. Harvey, Patricia C. Lopes, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Ali Halajian, Mia Hillyer and Joel A. Huey (2015) A novel symbiotic relationship between sociable weaver birds (Philetairus socius) and a new cheliferid pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae) in southern Africa. Invertebrate Systematics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS15027
  • Patricia C. Lopes. When is it socially acceptable to feel sick? (2014) Proceedings of the Royal Society B. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0218
  • Patricia C. Lopes, Dwight Springthorpe and George E. Bentley (2014) Increased activity correlates with reduced ability to mount immune defenses to endotoxin in zebra finches. Journal of Experimental Zoology - Part A. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.1873
  • Patricia C. Lopes, Hilary Chan, Sophie Demathieu, Paulina Gonzalez-Gomez, John C. Wingfield and George E. Bentley (2013) The impact of exposure to a novel female on symptoms of infection and on the reproductive axis. Neuroimmunomodulation. 20:348-360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000353779
  • Patrícia C. Lopes (2012) Social modulation of sickness behavior and its neuroendocrine basis. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, UMI Dissertation Publishing.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, James Adelman, John C. Wingfield, George E. Bentley (2012) Social context modulates sickness behavior. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66 (10):1421-1428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-012-1397-1
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, John C. Wingfield, George E. Bentley (2012) Lipopolysaccharide injection induces rapid decrease of hypothalamic GnRH mRNA and peptide, but does not affect GnIH in zebra finches. Hormones and Behavior. 62(2):173-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.06.007
  • Patrícia C. Lopes (2010) Doente, da cabeça às asas! (Sick, from head to wings!) in Annals of the XVII Summer Workshops of Cascais, Cascais City Hall.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, Emília Santos, Elio Sucena, Sara Magalhães (2008) Rapid experimental evolution of pesticide resistance in C. elegans entails no costs and affects the mating system. PLoS ONE 3(11):e3741.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003741

Conference presentations

  • Patricia C. Lopes, Bennett Hardy, Arly Adame*, Amir Adams*, Madeleine Chang*, Sean McCallum*, Luana Oliveira*, Morgan Rea*, Sophia Santangelo* (2024) Host-parasite interactions prior to parasitism. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA
  • Madeleine Chang*, Patricia C. Lopes (2024) Acute social isolation changes the transcriptome of structures of the social decision-making network. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Seattle, January 2024
  • Patricia C. Lopes (2023) The host and beyond: responding to an infection affects everyone else. International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. Irvine, CA. 
  • Patricia C. Lopes (2023) To be aware of danger before danger: the effects of disease risk on animal physiology. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 63, S276-S277 
  • Delilah Schuerman*, Robert de Bruijn, Patricia C. Lopes (2022) The effect of chronic stress on gene expression in the hippocampus. Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists, Anaheim, CA. 
  • ​Patricia C. Lopes (2022) The social environment alters how the brain responds to an immune challenge. Int. Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal. 
  • Morgan Kindel*, Barbara König, Patricia C. Lopes (2019) Can peripheral immunity of healthy animals affect social behavior? Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting.
  • Patricia C. Lopes (2019) Why do we feel sick when infected? Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting.
  • Patricia C Lopes (2015) Choosing a healthy mate: listen, do you smell something? Behaviour2015, Cairns, Australia.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, Dwight Springthorpe, George E. Bentley (2013) Masking sickness in public results in costs for the magnitude of the immune response. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Nichole R. Johnston*, Patrícia C. Lopes, Gregory R. Goldsmith, George E. Bentley, Todd E. Dawson (2013) Do prolongued elevations of corticosterone influence the stable isotope ratios of blood in zebra finches? Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Hilary Chan*, Sophie L. Demathieu*, Patrícia C. Lopes, Jesse S. Krause, George E. Bentley (2013) Neuroendocrine basis of cooperative breeding in the sociable weaver. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, Hilary Chan*, Sophie L. Demathieu*, George E. Bentley (2012) Exposure to a novel female attenuates behavioral symptoms of infection and affects the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis. Society for Behavioral Endocrinology, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, James Adelman, Hilary Chan*, Sophie L. Demathieu*, George E. Bentley   (2012) Potential trade-off between recovery from infection and current reproductive opportunity: social effects on sickness behavior. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, James Adelman, George E. Bentley (2011) The impact of social context on sickness behavior. Behavior, the joint conference of the Animal Behavior Society and the International Ethological Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, James Adelman, George E. Bentley (2011) Social context modulates sickness behavior. 8th Conference of European Ornithological Union, Riga, Latvia.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, George E. Bentley (2010) Neural Correlates of Sickness Behavior in Songbirds. International Ornithological Congress, Campos do Jordão, Brazil.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, George E. Bentley (2010) Neural Pathways of Sickness Behavior in Songbirds. Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Seattle, USA.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, Henrique N. P. Teotónio, Elio Sucena, Sara Magalhães (2007) Resistance to nematicides in C. elegans: an experimental evolution approach. 3rd National Meeting of Evolutionary Biology, Oeiras, Portugal.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, Henrique N. P. Teotónio, Elio Sucena, Sara Magalhães (2007) Experimental evolution of resistance to nematicides in C. elegans. 11th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala, Sweeden.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, Carla Fernandes, Beatriz Silva, Susana Tavares, Teresa Magalhães, Duarte Nuno Vieira, Alda Maria Ambrósio (2005) Association study between the SNPs T102C and His452Tyr of the 5-HT2A gene and suicide in the Portuguese population. 9th Annual Reunion of the Portuguese Society for Human Genetics, Cascais, Portugal.
  • Patrícia C. Lopes, Carla Fernandes, Beatriz Silva, Susana Tavares, Teresa Magalhães, Duarte Nuno Vieira, Alda Maria Ambrósio (2005) Association between 5HTTLPR and suicide in the Portuguese population. IV National Congress of Legal Medicine, Portugal.
* indicates mentored students