Tracy Davis

Reproduction Physiologist

Office Location Ag Biotech 211 University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844-2330 Phone: (208) 885-5189 Lab Phone: (208) 885-7224 tracyd@uidaho.edu

Education
2004  Ph.D.  The Ohio State University ,  Animal Science; Reproductive Physiology

2000  M.S.    University of Nebraska-Lincoln , Animal Science, Reproductive Physiology

1998  B.S.   Michigan State University , Animal Science

 Professional Experience

2007 - present  University of Idaho,  Assistant Professor, Reproductive Physiology

2006 – 2007  Colorado State University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reproductive Biology

2004 - 2006  Colorado State University, Reproductive Biology, NIH Postdoc

MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS 

Society for the Study of Reproduction

HONORS AND AWARDS

Trainee Research Platform Competition 3rd place

39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction; 2006

USDA NRI Travel Fellow   

39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction; 2006

RESEARCH GRANTS FUNDED

American Jersey                Polymorphism in candidate genes                                    $5,500 Cattlemen’s Assoc.             of immunocompetence and mastitis      

Research Foundation          susceptibility. 1997.

                                        J.L. Burton, T.L. Davis, J.B. Wells.

OARDC Graduate                Gonadotropin-releasing hormone                                    $2,000 Research Enhancement       agonist, deslorelin, indirectly alters

Grant Program                   luteal morphology and function when

                                        administered chronically to cattle. 2002

                                        T.L. Davis

USDA-CSREES                   Role of membrane estrogen receptors                            $119,111

                                        in LH secretion

                                        8/1/2006 – 7/31/2008

                                        T.L. Davis

ABSTRACTS

Wells JB, Weber PSD, Davis TL, Burton JL. Taq PCR-RFLP in the glucocorticoid receptor gene of cattle. J Dairy Sci 1999; 82 (Suppl. 1) abstract P106.

Jiménez-Severiano H. Mussard M, Davis T, Enright W, D’Occhio M, Kinder J. Secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) in rams chronically treated with analogs of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). Biol Reprod 1999; 60 (Suppl. 1):276 (abstract 589).

Davis T, Mussard M, Jiménez-Severiano H, Enright W, Kinder J. Enhanced luteal function in cattle chronically administered with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agaonist azagly-nafarelin. Biol Reprod 2000; 62 (Suppl. 1):211 (abstract 263).

Davis TL, Pate JL, Kinder JE. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, deslorelin, indirectly alters luteal morphology and function when administered chronically to cattle. Biol Reprod 2001; 66 (Suppl. 1):265 (abstract 414).

Pate JL, Winkler JL, Davis TL, Thomas KR, Satoskar AR. Delay of puberty and alteration of follicular dynamics in macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) deficient mice. Biol Reprod 2003; 68 (Suppl. 1):533 (abstract 533).

Davis TL, Nett TM. Estrogen receptor alpha and beta agonists increase GnRH receptor number in cultured ovine pituitary cells. Biol Reprod 2005; Special Issue (abstract M649).

Davis TL, Clay CM, Nett TM. Membrane impermeable estradiol-induced increase in number of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors in cultured ovine pituitary cells. Biol Reprod 2006; Special Issue (abstract 109).

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Davis TL, Mussard ML, Jiménez-Severiano H, Enright W, Kinder JE. Chronic treatment with an agonist of gonadotropin-releasing hormone enhances luteal function in cattle. Biol Reprod 2003; 69:398-403.

Jiménez-Severiano H, D’Occhio MJ, Lunstra DD, Mussard ML, Davis TL, Enright WJ, and Kinder JE. Comparative response of rams and bulls to long-term treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs. Anim Reprod Sci 2006 (in press).

Bogan RL, Davis TL, Niswender GD. Peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) aggregation and absence of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR)/PBR association in the bitochondrial membrane as determined by bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET). J Steroid Biochem Molec Biol 2006 (in press).

Niswender GD, Davis TL, Griffith RJ, Bogan RL, Monser K, Bott RC, Bruemmer JE, Nett TM. Judge, jury and executioner: The auto-regulation of luteal function. In: Reproduction in Domestic Ruminants V. JL Juengel & MF Smith (eds.), J Reprod Fertil Ltd., Cambridge, UK. 2006 (in press).

Arreguin-Arevalo JA, Davis TL, Nett TM. Differential modulation of gonadotropin secretion by selective estrogen receptor alpha and estrogen receptor beta agonists in ovariectomized ewes. (submitted).

Davis TL, Slough TL, Niswender GD. Progesterone inhibition of oxytocin and prostaglandin F_2a mediated increases in intracellular calcium concentrations in ovine luteal cells. (submitted).

Davis TL, Pate JL, Kinder JE. Chronic GnRH analog treatment of heifers: Luteal cell populations and steady-state amounts of mRNA for the steroidogenic enzymes. (submitted).

Davis TL, Clay CM, Nett TM. Estradiol-induced increase in number of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors in cultured ovine pituitary cells via membrane estrogen receptors. (in preparation).

Davis TL and Pate JL. Bovine luteal cells stimulate proliferation of the major histocompatiblity molecule nonrestricted T cell type, gamma delta T cells. (submitted).