By using monogamous deer mice, mainly P. californicus, we are exploring the impact of pair bonding and pair bond disruption in physiology and pathology.

Naderi A, Liles K, Burns T, Chavez B, Huynh-Dam K-T, Kiaris H. Pair bonding and disruption impact lung transcriptome in monogamous Peromyscus californicus. BMC Genomics. 2023. DOI 10.1186/s12864-023-09873-6.

Naderi A, Soltanmohammadi E, Kaza V, Barlow V, Chatzistamou I, & Kiaris H. Persistent effects of pair bonding in lung cancer cell growth in monogamous Peromyscus californicus. eLife 2021;10:e64711 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.64711. 

*Featured in eLife Digest "Pairing up against cancer"

*Podcast interview with Chris Smith (The Naked Scientists) here

*Featured in Spotlight "Harnessing the healing power of love" by Ford and Young in Trends in Molecular Medicine

*Featured in ScienceConnected (The cancerous relationship between tumors and grief, By Pernille Bülow)