George Butterstein,
the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, gave a paper titled “The
Influence of the number of fetal/placental units on maternal hormone leptin in
the pregnant rat” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of
Reproduction in Baltimore. He also
gave a seminar on “Hormones, Adiposity, and Reproduction” at the Center for the
Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES) at the San Diego Zoo, where he is a visiting
research scientist.