Zuleyma Tang-Martínez

Zuleyma Tang-Martínez (born March 9, 1945) is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Earlier in her career (up until the early 1990s) she published under her former married name, Zuleyma Tang Halpin.

Zuleyma Tang-Martínez
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia

University of California, Berkeley

Saint Louis University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri–St. Louis
Doctoral studentsDanielle N. Lee

Early life and education

Tang-Martínez was born in Venezuela.[1] She and her family lived in ethnically segregated camps that were operated by an American oil company.[1] Her father was the company accountant, permitting Tang-Martínez to be among the very few Venezuelans to be raised and attend school in the American camps.[1] She received her bachelor's degree from Saint Louis University, graduating in 1967.[2] She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1970 and a PhD in 1974.[2] Tang-Martínez was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia.[2] For her dissertation she developed the habituation-discrimination technique in order to study individual discrimination by odors in the Mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus.[3]

Career

Tang-Martínez was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1976. She served on the Animal Behavior Society Committee on Animal Care between 1977 and 1985.[4] She studied the social behaviour of animals and dispersal. Social structure impacts the genetics of populations and rates of evolution. In 1987 she wrote Mammalian Dispersal Patterns: The Effects of Social Structure on Population Genetics with Diane Chepko-Sade.[5] She has challenged the theory of Angus John Bateman and Robert Trivers that male fruit flies behave more promiscuously due to their ability to produce millions of small sperm.[6] She has argued how incorrect Bateman's principle is, addressing the stereotypes of male and female sexual behaviour.[7] Her research was discussed in Angela Saini's Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story.[8] She described the relationship between sociobiology and feminism as 'complex and multidimensional'.[9] She has studied the social systems of rodents and raccoons, finding significant geographical variation of characteristics in species.[10][10]

She was made Associate Professor in 1982 and full Professor in 1994.[2] She was Director of Women's Studies between 1989 and 1990.[2] She is concerned about students as higher education becomes more corporate.[11] In 1993 she was made President of the Animal Behavior Society.[4] She created the ethnic diversity fund, which supports scientists from underrepresented groups to attend academic conferences.[12] She served as Chair of the Latin American Affairs Committee of Animal Behavior Society.[2] She remains at the Animal Behavior Society as their historian.[13] She used habituation-discrimination to study the ability of voles to detect individually distinct odours.[14]

She retired in September 2011 and was made Founders Professor of Biology.[1] In 2014 she published Animal behavior : how and why animals do the things they do.[15] She remains part of a National Science Foundation proposal to develop the next generation of animal behavioural scientists.[16]

Awards and honours

Personal life

Tang-Martínez married her partner Arlene Zarembka in Canada in 2005.[19] In 2014 she campaigned for marriage equality as a plaintiff in a successful lawsuit demanding that the state of Missouri recognize her Canadian marriage.[20] She is an advocate for Hispanics and women in science.[19][21][22]

References
  1. Ross, Gloria S. "Zuleyma Tang-Martinez devotes life to studying animal behavior". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  2. "Zuleyma Tang-Martinez". www.umsl.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  3. Halpin, Z. T. (June 1974). "Individual differences in the biological odors of the Mongolian gerbil, (Meriones unguiculatus)". Behavioral Biology. 11 (2): 253–259. doi:10.1016/s0091-6773(74)90449-0. ISSN 0091-6773. PMID 4847527.
  4. "Animal Behavior Society". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  5. Mammalian Dispersal Patterns.
  6. Tang-Martínez, Zuleyma (May 2016). "Rethinking Bateman's Principles: Challenging Persistent Myths of Sexually Reluctant Females and Promiscuous Males". Journal of Sex Research. 53 (4–5): 532–559. doi:10.1080/00224499.2016.1150938. ISSN 1559-8519. PMID 27074147.
  7. Tang-Martinez, Zuleyma. "Data should smash the biological myth of promiscuous males and sexually coy females". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  8. Saini, Angela (2017). Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807071700.
  9. Tang-Martinez, Zuleyma (1997), "The Curious Courtship of Sociobiology and Feminism: A Case of Irreconcilable Differences", Feminism and Evolutionary Biology, Springer US, pp. 116–150, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_6, ISBN 9780412073618
  10. Tang-Martínez, Zuleyma (November 2003). "Emerging Themes and Future Challenges: Forgotten Rodents, Neglected Questions". Journal of Mammalogy. 84 (4): 1212–1227. doi:10.1644/BLe-015. ISSN 0022-2372.
  11. bcaspar. "Workplace Features: Zuleyma Tang-Martinez". louisville.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  12. Dnlee (2010-10-11). "A Wise Latina Scientist". Urban Science Adventures! ©. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  13. "Animal Behavior Society". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  14. Tang-Martínez, Zuleyma; Bixler, Andrea (April 2009). "Individual Discrimination by Odors in Sibling Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 35 (4): 400–404. doi:10.1007/s10886-009-9622-8. ISSN 0098-0331. PMID 19373513.
  15. Animal behavior : how and why animals do the things they do in SearchWorks catalog. searchworks.stanford.edu. ISBN 9780313398704. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  16. "NSF Award Search: Award#1833455 - Meeting: Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior; (2018-2021); Phoenix, AZ". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  17. "Animal Behavior Society". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  18. "Animal Behavior Society". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  19. "Same-sex couple speak on lawsuit, fight for equality". Springfield News-Leader. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  20. Powell, William (2014-07-24). "First Comes Love". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  21. "For Minorities in Science, Building Communities Matters". Undark. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  22. Tang-Martinez, Zuleyma (August 1992). "Women in Science: Demanding a Bigger Piece of the Pie or a New Recipe?". Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 12 (4–5): 192–194. doi:10.1177/027046769201200402. ISSN 0270-4676.
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