Katherine (Katie) Hinde is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Senior Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University, where she researches lactation. She is also a science writer and science communicator.

Katie Hinde
Hinde speaks at the National Institutes of Health in 2016
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles University of Washington
Scientific career
FieldsHuman Evolution and Social Change
InstitutionsArizona State University

Harvard University

California National Primate Research Center

Education

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Hinde attended Seattle Central College and was part of the Running Start and College Transfer programs.[1] She earned a bachelor's of arts in anthropology from the University of Washington in 1999.[2] She joined University of California, Los Angeles for her doctoral studies, where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship in 2007.[3] She completed her PhD at UCLA in 2008.[4]

Career

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Hinde served as a postdoctoral scholar in Neuroscience in the Brain, Mind, and Behavior Unit of California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis until 2009. She joined Harvard University as an Assistant Professor in 2011, where she remained until 2015.

Hinde is now the Director of the Comparative Lactation Lab at Arizona State University.[5] Here she investigates the hormones, food and medicine contained within mother's milk.[5] She argues that we know twice as much about erectile dysfunction than we do about breast milk.[6] Hinde identified that the combination of fat, protein, mineral, sugar, bacteria and hormones contained within mother's milk are equivalent to fingerprints and influence infant outcomes from postnatal life to adulthood.[7] Human breast milk contains oligosaccharides, of which there are more than 200 varieties.[8] These cannot be digested by babies, but instead provide the right community of microbes to prevent pathogens from establishing.[9] Hinde identified that the milk of young monkey mothers contained fewer calories but more of the stress hormone cortisol than that of their older counterparts.[10] She found that more cortisol contributes to infants that are more active and playful, as well as infants who are better at coping in stressful situations.[11][12]

She is recognised as a young researcher who has made outstanding, original scientific contributions to the study of human milk.[13] Hinde is a member of the Executive Council of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation.[14] Her research has been featured in National Geographic, Slate (magazine), Science News, The Washington Times and The New York Times.[15][16][17][18][19][8] She speaks regularly at international conferences.[20][21]

Public engagement

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In 2011 Hinde began the popular science blog "Mammals Suck ... Milk!", which has since had over one million views.[22][23] She is associate editor of Splash! Milk Science Update.[24][11][7] She created Mammal March Madness in 2013, a month of science outreach events used in classrooms across America.[25] In 2014 she wrote Building Babies.[26] She appeared on the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny YouTube channel, discussing Childrearing in Human Evolution.[27][28] She was a guest on the comedy show "You're the Expert" with Wyatt Cenac.[29] In 2016 Hinde was named the Milk Maven in GRIST 50, an annual list of innovators who are working toward a more sustainable future.[30] She part of the SAFE13 study, which looks to expose how widespread sexual harassment and assault are in scientific fieldwork.[31] In 2017 Hinde delivered a TED talk What we don't know about mother's milk. She was recently[when?] featured in the Netflix docuseries, "Babies."[32]

Awards

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2016 – Ehrlich-Koldovsky Early Career Award, International Society for Research in Human Milk & Lactation[13]

2016 – Sustainability Innovators, Organizers, & Visionaries #Grist50 Grist Magazine[30]

2014 – Early Career Achievement Award, American Society of Primatologists[33]

2014 – Distinguished Alumni Award, Seattle Central College[34]

2013 – Most Valuable Presentation Award 10th Annual Milk Genomics and Human Health Meeting[35]

References

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  1. ^ "From Seattle Central student to Harvard professor: This distinguished alum leads the way | Seattle Central News". newscenter.seattlecentral.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  2. ^ "University of Washington Department of Psychology". www.psych.uw.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  3. ^ "Katie Hinde". Big Think. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  4. ^ "Our Ph.D. program". Biological Anthropology at UCLA. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  5. ^ a b "Katie Hinde | iSearch". isearch.asu.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  6. ^ Hinde, Katie. "Katie Hinde: What we don't know about mother's milk". en.tiny.ted.com. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  7. ^ a b "Katie Hinde – The Evolution Institute". evolution-institute.org. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  8. ^ a b "Could Mothers' Milk Nourish Mind-Manipulating Microbes?". Phenomena. 2015-04-08. Archived from the original on April 10, 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  9. ^ Allen-Blevins, C. R.; Sela, D. A.; Hinde, K. (2015-01-01). "Milk bioactives may manipulate microbes to mediate parent-offspring conflict". Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. 2015 (1): 106–121. doi:10.1093/emph/eov007. PMC 4512713. PMID 25835022.
  10. ^ Hinde, K.; Skibiel, A. L.; Foster, A. B.; Rosso, L. Del; Mendoza, S. P.; Capitanio, J. P. (2015-01-01). "Cortisol in mother's milk across lactation reflects maternal life history and predicts infant temperament". Behavioral Ecology. 26 (1): 269–281. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru186. ISSN 1045-2249. PMC 4309982. PMID 25713475.
  11. ^ a b "SPLASH!® Newsletter Editorial Staff – International Milk Genomics Consortium". International Milk Genomics Consortium. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  12. ^ "Colloquium Series: Katie Hinde – Department of Psychology – UW–Madison". psych.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  13. ^ a b "Awards – International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation". www.isrhml.com. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  14. ^ "A. Prof Katie Hinde". Medela. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  15. ^ "Katie Hinde – Bio, News, Photos – Washington Times". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  16. ^ Sanders, Laura. "Backwash from nursing babies may trigger infection fighters". Science News. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  17. ^ "Slate.com Covers FFHI Research on the Science of Breast Milk — FFHI". ffhi.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  18. ^ "How Breast Milk Engineers a Baby's Gut (and Gut Microbes)". Phenomena. 2014-02-03. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  19. ^ Zimmer, Carl (2014-11-06). "In a Mother's Milk, Nutrients, and a Message, Too". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  20. ^ "Meet the Speakers". Social Media in Academia. 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  21. ^ "#ILCA16 Speakers – main". www.ilca.org. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  22. ^ Harvard University (2013-02-28), Katie Hinde: "Why Mammals Suck" | Harvard Thinks Big 4, retrieved 2018-03-17
  23. ^ "Mammals Suck... Milk!". mammalssuck.blogspot.fr. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  24. ^ "Katie Hinde – International Milk Genomics Consortium". International Milk Genomics Consortium. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  25. ^ "Meet the Professor Using March (Mammal) Madness to Draw Students to Science". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2017-03-10. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  26. ^ Building babies : primate development in proximate and ultimate perspective. Clancy, Kathryn B. H., Hinde, Katie., Rutherford, Julienne N. New York: Springer. 2013. ISBN 978-1489990327. OCLC 785082542.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  27. ^ "Katie Hinde | CARTA". carta.anthropogeny.org. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  28. ^ University of California Television (UCTV) (2014-05-01), CARTA: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Katie Hinde: Breast Milk and Breastfeeding, retrieved 2018-03-17
  29. ^ Live At The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, retrieved 2018-03-17
  30. ^ a b "Grist 50 collection: Grist 50: The 50 People You'll Be Talking About in 2016". Grist. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  31. ^ "New Light on Academia's Glass Ceiling". Harvard Magazine. 2014-08-20. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  32. ^ Hinde, Katie. "Katie Hinde | Speaker | TED". Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  33. ^ "ASP – Early Career Achievement Award". www.asp.org. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  34. ^ "Seattle Central marks 48th commencement with more than 1,100 degrees". CHS Capitol Hill Seattle. 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  35. ^ "Katie Hinde | School of Human Evolution and Social Change". shesc.asu.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-17.