About James V. Kohl
Kohl’ award-winning 2007 article/book chapter on multisensory integration: The Mind’s Eyes: Human pheromones, neuroscience, and male sexual preferences followed an award winning 2001 publication: Human pheromones: integrating neuroendocrinology and ethology, which was coauthored by distinguished researchers from Vienna. Rarely do researchers win awards in multiple disciplines, but Kohl’s 2001 award was for the neuroscience of behavior, and his 2007 “Reiss Theory” award was for a social science approach to behavior.
Each of Kohl’s published works link what is known about food odors, human pheromones, and nutritional epigenetics from conserved molecular mechanisms of ecological variation to RNA-mediated cell type differentiation and ecological adaptions in species from microbes to man.
Kohl worked as a medical laboratory scientist from 1974 until 2013, and maintains his emeritus status in the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) as a certified Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS). He devoted more than twenty-nine of those thirty-nine years to researching the relationship between the sense of smell and cell type differentiation, which he linked to life history transitions that include the development of human sexual preferences and facts linked to suicide prevention. Unlike many researchers who work with non-human subjects, medical laboratory scientists use the latest technology from many scientific disciplines to perform a variety of specialized diagnostic medical testing on people. That fact led Kohl to recognize how nutrient-dependent pheromone-regulated genetic processes of cell type differentiation link epigenetically effected cell type differentiation — in all cells of all tissues in all organs of all organ systems in all organisms — from ecological variation to conserved molecular mechanisms of ecological adaptations.
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Certifications, Memberships, Additional Publications & Presentations
Certifications
James V. Kohl is certified with:
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (Medical laboratory scientist)
Memberships
Kohl is a former member of:
- Association for Chemoreception Sciences *****
- International Society for Human Ethology **
- Society for Social Neuroscience *
- American Medical Technologists (Medical technologist)
- American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
- Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology **
- Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality **
- Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
- Mensa, the International high IQ society **
* Asterisks indicate approximately how many times Kohl has presented at an annual meeting.
Other Publications
- Kohl JV and Francoeur, RT The scent of eros: mysteries of odor in human sexuality 1995/2002
- Diamond M, Binstock T, Kohl JV. From fertilization to adult sexual behavior. Horm Behav. 1996 Dec;30(4):333-53. (Authors’ copy here.)
- Kohl, JV et al., (2001) Human pheromones: integrating neuroendocrinology and ethology Neuro Endocrinolgy Letters 22(5) 309-321.
- Kohl JV The Mind’s Eyes: Human pheromones, neuroscience, and male sexual preferences Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality (2006) (Author’s copy here.) Also published as a book chapter in Handbook of the evolution of human sexuality (2006)
- Kohl, JV (2012) Human pheromones and food odors: epigenetic influences on the socioaffective nature of evolved behaviors. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, 2: 17338.
- Kohl, JV (2013) Nutrient-dependent/pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution: a model. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, 3: 20553.
- Kohl, JV (2018) Nutrient-dependent Pheromone-Controlled Ecological Adaptations: From Angstroms to Ecosystems Journal of Genetics and DNA Research 2:1
Presentations
- RNA mediated molecular epigenetics and virus driven entropy 3/2/16 LabRoots Neuroscience Virtual Conference
- What is life when it is not protected from virus driven entropy 3/30/16 LabRoots Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Conference
- Energy as information and constrained endogenous RNA interference 2/15/17 Labroots: Precision Medicine Virtual Conference
- Nutrient-dependent / Pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution: (a mammalian model of thermodynamics and organism-level thermoregulation) Figshare 5.5 minute video presentation International Society for Human Ethology Summer Institute 2013 Presentation
- Nutrient-dependent/pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution F1000 Poster
- Human Pheromones: Epigenetic Effects of Odors and Their Affects on Behavior F1000 Poster
- Human pheromones, epigenetics, physiology, and the development of animal behavior F1000 Poster
Human Pheromones: The Mind’s Eyes and behavior (videos from my 2010 presentation to Mensa)