I received my PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1994, following a BS in Zoology and Computer Science from Rhodes University in South Africa. After post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and INRA in France, I was appointed to an Assistant Professorship at the Vet school at the University of Bristol before relocating to the University of Wyoming in 2002. My research during the past 20 years has focused on the seasonal mechanisms driving hormone secretion and, most recently, on the roles of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) outside the neuroendocrine reproductive axis. Although initially a sheep researcher, my loyalty has strayed and much of my current research utilizes rodent models.
Dr. Skinner is a member of the Society of Neuroscience, British Neuroendocrine Society and the Society for Reproduction and Fertility. He is an editorial board member of Neuroendocrinology, Journal of Endocrinology, and Reproduction.