We are a group of Stony Brook University scientists who study primate development, behavioral and reproductive endocrinology, sexual selection and life history.
Congrats to @jacobafeder@GeladaResearch for winning the Whitten Prize for best student presentation in Primatology at this year’s AABA meetings in Denver! Jacob’s talk focused on “Social precursors and fitness outcomes of group fission in geladas.”
Lu Lab member @jacobafeder received an NSF DDRIG for his research on "Patterns of social bonds and developmental outcomes in juvenile geladas". Congratulations Jacob!! @GeladaResearch
Congrats to Lu Lab member Dr. @laurenpetrullo for successfully defending her dissertation on Vertical transmission and maturation of the vervet monkey gut microbiome!!!
Super excited to announce some good news in this very strange time - I have been awarded an @NSF_BIO postdoc to work w/ @ben_dantzer on plasticity and the microbiome in @KluaneSquirrels & will be headed to @UMich in the fall! #PRFB🎉
The Kaludiyapokuna Primate Research and Conservation Project is seeking two volunteer field assistants as part of our project on langur conservation and biology in the Sri Lanka to start in Mar-Jun 2020.
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Congratulations to Lu Lab member and PhD candidate Marcy Weber for receiving a @WennerGrenOrg grant for her dissertation work “Inequalities in the Reproductive-Immune Trade-off in Tufted Gray Langurs”!
I had a great group of undergrads who presented their research on nutrition and orangutan urine at #NEEP2019! Mady, Bryanna, and Ish did an excellent job!!
Great talk by @IDPAS_SBU student and Lu Lab member Jacob Feder on a potential hormonal mechanism driving male mediated maturation in female geladas #NEEP2019