Susan C. Alberts
Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology
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Selected Grants
Research Network on Animal Models to Understand Social Dimensions of Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Collaborator). 2020 to 2025
Collaborative Research: Competition within and between primate social groups: Hormonal and behavioral signatures awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2023
The biodemography of early adversity: social behavioral processes in a wild animal model. awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2023
Effects of Early-life Adversity on Body Size and Immune Function in Wild Baboons awarded by (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2021
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maternal Early Life Adversity, Maternal Care, and Offspring Survival awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2020
LTREB Renewal: Life history and behavior in a primate hybrid zone awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2009 to 2020
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
A life course perspective on the effects of cumulative early adversity on health awarded by University of Notre Dame (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2020
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolutionary Consequences of Direct and indirect Contributions to Additive Genetic Variation in Wild Baboons awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2018
Effects of the Social Environment on DNA Methylation and Immune Function in Wild Baboons awarded by (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2017
Pages
Fitzpatrick, C. L., and S. C. Alberts. “Mating systems of old world monkeys.” Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 2019, pp. 575–79. Scopus, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.20690-0. Full Text
Tung, J. “Genes revisited: The biodemography of social environmental variation through a functional genomics lens.” Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography: A Collection of Papers, 2014, pp. 39–64. Scopus, doi:10.17226/18822. Full Text
Alberts, S. C., and J. Altmann. “The Amboseli baboon research project: 40 years of continuity and change.” Long-Term Field Studies of Primates, vol. 9783642225147, 2012, pp. 261–87. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22514-7_12. Full Text
Loisel, D. A., et al. “Functional significance of MHC variation in mate choice, reproductive outcome, and disease risk.” Evolution in Health and Disease, 2010. Scopus, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207466.003.0008. Full Text
Fischer, Julia, et al. “Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies.” Elife, vol. 8, Nov. 2019. Epmc, doi:10.7554/eLife.50989. Full Text
Zipple, Matthew N., et al. “Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons.” Elife, vol. 8, Sept. 2019. Epmc, doi:10.7554/eLife.47433. Full Text
Zipple, M. N., et al. “Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons.” Elife, vol. 8, Sept. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.7554/eLife.47433.001. Full Text
Akinyi, Mercy Y., et al. “Costs and drivers of helminth parasite infection in wild female baboons.” The Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 88, no. 7, July 2019, pp. 1029–43. Epmc, doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12994. Full Text
Noonan, M. J., et al. “A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation.” Ecological Monographs, vol. 89, no. 2, May 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1002/ecm.1344. Full Text
Zipple, Matthew N., et al. “Male-mediated prenatal loss: Functions and mechanisms.” Evolutionary Anthropology, vol. 28, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 114–25. Epmc, doi:10.1002/evan.21776. Full Text
Grieneisen, Laura E., et al. “Genes, geology and germs: gut microbiota across a primate hybrid zone are explained by site soil properties, not host species.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences, vol. 286, no. 1901, Apr. 2019, p. 20190431. Epmc, doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0431. Full Text
Wango, T. L., et al. “Climate and Land Cover Analysis Suggest No Strong Ecological Barriers to Gene Flow in a Natural Baboon Hybrid Zone.” International Journal of Primatology, vol. 40, no. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 53–70. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s10764-017-9989-2. Full Text
Colchero, Fernando, et al. “The diversity of population responses to environmental change.” Ecology Letters, vol. 22, no. 2, Feb. 2019, pp. 342–53. Epmc, doi:10.1111/ele.13195. Full Text
Alberts, Susan C. “Social influences on survival and reproduction: Insights from a long-term study of wild baboons.” The Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 88, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 47–66. Epmc, doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12887. Full Text