Susan C. Alberts
Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology
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Overview
Research in the Alberts Lab investigates the evolution of social behavior, particularly in mammals, with a specific focus on the social behavior, demography, life history, and behavioral endocrinology of wild primates. Our main study system is the baboon population in Amboseli, Kenya, one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world, ongoing since 1971.
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Selected Grants
A life course perspective on gut microbiome aging and health in a non-human primate model awarded by University of Notre Dame (Principal Investigator). 2021 to 2026
Genetic and Genomics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2020 to 2025
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
A life course perspective on the effects of cumulative early adversity on health awarded by University of Notre Dame (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2022
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maternal Early Life Adversity, Maternal Care, and Offspring Survival awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
LTREB Renewal: Life history and behavior in a primate hybrid zone awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2009 to 2021
Effects of Early-life Adversity on Body Size and Immune Function in Wild Baboons awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2021
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
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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
Anderson, Jordan A., et al. “Distinct gene regulatory signatures of dominance rank and social bond strength in wild baboons.” Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, vol. 377, no. 1845, Feb. 2022, p. 20200441. Pubmed, doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0441. Full Text
Lerch, Brian A., et al. “Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1964, Dec. 2021, p. 20212060. Epmc, doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.2060. Full Text
Zipple, M. N., et al. “The Bruce effect should be defined by function, not mechanism: comments on ‘How to escape male infanticide: mechanisms for avoiding or terminating pregnancy in mammals’.” Mammal Review, vol. 51, no. 4, Oct. 2021, pp. 596–99. Scopus, doi:10.1111/mam.12250. Full Text
Fogel, Arielle S., et al. “Genetic ancestry predicts male-female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone.” Animal Behaviour, vol. 180, Oct. 2021, pp. 249–68. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.009. Full Text
Lea, A. J., et al. “Erratum: Dominance rank-associated gene expression is widespread, sex-specific, and a precursor to high social status in wild male baboons (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2018) 115 (E12163–E12171) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811967115).” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 36, Sept. 2021. Scopus, doi:10.1073/pnas.2114104118. Full Text
Grieneisen, Laura, et al. “Gut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 373, no. 6551, July 2021, pp. 181–86. Epmc, doi:10.1126/science.aba5483. Full Text
Colchero, Fernando, et al. “The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2021, p. 3666. Epmc, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23894-3. Full Text
Zeng, S., et al. “Causal mediation analysis for sparse and irregular longitudinal data.” Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 747–67. Scopus, doi:10.1214/20-AOAS1427. Full Text
Campos, Fernando A., et al. “Glucocorticoid exposure predicts survival in female baboons.” Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 17, Apr. 2021. Epmc, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abf6759. Full Text
Anderson, Jordan A., et al. “High social status males experience accelerated epigenetic aging in wild baboons.” Elife, vol. 10, Apr. 2021. Epmc, doi:10.7554/elife.66128. Full Text
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Widdig, Anja, et al. “Do mothers promote social preference among their paternally related offspring? Testing mechanisms of paternal kin discrimination.” Folia Primatologica, vol. 79, no. 5, KARGER, 2008, pp. 398–398.
Fogel, Arielle, et al. Data from: Genetic ancestry predicts male-female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone. 3 June 2021. Manual, doi:10.7924/r4kp82d1z. Full Text
Alberts, Susan, et al. Data from: Better baboon breakups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions. 19 May 2021. Manual, doi:10.7924/r4bz67v25. Full Text
Zipple, Matthew, et al. Data from: Beyond orphaned infants: novel effects of maternal death in wild primates. 26 Oct. 2020. Manual, doi:10.7924/r44f1tk8k. Full Text
Zipple, Matthew, et al. Data from: Beyond orphaned infants: novel effects of maternal death in wild primates. 26 Oct. 2020. Manual, doi:10.7924/r44f1tk8k. Full Text