Susan C. Alberts

Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology

External Address:

130 Science Drive, Rm 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708

Internal Office Address:

Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338

Phone:

919.660.7272

Email:

alberts@duke.edu

Overview

Education & Training

Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1992
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles 1987
B.A., Reed College 1983

Cozzarelli Prize. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 2016

Elected Fellow. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2014

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Duke University. 2012

Elected Fellow. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2012

Thomas Langford Lectureship, Duke University. Duke University. December 2010

Distinguished Teaching and Service Award. Department of Biology, Duke University. December 2009

Elected Fellow, Animal Behavior Society. Animal Behavior Society. December 2008

Elected Fellow. Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University. 2007

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2001

Harvard Society Junior Fellows. Harvard Society of Fellows. 1994

Selected Grants

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

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

Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020

LTREB Renewal: Life history and behavior in a primate hybrid zone awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2009 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

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

Snyder-Mackler, Noah, et al. “Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 368, no. 6493, May 2020. Epmc, doi:10.1126/science.aax9553. Full Text Open Access Copy

Gesquiere, Laurence R., et al. “Noninvasive measurement of mucosal immunity in a free-ranging baboon population.” American Journal of Primatology, vol. 82, no. 2, Feb. 2020, p. e23093. Epmc, doi:10.1002/ajp.23093. Full Text

McLean, Emily M., et al. “Lifetime Fitness in Wild Female Baboons: Trade-Offs and Individual Heterogeneity in Quality.” The American Naturalist, vol. 194, no. 6, Dec. 2019, pp. 745–59. Epmc, doi:10.1086/705810. 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

Habig, Bobby, et al. “Multi-scale predictors of parasite risk in wild male savanna baboons (Papio cynocephalus).” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 73, no. 10, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Oct. 2019. Crossref, doi:10.1007/s00265-019-2748-y. 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