UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
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Research Assistants
Patrick Aria Omeja
Field Manager
Patrick has been working with Dr. Stumpf as a field manager since 2011.
Field Manager
Patrick has been working with Dr. Stumpf as a field manager since 2011.
Chris Irumba
Uganda Field Assistant
Chris has been working with Dr. Stumpf on behavioral, hormone and microbiome studies of wild chimpanzees in Kibale National Park since 2007. Since 2012, he has been collecting observational data and samples from the Kanyantale Community. The foci of these studies are juvenile and adolescent development, female dispersal, and sexual conflict. He will be also starting a forestry masters degree program with the Uganda Wildlife Authority this year.
Uganda Field Assistant
Chris has been working with Dr. Stumpf on behavioral, hormone and microbiome studies of wild chimpanzees in Kibale National Park since 2007. Since 2012, he has been collecting observational data and samples from the Kanyantale Community. The foci of these studies are juvenile and adolescent development, female dispersal, and sexual conflict. He will be also starting a forestry masters degree program with the Uganda Wildlife Authority this year.
Martin
Field Assistant
Martin has been working with Dr. Stumpf as a field assistant since 2012.
Field Assistant
Martin has been working with Dr. Stumpf as a field assistant since 2012.
Happy Alfred
Field Assistant
Happy has been working with Dr. Stumpf as a field assistant since 2014.
Field Assistant
Happy has been working with Dr. Stumpf as a field assistant since 2014.
Graduate Students
Summer Sanford
PhD Candidate
Summer Sanford is a fourth year graduate student starting her PhD research. She is interested in infant strategies during weaning and mother-infant interactions white faced capuchins. She will be starting her PhD research at Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve, Costa Rica. Her previous research has included investigating endocrinological development in chimpanzees, social networks in adolescent teenage girls, male dispersal in white-faced capuchins, inter/intrasexual selection in ruby spotted damselflies.
PhD Candidate
Summer Sanford is a fourth year graduate student starting her PhD research. She is interested in infant strategies during weaning and mother-infant interactions white faced capuchins. She will be starting her PhD research at Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve, Costa Rica. Her previous research has included investigating endocrinological development in chimpanzees, social networks in adolescent teenage girls, male dispersal in white-faced capuchins, inter/intrasexual selection in ruby spotted damselflies.
Abby Asangba
Graduate
Abigail Asangba is in first year in her PhD. She is interested in host-microbe interactions. She is interested in understanding the effect of various factors such as diet, age, disease states and mating systems on the gut and vaginal microbiomes of humans and non-human primates. Her past research focused on the microbial life preserved in hot spring calcium carbonates (travertine) deposits.
Graduate
Abigail Asangba is in first year in her PhD. She is interested in host-microbe interactions. She is interested in understanding the effect of various factors such as diet, age, disease states and mating systems on the gut and vaginal microbiomes of humans and non-human primates. Her past research focused on the microbial life preserved in hot spring calcium carbonates (travertine) deposits.
Karthik Yarlagadda
Graduate
Karthik Yarlagadda is a first year graduate student in Anthroplogy interested in studying humans from various genetic perspectives, especially the microbiome. His previous research involved various epigenetic studies focused on changes to DNA methylation in humans due to environmental factors.
Graduate
Karthik Yarlagadda is a first year graduate student in Anthroplogy interested in studying humans from various genetic perspectives, especially the microbiome. His previous research involved various epigenetic studies focused on changes to DNA methylation in humans due to environmental factors.
Talia Melber
PhD Candidate
Talia is interested in sexual selection, mate choice, the relationship between hormones and behavior, and cognitive processes. Her previous research includes investigating patterns of tool-use acquisition in great apes and studying potential behavioral cues used by female callitrichines to assess male mate quality. In the future she plans to utilize hormonal analyses to provide insight into various aspects of behavior and reproduction in primates.
PhD Candidate
Talia is interested in sexual selection, mate choice, the relationship between hormones and behavior, and cognitive processes. Her previous research includes investigating patterns of tool-use acquisition in great apes and studying potential behavioral cues used by female callitrichines to assess male mate quality. In the future she plans to utilize hormonal analyses to provide insight into various aspects of behavior and reproduction in primates.
Undergraduate Students
David Wood
Undergraduate
David Wood is a junior at the University of Illinois studying Biological Anthropology and Psychology. He recently took a field course in Costa Rica where he proposed, collected data for, and wrote a research paper on white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus) nearest neighbor preferences. In Dr. Stumpf’s lab he works coding behavior from her long-term chimp study.
Undergraduate
David Wood is a junior at the University of Illinois studying Biological Anthropology and Psychology. He recently took a field course in Costa Rica where he proposed, collected data for, and wrote a research paper on white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus) nearest neighbor preferences. In Dr. Stumpf’s lab he works coding behavior from her long-term chimp study.
Nicole Murray
Undergraduate, Lab Manager
Nicole is a junior undergraduate pursuing a second bachelors in Animal Science. Her work in Dr. Stumpf’s lab focuses on oxytocin in female chimps and how this hormone changes throughout development, particularly toward dispersal.
Undergraduate, Lab Manager
Nicole is a junior undergraduate pursuing a second bachelors in Animal Science. Her work in Dr. Stumpf’s lab focuses on oxytocin in female chimps and how this hormone changes throughout development, particularly toward dispersal.
Faith Teodoro
Undergraduate, Webmaster
Faith Teodoro is a junior undergraduate student studying Molecular and Cellular Biology and pursuing a minor in Anthropology. She helps assist Dr. Stumpf by managing data for the microbiome lab and is interested in studying the genetic factors contributing to preterm birth. She also created and maintains Dr. Stumpf's research website.
Undergraduate, Webmaster
Faith Teodoro is a junior undergraduate student studying Molecular and Cellular Biology and pursuing a minor in Anthropology. She helps assist Dr. Stumpf by managing data for the microbiome lab and is interested in studying the genetic factors contributing to preterm birth. She also created and maintains Dr. Stumpf's research website.
Christopher Yao
Undergraduate
Christopher Yao is a junior undergraduate student studying Molecular and Cellular Biology on a pre-medicine track. He helps Dr. Stumpf by using spreadsheets to organize data collected by Dr. Stumpf's Uganda study of chimpanzee behavior.
Undergraduate
Christopher Yao is a junior undergraduate student studying Molecular and Cellular Biology on a pre-medicine track. He helps Dr. Stumpf by using spreadsheets to organize data collected by Dr. Stumpf's Uganda study of chimpanzee behavior.
Taylor Crooks
Undergraduate
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Undergraduate
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Previous Members
Anissa Serlin
Anissa Serlin is an undergraduate student studying Mathematics and pursuing a minor in Secondary Education. She is working on taking chimp data and looking at it through different sorting programs with Abby and Dr. Stumpf in the microbiome lab.
Anissa Serlin is an undergraduate student studying Mathematics and pursuing a minor in Secondary Education. She is working on taking chimp data and looking at it through different sorting programs with Abby and Dr. Stumpf in the microbiome lab.
Delaney Corbitt
Delaney Corbitt is an undergraduate student studying Integrative Biology and pursuing a minor in French. She is currently assisting with the organization and management of the data collected for Dr. Stumpf's Uganda study of chimpanzee behavior. She hopes to pursue a career in the medical field after her studies.
Delaney Corbitt is an undergraduate student studying Integrative Biology and pursuing a minor in French. She is currently assisting with the organization and management of the data collected for Dr. Stumpf's Uganda study of chimpanzee behavior. She hopes to pursue a career in the medical field after her studies.
Ali Ford
Ali is a recent graduate from Iowa State University with a B.S. In both Biology and Environmental Science. As lab manager, she is working to help coordinate and organize Dr. Stumpf’s behavioral, microbiome, and hormone labs. Her future goals include obtaining a master’s degree in a field related to animal behavior and conservation.
Ali is a recent graduate from Iowa State University with a B.S. In both Biology and Environmental Science. As lab manager, she is working to help coordinate and organize Dr. Stumpf’s behavioral, microbiome, and hormone labs. Her future goals include obtaining a master’s degree in a field related to animal behavior and conservation.
Nam Nguyen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nam is a first year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Genomic Biology at UIUC studying computational metagenomics. His research interest is in the area of computational phylogenetics, with an emphasis on developing methods for analyzing ultra large datasets. His research interests span many areas, including taxonomic identification and profiling of metagenomic datasets, improving alignment and phylogeny estimation, and inference of deep evolutionary events. He's currently working on comparative studies of metagenomic samples across primates using novel methods that he has developed.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nam is a first year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Genomic Biology at UIUC studying computational metagenomics. His research interest is in the area of computational phylogenetics, with an emphasis on developing methods for analyzing ultra large datasets. His research interests span many areas, including taxonomic identification and profiling of metagenomic datasets, improving alignment and phylogeny estimation, and inference of deep evolutionary events. He's currently working on comparative studies of metagenomic samples across primates using novel methods that he has developed.
Krista Milich
Postdoctoral Researcher
Krista Milich is studying the impact of habitat degradation on female red colobus monkey reproductive function in Kibale National Park, Uganda. She is interested in examining how anthropogenic changes to forests influence female reproductive physiologies, behaviors, and hormone concentrations. This project combines her main interests: primates, reproduction, endocrinology, and conservation. She loves doing field work in Uganda and hopes to continue working in Africa for many more years.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Krista Milich is studying the impact of habitat degradation on female red colobus monkey reproductive function in Kibale National Park, Uganda. She is interested in examining how anthropogenic changes to forests influence female reproductive physiologies, behaviors, and hormone concentrations. This project combines her main interests: primates, reproduction, endocrinology, and conservation. She loves doing field work in Uganda and hopes to continue working in Africa for many more years.
Juan Umana
Juan graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a B.S. in Psychology. Now, his focus lies in Primatology and the pursuit of a PHD in the field, with an interest in microbiome/behavioral interaction. His main concentrations in the lab are metabolomics and DNA sequencing for primate samples. Current projects include microbiota of the intestinal and reproductive track of primates, and the compilation of primate data for the HOMINID project.
Juan graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a B.S. in Psychology. Now, his focus lies in Primatology and the pursuit of a PHD in the field, with an interest in microbiome/behavioral interaction. His main concentrations in the lab are metabolomics and DNA sequencing for primate samples. Current projects include microbiota of the intestinal and reproductive track of primates, and the compilation of primate data for the HOMINID project.
Paige Jamieson
Paige Jamieson is a senior undergraduate in Anthropology, concentrated in biology. She has worked in Dr. Stumpf's Primate Lab since the Summer of 2014 performing hormone assays mostly with Chimpanzee samples. She is most interested in the evolution of life histories in human and non-human primates and spends a lot of her time thinking up questions about developmental and behavioral ecology.
Paige Jamieson is a senior undergraduate in Anthropology, concentrated in biology. She has worked in Dr. Stumpf's Primate Lab since the Summer of 2014 performing hormone assays mostly with Chimpanzee samples. She is most interested in the evolution of life histories in human and non-human primates and spends a lot of her time thinking up questions about developmental and behavioral ecology.
Laura McElheny
Laura McElheny is an undergraduate student studying molecular and cellular biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been assisting with this project since early 2013, performing data organization and compilation.
Laura McElheny is an undergraduate student studying molecular and cellular biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been assisting with this project since early 2013, performing data organization and compilation.
Cecily Grossmann
Cecily Grossmann is a senior in Integrative Biology at UIUC. She is currently working on organizing the data accumulated in Dr. Stumpf’s 2011 Uganda study. She will earn her bachelor’s degree in biology by May 2015 and hopes to continue great ape-related research post-graduation.
Cecily Grossmann is a senior in Integrative Biology at UIUC. She is currently working on organizing the data accumulated in Dr. Stumpf’s 2011 Uganda study. She will earn her bachelor’s degree in biology by May 2015 and hopes to continue great ape-related research post-graduation.
