I grew up in Brooklyn, NY, attended Midwood High School, and in 2000 earned my Bachelor’s degree at Barnard College, majoring in both Anthropology and Biology. I was born in Saigon, Viet Nam in 1976 and immigrated with my family to the US in 1982. My research aims to shed light on and provide new insights into the processes that underlie social behavior in humans and nonhuman primates. In addition, non-invasive sampling allows me to both assess potential determinants of behavior and to evaluate potential consequences of behavior without disruptions to the animals’ daily lives. By studying primates in natural settings, I can monitor the interactions between behavior, ecology and various biological processes within the selective environment in which these interactions evolved. Much of my past and present research focuses on wild populations of monkeys in East Africa, including in Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia. My research combines behavioral observations of wild non-human primates with non-invasive sampling for information on their genetics, endocrinology, and disease and microbiome ecology to better understand the sources and consequences of variability in primate social behavior across individuals and groups in natural populations. I am a behavioral biologist whose work focuses on the behavior and ecology of wild non-human primates.
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