Fieldwork in Uganda, fieldwork in Ghana, presentation at #ISME18, participation in SPUR UOregon, and running our S.P.I.C.E camp activity - it was amazing to finally get back to a normal(ish) summer of science. Looking forward to keeping it up this next year!!!

New paper out from Elisabeth Goldman, PhD + Kirstin Sterner + colleagues!

Congratulations to UNM's Stephanie Fox for successfully defending her PhD dissertation on social relationships among female chimpanzees in Kanyawara, Kibale National Park.

Congrats to Sara Lucci @KidColobus for being awarded an U.S. National Science Foundation DDRIG to investigate early life adversity and gut microbiome characteristics in our study population Colobus vellerosus at BFMS

Congrats to @SamanthaQueeno for winning the 2023 Anth Genetics outstanding trainee award for best student podium presentation at #AABA2023! Kirstin Sterner @TDCapellini

At long last my final dissertation chapter gets to see the light of day: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . We start with a simple observation -- bad experiences during early life predict increased mortality in adulthood (in many species). But why? 1/n

Congratulations to Claire Goodfellow, PhD on a successful PhD dissertation defense! Wonderful work on the elephants of Bwindi Impenetrable NP and Kibale NP by an amazing scientist.

UO Commencement 2023! Congrats again to the amazing Dr. Claire Goodfellow, PhD. We’re so going to miss you, but super excited to see you continue on your path. Good luck starting your new position with Taal Levi next month!

Another successful Forensics in the Forest outreach activity for UO Summer Spice Camp. Thanks S.P.I.C.E for providing Kirstin Sterner and students with the opportunity!

Current and former members of the Ting Lab are having fun presenting this week at the The Wildlife Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky #TWS2023

Congrats to Diana Christie on successfully defending + depositing her dissertation. Amazing research on social transmission, development, and plasticity in the gut microbiome. It’s sad to see Dr. Christie leave but we’re excited to see her continue to make her mark on the world!

Goodbye Los Angeles and #AABA2024! Thank you to AABA for organizing such an amazing conference. Saw old friends, met new ones, @SamanthaQueeno presented some of her dissertation results, and we took in some sights. It was an epic trip!

We made the front page!! Our paper about the importance of red colobus monkeys across Africa is here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thank you ⁦Leonardo DiCaprio⁩ and ⁦Re:wild⁩ for partnering with us on this message! instagram.com/p/C6tzql2OhGa/…

Very happy to see this work on the cover of this month’s issue of Conservation Letters!