We're searching for a database and lab manager to work at U Notre Dame on the Amboseli Baboons! Please circulate and apply! 🐵🖥️🐵🖥️ docs.google.com/document/d/1nd…

We're searching for a postdoc! Join our team to study stress responses in wild baboons using real-time measurements of heart rate 🐵💓
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We're searching for a database and lab manager to work at U Notre Dame on the Amboseli Baboons! Please circulate and apply! 🐵💻 🐵💻sites.nd.edu/archielab/lab-…

5/7 We also found that when a pair of baboons has especially consistent correlation patterns, they tend to have similar baseline microbiome community compositions and be genetic relatives (but not social group members!)

4/7 The correlations come from abundance trajectories modeled by @kimberlyeroche. She used multinomial logistic-normal models to learn a smoothly evolving Gaussian process to model abundance trajectories for each taxon in each baboon. This is the most negatively correlated pair.

3/7 You can see these highly consistent patterns in the heat map below. The columns show correlations for each distinct pair of microbes. The rows show the correlation patterns for each baboon.

1/7 Do different hosts have different microbiome ecologies 🦠🧬🐒? @kimberlyeroche tackled this question in the @AmboseliBaboons, and we're ready to share the preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out the temporal autocorrelation in baboon microbiota for samples collected on the same day to up to 12 years apart! Samples within a few days are most similar, but baboons return to similar microbiome states on annual, 12-month cycles ⌚️🐒

Do baboons in the same environment have synchronized microbiomes? They sure don't!! 😯 Synchronizing forces can't overwhelm personalization in baboon gut microbiota. Check out our latest paper in @NatureEcoEvo
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So thrilled that Mauna Dasari @chumblebiome was awarded ND's 2022 Department of Biological Sciences Graduate Student Leader of the Year Award! 💥🏆💥 Mauna has made terrific contributions to our community!

Lots of great ideas in this open letter on diversity, equity and inclusion at Notre Dame ndsmcobserver.com/2022/04/an-ope…
Also check out The Accomplice Project for more information: sites.nd.edu/accomplice-pro…

I'm so proud of Emily Nonnamaker @BushBiologist who passed her qualifying exam today! Go Emily!! 🐵🧬🦠🎉❤️🏆

@ArchieLab is searching for a new PhD student! If you are interested in microbiome dynamics, social behavior, or both, get in touch. We ❤️ ecology🌿evolution 🧬behavior 🐵 microbes🦠!

Using over 16,000 fecal samples 🐵, we found microbiome heritability is widespread in the @AmboseliBaboons. These longitudinal data may explain why heritability is more pervasive in baboons than in humans.

Check out our latest work in @ScienceMagazine: science.sciencemag.org/content/373/65…

Notre Dame 🍀 has graduate positions in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Change! 🦠🐟🐵🌿🌎🪲We're having Q&A Zoom sessions in October and November. Please read more here: docs.google.com/document/d/1zR…

Die young, live fast? Not true for baboons! Contrary to expectations, females who experienced early life adversity do not improve their fitness if they speed up reproduction. Check our our new paper in PNAS led by @chelsea_weibel with @jtung5 @susan_alberts @AmboseliBaboons

Male baboons with more friends live longer! 🐵 New work by @F_A_Campos, @susan_alberts and collaborators. Bayesian approach to measuring male mortality in baboons, who have male-biased dispersal. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

We're hiring an Assistant Prof @NDBios! We're searching broadly in ecology, evolution, and/or environmental change. All scales and modes of inference considered! apply.interfolio.com/78904

New research by a team of grad students from @AmboseliBaboons. Ever wonder what dominance rank metric is best for your study? The team compared two metrics for 20 different traits. Read here to see what they found: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…

Check out @ChelsSouthworth at ABS this week! New member of @ArchieLab. Development session, Friday July 31, 9-11 am, Talk #686. Infant social development in savannah baboons: Age, sex, and demographic effects

Check out @chumblebiome at ABS! She'll tell us about the microbiome and aging. Mauna oversaw extraction of >16,000 fecal samples for this! (ecological effects 3, Thu Jul 30, 2-4 pm, Q&A 4-5): "Rank & environment predict age-related changes in the gut microbiome of wild baboons"

Want your PhD? Check out the University of Notre Dame! Notre Dame Biology has great research in ecology, evolution, and the environment. Read details here: tinyurl.com/y463p5qx
Work with @NDBios @ND_BioSciences @NDFieldEcology @ND_ECI @ndeckinstitute

The Archie Lab is searching for a postdoc! Looking for skills in evolution, behavior, health, fitness. Microbiome work is also an option. Work with decades of data on the @AmboseliBaboons. Read more here sites.nd.edu/archielab/file…

New paper out from @bobby_habig. Parasite loads in male baboons are linked to processes at multiple scales: the population, the troop, and the individual. Work in collaboration with @ArchieLab and @AmboseliBaboons. Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Host species identity does not predict gut microbiota across a baboon hybrid zone. Instead, gut microbiota are shaped by host environments, especially soil traits. See the new paper by @ferocious_sloth with @AmboseliBaboons and @jtung5.

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Baboon gut microbiomes show surprising similarity with the properties of the soil where they live. Are baboon guts full of dirt? Read our new paper by @ferocious_sloth with @AmboseliBaboons

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Check out the Amboseli Baboon Project at IPS! @AmboseliBaboons @susan_alberts @jtung5

Archie lab loves PUPPIES!!

Check out these beautiful baboon portraits by @elisee_7, who is an undergraduate researcher working in the Archie Lab! @ArchieLab @AmboseliBaboons

female beauty... in baboons! wfdd.org/story/investig…

Liz Miller's new paper on baboon vaginal microbiota. Check out the cool communities in ovulating females! rdcu.be/oFUh