Past Events

Event Type

Series Semester

Jan 27 2023

Tragic natural experiments: insights into human evolution from infectious diseases of primates, Tony Goldberg

Information: Friday, January 27, 2023; CHES Lecture Series Spring 2023; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001

Dec 09 2022

The evolution of information processing, categorization and the illusion of control, Sander van der Leeuw

Information: Friday, December 9, 2022; CHES Lecture Series Fall 2022; Email us for the Zoom link

Nov 02 2022

Lembersky Conference

Information: Wednesday, November 2, 2022; CHES Lecture Series Fall 2022; Register Online; Event Short Description
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Sep 23 2022

A One Health Approach to Understanding and Mitigating Pathogenic Threats to Wild Primates, Tom Gillespie

Information: Friday, September 23, 2022; CHES Lecture Series Fall 2022; Ruth Adams Building, Room 002

Sep 09 2022

Exploring two sides of the mammalian digestome: Host enzymes and gut microbes, Mareike Janiak

Information: Friday, September 9, 2022; CHES Lecture Series Fall 2022; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001

Dec 03 2021

The obstetrical dilemma and helpless human infants

Information: Friday, December 3, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97846024779?pwd=YW4yM1NyNjVwRmM0d1F5blUzSGFWQT09; Event Short Description
Karen Rosenberg, University of Delaware

Nov 05 2021

Condition-dependent olfactory communication in lemurs

Information: Friday, November 5, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97846024779?pwd=YW4yM1NyNjVwRmM0d1F5blUzSGFWQT09; Event Short Description
Christine Drea, Duke University

Oct 15 2021

Shocks and vulnerability in a native Amazonian society: Surprises and non-surprises

Information: Friday, October 15, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97846024779?pwd=YW4yM1NyNj VwRmM0d1F5blUzSGFWQT09; Event Short Description
Ricardo Godoy, Brandeis University,

Sep 24 2021

Cross-population insights into adaptation and maladaptation at high altitude: Integrating -omics and physiological perspectives

Information: Friday, September 24, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97846024779?pwd=YW4yM1NyNjVwRmM0d1F5blUzSGFWQT09; Event Short Description
Tatum Simonson, University of California–San Diego

May 07 2021

Who, What, Where & How: Trade-offs in Multi-factor Foraging Decisions by Vervet Monkeys

Information: Friday, May 7, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Julie Teichroeb (University of Toronto)

Apr 30 2021

Water insecurity and Human Biology: Environmental Exposures, Nutritional Adaptations, and Health Implications

Information: Friday, April 30, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Asher Yoel Rosinger (Penn State University)

Apr 16 2021

Revealing the African roots of Homo sapiens

Information: Friday, April 16, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Brenna Henn (University of California, Davis)

Mar 26 2021

The Changing Landscape of Hominin Evolution—A View from Afar

Information: Friday, March 26, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Chris Campisano (Arizona State University)

Mar 12 2021

The Promises and Challenges of Primate Paleogenomics: Insights from the Nuclear Genome of a Large Extinct Lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

Information: Friday, March 12, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Stephanie Marciniak (Penn State)

Feb 26 2021

A General Model for the Paleoecology of the Now Submerged Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, an Extinct Ecosystem Crucial to Modern Human Origins

Information: Friday, February 26, 2021; CHES Lecture Series 2020-2021; https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/99232710595?pwd=RXZINStSSGFQMFJNKzBuM1pBcWo0dz09; Event Short Description
Curtis Marean (Arizona State University)

May 01 2020

Adaptive Evolution in African Rainforest Hunter- Gatherer Populations

Information: Friday, May 1, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Christina Bergey (Rutgers University)

Apr 03 2020

The Changing Landscape of Hominin Evolution – A View from Afar

Information: Friday, April 3, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Chris Campisano (Arizona State University)

Feb 28 2020

What Ernst Mayr Didn’t Know: Insights into Baboons and Other Primates from Whole Genome Sequencing

Information: Friday, February 28, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Jeffrey Rogers (Baylor College of Medicine)

Feb 14 2020

Genetic Variation in Howler Monkey TLR7 and TLR8 and Potential Implications for Susceptibility to Yellow Fever Virus

Information: Friday, February 14, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Nicole Torosin (Dept. Genetics, Rutgers University)

Feb 07 2020

Microarchaeology and the Underlying Science

Information: Friday, February 7, 2020; CHES Lecture Series 2019-2020; Ruth Adams Building, Room 001; Event Short Description
Steve Weiner (Weizmann Institute of Science)