ISG professor Dr. Hannah Landecker‘s paper “Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism” is now available to read online at Biosocieties
ISG Assistant Professor Dr. Aaron L. Panofsky has published new paper entitled “Field Analysis and Interdisciplinary Science: Scientific Capital Exchange in Behavior Genetics“. Abstract: This paper uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to develop tools for analyzing interdisciplinary scientific fields. Interdisciplinary fields are scientific spaces where no single form of scientific capital has a monopoly and therefore multiple forms of scientific capital constitute…
ISG Postdoctoral Fellow Sharlene Santana, faculty affiliate Michael Alfaro, undergrad apprentice Thomas Dial, and University of Massachusetts PhD candidate Thomas Eiting published a new paper on their research, entitled “Roosting Ecology and the Evolution of Pelage Markings in Bats” Abstract: Multiple lineages of bats have evolved striking facial and body pelage makings, including spots, stripes and countershading. Although researchers have…
ISG Director Eric Vilain has been featured in several news reports about his latest publication, “Epigenetic Predictor of Age“. He and other UCLA scientists Sven Bocklandt, Wen Lin, Mary Sehl, Francisco Sánchez, Janet Sinsheimer and Steve Horvath have successfully predicted human ages based upon simple saliva samples. Their predictions have been shown to be accurate to within five years –…
ISG’s Associate Director, Jessica Lynch Alfaro is a co-author on a Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution article, “Pleistocene diversification of living squirrel monkeys (Saimiri spp.) inferred from complete mitochondrial genome sequences“. The article discusses the very recent divergence of squirrel monkeys, as inferred by complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Abstract: In order to enhance our understanding of the evolutionary history of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri spp.), we…
ISG postdoc Sharlene Santana recently published, as first author, “The Better To Eat You With: Functional Correlates Of Tooth Structure In Bats” in the journal, Functional Ecology. Summary: 1. Mammalian dental morphology and function are strongly linked to diet. Within mammals, phyllostomid bats are the most diverse family in terms of dietary ecology and thus represent a unique opportunity in…