Parul Johri will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. Parul is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher with Jeffrey Jensen at Arizona State University and worked with Michael Lynch during her PhD at Indiana University. Her research interest broadly spans population genetics and molecular evolution.

Kenneth Chiou will be talking about his research at this CEMinar. Kenneth is a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University. As a primate biologist, his research centers on the intersection of behavior, ecology and genomics. He is interested in the evolution of populations; in particular, he aims to understand how demography, behavior and environmental variation contribute to the past and present spatial distribution of genetic variation in primates.

Ian Gilby will be talking about his research at this CEMinar. Ian has studied the behavioral ecology of wild chimpanzees since 1997. His main research interests are cooperative hunting, meat sharing and adult male dominance strategies. He is co-director of the Gombe Chimpanzee Database, which contains over five decades of detailed behavioral, ecological and demographic data from the long-term study of two chimpanzee communities in Gombe National Park, Tanzania.

María Ávila-Arcos will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. Dr. María Ávila-Arcos is Assistant Professor at the International Laboratory for Human Genome Research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. María earned a PhD in paleogenomics from the University of Copenhagen and trained as a post-doctoral fellow in population genomics and global health at Stanford University.

Suzanne Devkota will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. Suzanne Devkota, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Cedars-Sinai Division of Gastroenterology investigating the role of diet in shaping the community of bacteria that live in our intestines (the "gut microbiome").

Appropriate empirical-based evidence and detailed theoretical considerations should be used for evolutionary explanations of phenotypic variation observed in the field of human population genetics (especially Indigenous populations). Investigators within the population genetics community frequently overlook the importance of these criteria when associating observed phenotypic variation with evolutionary explanations.

Ben Trumble will be talking about his research at this CEMinar. Benjamin Trumble is an assistant professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and affiliated faculty in the Center for Evolution and Medicine. His work focuses on field and laboratory analyses of hormone-behavior interactions, specifically the relationship among reproductive hormones, immune function, behavior, environment and the implications this has for human health and life histories.

"The population genetics of human pathogens: tuberculosis, influenza and cytomegalovirus"