Joseph Orkin
Genomics, metagenomics, proteomics
- Professeur adjoint
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'anthropologie
- Professeur adjoint
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de sciences biologiques
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Profile
Research expertise
My lab uses molecular tools–genomics, metagenomics, and proteomics–to answer anthropological questions.
Molecular primatology
- Primate adaptation to changing and hostile environments
- Population genomics of free-ranging primates
- Primate gut microbial ecology
Anthropology of fermented and preserved foods
- Microbial ecology of food fermentation
- Biocultural interaction of humans and the foods we produce
Development of new methods for non-invasive molecular ecology
- fecalFACS
- Scat detection dogs
education
- 2005 — B.A. — Philosophie — Penn State University
- 2005 — B.A. — Anthropologie — Penn State University
- 2014 — PhD — Anthropologie — Washington University in St. Louis
Affiliations and responsabilities
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
Courses taught (current session only)
- ANT-2440 – Génétique évolutive humaine
- ANT-3809 – Séminaire d'ethnologie
- ANT-3814 – Séminaire d'anthropologie biologique
- ANT-6810 – Séminaire d'anthropologie
Programs
- 105010 – Baccalauréat en anthropologie
- 105020 – Majeure en anthropologie
- 105040 – Mineure en anthropologie
- 107020 – Majeure en démographie
- 122012 – Baccalauréat en neuroscience cognitive
- 205010 – Maîtrise en anthropologie
- 205012 – DESS en anthropologie
- 205060 – Microprogramme de 2e cycle en anthropologie
Projects
Research projects
MultiOmic Primate Adaptation to Local Environments
MultiOmic Primate Adaptation to Local Environments
Sociocultural Foodomics of Heritage Preserved Salmon
A new model system for Assessing the socio environmental determinants of the pace of aging : leverging a long term sutdy of wild capuchins_Subaward No 1000005099
Outreach
Publications and presentations
Publications
Orkin JD, Montague MJ, Tejada-Martinez D, de Manuel M, [18 others], Melin AD. 2021. The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS. PNAS. 118(7): e2010632118.
Orkin JD1, Kuderna LFK1, Marques-Bonet T. 2021. The diversity of primates: from biomedicine to conservation genomics. Annual Reviews of Animal Biosciences. 9: 103-124.
Flachs A and Orkin JD. 2021. On pickles: Biological and sociocultural links between fermented foods and the human gut microbiome. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 17 (39).
Orkin JD, Campos FA, Myers MS, Cheves Hernandez SE, Guadumez A, Melin AD. 2019. Seasonality of the gut microbiota of free ranging white-faced capuchins in a tropical dry forest. The ISME Journal. 13: 183-196.
Orkin JD1, Webb SE1, Melin AD. 2019. Modest to small impact of social group on the gut microbiome of wild Costa Rican capuchins in a seasonal forest. American Journal of Primatology. e22985.
Orkin JD, Yang YM, Yang CY, Yu DW, Jiang XL. 2016. Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology. Scientific Reports. 6(34758): 1-10.
Orkin JD and Pontzer H. 2011. The narrow niche hypothesis: gray squirrels shed new light on primate origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 144: 617-624.
Disciplines
- Genomics
- Biological anthropology
- Molecular Biology
Areas of expertise
- Population genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Landscape genomics
- Primatology
- Comparative genomics
- Molecular ecology
- Microbial ecology
- Biodiversity conservation
- Adaptation
- Evolution
- Biodiversity
- China
- Madagascar
- Costa Rica