Joseph Orkin
Genomics, metagenomics, proteomics
- Professeur adjoint
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'anthropologie
Portrait
Expertise de recherche
My lab uses molecular tools–genomics, metagenomics, and proteomics–to answer anthropological questions.
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
Formation
- 2005 — B.A. — Philosophie — Penn State University
- 2005 — B.A. — Anthropologie — Penn State University
- 2008 — A.M. — Anthropologie — Washington University in St. Louis
- 2014 — PhD — Anthropologie — Washington University in St. Louis
Affiliations et responsabilités
Enseignement et encadrement
Enseignement
Cours siglés (session en cours uniquement)
- ANT-2440 – Génétique, épigénétique et anthropologie
- ANT-2440 – Génétique, épigénétique et anthropologie
- ANT-3814 – Séminaire d'anthropologie biologique
Programmes
Projets
Projets de recherche
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
Rayonnement
Publications et communications
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
- Génomique
- Anthropologie biologique
- Biologie moléculaire
Champ d’expertise
- Primatologie
- Adaptation
- Conservation de la biodiversité
- Chine
- Madagascar
- Costa Rica
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