Advances in Primate Nutritional Ecology, Health, and Energetics
October 23-25
Program for the 3rd Lembersky Conference in Human Evolutionary Studies
Alexander Library Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, 169 College Avenue
Wednesday, October 23
8:15 am: Registration & Breakfast
9:10 am: Introduction and Welcome, Ryne Palombit, CHES Director, Rutgers University
9:20 am: Opening Remarks, Erin Vogel, Rutgers University
9:30 am: Keynote Speaker, David Raubenheimer, University of Sydney
Macronutrient balance and the nutritional ecology of primates including humans
10:30 am: Jessica Rothman, Hunter College
Nutritional mechanisms of primate coexistance
11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:30 am: Mitch Irwin, Northern Illinois University
Do lemurs play by primate rules: Variation in diet, foraging effort and nutritional intake in the frugivorous Brown Lemur (Eulemur fulvus) and a sympatric folivore (Propithecus diadema)
12:00 pm: Melissa Emery Thompson, University of New Mexico
New methods and theory in primate reproductive energetics
12:30 pm: Stacy Lindshield, Purdue University
Nutritional ecology of savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal
1:00 pm-2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm: Erin Vogel, Rutgers University
Nutrition, energetics and health in wild Bornean orangutans
2:30 pm: Mike Wasserman, Indiana University
Endocrine-active phytochemicals in primate diets: prevalence across the order
3:00-4:30 pm Discussion: “Approaches to Primate Nutrition and Health”
Thursday, October 24
9:00 am: Breakfast
9:30 am Katie Amato, Northwestern University
Toward integrating the gut microbiome into models of host nutrition and energetics
10:00 am: Mareike Janiak, University of Calgary
Understanding primate diet through evolution of digestive enzymes
10:30 am: Gloria Dominguez Bello, Rutgers University
The microbiome in an age of disruptive change in an age of disruptive change
11:00 am: coffee
11:30 am: Samuel Urlacher, Baylor University
The energetic ecology of childhood: Evolutionary and epidemiological insights for a changing world
12:00 am: Tom Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch Break
1:30 pm: Robin Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder
Critical periods and seasonal signals: the fourth trimester, maternal energy balance, and milk adipocytokines in rural Gambia
2:00 pm: Dan Hoffman, Rutgers University
Growth retardation and metabolic adaptations
2:30 pm: Sagan Friant, Penn State University
Bushmeat nutrition: availability and access in West African hunting communities
6:00 pm: Reception – 3rd Floor RAB Building, 131 George St
Friday, October 25
9:30 am: Breakfast
10:20-12:05 am: Postdoc/graduate student talks (15 minutes each)
10:20 am: Dominique Raboin, Rutgers University
Allomaternal care by conspecifics allows Colobus guereza mothers to replenish energy through increased feeding
10:35 am: Allegra DePasquale, University of Calgary
Monkey see, monkey eat: does color vision phenotype impact foraging activity budgets of wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator)?
10:50 am: Emma Thurau, Hunter College
Condensed tannins in the diet of diademed sifakas (Propithecus diadema) at Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar
11:05 am: Kris Sabbi, University of New Mexico
Two case studies on the consequences of early weaning in East African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)
11:20 am: Erin Kane, Boston University
Ecological competence in wild Bornean orangutans: food sharing, processing, and nutrition
11:35 am: Tim Bransford, Northern Illonois University
Using urinary biomarkers to understand variation in energetic condition of wild mother Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)
11:50 am: Vanessa Vásquez, University of Havana
The interaction among nutrition, occupation and ecological changes in a group of farmers and occasional fishermen of Yaguajay, Central Cuba after Hurricane Irma
12:05 pm: Lunch Break
2:00 pm: Discussion -- A general concluding discussion, informed now by all talks
3:30 pm: Closing Remarks
Jessica Rothman, Hunter College
