Emily Woodall
I am an undergraduate student at Emory College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology with a minor in Neuroethics. As an undergraduate research assistant in the Anthropology Primatology Lab, I work with health data sets, checking and analyzing information to support ongoing research. My research interests span from social behavior to animal […]
Cade Quinto
I am a sophomore in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Currently, I am a volunteer who works primarily with weekly and daily chimp health data sets. I hope to work more with the data to understand the intricacies of primatology better.
Samantha (Sammy) Lai
Sammy completed her undergraduate degree at Emory in 2024, majoring in Anthropology and Human Biology and minoring in Music on the pre-med track. Her interests within the APE lab included health data – monitoring the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park and applying this to human health as she continued to pursue a career in the […]
Grace Cayless
Grace completed her undergraduate degree at Emory University in 2025, majoring in Anthropology & Human Biology with a minor in Global Health. She joined Dr. Lonsdorf’s lab in her second year, working with health data and creating health records for individual chimpanzees, before transitioning to the mother-infant data set. She is interested in examining risks […]
Nicole Furgala
I am broadly interested in the evolutionary origins of social cognition and Theory of Mind using interdisciplinary methods in evolutionary anthropology and comparative psychology. Using behavioral experiments and eye tracking technology, I am investigating the perspective-taking capacities of captive tufted capuchin monkeys at the Language Research Center (GSU). By translating experiments into the wild, I […]
Giuliana Centofanti
I am interested in sociality and development in wild chimpanzees, specifically within the mother-infant context. During my graduate studies, I plan to study orphan outcomes and adoption as part of a larger project on sociality and variation in development. I am particularly interested in quantifying outcomes of development by directly and indirectly measuring fitness. Creating […]
Bre Myers
I’m interested in behavioral strategies that may influence infection risk or severity of disease in African great apes, such as avoiding other individuals or groups, avoiding contaminants, and ingestion of plants or other substances that mitigate the risk and/or symptoms of infection. I would like to explore this through the lens of life history and […]
Amber Shaw
Amber Shaw is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University, specializing in biological anthropology with a focus on aging and disease prevention. Her interdisciplinary research bridges behavioral science and molecular biology, utilizing non-invasive techniques and biomarkers to investigate aging in wild chimpanzee populations at Gombe Stream National Park. Amber’s work explores […]