Emi Fernandez
Emi completed her undergraduate degree at Emory University in 2024, with a major in Psychology and a minor in Anthropology. She became interested in Primatology while taking Primate and Animal Behavior classes at Emory and grew a particular interest in observational learning and tool use. Her focus within the lab was the stigmatization and development […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Whiteside
I am a senior honors thesis candidate in the SoCAP lab under Dr. Marcela Benítez. My thesis is investigating deceptive estrus behaviors and the effects of aging on estrogen production in female tufted capuchins. I am an Anthropology and Human Biology (B.S.) major and have been with the SoCAP lab since 2021 where I have […]
Khuyen Bui
I graduated from Emory University in December 2023 with a double major in Anthropology & Human Biology and Spanish on the pre-med track. My backgrounds in anthropology, biology and health motivate my interests in primate health and evolutionary biology with applications to human public health. I currently lead an independent project investigating respiratory outbreaks in […]
Elise Isakov
I am an Undergraduate at Emory on track to complete a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology as well as a Minor in Anthropology. I was initially drawn to this lab and its work due to my interest in behavioral and neurological similarities between nonhuman and human primates. However, my interests have grown to encompass […]
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 […]