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Susan C. Alberts

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
130 Science Drive, Rm 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708

Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions


Distinguished Primatologist Presentation · November 2021 National Scientific Meeting American Society of Primatologists, Oklahoma City, OK
Population Association of America - Symposium presentation · May 2021 National Scientific Meeting
Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series · April 2021 Invited Talk CNRS, Montpellier, France (virtual visit)
Max Planck Institute of Ornithology · February 2021 Invited Talk MPI, Seewiesen, Germany (virtual visit)
Sociality and Health in Primates · November 2020 Invited Talk University of Göttingen and Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany (virtual visit)
Biology Department, University of Kentucky - Selected by the Biology Graduate Student Association. · September 2020 Invited Talk (virtual visit)
"Evolution Matters" series of public lectures - Harvard Museums of Science and Public Culture · November 2019 Invited Talk Cambridge, MA
Department of Anthropology, Washington University · September 2019 Invited Talk St. Louis, MO
Presentation to the National Advisory on Aging (NACA) · May 2019 Other Washington, DC
Evolution and Human Adaptation Program · November 2018 Invited Talk University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
School of Human Evolution and Social Change · September 2018 Invited Talk Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
"Eminent Ecologist" Residency - Kellogg Biological Station · June 2018 Other Michigan State University
Department of Biology · January 2018 Invited Talk Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, NC
Frontiers in Baboon Research · October 2017 International Meeting or Conference German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany
Plenary Speaker - 11th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology, and Genetics of Wildlife · October 2017 Keynote/Named Lecture Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany
Program in Ecology · September 2017 Invited Talk Duke University
Psychology Colloquium · November 2016 Invited Talk University of Pennsylvania
Keynote Speaker, Research Retreat - Department of Pediatrics · April 2016 Keynote/Named Lecture Duke University School of Medicine
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology · April 2016 Invited Talk Harvard University
Distinguished Lectureship - Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · September 2015 Keynote/Named Lecture
Plenary Speaker - Animal Behavior Society Annual Meeting · June 2015 Keynote/Named Lecture Anchorage, AK
The Peter and Rosemary Grant Lecture in Evolutionary Biology - Institute of Environmental Biology and Evolutionary Studies · February 2015 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Zurich, Switzerland
Plenary Speaker, German Primate Society Conference · February 2015 Keynote/Named Lecture Leipzig, Germany
Annual Conference on Aging · February 2015 Invited Talk Max Planck Institutes, Leipzig, Germany
Conference on “Life in the Aggregate: Mechanisms and Features of Social Dynamics” - HHMI-Janelia Farms Research Campus · October 2014 Invited Talk
School of Anthropology and Conservation · June 2014 Invited Talk University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium in Population and Resource Studies · February 2014 Invited Talk Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior · February 2014 Invited Talk University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology · February 2014 Invited Talk Columbia University, New York, NY
Neurogenetics & Behavior of Nonhuman Primates · September 2013 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago · May 2013 Lecture
Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya · March 2013 Lecture Nairobi, Kenya
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research · June 2012 Lecture Rostock, Germany
Demography of Aging Center · May 2012 Lecture Princeton University
Distinguished Lecturer in Biology · March 2012 Lecture Georgetown University
Duke University Marine Lab · October 1, 2011 Lecture
NCEAS EcoLunch · September 1, 2011 Lecture National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Research Workshop on Biodemography · May 1, 2011 Lecture Duke University
Plenary Speaker, The Ecological Society for Eastern Africa, Annual Meeting · May 1, 2010 Lecture Nairobi, Kenya
Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI) · April 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
Behavioral Ecology Group · February 1, 2010 Lecture SUNY Stony Brook
Developmental Science Colloquium · January 1, 2010 Lecture Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Department of Biology · April 1, 2009 Lecture University of Virginia
Institute for Primate Research · March 1, 2009 Lecture Nairobi, Kenya
Symposium speaker · February 1, 2009 Lecture AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
INCORE (Integrating Cooperation Research Across Europe) Workshop on Genetics and Biogeography of Coalition Formation in Baboons and Macaques · December 2, 2008 Lecture Barcelona, Spain
Simposi de Primatologia de Camp · December 2, 2008 Lecture University of Barcelona
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · May 1, 2008 Lecture Princeton University
Workshop on Dominance, Leveling and Egalitarianism in Animals · March 1, 2008 Lecture Santa Fe Institute

Service to the Profession


Speaker, North Carolina High School Science Teachers Workshop · March 2013 Other Service to the Community ; Presentation on the evolution of reproductive aging, for a North Carolina High School Science Teachers Workshop on Evolution and Medicine, sponsored by the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research
Press interviews, Feb 2011 · December 2, 2011 Other Service to the Community ; Press interviews for radio (NPS's Science Friday) and podcast (Science magazine) in relation to a paper in Science, Bronikowski et al. 2011, on which I was senior author.
Teaching module presentation, Dryad Data Workshop · November 2011 - November 2011 Other Service to the Community ; Participated in a workshop to develop teaching modules for high school and college classes, based on datasets stored in the Dryad Data Repository.
Associate editor for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · December 1, 2010 Editorial Activities
Contributed to preparation of press release for paper (Strier et al. 2010), Methods in Ecology and Evolution · November 2010 Other Service to the Community
Consultant to BBC for "The Origins of Us", a documentary series about human evolution, presented by Dr. Alice Roberts · November 2010 Other Service to the Community
Gave tours and informal talks to 3 different visiting groups, Amboseli Baboon Research Project, Amboseli Kenya · 2010 Other Service to the Community
Contributed to preparation of press release for paper (Morris et al. 2010), American Naturalist · January 2010 Other Service to the Community
Interviewed by science blogger Carin Bondar for a section on her blog, carinbondar.com · 2010 Other Service to the Community
Editorial Board Member : Behavioral Ecology · July 2009 Editorial Activities