Subfield

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests

Social learning, mate choice, reproductive skew, kin recognition, white-faced capuchin monkeys

Notes

Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project
UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture (BEC)

Publications

• 2009. Kano H., Godoy I., Courtney C., Vetter M.R., Ostertag E.M., Gerton G.L., & Kazazian H.H. L1 retrotransposition occurs mainly in embryogenesis and creates somatic mosaicism. Genes & Development, 23: 1303-1312.
  


• 2007. White, D.J., Ho, L., de los Santos, G., & Godoy, I. An experimental test of preferences for nest contents in an obligate brood parasite, Molothrus ater. Behavioral Ecology, 18: 922-928.

Grants and Awards

• 2011-2014: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship


• 2009-2011: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship


• 2008-2009: Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship

Advisors

Susan Perry, Joan Silk, Joe Manson