Prof. Liz Mallott of Washington University in St. Louis joins Chris and Cristina to talk about her research on the human microbiome.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Liz Mallott is an assistant professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Mallott’s research examines how social and environmental determinants of health shape variation in the human microbiome. Current projects examine how exposure to environmental pollutants, which disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, influences the gut microbiome and cardiovascular disease risk.

Her lab website can be found here:
https://mallott-lab.github.io/

The following are citations for the articles mentioned on today’s show:

Mallott, E. K., Sitarik, A. R., Leve, L. D., Cioffi, C., Camargo Jr, C. A., Hasegawa, K., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2023). Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age. PLoS biology, 21(8), e3002230.

Cepon‐Robins, T. J., Mallott, E. K., Recca, I. C., & Gildner, T. E. (2023). Evidence and potential drivers of neglected parasitic helminth and protist infections among a small preliminary sample of children from rural Mississippi. American Journal of Human Biology, e23889.

Chioma, O. S., Mallott, E., Shah-Gandhi, B., Wiggins, Z., Langford, M., Lancaster, A. W., ... & Drake, W. P. (2023). Low Gut Microbial Diversity Augments Estrogen-Driven Pulmonary Fibrosis in Female-Predominant Interstitial Lung Disease. Cells, 12(5), 766.


Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation
Website: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc

Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair,
Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Cristina Gildee, SoS Co-Host and Producer
E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee

Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer
E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu

SoS 196: Prof. Liz Mallott talks microbiome!

Leela McKinnon is a PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Penn State University. Her PhD research examines sleep health in Indigenous Wixárika communities in Jalisco, Mexico, with a particular focus on the effects of rural-to-urban migration on sleep and circadian rhythms. Leela explores the environmental and social factors influencing the sleep health of urban Wixárika migrants. Beyond her dissertation research in Mexico, Leela has also studied sleep in a Guatemalan Maya community, investigating how urbanization and market economy integration shape sleep patterns in rural settings. She is trained in the quantitative analysis of sleep data using accelerometry and is proficient in mixed methodologies, including survey data collection and qualitative interviewing.
------------------------------
Find the paper discussed in this episode:
McKinnon, L., Shattuck, E. C., Samson, D. R. (2022). Sound reasons for unsound sleep: Comparative support for the sentinel hypothesis in industrial and nonindustrial groups. Evol Med Public Health, 11(1):53-66. doi: 10.1093/emph/eoac039.
------------------------------
Contact Leela McKinnon: l.mckinnon@mail.utoronto.ca 
X account: @leela_mckinnon 

The Sleep and Human Evolution Lab's website is https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/shel/ 
------------------------------
Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and the Human Biology Association:
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc
Chris Lynn, Co-Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Anahi Ruderman, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow
E-mail: aniruderman@gmail.com,

SoS 248: Leela McKinnon explains how our environment affects our sleep

This week, we're bringing you a cross-promotion with the awesome "The Arch & Anth Podcast", hosted by Dr. Michael Rivera. A bonus: this episode features our very own Dr. Chris Lynn! We hope that you enjoy hearing more about Chris' work on tattooing, immune response, and communication. Be sure to check out Dr. Rivera's other podcast episodes at: http://archandanth.com/. 
This interview originally aired on October 2, 2019.

SoS 75- Arch and Anth Crossover Episode ft. Chris Lynn

In this episode we bring you a cross-over with the podcast “With a Side of Knowledge”, hosted by Ted Fox from the University of Notre Dame’s Provost Office. This interview features our own Dr. Cara Ocobock discussing her work over brunch. Enjoy this fascinating conversation about extreme cold adaptations, Neanderthals, the anthropology of sports, and (of course) powerlifting. Check out other episodes from With a Side of Knowledge, found here: https://provost.nd.edu/about/podcast/
This interview originally aired on APR 16, 2020.

SoS 76 - With a Side of Knowledge Crossover Episode ft. Cara Ocobock

This week, dive into one of our most meta-episodes yet: the podcast about a podcast featuring the amazing researchers behind the Anthrolactology blog and podcast! This interview features not one, but three cutting-edge anthropologists working at the intersections of anthropology, human lactation, and society. Dr. EA Quinn is an associate professor of biological anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Cecília Tomori is Director of Global Public Health and Community Health at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Dr. Aunchalee Palmquist is an assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and when they come together, great things happen. 

Be sure to check out the Anthrolactology blog/podcast at https://anthrolactology.com/.

SoS 77- The Anthrolactology Crossover

In this episode of the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Drs. Jesús Rodriguez & Ana Mateos, scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) in Burgos, Spain. Drs. Rodriguez and Mateos highlight the amazing work going on at the center at the forefront of human evolution research. They also discuss their AJHB editor’s choice article entitled “No sex differences in the economy of load‐carriage”. Be sure to check out the article here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23352

Their experimental work challenges long-held assumptions regarding sex differences in human energetics and contributes to both optimal foraging and life history theory.   

Learn more about CENIEH here: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh

Follow CENIEH on Twitter @CENIEH and the labs @CENIEH_Labs

You can learn more about Dr. Rodriguez at: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh/staff/rodriguez-mendez-jesus

And about Dr. Mateos at: https://www.cenieh.es/en/about-cenieh/staff/mateos-cachorro-ana

Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation
Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc

Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner

SoS 78 – Take a load off: The energetics of carrying with Drs. Jesús Rodriguez & Ana Mateos

In this episode, Dr. Zaneta Thayer joins Chris and Cara to discuss her many projects examining the intergenerational effects of stressful experiences during pregnancy. Dr. Thayer works primarily in New Zealand, where her research has documented links between experienced discrimination and poor birth outcomes. She also discusses her recent clinical brief examining the health effects of psychosocial stress among individuals using assisted reproductive technologies. Finally, Dr. Thayer is joined by her postdoc Dr. Theresa Gildner to discuss their new project exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting maternity care and well-being. 

Learn more about Dr. Thayer’s work at her website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/humanbio/
Email her at: zaneta.marie.thayer@dartmouth.edu

Check out Dr. Thayer’s clinical brief on stress in ART at: https://academic.oup.com/emph/advance-article/doi/10.1093/emph/eoaa008/5815981

To learn more about the COVID-19 And Reproductive Effects (CARE) Study, please visit: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/care2020/

For those interested in the Dartmouth EEES graduate program, check out: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/EEES/

Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation
Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc

Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner

SoS 79 – Stress and Intergenerational Health with Dr. Zaneta Thayer

The Human Biology Association is a vibrant nonprofit scientific organization dedicated to supporting and disseminating innovative research and teaching on human biological variation in evolutionary,  social, historical, and environmental context worldwide.

SoS 248: Leela McKinnon explains how our environment affects our sleep

Human Biology Association

Related tracks