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Dr. Jessica W. Lynch Alfaro received her A.B. in English from the University of California at Davis in 1984, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biological Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996 and 2001. Her dissertation research analyzed male social behavior and endocrinology in wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus) in Minas Gerais, Brazil. At UW-Madison she worked for several years in the Endocrine Assay Lab at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center in collaboration with Dr. Karen Strier and Dr. Toni Ziegler. From October 2001 to February 2003, she was a post-doctoral research associate in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Princeton University, where she headed up the endocrinology lab in association with Dr. Jeanne Altmann's research on a wild baboon population in Amboseli, Kenya. She has taught at UW Madison, Princeton, UC Davis, and San Diego Mesa College. In addition to Dr. Lynch Alfaro's field collaborations on behavioral endocrinology in Mexico and Brazil, she is presently developing projects on Cebus-Saimiri phylogenetics and biogeography in conjunction with the Center for Reproductive Biology at Washington State University, and capuchin monkey populational genetics at the Carara Biological Reserve in Costa Rica. | ||
