Susan Alberts, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
"The work in our lab involves detailed studies of non-model organisms. This forces us to a high level of interdisciplinarity, because a deep understanding of any one part requires an understanding of the whole. "Susan Alberts is Jack H. Neely Associate Professor in the Department of Biology. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at both University of Chicago and at Harvard University. She joined Duke's faculty in 1998. Her primary research interest is the evolution and ecology of large mammals, with a focus on a single well-studied population of primates, the baboons of the Amboseli basin in southern Kenya; Dr. Alberts co-directs the Amboseli Baboon Research Project. She has also conducted research on African elephants. Dr. Alberts lab uses microsatellite loci to construct pedigrees and examine patterns of relatedness within study populations, and also studies the genetics and evolution of a subset of functional genes in the baboon population, including MHC genes.
Contact Information
Susan Alberts
Phone: 919-660-7272
020 Bio Sci Bldg