Rachel Bell Burten
PhD Candidate
B.A. in Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species, Columbia University, May 2016
Research Interests
My research interests are broad and include the microbiome, phylogenetic comparative methods, primate ecology and evolution, and biogeography. I am interested in connecting these research areas to conservation. My dissertation research focuses on how the environment and host evolutionary relationships affect the microbiota of wild and captive lemurs.
Publications
Kitrinos, C., Bell, R.B., Bradley, B.J., Kamilar, J.M. (2022). Hair and skin microbiome diversity within and across primate species. mSystems e00478-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00478-22
Bell, R.B., Bradley, B.J., Kamilar, J.M. (2021). The Evolutionary Ecology of Primate Hair Coloration: A Phylogenetic Approach. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 28: 911-927. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-021-09547-8
Carpenter, K., Bell, R.B., Yunus, J., Amon, A., and Berchowitz, L.E. (2018). Phosphorylation-mediated clearance of amyloid-like assemblies in meiosis. Developmental Cell 45, 3: 392-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2018.04.001