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Undergrad Research Opportunities

The Snodgrass Lab creates research opportunities for undergraduates, including through the support of senior theses and other original research projects. This includes students from UO’s Clark Honors College including:

  • Kathryn Schweber (graduated 2013): “Health effects of social change among the indigenous Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia: The influence of chronic psychosocial stress on Epstein-Barr virus antibodies, C-reactive protein, and blood pressure”
  • Sierra Thompson (graduated 2013): “Diet, market integration, and chronic inflammation among an indigenous Amazonian Ecuadorian population”
  • Will Olson (graduated 2014): “The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE): Depression and body composition among aging populations”
  • Austin Wong (graduated 2015): “The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE): Body composition measures among aging populations”
  • Eliza Hallett (graduated 2017): “Relationships between kidney function, systemic inflammation, and age in the indigenous Shuar of Ecuador: The Shuar Health and Life History Project”
  • Ali Bedbury (graduated 2018): “Associations between Demographic Factors and Fecal Calprotectin in the Indigenous Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia: A Window into Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)”
  • Allison Dona (2019; “Inflammation and central adiposity as mediators of depression and diabetes in the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)”). 

In addition, the lab supports a number of students who are not part of the Clark Honors College. In the past few years, these students have done original research that they have presented at national conferences. These include:

  • Heather Shattuck-Faegre (graduated 2010): “The Shuar Health and Life History Project: Immune pathways and Epstein-Barr virus” presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Human Biology Association in Minneapolis, MN (with co-authors Julia Ridgeway-Diaz, Aaron Blackwell, Felicia Madimenos, Melissa Liebert, Erica Squires, Larry Sugiyama, and Josh Snodgrass). Heather is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
  • Liz Streeter (graduated 2013): Liz worked in my lab for two years and presented the results of her research at two national conferences–the 2012 and 2013 annual meetings of the Human Biology Association (in Portland and Knoxville, respectively). The papers were: 1) “The Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project: Adiponectin, body composition, and cardiovascular health among the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia” (2012, with coauthors Erica Squires, Bill Leonard, Larissa Tarskaia, Tatiana Klimova, Valentina Fedorova, Marina Baltakhinova, Vadim Krivoshapkin, and Josh Snodgrass) and 2) “The Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project: Tissue hypoxia, adiponectin dysregulation, and hemoglobin levels among the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia” (2013, with coauthors Erica Squires, Bill Leonard, Larissa Tarskaia, Tatiana Klimova, Valentina Fedorova, Marina Baltakhinova, Vadim Krivoshapkin, and Josh Snodgrass).
  • Lauren Hawkins (graduated 2012): “The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE): Socioeconomic status, urban-rural differences, and sleep in older adults from five middle-income countries” presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the Human Biology Association in Knoxville, TN (with Josh Snodgrass, Theresa Gildner, Melissa Liebert, Paul Kowal, and Somnath Chatterji).
  • Vimal Balu (graduated 2014): “The Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project: Seasonal variation in autoimmune thyroid disorders among the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia” presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the Human Biology Association in Knoxville, TN (with coauthors Tara Cepon, Stephanie Levy, Bill Leonard, Larissa Tarskaia, Tatiana Klimova, Valentina Fedorova, Marina Baltakhinova, Vadim Krivoshapkin, and Josh Snodgrass).
  • Tyler Barrett (graduated 2015): “Physical activity, functional abilities, and health: Results of a WHO SAGE sub-study among older adults in an urban setting in India” presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research in Seattle, WA (with coauthors Melissa Liebert, Tara Cepon-Robins, Arvind Mathur, Paul Kowal, and Josh Snodgrass).