PEOPLE (GHBL)

Current Lab Members
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Josh Snodgrass

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Alicia DeLouize

Hannah Cantrell

Hannah is a first year (fall 2023) biological anthropology PhD student. She works with Dr. Josh Snodgrass in the Global Health Biomarker Lab. For her doctorate, she is studying skeletal biology and its connection to the rest of the body using biomarkers and bone turnover markers. She is interested in how other body systems interact with and affect (and vice versa) the human skeletal system across varying lifestyles and environments. Hannah is also passionate about teaching and outreach and plans on gaining meaningful teaching and mentoring experience during her time at UO. During her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico she researched oral health disparities in deceased contemporary New Mexicans using postmortem CT scans (anthropology honors research) and paleopathology in skeletal remains of the Classic Maya throughout the agricultural transition (McNair Scholars research). 

UNDERGRADUATES

Abiel “Avi” Locke

Major: Anthropology and Multidisciplinary Science

Class of 2025

Madeleine Getz

Major: Anthropology

Class of 2024

Micah Warner-Carey

Major: Global Studies and Anthropology

Class of 2024

Nayantara Arora

Major: Neuroscience

Class of 2024

Alumni

ADVANCED SCIENTISTS

  • Dr. Geeta Eick (Research Scientist, 20 -2020)

Ph.D. STUDENTS

  • Elisabeth Goldman (PhD, Oregon, 2022; now a Computational Biologist at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine)
  • Josh Schrock (PhD, Oregon, 2020)
  • Theresa Gildner (PhD, Oregon, 2018; now an Assistant Professor at Washington University St. Louis)
  • Klaree Boose (PhD, Oregon, 2017)
  • Melissa Liebert (PhD, Oregon, 2016; now an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University)
  • Tara Cepon-Robins (PhD, Oregon, 2015; now an Associate Professor at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)
  • Felicia Madimenos (PhD, Oregon, 2011; now an Assistant Professor at CUNY–Queens College)
  • Aaron Blackwell (PhD, Oregon, 2009; now an Associate Professor at Washington State University)

MASTER’S STUDENTS

  • Julia Ridgeway-Diaz (MS, Oregon, 2011; MD, UCSF, 2016)
  • Erica (Midttveit) Squires (MS, Oregon, 2010)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Adriana Wisniewski (BS, Oregon 2023)
  • Ava Hearn (BS, Oregon 2023)
  • Rosa Taylor (BS, Oregon 2023)
  • Tigest Mequanint (Undergraduate; SCORE program)
  • Callie Porter (BS, Oregon, 2016)
  • Mitch Volpe (BS, Oregon, 2014)
  • Robyn Brigham (BS, Oregon, 2015)
  • Devan Compton (BS, Oregon, 2015)
  • Tyler Fording (BS, Oregon, 2016)
  • Lauren Hawkins (BS, Oregon, 2012)
  • Chelsey Iida (BS, Oregon, 2011)

This includes students from UO’s Clark Honors College:

  • Georgia Greenblum (BS, 2022):
  • Allison Dona (BS, 2019): “Inflammation and central adiposity as mediators of depression and diabetes in the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)”. 
  • Ali Bedbury (BS, 2018): “Associations between Demographic Factors and Fecal Calprotectin in the Indigenous Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia: A Window into Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)”
  • Eliza Hallett (BS, 2017): “Relationships between kidney function, systemic inflammation, and age in the indigenous Shuar of Ecuador: The Shuar Health and Life History Project”
  • Austin Wong (BS, 2015): “The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE): Body composition measures among aging populations”
  • Will Olson (BS, 2014): “The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE): Depression and body composition among aging populations”
  • Sierra Thompson (BS, 2013): “Diet, market integration, and chronic inflammation among an indigenous Amazonian Ecuadorian population”
  • Kathryn Schweber (BS, 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”

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:

  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Heather Shattuck-Faegre (graduated 2010; now an Assistant Professor at): “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.

HIGH SCHOOL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

  • Sasha Johnson-Freyd (South Eugene High School graduate 2011)