The primary focus of Dr. Sterner’s research is to understand how genes and environment interact to shape primate traits. As a molecular anthropologist, she combines an evolutionary framework with functional genomics to address how gene regulation contributes to distinctive human traits and diseases and how environmental factors shape biological age in primates. Dr. Sterner’s current research centers around molecular aging in primates. Dr. Sterner co-directs the molecular anthropology lab in the Anthropology Department. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Leakey Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the American Association of University Women.
Molecular Anthropology Group website: http://molecular-anthro.uoregon.edu/
Lab Location: Pacific Hall 10
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