CHES Graduate Affiliate
- Rupesh Gawde
- Advisor: Dr. Gloria Dominguez-Bello
- Focus Area: Non-Human Primates
- Email: rupesh.gawde@rutgers.edu
- ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY:
I graduated from the University of Pune, India, in 2017, and before entering Rutgers in the Fall of 2020, I focused extensively on studying human-primate relationships, primate dietary flexibility, and behavioral plasticity.
- CURRENT PROJECTS:
My research emphasis at Rutgers is to investigate the foraging strategies of free-ranging urbanized rhesus macaques compared to conspecifics in a forest habitat, with a special focus on how individuals obtain energy and nutritional balance and how the gut microbiome diversity and function contribute to maintaining health and physiology.
- RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Biological Anthropology, Primate Evolution, Primate Plasticity, Behavioral Ecology, Health, Nutrition, Host-microbe symbioses, Gut Microbiome, Human evolution, Life history