• Rupesh Gawde
  • Advisor: Dr. Gloria Dominguez-Bello
  • Focus Area: Non-Human Primates
  • 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