Spotlight
Ben Trumble - New CSDE Fellow 2008-2009
Ben is a third year graduate student in Biocultural Anthropology and is sponsored by NICHD. He is interested in using interdisciplinary biodemograpic approaches to study men’s health; combining aspects of reproductive endocrinology and human behavioral ecology. His research focuses on the relationship between testosterone and immune function, and the implications this has for male life histories. He is currently developing a population level testosterone assay designed to withstand rigorous field conditions. His other research interests include risk taking behavior, costly signaling, variations in sex-ratio at birth, and the development of population level biomarker tests.