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CSDE Research Areas:

• Demographic Measurements and Methods
• Health of People and Populations

In the News:

• Daniel Promislow Publishes Findings on Dog Breed Morbidity (11/29/2016)
• Daniel Promislow Quoted in NYT Article on Dog Aging (11/16/2020)
• NPR & Daniel Promislow on Dog Size and Lifespan (9/8/2016)
• UW and CSDE Researchers Lead The Dog Aging Project (11/17/2019)
• Dog Aging Project Large-Scale Data Collection Presented in New Publication (2/4/2022)
• Two New Publications from the Dog Aging Project Consortium & Co-Authors (5/6/2022)

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Daniel Promislow’s lab focuses on the biology of aging, using theoretical, computational, experimental and comparative approaches. While this focus has led him to study a diverse set of questions, the key demographic traits of age-specific mortality and reproduction play a central role in all of this work. The Promislow group is interested in how patterns of selection shape and are shaped by these demographic parameters. Using a systems biology approach, they study high-dimensional molecular features as a bridge linking upstream genetic and environmental variation to downstream phenotype variation. In addition to lab-based work in the fruit fly, Promislow is the Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the NIH-funded Dog Aging Project, a nationwide open-data citizen science study of aging and age-related diseases in tens of thousands of companion dogs.