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Branch In Sunlight

Lab News & Announcements

  • Daphne Hicyilmaz will be presenting a poster at the AABA/HBA conference in Denver this March! Drs. Sarma and Super will be presenting two podium presentations about our new and ongoing research. Hope to see you there!

  • We are recruiting graduate students for 2027! Please reach out if you have any questions about our research and how you can work with us.

  • Welcome to our new lab manager, Finn Warrick, and huge congratulations to Clare Super on her new job! We look forward to working with her as a collaborator.

Previous Publications

2023

  • Sarma, MS, Niclou A. 2023. The now and future of human biology at the extremes. American Journal of Human Biology.

  • Sarma, MS, Niclou A, Levy, S, Ocobock, CJ. 2023. To the extreme! How anthropology can inform exercise physiology in extreme environments. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology – Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology.

2022

  • Gettler, LT, Samson, DR, Kilius, E, Lew-Levy, S, Sarma, MS, Oumba, YR, Miegakanda, V, Boyette, AH, Lew-Levy, S. 2022. Links between household and family social dynamics with sleep profiles among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin. Social Science and Medicine.

  • Gettler, LT, Rosenbaum, S, Kuo, PX, Sarma, MS, Bechayda, SA, McDade, TW, Kuzawa, CW. 2022.Evidence for an adolescent sensitive period to family experiences influencing adult male testosteroneproduction. PNAS.

2021

  • Ocobock, C, Lynn, C, Sarma, MS, Gettler, LT. Under Review. Organized Adult Play and Stress Reduction: Testing the Absorption Hypothesis in a Comedy Improv Theatre. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.

  • Gettler, LT, Lew-Levy, S, Sarma, MS, Boyette, AH. In Press. When sharing is caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin. Nature Scientific Reports.

2020

  • Sarma, MS, Boyette, AH, Lew-Levy, S, Miegakanda, V, Samson, D, Kilius, E, Gettler, LT. Under Review. Sex differences in daily activity intensity and energy expenditure and their relationship to cortisol among BaYaka foragers from the Congo Basin. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

2019

  • Boyette, AH, Lew-Levy, S, Sarma, MS, Miegakanda, V, Gettler, LT. 2019. Fatherhood, Egalitarianism, and Child Health in Two Small-Scale Societies in the Republic of the Congo. American Journal of Human Biology.

  • Gettler, LT, Sarma, MS, Lew-Levy, S, Bond, A, Trumble, BC, Boyette, AH. 2019. Mothers’ and fathers’ joint profiles for testosterone and oxytocin in a small-scale fishing-farming community: variation based on marital conflict and paternal contributions. Brain and Behavior.

  • Gettler, LT, Gengo, RG, Sarma, MS, Oka, RC, McKenna, JJ. 2019. Testosterone moderates the effects of social support on cardiovascular-disease risk factors among Older U.S. Men. American Journal of Human Biology.

2018

  • Boyette, A, Lew-Levy, S, Sarma, MS, Gettler, LT. 2018. Testosterone, fathers as providers are caregivers, and child health: Evidence from fisher-farmers in the Republic of the Congo. Hormones and Behavior.

  • Sarma, MS, Gettler, LT, Childs, G, Quinn, EA. 2018. When women work: Endocrine reactivity in women during everyday physical activity at high altitude. American Journal of Human Biology.

  • Kuo, PX, Braungart-Rieker, JM, Lefever, JEB, Sarma, MS, O’Neill, MS, Gettler, LT. 2018. Fathers’ cortisol and testosterone in the days around infants’ births predict later paternal involvement. Hormones

  • and Behavior.

  • Sarma, MS, Kuo, PX, Bechayda, SA, Kuzawa, CW, Gettler, LT. 2018. Exploring the links between early life and young adulthood social experiences and men’s later life paternal psychobiology. Physiology and Behavior.

2017

  • Gettler, LT, Sarma, MS, Gengo, RG, Oka, RC, McKenna, JJ. 2017. Adiposity, CVD risk factors, and testosterone: variation by partnering status and residence with children in U.S. men. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.

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