Carlota Galán Plana

Carlota joined the lab as a graduate student in the fall of 2023. Her research integrates genomic, demographic, and behavioral data to explore questions in evolutionary biology and ecology. Specifically, she is interested in the evolution of social behavior and its impact on population genomic structure, as well as the genetics and fitness consequences of inbreeding depression.

Her work focuses on various social mammals systems, including wild baboons from the Amboseli Baboon Research Project in Kenya, wild white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica, and captive mole-rat colonies from the Kalahari Research Project in South Africa.