Featured Publications
Single-cell, multi-region profiling of the macaque brain across the lifespan
Yang X, Watkins KL, DeCasien AR, O’Neill MB, Bohlen MO, O’Day DR, Duran M, Qiu C, Meleshko A, Vo A, Menke M, Calderon D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Sallet J, Higham JP, Martínez MI, Trapnell C, Starita LM, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Chiou KL, Shendure J, Snyder-Mackler N.
bioRxiv (2025)
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.31.685880
Age and early life adversity shape heterogeneity of the epigenome across tissues in macaques
Sadoughi B, Petersen RM, Watowich MM, Watkins K, Slikas E, Chiou KL, DeCasien AR, Schneider-Crease I, Zintel TM, Martínez MI, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Lea AJ, Snyder-Mackler N.
bioRxiv (2025)
DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.13.664445
Non-invasive measures of DNA methylation capture molecular aging in wild capuchin monkeys
Sadoughi B, Hernández-Rojas A, Slikas E, Hamou H, Lopez R, Mah M, Simmons SMV, Orkin JD, Higham JP, Brosnan SF, Jack KM, Campos FA, Snyder-Mackler N, Melin AD.
bioRxiv (2025)
DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.03.657357
Genetic Architecture of Immune Cell DNA Methylation in the Rhesus Macaque
Costa CE, Watowich MM, Goldman EA, Sterner KN, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt ML, Montague MJ, Brent LJN, Snyder-Mackler N.
Molecular Ecology (2024)
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17576
Aging at scale: Younger dogs and larger breeds from the Dog Aging Project show accelerated epigenetic aging
McCoy BM, Mariner BL, Cheng CF, Slikas E, Adjangba C, Greenier A, Brassington L, Marye A, Harrison BR, Partida-Aguilar M, Bamberger T, Algavi Y, Muller E, Harris A, Rout E, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Avery A, Borenstein E, Promislow D, Snyder-Mackler N.
bioRxiv (2024)
DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.03.616519
DNA methylation of transposons pattern aging across a diverse cohort of dogs from the Dog Aging Project
Mariner BL, McCoy BM, Greenier A, Brassington L, Slikas E, Adjangba C, Cheng CF, Marye A, Harrison BR, Partida-Aguilar M, Bamberger T, Algavi Y, Muller E, Harris A, Rout E, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Avery A, Promislow D, Borenstein E, Snyder-Mackler N.
bioRxiv (2024)
DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.08.617286
Immune gene regulation is associated with age and environmental adversity in a wild primate
Watowich MM, Costa CE, Chiou KL, Goldman EA, Petersen RM, Patterson S, Montague MJ, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martínez MI, Sterner KN, Horvath JE, Platt ML, Brent LJN, Higham JP, Lea AJ, Snyder-Mackler N.
Molecular Ecology (2024)
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17445
Immune cell composition varies by age, sex and exposure to social adversity in free-ranging rhesus macaques
Sanchez Rosado MR, Marzan-Rivera N, Watowich MM, Negron-Del Valle AD, Pantoja P, Pavez-Fox MA, Siracusa ER, Cooper EB, Negron-Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Ruiz-Lambides A, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Martinez MI, Montague MJ, Platt ML, Higham JP, Brent LJN, Sariol CA, Snyder-Mackler N.
GeroScience (2024)
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-023-00962-8
