Mercy Yvonne Akinyi

This study tests the safety and validity of insertable cardiac monitors in captive baboons and identifies predictors of heart rate and activity.

This study develops a low-power Bluetooth and LoRaWAN system to collect long-term cardiac data from wild baboons, revealing circadian patterns and behavioral changes in a female who left her social group.

This study screens historical febrile malaria samples from Kenya to track antimalarial resistance mutations over time, finding no WHO-validated artemisin resistance mutations but high prevalence of other resistance markers.

The paper characterizes eukaryotic diversity in wild baboon gut microbiomes and finds social group membership explains some variation, but season, age, and sex do not.

This paper evaluates a Shiny web app for teaching paternity inference in primatology, showing improved student understanding and engagement in a Kenyan setting.

This study identifies DNA methylation signatures in wild baboons linked to early life adversity, showing exposure-dependent effects and functional relevance of methylation changes.

This study identifies gene regulatory differences linked to dominance rank and social bond strength in wild baboons, showing sex-specific effects and distinct immune responses to social factors.

This study finds that high-ranking male baboons show accelerated epigenetic aging, suggesting a trade-off between reproductive success and lifespan.