I am interested in uncovering evolutionary processes responsible for patterns of modern primate diversity in order to elucidate primate evolutionary history, biogeography, and to develop better strategies for the protection of endangered populations.
Starting this Fall (2008), I will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa and a principal investigator in the Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics. I will be building a molecular anthropology research program that combines molecular laboratory work with primatological fieldwork.
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Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology, 2008
City University of New York Graduate Center, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)
M.A., Anthropology, 2001
University of Missouri, Columbia
B.A., Biology and Anthropology, 1999
Washington University, St. Louis
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Recent Publications:
Ting, N. (2008). Mitochondrial relationships and divergence dates of the African colobines: Evidence of Miocene origins for the living colobus monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution. [download proof]
Ting, N., A.J. Tosi, Y.-P. Zhang, Y. Li, T.R. Disotell (2008). Phylogenetic incongruence between nuclear and mitochondrial markers in the Asian colobines and the evolution of the langurs and leaf monkeys. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46: 466-474. [download]
Locatelli, S., B. Lafay, F. Liegeois, N. Ting, E. Delaporte, M. Peeters (2008). Full molecular characterization of a simian immunodeficiency virus from Temminck’s red colobus (Piliocolobus badius temminckii) from Abuko Nature Reserve, The Gambia: A species-specific virus distantly related to the L’Hoest lineage. Virology. [download proof]
Whittaker, D.J., N. Ting, and D.J. Melnick (2006). Molecular phylogenetic affinities of the simakobu monkey (Simias concolor). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 39 (3): 887-892. [download]