Hope Hollocher Associate Professor

Research Interests:

The Hollocher laboratory uses population genetics and genomics to investigate a wide variety of mechanisms underlying evolutionary change, such as the genetics of speciation, evolution and development, and adaptation. Our most recent research combines approaches in landscape genetics and disease ecology to investigate how the genetic structuring of host populations influences the transmission and differentiation of parasites in non-human primates of Southeast Asia. We approach this problem using GIS tools to delineate the impact of different landscape features (i.e. physical, social and anthropogenic) on the transmission dynamics of individual parasite species as well as the genetic and ecological drivers that influence parasite community structure overall. We are also evaluating important interactions between the prokaryotic and eukaryotic gut microbiomes that serve to inhibit or facilitate the invasion of the gut by harmful microbes.

Biography:

• Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, IN
• Director of Graduate Studies in Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, IN
• Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, NJ
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, IL
• Ph.D. Biology, Washington University- St. Louis, MO
• BA Biology, University of Pennsylvania, PA

Recent Papers:

• Wilcox, J. J. S., and H. Hollocher (2018) Unprecedented symbiont eukaryote diversity is governed by internal trophic webs in a wild non-human primate Protist (in press: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2018.03.001)
• Klegarth, A., S. A. Sanders, A. D. Gloss, K. E. Lane-deGraaf, L. Jones-Engel, A. Fuentes, and H. Hollocher (2017) Investigating biogeographic boundaries of the Sunda shelf: a phylogenetic analysis of two island populations of Macaca fascicularis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163:658-670.
• Klegarth, A., H. Hollocher, L. Jones-Engel, E. Shaw, B. P. Y-H. Lee, T. Feeney, D. Holmes, D. Laguea, A. Fuentes (2017) Urban primate ranging patterns: GPS-collar deployments for Macaca fascicularis and M. Sylvanus. American Journal of Primatology 79:e22633.
• Reid, M. J. C., W. M. Switzer, M. Schillaci, A. Klegarth, E. Campbell, M. Ragonnet, I. Joanisse, K. Caminiti, C. A. Lowenberger, B. M. F. Galdikas, H. Hollocher, P. A. Sandstrom, J. I. Brooks (2017) Bayesian inference reveals ancient origin of Simian Foamy Virus in Orangutans. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 51:54-66.
• Schillaci, M. A., A. Klegarth, W. M. Switzer, M. Shattuck, B. P. Y-H. Lee, L. Jones-Engel, and H. Hollocher (2017) Evolutionary relationships of Macaca fascicularis (Raffles 1821) (Primates: Cerepithecidae) from Singapore revealed by Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65:3-19.
• Hollocher, H. (2016) Genetic Variation in Populations. In: Kliman, R. M. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, first edition, Volume 2, pp. 144-150. Academic Press: Waltham, MA.
• Wilcox, J. J. S., K. E. Lane-deGraaf, A. Fuentes, and H. Hollocher (2015) Comparative community-level associations of helminth infections and microparasite shedding in wild long-tailed macaques in Bali, Indonesia. Parasitology 142: 480-489 (DOI:10.1017/S0031182014001462)
• Lane-deGraaf, K. E., Fuentes, A., and Hollocher, H. (2014) Landscape genetics reveal fine-scale boundaries in island populations of Indonesian long-tailed macaques. Landscape Ecology 29:1505-1519 (DOI 10.1007/s10980-014-0069-0)
• Lane, K. E., I. G. A. Putra, I. N. Wandia, A. Rompis, H. Hollocher, and A. Fuentes (2014) Human behavior and opportunities for pathogen transmission in communities surrounding long-tailed macaque populations in Bali, Indonesia. American Journal of Primatology 76:159-167 (DOI:10.1002/ajp.22218)
• Lane, K. E., R. C. Kennedy, S. M. N. Arifin, A. Dozois, G. Madey, A. Fuentes, and H. Hollocher (2013) A test of agent-based models as a tool for predicting patterns of pathogen transmission in complex landscape. BMC Ecology 13:35 (DOI:10.1186/1472-6785-13-35)