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Professional Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University. January 1, 2017 - Present. 

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology & Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. February 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016.

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis. October 1, 2014 - December 31, 2015.

Education

  • The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Anthropology Ph.D. February 2015
    Ph.D. Advisor: Eric Delson
    Dissertation title: Was there a sensory trade-off in primate evolution? The vomeronasal groove as a means of understanding the vomeronasal system in the fossil record.

  • The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Anthropology M.Phil, October 2010

  • The University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology B.A. with honors and special honors in Anthropology, May 2005
    Advisor: John Kappelman
     

Publications

2023. Veilleux CC, Garrett EC, Pajic P, Saitou M, Ochieng J, Dagsasn LA, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Gockumen O, Melin AD. Human subsistence and signatures of selection on chemosensory genes. Communications Biology. 6(683).

2020. Poindexter SA, Garrett EC. Particle deposition and sensory drive. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 29(4):168-72.

2020. Schmitt CA, Garrett EC. De-Scent with modification: More evidence and caution needed to assess whether the loss of a pheromone signaling protein permitted the evolution of same sex sexual behavior in primates. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 50, 2301-2307.

2019. Melin AD, Nevo O, Williamson RE, Garrett EC, Endo M, Sakurai K, Matsushita Y, Touhara K, Kawamura S. Fruit scent and observer colour vision shape food-selection strategies in wild capuchin monkeys. Nature Communications: 10(2407).

2014. Garrett EC and Steiper ME. Strong Links between genomic and anatomical diversity of both mammalian olfactory chemosensory systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 281(1783).  Link. 

2013. Garrett EC, Dennis JC, Bhatnagar KP, Durham EL, Burrows AM, Bonar CJ, Steckler NK, Morrison EE, Smith TD. The vomeronasal complex of nocturnal strepsirhines and implications for the ancestral condition in primates. The Anatomical Record: 296(12) 1881-1894.  Link.

2011. Smith, TD, Garrett EC, Bhatnagar KP, Bonar CJ, Bruening A, Dennis JC, Kinzinger JH, Johnson EW, Morrison EE. The vomeronasal organ of New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini). The Anatomical Record: 2158-2178.  Link.

2011. Smith TD, Dennis JC, Bhatnagar KP, Garrett EC, Bonar CJ, Morrison EE. Olfactory marker protein expression in the vomeronasal neuroepithelium of tamarins (Saguinus spp). Brain Research (1375): 7-18.  Link.
 

Published Abstracts

2019. Poindexter SA, DeCamp RM, Garrett EC. Navigational demand and how it’s linked to olfaction and spatial memory in primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 168 (S68):192-193 [abstract]. Presented as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, OH, USA March 2019.

2019. DeCamp RM, Garrett EC. Estimating extinct primate vomeronasal traits using maximum likelihood ancestral state reconstruction methods.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 168 (S68):54 [abstract]. Presented as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, OH, USA March 2019.

2017. Garrett EC, Gonzales, LA, Kirk EC, Seiffert ER. Evolution of the primate vomeronasal system: fossil evidence from the Fayum. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162 (S64):191 [abstract]. Presented as a talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA, USA April 2017.

2017. Veilleux CC, Garrett EC, Bankoff RJ, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Melin AD. Effects of agricultural transitions on the Evolution of human sensory systems. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162 (S64):393 [abstract]. Presented as a talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA, USA April 2017.

2016. Garrett EC, Gonzales LA, Kirk EC, Seiffert ER. The vomeronasal groove in fossil primates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2016:142 [abstract]. Presented as a talk at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meetings, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 2016.

2016. Garrett EC, Veillleux CC, Bankhoff RJ, Orkin JD, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Melin AD. Subsistence strategy and the evolution of human olfactory receptor genotypes. Presented as a talk at the International Primatological Society Meetings, Chicago, IL, USA, August 2016.

2016. Veillleux CC, Garrett EC, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Melin AD. The role of local adaptation in the evolution of human taste. Presented as a talk at the International Primatological Society Meetings, Chicago, IL, USA, August 2016.

2016. Garrett EC and Melin AD.  Effects of sociality on the evolution of olfactory systems in mammals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159 (S62):152 [abstract]. Presented as a talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta, GA, April 2016.

2015. Garrett EC and Melin AD. Effects of sociality on the evolution of olfactory systems in mammals. Presented as a talk at the Midwestern Primate Interest Group Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 2015.

2015. Garrett EC and Kirk EC. On the relationship between visual acuity and vomeronasal function in primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156 (S60): 142 [abstract]. Presented as a talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis, MO, March 2015.

2014. Garrett EC. Effects of mating system and color vision on the primate vomeronasal organ. Presented as a talk at the International Primatological Society Meetings, Hanoi, Vietnam, August 2014.

2014. Garret EC. Life History variables and vomeronasal groove length in primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 153 (S58): 124. [abstract]. 

2013. Garrett EC and Steiper, ME. Testing the color vision priority hypothesis in primates: acquisition of trichromatic color vision affects the vomeronasal system and not the main olfactory system. PaleoAnthropology. [abstract]

2011. Steiper ME and Garrett EC. Testing the correlation between the anatomical structures ofodorant and pheromone perception and their corresponding gene families in primates and other mammals. [abstract]

2011. Smith TD, Garrett EC, Bhatnagar, KP, Bonar CJ, Breuning, AE, Dennis JC. New findings on the vomeronasal complex of platyrrhine primates. [abstract]

2011. Garrett EC and Smith TD. Reconstructing the vomeronasal system of the earliest primates. [abstract]

2010. Garrett EC. Getting in the groove: indirect observations of the primate vomeronasal system using CT. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 141(S50). [abstract]

2009. Garrett EC, Smith TD, Burrows AM, Bonar CJ. Osteological correlates of the vomeronasal system in primates. Poster, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (S48): 132. [abstract]

2008. Garrett EC and Delson ED. Geometric morphometric analysis of the ontogeny of canine and craniofacial growth in Colobus guereza: implications for its lack of canine dimorphism. Poster, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135(S46): 101. [abstract]

2008. Steiper ME, Swedell L, Chowdhury S, Garrett EC. A comparison of inexpensive methods for obtaining DNA from the feces of baboons. Poster, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135(S46): 200. [abstract]

2004. Kappelman J, Ikiz S, Thompson LM, Garrett EC, Gosselin-Ildari AD, Solhan CR, Wetz B. www.eSkeletons.org: An interactive digital library of human and primate anatomy. Poster presented at the National Science Foundation's Annual National Science Digital Library Meeting, Chicago.

 

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards

2015 Wenner-Gren Post-Ph.D. Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation

2010 CUNY Writing Fellowship
2010 Student Poster Prize. IGERT Conference, National Science Foundation
2010 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
2009 Graduate Student Research Grant. The Graduate Center, CUNY
2006 Summer Research Fellowship. New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
2005 Chancellor's Fellowship/Graduate Teaching Fellowship. The Graduate Center, CUNY
2005 Deans Distinguished Scholar. College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas
2005 Rappaport-King Thesis Scholarship. University of Texas
2004 University of Texas Anthropological Society Conference Fund Award. University of Texas
2004 Undergraduate Research Award. University of Texas
2004 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. University of Texas
2004 Hibbs Departmental Scholarship. University of Texas

Teaching and Professional Experience

2011-2013 - Adjunct Lecturer and Lab Instructor (ANT 101: Introduction to Human Evolution), Hunter College
2012 - Lab Instructor (What Makes us Human?), Queens School of Inquiry, Queens College
2010 - Adjunct Lecturer (ANT 269: Introduction to Human Variation), Lehman College
2006 - 2010- Adjunct Lecturer (ANT171: Introduction to Human Evolution), Lehman College
2004 - 2005 - Senior Student Associate, The eSkeletons Project (www.eskeletons.org)

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Paleoanthropology Society, International Primatological Society, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Association of University Women