Publications and Press

2023

 

Cepon-Robins TJ, Mallott EK, Recca IC. Gildner TE. (2023). Evidence and potential drivers of neglected parasitic helminth and protist infections among a small preliminary sample of children from rural Mississippi. Am J Hum Biol DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23889. (Article link).

• Related press:

  • The Conversation - Parasitic infections hit the health of low-income Black communities where states have neglected sewage systems

  • The Source - Parasitic infections common in kids in low-resource US communities, study finds

  • Science Daily - Parasitic infections common in kids in low-resource US communities

  • American Journal of Human Biology Cover: Volume 35, Issue 7

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Gildner TE, Cepon-Robins TJ. 2023.Rural Embodiment and Child Health: An Anthropological Case Study on Biocultural Determinants of Infection Exposure and Immune System Development in the United States. Current Tropical Medicine Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-023-00282-z. (Article link)

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REACH Press (Belleville News -Democrat): Bacteria, Parasites are making people sick in Cahokia Heights. Sewer backups may me cause

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Trends in Parasitology Cover (February 2023)

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2022

 

Expert Interview (Scholastic Science World): Real or Cake? Gross Out Article for Students

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Expert Interview (Popular Science): Why you want to barf when you see something gross

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Expert Interview (Flush by Brynn Nelson, Grand Central Publishing)

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Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2022. Exploring biocultural determinants of intestinal health: Do resource access and parasite exposure contribute to intestinal inflammation among a preliminary sample of children in rural Mississippi? Am J Bio Anth. (Article link).

• Related Press:

  • Newsweek - Parasites found in children linked to poverty, professor's study shows

  • Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity - Study Finds Intestinal Parasites in Mississippi Kids Linked to Poverty.

  • UCCS Communique - Intestinal parasites found in Mississippi children "embody" inequality

 

Gildner TE, Cepon-Robins TJ, Urlacher SS. 2022. Cumulative host costs of soil-transmitted helminth infection. Trends in Parasitology. (Article link)

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Delouize AM, Liebert MA, Madimenos FC, Urlacher SS, Schrock JM, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2022. Low prevalence of anemia among Shuar communities of Amazonian Ecuador. Am J Hum Biol: e23590. (Article link)

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2021

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Outside Expert Interview: The Atlantic - Do Not Read This At Lunch

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Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2021. Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment. PNAS. (Article link)

• The Atlantic - Expiration Dates are Meaningless

• National Geographic - Ew, gross! Why humans are hardwired to feel disgust

• EurekaAlert! (AAAS)

• Seattle Times - Disgusted? Good. It could be beneficial to your health, a new study shows

• UCCS Communique - Cepon-Robins: A healthy sense of disgust can keep you from getting sick

• WSU Insider - A heathy sense of disgust can prevent sickness

• ScienceMag.org - Disgusted by spoiled food? You may be protecting yourself from disease

• The Science 7 Podcast: Space Tornadoes, Robot Doctors, Astronauts Wanted, and a Healthy Sense of Disgust

• Sausage of Science Podcast: SOS 118 - On Disgust, Pathogen Avoidance and Biomarkers

• AnthroBiology Podcast: Dr. Tara Cepon-Robins - Worms

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Cepon-Robins TJ. 2021. Measuring attack on self: The need for field-friendly methods development and research on autoimmunity in human biology. Am J Hum Biol 33: e23544 (Article link)

• AJHB Volume 33, Issue 1 Cover

• Editor's Choice Article - January/February 2021

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Press Link: Living Healthy Longer Podcast - Microbiome and Aging with Dr. Tara Cepon Robins

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2020

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Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE. 2020. Old Friends Meet a New Foe: A potential role for immune-priming parasites in mitigating COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. (In press). (Article link)

• YouTube Video: Cepon-Robins discusses this paper at the UCCS COVID-19 Research Forum

• UCCS Communique: COVID-19 Researh Forum Presents New Findings, Questions for the Future

• UCCS Communique: Cepon-Robins illustrates how immune responses to intestinal parasites could reduce severity of COVID-19

• Sausage of Science podcast (SoS) 99: Getting Hooked on Parasite Infection - Theresa Gildner discusses this paper (and more)

• EvMed Review: Evolutionary medicine helps explain pandemic dynamics: Predictions regarding clinical impact of COVID-19 borne out.

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Eick GN, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2020. Development and validation of an ELISA for a biomarker of thyroid dysfunction, thyroid peroxidase autoantibodies (TPO-Ab), in dried blood spots. Journal of Physiological Anthropology 39:16. (Article link)

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Eick GN, Madimenos FC, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2020. Validation of an ELISA assay for osteocalcin, a marker of bone formation, in dried blood spots. Am J Hum Biol: e23394. (Article link)

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Gildner TE, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al.. 2020. Associations between market integration and soil-transmitted helminth infection among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. PLoS ONE 15: e0236924. (Article link)

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Madimenos FC, Stieglitz J, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2020. Disparities in bone density across contemporary Amazonian forager-horticulturalists: Cross-population comparison of the Tsimane and Shuar. Am J Phys Anth 171: 50-64. (Article link)

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Book Endorsement: Cepon Robins TJ. Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American South by Christine Crudo Blackburn and Macey Lively

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2019

Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2019. Soil-transmitted helminth infection and intestinal inflammation among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. Am J Phys Anth 170 (1). (Article link)

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Eick GN, Devlin MJ, Cepon-Robins TJ, Kowal P, Sugiyama LS, Snodgrass JJ. 2019. A dried blood spot-based method to measure levels of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase 5b (TRACP-5b), a marker of bone resorption. Am J Hum Biol 31. (Article link)

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Press link: UCCS Communique - Cepon Robins named first UCCS Boettcher Investigator

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Press link: Boettcher Foundation - Seven Researchers Named Boettcher Investigators

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Press link: Businesswire - Seven Researchers Named Boettcher Investigators

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Press link: CU Connections - Five University of Colorado Researchers named 2019 Boettcher Investigators

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2018

Urlacher S, Ellison PT, Sugiyama LS, Pontzer H, Eick G, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2018. Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists. PNAS 115: E3914-E3921. (Article link)

• The Scientist - Amazonians Offer Clues to Human Childhood Development

• Science Daily - High Immune Function Tied to Stunted Growth

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Stagaman K, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2018. Market integration predicts human gut microbiome attributes across a gradient of economic development. mSystems. (Article link)

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2016
 

Gildner TE, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2016. Regional variation in soil-transmitted helminth infection by age cohort and sex: health effects of market integration among the indigenous Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. Journal of Physiological Anthropology 35:28. (Article link)

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Urlacher SS, Liebert MA, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AD, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2016. Heterogeneous effects of market integration on subadult body size and nutritional status among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. Annals of Human Biology 43: 316-329. (Article link)

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Urlacher SS, Blackwell AD, Liebert MA, Madimenos FC, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2016. Physical growth of the Shuar: Height, weight, and BMI references for an indigenous Amazonian population. American Journal of Human Biology 28 (1): 16-30. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22747. (Article link)

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Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2016. Brief Communication: The application of knemometry to measure childhood short-term growth among the indigenous Shuar of Ecuador. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160: 353-357. (Article link)

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Snodgrass JJ, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2016. Accelerometer-measured physical activity among older adults in urban India: Results of a study on global AGEing and adult health substudy. American Journal of Human Biology 28 (3): 412-420, DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22803. (Article link)

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Barrett TM, Liebert MA, Schrock JM, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2016. Physical function and activity among older adults in Johpur, India. Annals of Human Biology, DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2015.1103901. (Article link)

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2015
 

Madimenos FC, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2015. Determining osteoporosis risk in older Colono adults from rural Amazonian Ecuador using calcaneal ultrasonometry. American Journal of Human Biology 27(1): 139-142, DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22626. (Article link)

 

 

2014

Cepon-Robins TJ, et al. 2014. Soil-transmitted prevalence and infection intensity among geographically and economically distinct Shuar communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. J Parasitol 100: 598-607. (Article link)

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Colehour A, Meadow JF, Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, et al. 2014. Local domestication of microbes via cassava beer fermentation. PeerJ 2: e479. (Article link)

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Book Review: Cepon-Robins TJ. 2014. Lousy Sex: Creating Self in an Infectious World by Gerald N. Callahan. (Review link)

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2013
 

Liebert MA, Snodgrass JJ, Madimenos FC, Cepon TJ, et al. 2013. Implications of market integration for cardiovascular and metabolic health among an indigenous Amazonian Ecuadorian population. Annals of Human Biology doi: 10.3109/03014460.2012.759621 (Winner of the Nick Norgan Award for best paper published in the Annals of Human Biology in 2013). (Article link)

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2012

Madimenos FC, Snodgrass JJ, Liebert MA, Cepon TJ, Sugiyama LS. 2012. Reproductive effects on skeletal health in Shuar women of Amazonian Ecuador: A life history perspective. American Journal of Human Biology 24 (6): 841-852. (Article link)

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McDade TW, Tallman PS, Madimenos FC, Liebert MA, Cepon TJ, et al. 2012. Analysis of variability of high sensitivity C-reactive protein in lowland Ecuador reveals no evidence of chronic low-grade inflammation. American Journal of Human Biology 24 (5): 675-681. (Article link)

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2011

Cepon TJ, et al. 2011. Circumpolar adaptation, social change, and the development of autoimmune thyroid disorders among the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia. American Journal of Human Biology 23(5): 703-709. (Article link)

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Madimenos FC, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AB, Liebert MA, Cepon TJ, Sugiyama LS. 2011. Normative calcaneal quantitative ultrasound data for the indigenous Shuar and non-Shuar colonos of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Archives of Osteoporosis 6: 39-49. (Article link)